Just as sudden as the happiness came, it disappeared. At first, he didn’t notice the flare. After all he had her wrapped up in his arms and was leaning forward. It was good to know that he could still smile the way he was. After everything that had happened, sometimes he felt like the only smiles he could manage were false ones. The kind of smiles people put on for the sake of others. The one on his face had been a genuine one. It helped soothe the guilt inside of him or at least it did.

“When did—“The second he saw that damned scarlet in her eye, the smile faded from his lips. So did a lot of the color in his face. He looked both pale and shocked. No. No. Not Nunnally. How did this happen? This shouldn’t be possible. Suzaku gaped at the crimson in her eye, his face betrayed some of the horror he was feeling, but his emotions told the whole story. The disbelief and horror he felt was mixed in with a large serving of guilt. If he had arrived sooner, if he had stayed at her side as Zero, then this wouldn’t have happened. Rationality would tell him that there was nothing he could have done to prevent this from happening. In this moment he wasn’t feeling very rational.

Anger began to build upside of him. It started off slowly, kept at bay by the guilt he was feeling. The longer he stared at the sigil, the more intense the anger came. Oh, he would find whoever did this to her. Geasses had already destroyed so many lives. Geasses had already taken so much from Nunnally. He was not going to allow them to take any more from Nunnally. Poor Nunnally, the determination he felt along with all of his other emotions probably hit her like a wall. Which of course would make him feel even guiltier later on and force him to calm himself down, but that was later and not now.

“Who did this to you, the Head Doctor?!”