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the bodyguard meme

the bodyguard meme

never let her out of your sight. never let your guard down.

You're a pop star, or a royal, or maybe even the last of your kind who will bring about the Earth's redemption. Whatever the case may be, you're in a position that may be a bit dicey if you attract the wrong kind of attention.

And you're a bodyguard, a soldier, a knight - a protector. Somehow, you've been roped into protecting this person. You'll be rewarded, of course. The work may be cut out for you, but just do your job, keep your head down, and it'll go smooth.

Except for when the two of you break the bounds of professionalism and feelings begin to flourish. Being in such close quarters may get you to see the other in a different light, and saving someone's life just may be the ultimate form of intimacy.

Could this be the real danger? To feel so strongly for the one you've sworn to protect...are you compromised?

How to Play
1. Comment with your character and preferences, being sure to put if you want to play the guard, the guarded, or either. Also, you may want to put if you prefer fluffy, angsty, or smutty interaction - or have no preference.
2. Comment to others.
3. There are no prompts, because there are so many potential options there could be a hundred. Feel free to play anything: the beginnings of the relationship, just meeting, getting used to each other/not getting along at first, the obligatory first time, a threat on the protected's life and how their protector responds, how the feelings between the two has changed the protection, etc. Your only limit is you.

never fall in love.

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I-it doesn't really matter to me. Whoever's available when the time comes is fine with me. [Even Gino. His flirting ways might even be a comfort to her when her family is basically trying to leech off of her.]

I might be too old now, or even too far behind, to try and go to a high school now. I don't have too many problems with reading and writing, just some minor things whenever I try to read in English. [She can speak it just fine, she's just more familiar with her home language with writing and reading.]

But, yes. That was around the time that I got involved with Zero. Just a lonely little girl wandering the slums and back alleys with no home outside of shelters for other homeless Japanese and meeting places for the Black Knights.

It was actually one of the Knights that brought me to Zero. [She briefly wondered if she should be telling this story. They were talking low enough, but still, not exactly a well known story.] He had noticed something strange about me, about how one minute I was terrified, surrounded by a group of thugs, the next minute 'I' was walking away without a scratch and with all of the thugs on the ground in a catatonic state. After that, I was brought into the Black Knights because of that power. Some of them wanted to use that power to their advantage, whether or not my consent mattered on the issue. Zero saw both sides, I believe. He saw the me that was still vulnerable and scared of just about everything going on, and the one, the darker one, that wanted vengeance, no matter the cost.

Have you ever mentioned it to Lelouch? He could probably set you up with some kind of tutor or something to help you with the things you don't know. Or maybe I could help, depending on what it is.

[Suzaku was silent as she told her story.]

Did he? Use you, I mean.

[And against her consent, because if there was one thing that he remembered Lelouch telling him once, it was that he had never used Geass on the Black Knights to make them follow him. They had all done that on their own free will.]

It's usually simple things that get to me, but I can usually find the answer later on. It's not that big a deal. [English is hard, though. So many rules, some that even contradict each other. It's so confusing at times.]

Lelouch? No. He was against it. He had repetitively said no to my involvement. [She became quiet again. It wasn't going to explain this to him.]

There was... someone else. He made sure I was involved with some of the Black Knights' missions, whether I wanted to be apart of them or not. [Oh, how to explain this.]

There's a reason I asked you what you knew about the Millennium Items, or why I would sometimes refer to myself as if I was a different person. I don't really know how to explain it with English words, but... it's... mou hitori no watashi... the Other Me. That's who took away my consent and went against Zero's orders of not involving me, for better or for worse.

[He nodded.]

Still, the offer is there if you want to use it.

[He lets out the breath he had been holding. He knew the truth of the circumstances surrounding Euphie's death. It was still a sore spot between the two of them - but Suzaku knew that Lelouch had treasured and loved Euphemia almost as much as he does Nunnally.

A terrorist he might have been, Lelouch was protective of those who had come under his care.

Suzaku paused, studying her thoughtfully.]

Then that's why those thugs were eyeing you inside the bookstore. That's who they were looking for.

Do you know who or what this 'other you' is?

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[She looks at him pleadingly, like 'please, don't think I'm crazy for saying this.' As if her story wasn't insane enough.]

He's... a spirit. It's the best way I know how to describe him. He uses my body as a means of communicating with the outside world. The first time we spoke, he was... disturbingly giddy. He... called me his...'yadonushi... his 'landlord' and to thank me for...'lending' my body to him, he could grant any wish that I had, and he would protect me from anything that would try to hurt me.

[But, as you can probably tell by her tone of voice, this was not a happy little setup they had going on.]

He... reminded me of a small group of Britiannian soldiers that had been ...harassing me earlier that day. [You know, those kind of guys.] He said...'I'll take care of them for you, in honor of our first meeting.' After that, I blacked out, only hearing about what had actually happened on a later news report, how a group of Britannian soldiers had just mysteriously fallen into comas right in the middle of the street. Just like how the thugs had been 'taken care of' when the Black Knights found me. It even explained my long memory lapses from childhood, about how bullies and friends alike would just... disappear, if they were ever involved with me in some way or another.

[Suzaku frowned as he listened.]

Bullies, I can understand, if that's his mindset, to 'protect' you...

[He wouldn't condone the methods of course, but he could understand them. He himself had killed his father in order to protect Japan and his best friends.]

But why your friends?

Friends, bullies, teachers, even a neighbor, once.

[She could be cheeky and say that friends could hurt you just as much as your enemies could. She knew that Suzaku would understand that. But, that simply wasn't the case with her and the Spirit.]

To be honest, I'm not completely sure. There was a wish that I had as a child where I wanted to stay and play with my friends 'forever.' He must've picked up on that, somehow, and my friends' souls were transferred into dolls. He had been doing this since I was a child, even before I had known about him. But, even then, it still doesn't explain why he kept on doing it, even after I had outgrown that wish, repeatedly telling him that I didn't want that anymore. For some reason, he just continues to want me as isolated from others as much as possible. It's changed somewhat since then with the Rebellion, the Black Knights, and being involved with Lelouch, but I still feel as if there's still a possibility that he will hurt anyone even remotely close to me if given the chance.

It's his way of trying to keep you under control, maybe.

[It was said thoughtfully, after a few moments, as Suzaku turned Ryou's words over in his mind. Geass wasn't the only way to control someone, after all.]

Does he know of your.... 'involvement' with Lelouch?

[The stress on the word should clue Ryou in as to what type of involvement he's actually talking about.]

[She does agree with him though, about it being his way of keeping her under control. Doesn't mean she likes being treated that way.]

[Though, that was the eternal question. How much does the Spirit know, especially about that one night?]

It's... hard to say. I wasn't wearing the Ring that... that night. That's... the drawing that I made earlier? That's the Ring, Millennium Ring to be more precise. But, a lot of that night is a jumbled mess so I don't remember exactly what happened. And I couldn't be wearing it during a doctor's examination. I haven't put it on since then, not since I found out...

But you can't be too far from it, right? Because otherwise, I would think that you would have throw it into the ocean by now and be done with it.

...No, I never can be too far away from it. If I do get far enough away from it, it'll just... reappear near me, somehow. There have been times when I had thought that it was gone for good, having been stolen by thugs or something. But, no. It will find its way back to me sooner or later, even against all possible odds.

It's one of the things that Lelouch is researching outside of his duties as Emperor; to find a way to separate... 'us.' To make it so the Spirit doesn't have to control me anymore. [She still had no idea how he's going to do it, but she'll see what Lelouch can come up with. She hated the Spirit after all. She didn't want him using her anymore.]

If anyone would be able to do it, it would be Lelouch.

[Lelouch does end up keeping his promises, even if he goes about it in a way that no one else would ever think of. They have referred to him as the Man of Miracles before.]

I just... don't know how it could be possible. The Spirit needs a physical body to interact with the outside world. The Ring has bonded to me, for some reason, and I figure it will stay with me until either I pass on or it finds someone else worthy of it. [And that's something she wouldn't wish on anyone.]

So far, it hasn't found anyone else, just burning those alive inside out that try to put it on. [That's what she was referring to from before, about how some people were dealt with that way for putting on the Ring that wasn't theirs.] It doesn't take too easily to... 'unworthy' souls.

[Suzaku sighed, taking a seat next to her.]

When we were ten years old, after Britannia invaded and we walked through fields and fields of the dead and dying, Lelouch looked at me and vowed to destroy Britannia.

I never thought that seven years later, he would have done it.

Taking over and destroying Britannia and freeing a person from a vengeful spirit's hold are two different things. [Her problems seem so much smaller when compared to changing the entire world.]

I don't even know where he would start.

[He shakes his head. Normally, he's not all that great with his words and he knows it. But this is something that he feels he can explain.]

Leave that up to him. If there's a way to do it, Ryou, he'll find it. That's what he does after all.

...He's the Man of Miracles, after all. [She has seen him do amazing things, impossible things. There's nothing to say that Lelouch couldn't do it, there was no doubt about that. Just... after years of living with being socially isolated from others, not even have the most basic of human needs for stretches of time, only living with a being for years that took great pleasure and delight in her suffering, you can understand her skepticism.]

But, thanks ...for listening anyway. [Probably the first time in a while she's given this much information about her life and past.]

[Suzaku bows his head towards her.]

Of course. I know it might not be much, but I'm always here if you wish to talk.

You'd be surprised how much it can mean to someone having someone else that listens to them. [Guess that means that they're friends now.]

It truly does. Especially when one has been alone for a long time.

[Suzaku knows this feeling well, thanks to the time between the invasion and when he met up with Lelouch again.]

[She knows it too well, being alone for long periods of time, not having anyone there to be with you, whether on a physical, mental, or emotional level, it still hurt a lot of the time.]

[But that time has past now, hopefully. She has friends now, people that would be worried should she just disappear without a good reason. Maybe even a few of them could learn how to tell when she's not in control anymore and be able to do something about it. It was a long shot, but a girl could dream, after all. She pulls her bag closer, finding the new book cover and book she bought, already at work of putting the cover over it.]

No one truly deserves to be alone, anyway. I think that's probably the worst punishment that can be inflicted upon someone. Taking someone away from their family or friends... maybe even taking away their ability to communicate with anyone else... it's almost too cruel to imagine.

It is, yes.

[... wasn't that pretty much the punishment he had almost chosen for himself? If he and Lelouch and gone through with the Zero Requiem, Lelouch would have been dead and he would have been forced to live on as Zero, a mere symbol of the man of miracles, Kururugi Suzaku dead to the world. That was to be his form of atonement for his sins, for the lives he had taken and the crimes he had committed.]

[It was really cruel to even think about such a punishment, since she had already lived it. Maybe it was time to get off the subject and find something... lighter to talk about.]

[She sits quietly while fiddling with her new book and cover, having it already fitted and now is actually glancing over its contents. The book was in English, of course, but she didn't have that much trouble reading it, save for a few words. But that's fairly normal for her when she's reading in English. And it was a bit of embarrassing material, so she didn't really want to ask Suzaku what some of the words meant. It might just lead to further embarrassment.]

[Suzaku, of course, hadn't been paying much attention to the contents of what she was reading, only glancing over every so often to see that she was.

One such time glancing over, he caught sight of the type.]

... you know, he probably could have gotten you some books in Japanese if you wanted them.

[Of course, she can't really hide the pink tinge on her face from that.]

I-it's okay. It would have taken the books a bit to be delivered here, and there would have been... some questions as to why he would be ordering those kind of books. [Someone else here along the line was bound to be able to read Japanese besides her and Suzaku. It just felt like too much of a risk.]

B-besides, my English reading skills are a bit... rusty. Just have to keep practicing and reading what I can with everything that I can find. [Killing two birds with one stone, if you will.]

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