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Warnings: Character Death, Implied Torture and Things


"Everyone's left you you know." The blonde corrupt said as she resecured the ropes around Leto's body. "Ares was the first. She corrupted you and members of your court and then what? Left you high and dry. She was your mentor. Lets not forget about my brother. Ironic given his sphere. Even he's left you! Would rather take care of his blind husband than his psychotic, handicapped Princess. You! The one who awoke him. And look how he repays you. Face it Leto." She hissed as she ripped the tattered leather straps before gagging and blinding the woman with them. "I've been the only constant in your life. Not Ares, not Remarque. Not Damocles or that two bit b***h Persephone. Me." She then left the woman laying there and step backed to admire her work.

Leto lay there, her fuku torn everywhere, some of it laying on the ground around them, alone with her boots and those ridiculous overlays. Leto's skin was covered in various scratches, cuts and bruises. Blood and who knew what else also littered her body. And every now and then, if Lellouch watched carefully, she could see the ombre haired girl twitch. "You know.. It's a shame you're not at your princess stage anymore. I would have loved to hear you scream when I snap the bones in your wings..."

"Do you think they'll come for you? Well, Persephone will. Why? Because she's following orders again. I told her to meet me here and she'll show up like the little b***h she is. She really needs to learn to think for herself Leto, wouldn't you agree?" It wasn't like Lellouch expected the woman to answer. Hell, she wasn't even sure Leto was even conscious at the moment. Not that she entirely cared mind you. "You'd think, as someone, who under the circumstances somehow made it to Princess, would have learned a thing or two by now right? Not Persephone. She's still the same fool she always was. I just had to make some offhanded comment that 'someone was hurt' and she comes running like usually. That damn b***h wears her heart on her ******** sleeve." Persephone had always been like that though. Blindly trusting anyone, no matter how many times they stabbed her in the back. It still amazed Lellouch that Persephone even talked to her. That she even answered the call initially. "Whatever... She'll learn soon enough"

Now she just had to sit back and wait.

Persephone was not stupid. Once, she had been naiive, foolish, trusting - but the years had hardened the Corrupted Princess. Years, and jealously, and sniping, and perhaps one too many officers who did not quite understand that a Princess's word carried as much weight as a General-King's and who had to be brought to heel.

She had no more room to be foolish and naiive and trusting, but it suited her that people thought she still was - and so she had played it up a thousand times when Lellouch called her. She had little love for any of the Ascendeds - how did you do that to your planet, to your own soul? - but even less so for the Senshi of Ravens, and somehow...somehow, even without being told, she knew exactly who was in trouble.

She could hear that loud, echoing scream - Leto's scream - and it made her run faster, hair and skirts and wings trailing behind. Her aura as a Princess would provide plenty of warning, and she really didn't care that Lellouch knew she was coming.

Her rage peaked into burning, overflowing fury when she finally got into visual range - to see Leto bound and blindfolded and gagged and obviously in incredible pain. She hated herself so much for having not been there at the attack on the Resistance camp. She had stayed away, gone to finally corrupt Sidouer instead of participating in a battle she found distasteful (attacking a camp likely full of civilians and the injured? Disgusting, as far as she was concerned).

And maybe she would not have been able to do anything at all, but -- Bischofite was dead, Leto kidnapped and tortured and God knew what else.

She sohuld have been there. Maybe she couldn't have stopped it, but maybe she could have.

Either way, she wasn't going to let this continue.

"Get away from her," she snarled, quietly at first, and then, "GET AWAY FROM HER!" She teleported close enough to reach out and grab for Lellouch's hair, enforcing the demand with actual physical force.

She felt the power signature approaching, huge and chaotic. Her voice had Leto finally falling silent again and motionless. Her breath caught in her throat and she waited. She heard the two talking before she was suddenly grabbed by the throat and had her blindfold ripped from her face. She blinked a few times before looking down at Lellouch's hand over her chest. The Eternal Senshi cringed at how easily the Ascended psycho could reach inside of her and rip out her soul.

When had she started crying? Or was that blood? She could feel that her cheeks were wet and her chest was rising and falling faster. Her eyes closed when Lellouch nuzzled into her and Leto let out the softest of sobs at the unwanted intimacy. When the gag was removed from Leto's mouth, she gasped for air and was shoved at Persephone. With the ropes tied tightly around her and her prosthetic leg missing, Leto stumbled forward and dropped to the ground on her knees at Persephone's feet. She looked up at the Princess, deep red eyes desperate and pleading.

"I..." Leto practically choked on the words. She couldn't. Sure she was going to die here, how could she possibly let this be the way that she left Persephone forever? To tell her about what happened between herself and Lellouch in the time that had passed... She could almost feel the Ascended Senshi's hands on her all over again. Her mouth. Her breath. Leto shook her head and looked away from the woman that she loved, though there was no hiding the deep, jagged cuts across her face and thighs.

"I'm sorry," Leto said quietly. Shamefully, as though this was her fault. As if she wanted any of this. All she felt was an overwhelming amount of guilt.

There was no fight left in the Senshi of Camoflage. She accepted her fate- she would either continue to be a plaything for the Negaverse, or they would kill her. And all she would have left at the end of it all was the companionship of the crazy Senshi of Ravens.