Our Chess Match | Luluko, Schneizel
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empiricaljewelWHO: Luluko, Schneizel
SECONDARY CHARACTERS: Rolo, Kanon, Euphemia, Nunnally, Jeremiah
WHAT: Schneizel comes back and had promised Luluko a chess match. She brings Rolo along to watch and so he can meet her elder brother.
RATING: U
Luluko was beaming from ear to ear as she took Rolo by the hands and encouraged him to come with her.
"This is a special day, Rolo," she enthused and his confusion but barely restrained excitement obvious and it only cheered her good mood on further. "Brother Schneizel is visiting and he promised to play chess with me."
Rolo accompanied her into the parlour and his eye traveled the room automatically for anything amiss and Luluko waved it away.
"No, I demand you have the day off today. The others are on watch, I want you to spend the day with us," she told him and turned to Schneizel without catching the deep blush that spread across her new-found friend's face, walking forward and as Schneizel got to his feet, she threw her arms around him.
"I've missed you, Brother," she said as he wrapped his strong arms around her and held her close. "How long are you back for?"
"I am back for a couple of months, Luluko, the Avalon is having work done to it and I have ministerial duties to attend to, but first - I promised you our chess match."
The teenage girl let go of her elder brother and sat delicately in the chair opposite him, nodding up sweetly at his aide, Kanon and she beckoned Rolo over to introduce him to her brother. "Rolo Haliburton, this is my esteemed brother, Schneizel el Britannia. Schneizel, this is Rolo Haliburton and he is our newest guard - under Lord Jeremiah."
She saw Rolo bow deeply and looked on proudly, her pride carrying through her voice.
"I believe Rolo will do us proud - already he is so attentive to Nunnally and myself and he is an accomplished pilot with his own frame," she told him.
Schneizel nodded to him regally.
"The care of my sisters is utmost in my mind, Haliburton, I trust you will not let Luluko's words be in vain?"
Rolo stood to attention again and saluted formally.
"I will do anything to ensure the safety and happiness of the Princesses, Your Highness."
Luluko giggled and broke the slightly tense and formal air.
"Stop teasing him, Schneizel. I invited him here to watch us play, I gave him the day off." She patted a chair next to her and insisted Rolo sit, which he did with a mumbled "Yes, your Highness" and a great deal of blushing.
Luluko smiled at him, then turned her attention back to the chess board. Rolo was such fun. Every person around her was formal, but he did it in such a sweet and embarrassed way that she could not help but be charmed by it. Incisive, sharp and highly intelligent she was, but when it came to any kind of romantic feeling, she was rather naïve and did not understand the real reason behind his loyalty and his shyness.
"Shall we?" She lifted her first piece and made her move, watching as Schneizel made his. Even at this early stage of the game, both were planning, plotting and strategizing. The room around them fell silent as the few people held therein watched with baited breath.
Chess was a very highly regarded game in the Empire but getting to watch two such masters play was quite the treat.
A piece was taken from her, a piece was taken from him. There was such skill involved that none watching, even connoisseurs, could not pick them apart from one another even as the game progressed. All the while, the brother and sister focused solely on the task in hand. Each of them the others only risk of losing. Luluko had never lost to anyone but Schneizel and he had lost to no one at all.
Luluko frowned and stood up at Schneizel's next move.
"I will not be mocked, Brother."
Schneizel chuckled.
"I was not mocking you, dear sister, please sit." The confusion went around the room and they looked more closely at the pieces.
"I will not take a win that you have given to me. Only one I create myself."
"I see that, forgive me?"
Luluko looked at Rolo and smiled, then turned back to Schneizel.
"I forgive you. I am afraid, Rolo, that you have just seen my defeat. I call forfeit. We shall play another day."
A burst of noise entered the room as the Princesses Nunnally and Euphemia bundled rather ungraciously into the room and looked around.
"Rolo!" Nunnally cheered as they found him. "Come with us, we have a surprise for you."
Luluko laughed as the girls hurried over and signaled for a camera to be ready as she knew what they would do. The flash went off as Nunnally pecked one of Schneizel's cheeks and Euphemia got the other at the same time.
"Are you still playing chess?" Luluko nodded and Nunnally huffed. "You're always playing chess, you should come outside with us."
"Come and see!" Euphemia trilled and half yanked Rolo off of his chair and the exuberant girls tore out of the room with him, Luluko laughing still as another flash went off and Rolo looked at her almost imploringly. It would help him loosen up a bit spending time with her sisters so she let them drag him off.
"Leave us, I would like some time alone with my brother," she said to the maids and everyone left the room excepting Kanon - but she did not mind.
"You have much improved at your chess skills since I have been gone, Luluko," he smiled and took the glass of red wine Kanon offered him. Luluko took one as well, but only had half the liquid as she was not yet used to it as much as her elder brother was and as they retired to the comfortable couch, she settled herself in his lap and rested against his shoulder.
"Thank you. I missed you while you were gone," she admitted. "No one wanted to play chess with me until I bothered Lord Jeremiah and Rolo into playing; but they do not provide much of a challenge. No, that is a lie. Clovis played me but he is rubbish."
Schneizel chuckled.
"I will be sure to visit as often as I can to give you the challenge you crave, Lulu," he said and nuzzled her a little. "That is, if you are not too busy with parties and seeing suitors."
Luluko frowned and huffed.
"I don't want to get married to any of those horrid boys," she stated, flatly.
"'Horrid'? How so?" Schneizel's amusement was palpable and Luluko swatted his chest.
"None of them actually care for me. They just want to be married to a Princess," she pouted. "They come here and stare at me and then ask me to consider them but they don't ask about me or want to know what it is I care for, how I stand politically. I don't want anyone like that even if they're a King of their own land."
"Perhaps they are stunned by your wit and beauty into looking like clods, Lulu." the girl sat up and looked her brother in the face, letting Kanon take her empty glass.
"Do not be silly, Schneizel," she scolded. "If any of them took an interest in Nunnally or challenged me to a game of chess or something, I'd give them more of a chance." But would I, really? Of course I can, a silly crush on some Eleven soldier boy who is away on mission will blow over. It will blow over, so I should...I...
"What about this Rolo?" Schneizel asked as they saw the two princesses chasing Rolo around the lawn outside and they seemed to be having a lot of fun.
"Rolo? I like him a lot, he is very kind to me and very thoughtful of Nunnally," she said, watching their antics with amusement. If only she were a little more robust, she would like to be out there as well - but spending time with Schneizel was always a treat.
"He seems to fit your requirements and he is not an unattractive boy," Schneizel summed him up. "So who is the boy who holds your affections instead?"
Luluko looked up at him sharply and knew she was blushing and cursed herself for it. Now she had gone and made it transparent.
"I have not given any boy a thought," she lied. "Anyway, until they can prove they love me in return, I will take no man's hand."
Schneizel kissed her forehead.
"He is a lucky boy, to have captured the heart of our jewel."
Luluko's face burned even more deeply. She didn't love Suzaku Kururugi! She didn't, couldn't! He was an Eleven, a soldier, a man of no real social rank...the kindest boy she had ever met. A boy whose first instinct was to ensure Nunnally was taken care of. A boy who would follow her to keep her safe even when she wanted him to go away.
...a boy that she loved. It hit her like a ton of bricks and she buried her face in Schneizel's shirt.
"Your Highness, we are expected before your Father soon, we must take our leave soon," Kanon reminded and Luluko unfolded herself from her brother's embrace.
"You'll visit again soon?" she asked, eyes full of hope.
"I will, Lulu, I promise."
She smiled again and stood, allowing him to kiss her cheek and Kanon to kiss her hand.
"Would you send Lord Jeremiah in? I'd like the company," she requested as they left the room, she sat on the large window seat and watched her sisters playing.
Her brother and his aide left to attend their duties and fetch her companion to her and she sat and pondered on the newly defined feelings.
This was not good, she couldn't be in love with a Number. Yet, she knew in her heart she was and it twisted with fear for him. He would not be home for at least another month. She wondered if she sent a letter if he would be able to receive it and resolved to write one anyway. It would have to be platonic and show no hint of feelings, but write she would. She smiled as she watched Nunnally tackle Rolo to the floor and then saw Euphemia bundle on top of the pile. If her sisters wrote as well, it would conceal any ulterior motive.
The door opened and she turned her smile on her Mother's Knight and pointed to the bookshelf.
"Would you like me to read to you?"
Jeremiah nodded and fetched her a book, Luluko took it and opened the pages. They did this often to while away the hours. He selected a book of verse and she would read aloud, enjoying the intimacy it built as well as giving her more practice for oration.
The letter could wait until later after dinner, now she wanted to settle her nerves and the butterflies Schneizel's perception had left in her and she began to read, losing herself in the print.
SECONDARY CHARACTERS: Rolo, Kanon, Euphemia, Nunnally, Jeremiah
WHAT: Schneizel comes back and had promised Luluko a chess match. She brings Rolo along to watch and so he can meet her elder brother.
RATING: U
Luluko was beaming from ear to ear as she took Rolo by the hands and encouraged him to come with her.
"This is a special day, Rolo," she enthused and his confusion but barely restrained excitement obvious and it only cheered her good mood on further. "Brother Schneizel is visiting and he promised to play chess with me."
Rolo accompanied her into the parlour and his eye traveled the room automatically for anything amiss and Luluko waved it away.
"No, I demand you have the day off today. The others are on watch, I want you to spend the day with us," she told him and turned to Schneizel without catching the deep blush that spread across her new-found friend's face, walking forward and as Schneizel got to his feet, she threw her arms around him.
"I've missed you, Brother," she said as he wrapped his strong arms around her and held her close. "How long are you back for?"
"I am back for a couple of months, Luluko, the Avalon is having work done to it and I have ministerial duties to attend to, but first - I promised you our chess match."
The teenage girl let go of her elder brother and sat delicately in the chair opposite him, nodding up sweetly at his aide, Kanon and she beckoned Rolo over to introduce him to her brother. "Rolo Haliburton, this is my esteemed brother, Schneizel el Britannia. Schneizel, this is Rolo Haliburton and he is our newest guard - under Lord Jeremiah."
She saw Rolo bow deeply and looked on proudly, her pride carrying through her voice.
"I believe Rolo will do us proud - already he is so attentive to Nunnally and myself and he is an accomplished pilot with his own frame," she told him.
Schneizel nodded to him regally.
"The care of my sisters is utmost in my mind, Haliburton, I trust you will not let Luluko's words be in vain?"
Rolo stood to attention again and saluted formally.
"I will do anything to ensure the safety and happiness of the Princesses, Your Highness."
Luluko giggled and broke the slightly tense and formal air.
"Stop teasing him, Schneizel. I invited him here to watch us play, I gave him the day off." She patted a chair next to her and insisted Rolo sit, which he did with a mumbled "Yes, your Highness" and a great deal of blushing.
Luluko smiled at him, then turned her attention back to the chess board. Rolo was such fun. Every person around her was formal, but he did it in such a sweet and embarrassed way that she could not help but be charmed by it. Incisive, sharp and highly intelligent she was, but when it came to any kind of romantic feeling, she was rather naïve and did not understand the real reason behind his loyalty and his shyness.
"Shall we?" She lifted her first piece and made her move, watching as Schneizel made his. Even at this early stage of the game, both were planning, plotting and strategizing. The room around them fell silent as the few people held therein watched with baited breath.
Chess was a very highly regarded game in the Empire but getting to watch two such masters play was quite the treat.
A piece was taken from her, a piece was taken from him. There was such skill involved that none watching, even connoisseurs, could not pick them apart from one another even as the game progressed. All the while, the brother and sister focused solely on the task in hand. Each of them the others only risk of losing. Luluko had never lost to anyone but Schneizel and he had lost to no one at all.
Luluko frowned and stood up at Schneizel's next move.
"I will not be mocked, Brother."
Schneizel chuckled.
"I was not mocking you, dear sister, please sit." The confusion went around the room and they looked more closely at the pieces.
"I will not take a win that you have given to me. Only one I create myself."
"I see that, forgive me?"
Luluko looked at Rolo and smiled, then turned back to Schneizel.
"I forgive you. I am afraid, Rolo, that you have just seen my defeat. I call forfeit. We shall play another day."
A burst of noise entered the room as the Princesses Nunnally and Euphemia bundled rather ungraciously into the room and looked around.
"Rolo!" Nunnally cheered as they found him. "Come with us, we have a surprise for you."
Luluko laughed as the girls hurried over and signaled for a camera to be ready as she knew what they would do. The flash went off as Nunnally pecked one of Schneizel's cheeks and Euphemia got the other at the same time.
"Are you still playing chess?" Luluko nodded and Nunnally huffed. "You're always playing chess, you should come outside with us."
"Come and see!" Euphemia trilled and half yanked Rolo off of his chair and the exuberant girls tore out of the room with him, Luluko laughing still as another flash went off and Rolo looked at her almost imploringly. It would help him loosen up a bit spending time with her sisters so she let them drag him off.
"Leave us, I would like some time alone with my brother," she said to the maids and everyone left the room excepting Kanon - but she did not mind.
"You have much improved at your chess skills since I have been gone, Luluko," he smiled and took the glass of red wine Kanon offered him. Luluko took one as well, but only had half the liquid as she was not yet used to it as much as her elder brother was and as they retired to the comfortable couch, she settled herself in his lap and rested against his shoulder.
"Thank you. I missed you while you were gone," she admitted. "No one wanted to play chess with me until I bothered Lord Jeremiah and Rolo into playing; but they do not provide much of a challenge. No, that is a lie. Clovis played me but he is rubbish."
Schneizel chuckled.
"I will be sure to visit as often as I can to give you the challenge you crave, Lulu," he said and nuzzled her a little. "That is, if you are not too busy with parties and seeing suitors."
Luluko frowned and huffed.
"I don't want to get married to any of those horrid boys," she stated, flatly.
"'Horrid'? How so?" Schneizel's amusement was palpable and Luluko swatted his chest.
"None of them actually care for me. They just want to be married to a Princess," she pouted. "They come here and stare at me and then ask me to consider them but they don't ask about me or want to know what it is I care for, how I stand politically. I don't want anyone like that even if they're a King of their own land."
"Perhaps they are stunned by your wit and beauty into looking like clods, Lulu." the girl sat up and looked her brother in the face, letting Kanon take her empty glass.
"Do not be silly, Schneizel," she scolded. "If any of them took an interest in Nunnally or challenged me to a game of chess or something, I'd give them more of a chance." But would I, really? Of course I can, a silly crush on some Eleven soldier boy who is away on mission will blow over. It will blow over, so I should...I...
"What about this Rolo?" Schneizel asked as they saw the two princesses chasing Rolo around the lawn outside and they seemed to be having a lot of fun.
"Rolo? I like him a lot, he is very kind to me and very thoughtful of Nunnally," she said, watching their antics with amusement. If only she were a little more robust, she would like to be out there as well - but spending time with Schneizel was always a treat.
"He seems to fit your requirements and he is not an unattractive boy," Schneizel summed him up. "So who is the boy who holds your affections instead?"
Luluko looked up at him sharply and knew she was blushing and cursed herself for it. Now she had gone and made it transparent.
"I have not given any boy a thought," she lied. "Anyway, until they can prove they love me in return, I will take no man's hand."
Schneizel kissed her forehead.
"He is a lucky boy, to have captured the heart of our jewel."
Luluko's face burned even more deeply. She didn't love Suzaku Kururugi! She didn't, couldn't! He was an Eleven, a soldier, a man of no real social rank...the kindest boy she had ever met. A boy whose first instinct was to ensure Nunnally was taken care of. A boy who would follow her to keep her safe even when she wanted him to go away.
...a boy that she loved. It hit her like a ton of bricks and she buried her face in Schneizel's shirt.
"Your Highness, we are expected before your Father soon, we must take our leave soon," Kanon reminded and Luluko unfolded herself from her brother's embrace.
"You'll visit again soon?" she asked, eyes full of hope.
"I will, Lulu, I promise."
She smiled again and stood, allowing him to kiss her cheek and Kanon to kiss her hand.
"Would you send Lord Jeremiah in? I'd like the company," she requested as they left the room, she sat on the large window seat and watched her sisters playing.
Her brother and his aide left to attend their duties and fetch her companion to her and she sat and pondered on the newly defined feelings.
This was not good, she couldn't be in love with a Number. Yet, she knew in her heart she was and it twisted with fear for him. He would not be home for at least another month. She wondered if she sent a letter if he would be able to receive it and resolved to write one anyway. It would have to be platonic and show no hint of feelings, but write she would. She smiled as she watched Nunnally tackle Rolo to the floor and then saw Euphemia bundle on top of the pile. If her sisters wrote as well, it would conceal any ulterior motive.
The door opened and she turned her smile on her Mother's Knight and pointed to the bookshelf.
"Would you like me to read to you?"
Jeremiah nodded and fetched her a book, Luluko took it and opened the pages. They did this often to while away the hours. He selected a book of verse and she would read aloud, enjoying the intimacy it built as well as giving her more practice for oration.
The letter could wait until later after dinner, now she wanted to settle her nerves and the butterflies Schneizel's perception had left in her and she began to read, losing herself in the print.
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Date: 2008-10-16 11:45 pm (UTC)Good, as always! Thanks for sharing <3
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Date: 2008-10-16 11:47 pm (UTC)I'm really glad you're enjoying it.
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Date: 2009-03-27 01:46 am (UTC)sorry if its a late comment.... I happened to read this months before but never had the chance to comment sorry ^^U
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Date: 2009-03-27 04:12 pm (UTC)I don't mind at all, in fact I am very pleased! I love receiving comments on my work. Reminds me that people do actually read it.
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Date: 2009-05-26 03:22 am (UTC)THANK YOU for fulfilling one of my fantasies of a LuluxSchneizel platonic love fic! :D I'm honestly sick of Lulu+Schniezel fics where Schneizel's portrayed as a rapist. And he's still so perceptive. :3 Yay for putting Jeremiah in it too! (Can't people say his name without some reference to the 'Orange-kun' thing?)
Is there more to this? *goes off to check*
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Date: 2009-05-26 09:20 pm (UTC)I love platonic Luluko x Schneizel too (although I am guilty of having written other types of fic between them too, usually upon request). Jeremiah is one of my favourites, you're likely to see him crop up a lot in stuff from me.
There is a lot. I have a whole storyline in mind, I just need to write it all out. This page (http://empiricaljewel.livejournal.com/693.html) is the best one to keep track of this story!
Glad you enjoyed it.