Coming home // Suzaku, Luluko, Nunnally, Rolo, Other

[empiricaljewel]

WHO: Princess Luluko and Suzaku
SECONDARY CHARCTERS: Nunnally vi Britannia, Rolo Haliburton and Miho the maid.
WHAT: Suzaku comes home from a two-week military mission and Luluko welcomes him home.
RATING: PG-13
NOTES: Nudity, they have a bath.



Luluko was very excited. Today, her beloved husband was finally coming home after a two-week excursion away from home to suppress a militant terrorist faction. Their intelligence had located a group of cells that were planning to attack the palace, intending to take her and her unborn child hostage.

Suzaku had immediately set off to take them out before they even had a chance to try.

She'd received word this morning that he was on his way home and she was sitting in the room closest to the front door, her handmaidens around her and her sister Nunnally and her sister's Knight, Rolo.

A messenger came in to tell her that he was just putting away the Lancelot and would be in presently.

"Miho-san," she turned to one of her servants and addressed her politely. She made a real effort to be polite to her staff and as she was in Area Eleven, she always tried to remember to adhere to Japanese customs and she found it made her life much easier. Her staff were much more loyal to her than they were to other Governor-Generals in the other Areas.

"Can you please go to my room and draw a warm bath? Add some soothing bath salts, please?" she asked and proceeded to try to get up out of her chair. It was rather difficult as she was six months along now and really rather large in the belly. She got to her feet and fanned herself a little, before looking out of the window.

"Is he coming?" Nunnally asked, watching her sister get excited at the prospect of Suzaku coming home.

Luluko turned and gave both Nunnally and Rolo a big smile.

"I can see him coming up the path," she told them and gently rubbed a hand across her distended stomach like she had started doing absently since she had fallen pregnant.

She then hurried over to the door as fast as she could with the extra weight and as the doors opened, she found herself scooped into a pair of strong arms and those soft lips were on her's, so she reciprocated in kind.

She always fretted when he was away and now he was back where he belonged, in her arms.

Ignoring the servants and assorted Knights around them, they lost themselves in their own little world and did not care that this public show of affection was hardly befitting a Royal Couple, but they cared not.

Finally breaking apart, Suzaku cupped her cheek and then lowered his hand to her stomach. She saw his eyes go a little wide and knew he was surprised at how much bigger she'd gotten even in the short time he had been gone.

"How are you?" he asked "And the baby?"

Luluko indulged him with a smile.

"I'm fine and the baby is as well," she took his hands in her own. "Come, you must be tired, I had a bath drawn for you."

"I don't need to-"

"You need to rest, Suzaku," she chastised lightly and drew him towards their room and leaving Nunnally in charge of the household while she welcomed her husband home.

He just chuckled and let her do what she wanted, closing and locking the door behind them. Luluko walked as gracefully as she could with her rounded tummy and went into the bathroom to test the temperature of the water, soon followed by her husband who had already stripped off most of his clothing.

Luluko turned and smiled at him and kissed his shoulder.

"It is just right," she accepted a kiss to her forehead and watched him finished stripping and ease himself down into the large and very comfortable bath. Luluko herself then went down to her underwear so her dress would not get soaked and picked up a little bath sponge and bent beside him gently caressing his skin with it and her fingers, wanting him fully relaxed after what had to have been a very strenuous trip.


She smiled and kissed his forehead as he sighed at the touches, the warm water and massaging fingers relaxing his muscles and soothing his weariness away. He had been wound so tightly the past two weeks and Luluko could feel it as she gently soothed away all the tenseness in his back and shoulders.

"Join me?" he asked her, lifting a hand and looping it around her back.

She started to laugh.

"How am I going to get in? I've been having to take showers unless I have someone here to help lift me in and out," she told him through her chuckles, but took off her underwear anyway and clipped her hair up.

Suzaku answered by getting out of the bath and picking her up in his arms easily, even with the baby weight he still had plenty of strength to spare it seemed and once she was settled in, he simply climbed in behind her again and she rested back against his strong chest, closing her eyes and loving the fact that he was back and safe.

"I missed you," she whispered and sighed.

They just lay there in the warm water and being with each other until Luluko almost fell asleep and stirred.

"We should get out, the water is getting cold," she commented with a small yawn. Suzaku kissed her neck and then got out, wrapping a towel around his hips and then helping Luluko get out of the bath without slipping and encasing her in her own fluffy towel and taking the time to dry her with gentle strokes.

The two savoured the moments of peace they had together and got themselves dry before wrapping in their dressing gowns and going into the living area of their wing.

Luluko smiled as Suzaku flopped comfortably down on the large chaise lounge and went to a drawer and extracted a photograph.

"I have something I want to show you," she said and settled beside him, chuckling when he rested his head on her belly and let him mumble sweet nothings to it. He'd taken enthusiastically to speaking to the baby after she'd told him it could recognize his voice if he did that.

"I love you," he whispered and kissed the bump.

She kissed him softly as he lifted his face to her's and she presented him with the picture which was in actuality an ultrasound image.

"Is this...our baby?" he asked, looking at it in awe.

"We went for an ultrasound while you were away because Nunnally wanted to see the baby."

"You went out of the pal-"

She stopped him by lifting her fingers to his lips the same way she had done the day she'd confessed her love and given him her virginity....which had also been the same day she had managed to get herself pregnant in the first place.

"Rolo was with us," she said. "We went in secret and he took care of us both," she promised him. She knew it was still somewhat dangerous out there for her even when out on official business but sometimes she just needed to get outside of the palace and she trusted Rolo with her's and with Nunnally's life. He had always taken every precaution necessary and more when charged with the princess' safety.

That seemed to appease Suzaku a lot, even if he was still unhappy she had been out without him there to guard her every step, he knew Rolo was someone he could trust. The boy showed a devotion to the two girls that always put Suzaku's mind at ease when he had to leave to go anywhere.

She directed his attention back to the image and saw him squint at it, confused by the pale blurs and crossrossing lines.

"What is that?" he asked, pointing at a blob.

"That is our baby's head," she told him with a smile and giggled a little at the somewhat goofy look on his face as he took in the small blob like it was the Holy Grail.

"And here is it's tummy and look, there are it's feet, you see this? That is a little willy - our little boy."

Suzaku looked like he'd just won ten lotteries at once and gazed at his wife.

"We're having a boy?! A son...wow, I ...I'm having a son. You're having my son..." he took her face in his hands and kissed her passionately and she reciprocated, so happy right now she almost felt like she was floating above the clouds.

He let go and she could see a tear in his eye even as he grinned at her stupidly.

"There was a time when I thought that the first time we met - when I touched your hand that I'd be happy with that, that I'd never get closer to you but I was content...and now...now you're my wife and giving me a son," he drew her to him again and Luluko allowed it. She knew he'd wished for a family for so long, having been orphaned at ten and set adrift and it made her happy to know she could give him what he had always dreamed of.

They broke apart and he took the picture away from her and stared at it in awe.

"I want to have this framed," he announced suddenly "and I want a copy for the Lancelot," he added.

Luluko chuckled and nodded. "I have copies." She knew he kept a picture of her in his mecha and figured this would go in there next to it.

"What is this?" he asked, scrutinizing the picture again. Luluko gave him a wicked little grin.

"That..." she reached in and kissed his lips gently and pulled away a few centimetres, enough to be able to cup his cheek while still being able to see his whole expression.

"That is our son's twin sister."

Silence fell in the room and his eyes went almost impossibly wide and then he gulped.

"Twin...sister?" he whispered and Luluko nodded.

"WE'RE HAVING TWINS?!" he yelled so loud that it echoed around the room and Luluko feared for her hearing, he might just have burst her eardrums, but then she started to laugh at the utterly stunned expression on his face.

"Well, we don't have to announce it at least - I think all of Japan knows now," she laughed and caressed his cheek.

"Sorry, I...twins...wow..." he put the picture down on the table and placed his hands on her belly. "Daddy loves you both." he whispered and Luluko put her arms around him and just let him enjoy this moment.