Redirecting my anger.

"Stupid machine!" Chiaki said through her gritted teeth while she gave the contraption another kick.

"Stop it! You'll break it!" Suzaku looked flabbergasted. Chiaki paid no heed to his words, she kept kicking the machine. Suzaku was about to go to the white-haired girl and restrain her, but a pale white hand stopped him.

"Leave it be. In the current situation, it doesn't matter. You saw the thing before. It was going crazy." The owner of the hand said in a calm manner. Suzaku wanted to protest, but another voice interfered.

"Lulu is right. Perhaps it is even better, if Chiaki is the one wrecking it." The deep bass said and even Chiaki, who had been busy breaking the machinery into tiny little pieces, looked up. A small smirk adorned her face.

"No -chan today? That's quite unusual." She commented dryly. Daniel returned her smirk.

"Well, we do have quite the curious situation going on here, don't you think? Chiaki-chan?" He made sure to put an emphasis on every syllable of her name, including the suffix as well. Seeing that he had returned normal, the white-haired girl turned back to destroying the machine, which was followed immediately by Suzaku's protests.

"But this is rather strange. I knew she couldn't handle things well, but to get agitated now...I thought she had distanced herself? That's what the quiet beeping means, doesn't it?" Daniel started the conversation, smirk still in place.

"Yes, she distanced herself. But you know the girl.You've seen her these past few days. Constantly angering herself. Directing that anger at other people. Realizing her wrong-doings. Confusing herself over and over." Lelouch ran a hand through his hair, his frustration clearly showing. Chiaki stopped wrecking the metal, Suzaku stopped his protests, Charles, who had been quiet and painting all the time stopped painting while the other Charles raised his head and even Daniel stopped smirking for a second.

Seeing their astonished faces, Lelouch couldn't help but ask irritatedly, "What?"

"No, it just sounded like...never mind." Suzaku was the first one to speak, but to Lelouch's surprise, he didn't have the guts to finish his sentence. Meanwhile, Chiaki's eyes filled with tears and she flung herself at Daniel, where they both collapsed into one sobbing mess.

"It sounds as if Lulu cares! My god, the world is coming to an end!" Chiaki cried out, clinging more desperately to Daniel and letting out some more fake-tears and mock-sobs. Daniel did exactly the same and Lelouch stared at the pair with bewilderment on his face.

"Oh for the love of...it's that dumb machine! It's leaking out her emotions!" Lelouch accused the now smoking pile of scrap metal. The Daniel-Chiaki combo immediately stopped their act and both had the same look of disappointment on their face.

"And here I thought he actually started caring..." Chiaki didn't even bother whispering to Daniel.

"I know right? I-" Daniel's exclamation was cut off by a rumbling sounding throughout the room.

Charles closed the book he was reading and suppressed a sigh. "It's starting again." He remarked with a monotonous voice.

"Now this is reason for concern. Charles never speaks. Now we've only got to get the Charles Junior to stop painting and then the world is really ending." Chiaki mentioned as they started heading for one of the numerous doors surrounding them.

"I've actually wondered for some time now, but why do we have two Charles'?" Suzaku asked out loud. His question was followed but more rumbling, this time louder, as the room started to collapse. The group started to run, leaving Charles Junior to paint.

"Sorry Suzaku, this is neither the time, nor the place. Now let's see what's behind that door..." Chiaki started mumbling to herself, opening a door. She peeked inside it for a moment, shook her head and proceeded to the next one.

"Nope. That's just Lulu and I playing chess. Wouldn't want to interrupt that one. Nope, this is fanfiction, definitely not the place to be. Oh dear god-" Chiaki gasped after peeking inside another door. That must have been the fiftieth door or so and Chiaki collapsed in front of it, eyes wide and unseeing. Daniel slammed the door shut and quickly marked the door with a red X. Lelouch helped the girl up and the group moved on.

"What was that door?" Suzaku, being the newest to be there, asked. All of his seniors shuddered for a moment before Chiaki answered. Even the room around them seemed to start collapsing faster, as if knowing what words were about to come and trying to prevent them in its blind loathing.

"Her view on reality."