2035 ATB

Britannia

"Good night, Michelle." Suzaku put the blanket over his daughter's sleeping form and gave her a goodnight kiss on her head. The brown-haired toddler with blue eyes gave one final yawn as she slowly closed her eyes and fell asleep.

The Knight of One gave a small smile as he stood up and gave one final look to his sleep daughter and slowly walked out of the bedroom to enter the hallway of his family home. Where standing on the opposite side of the door and leaning back on the wall was his wife.

Monica Krushevsky gave a small smile at her husband as he came out of their daughter's bedroom. The Knight of Two approached Suzaku to give him a quick, deep kiss on the lips before resting her head on his collar as they gently hugged one another.

"Is Michelle asleep?" The orange-haired woman asked.

"She's very tired after what we did together today, so she's probably asleep by now." Suzaku answered.

"Well taking our little baby girl to the amusement park all the way from afternoon to night can be taxing. At the very least she's going to have a good night's sleep."

Suzaku muzzled his face against his wife's long, orange hair. "Well since today is our last day off before we're called back into duty by her majesty, what should we do together ourselves tomorrow?"

Monica looked up to Suzaku. "Our anniversary?" She reminded him with a glare. "You forgot didn't you?"

"Oh… Uhh, the last several days were hectic and busy spending time with you and Michelle." The Knight of One tried to come up with a good excuse.

Scoffing at the excuse before giving off an amused smirk. "I'm just messing with you, Suzaku."

"So what do you want to do for our anniversary tomorrow? Besides the usual dinner and all." Suzaku asked, kissing Monica on the forehead.

"Don't know but relaxing together in the house sounds appealing. Just you and us after the work we had to do in the last several days before our day off. Unless you have something else in mind?"

"Not that I have anything in mind other than a walk in the park." He shrugged.

"Well… We do have the rest of the night to ourselves before tomorrow. Some alone time between us now would be quite nice." Monica took Suzaku's hand and slowly led them to either the living room or their bedroom.

Suzaku wondered how everything in the past decade led to the present. How a former Honorary Britannian like him met the then Knight of Twelve. How they were slowly drawn to one another. How they eventually fell in love with one another, and later get married and have Michalle. Thinking about those events, Suzaku couldn't help but chuckle at the absurdity of it all.

2017 ATB

Area 11

"I am Lady Monica Kruszewski, Knight of Twelve serving under his majesty." The long-amber haired girl wearing the uniform of the Knights of the Round introduced herself to the Camelot team. "So you're the pilot of the Lancelot."

His majesty had recently ascended her to the ranks of the Knight of the Round as the Knight of Twelve, recognising her prowess as a knightmare pilot and her leadership skill at such a young age. So to prove her worthiness of being bestowed with such high rank and privilege, his imperial majesty sent her on her first mission as the Knight of Twelve to Area 11 to deal with certain affairs and deal with the increasing terrorist activities. Her foremost mission was dealing with a certain project called Code R that Prince Clovis was heavily involved in, the specific details related to the project left vague to her as her only assignment was to oversee transportation of its personal and research.

She heard many news related to Camelot back at the Homeland and when she arrived at Area 11, who were currently developing a plethora of new, advanced technologies needed to further uphold the power of the Empire and its massive army to stay ahead of its enemies. Many of its developments were largely confined to further advancement of knightmare technologies and related fields such as the concept of airships. However, the one development that caught her attention was the creation and recent success in the operation of the prototype 7th-generation knightmare frame codenamed the Lancelot.

From what she recalled about it, the Lancelot was rumoured to be uncontrollable for even the best devicers in the Empire to operate effectively, which delayed all progress in 7th-generation KMF. That is until recently Camelot found a devicer with a high sync rate to use the Lancelot to defeat the terrorists in Shinjuku; along with later activities against Zero and the Black Knights and other terrorists. However, one fact that got her attention was that said devicer was a Number and a Honorary Britannian of notable background.

Suzaku Kururugi, the son of the last Prime Minister of Japan.

For a Number to achieve such a notable position and able to control the Lancelot so easily was quite shocking. The Earl of Pudding rambled on about how Kururugi was such an exceptional specimen and an important 'component' of the Lancelot. Which resulted in his assistant scolding him that he's talking about individuals.

She ignored the rambling in favour of staring at the brown-haired Eleven before her saluting and dressed in the standard brown uniform of Camelot division. He was much taller than her with a youthful face showing him to be at late teens. Her blue eyes stared into his green eyes, trying to observe his character just by his eyes as his face stoic and professional. Showing no signs of emotion related to fear, nervousness, or resentment to someone of her station.

"Warrant Officer Suzaku Kurungi, reporting for duty, Lady Kruszewski."

The Knight of Twelve could tell that working with him would be an interesting experience.

One-shot idea that came to me when I found a very rare picture of a Suzaku X Monica picture. And along with the wiki information on Monica that reminded me of Suzaku's belief, so I wondered if a pairing between the two was possible. Though this is a one-shot snippet idea that came to my head and not a full-fledged story.

But feel free to adopt it if you desire.