It was a good kiss between these two I think, even if lelouch wasn’t ready for it. Then as he departs he shows some “couple” sarcasm to her by telling her not to die. CC answer him by saying “who do you think I am?”. Only a couple could come up with sarcasm that good.
As we got near the end of the first season, CC would be sinking in the ocean while lelouch would get captured. My thought is that she came back for lelouch even though she knew that he had lost his memories. She could have easily abandoned him like she did Mao, but chose not to. Why you ask? You should know the reason, she loved him.
C.C.: "Humans, exist to chase for happiness. A guy from Britannia. What Lelouch was looking for, was just that bit of happiness. It's not something special. The root of his actions, as a person, they are very tiny wishes which are apparent in everyone. These dreams, these words, who can renounce them? Who has that right? But, however, no matter who, no matter what the wish is, one cannot bind others and the world to themselves. Determine one's fate. If, one allows the thoughts of others, to go beyond that of the world, his existence is merely one which is drifting with the waves. Crimes and punishment. Fate and judgment. What's blocking Lelouch is, the past he created. It is hate between people. Even so, he should be thankful now. (few tears from her eyes) Yes. At least...it is a fact that humans exist to pursue happiness. All the wishes, concealing those yearnings...they are born from despair."
As she was falling into the ocean she was talking about how humans seek happiness even it is just a little bit. She says that it is born from despair. However she is talking about herself more than anyone here. She is alive because she wants to be happy, but she has never found it. Thats why, she alone has made countless contracts in hope of finding that happiness, that love. That was born from her despair.
The second season I found to be VERY similar to the first season. I liked it though. For example, in the first episode Lelouch was gambling on chess and was once again fell into danger. CC would get shot once more, fatally and grant him his geass when everyone thought she was dead. Yes, and a dramatic comeback would be made, however we really wouldn’t see a lot of Lelouch and CC time. There was A LOT of stuff that happened the second season. I think their first time together really was when they went to take the Tianzi. After fighting off military forces, Lelouch was to decide the Tianzi’s fate, a proposed marriage to a Japanese man was denied by CC. Lelouch confused by her would ask Shirley for help. I think this shows what CC really thinks of love, she knows you can force someone to love someone else, that’s pretty much why its called love, lelouch on the other hand eventually says, you can do what you want! Not really a Lelouch CC moment but you get that she knows what love should be like. Now we get to the more serious stuff with Lelouch and CC. I think CC knew that lelouch was pissed over Shirley’s death, but being his accomplice, she had to help him go and destroy the geass order. I personally think she was a bit jealous here for Lelouch basically raged war and killed people for Shirley, and not really for her. Then bam…lelouch gets sucked into the world of C. There he meets the emperor for the first time in 8 years. (VV already got his code taken) After “killing him” the emperor revives and is like, HAHAHA!....yeah bad ass I know. Lelouch then puts on a weak attempt to geass him again with him saying once again….”defeat me with the power of kings and you will surpass the power of kings!” Im gonna skip over the whole lelouch charles part about masks and save that for the next section here however during this CC does pop up again. She comes in saying that she wishes to reveal her true wish. Her wish to die. That the only way for lelouch to defeat charles was to kill her and gain immortality. Lelouch hesitates here, “kill…CC?”. And then comes a moment that you would only understand if you had watched one of the sound episodes of the first season. So no its gonna get a bit confusing so try to follow along as best you can, well this is how I saw it, CC said that the endless accumulation of not dying was experience right? So she’s really saying shes been dead all this time, she hasn’t been living on by her own power but that of the codes, but now, she can end it. She can end this experience. Since she was young, a slave girl, she had no power, no friends/accomplances, nothing. Then she had the geass “to be loved”, she never really made anyone fall truly in love with her, it was the geass, and now, when she wanted to end it, she couldn’t for the code wouldn’t let her. All her life, she has been dictated by something else. She hasn’t used her power to live on, she didn’t have the will to anymore. Lelouch on the other hand told her that “one is has life because they are alive!”, ironic because in sound ep 0.0515, the uninvited prince, a similar case happens to lelouch, but unlike CC he says that he’s alive and living by his own power, him and nunnally. Suzaku, who would be in lelouch’s shoes would ask himself, “isn’t one alive because they have life?”. I thought it was confusing, and it still is because CC uses a jumbo amount of words. But this is what I think, If you think differently then good for you. With CC in a dilemma, she sends lelouch to her memory/heart, what ever you want to call it, and he views her past, and I believe it impacts him greatly. He knows why she wants to die, and what he can do to stop her. Ntm he did get pretty emotional when CC told him her wish was to die and to kill her…”kill… CC?” no way…so anyways, her broke through the thought elevator and convince her for the final time, that she isn’t alone, that he is there for her, don’t die! Even though he doesn’t really say this you get the hint by what hes saying.