Kallen Stadfeld was sitting on the edge of her bed, staring at a cell phone. She was impatiently waiting for a call from Zero, the rebel she was ace-pilot and bodyguard for. Q-1, he called her, when they were on missions. If she wasn't, she was just pain supposedly cronicly ill Kallen. She looked away from the cell phone when she heard a knock on the door.

"Who is it?" the red-head called out. She honestly wanted no visitors at the moment.

"It's Lelouch, can we talk?"

With a sigh, Kallen got up and answered the door, gasping in shock. It wasn't Lelouch who stood before her, but Zero. She fell back onto the floor in surprise.

"Zero! W-what are you doing here?" she stuttered.

"I'm here to talk with you, may I come in?"

"Uh, um..yeah. Come on in..."

Zero wlaked into the room, sat down on her bed and began to remove his mask. Kallen watched in surprise: she had never seen Zero without his mask. Another gasp escaped Kallens lips. Behind the mask was the face of her felow student council member, Leouch Lamperouge.

"What the hell?" Kallen yelled. There was just no way in her mind that Leouch and Zero were one and the same. "Lelouch! How did you get that costume?"

"I've had it for a while now," Leouch said, that smirk Kallen despised on his face. "That's what I came here to talk to you about. I was tired of hiding it from you."

"Hide what? We barley ever speak unless I'm yelling at you for something or other."

"Didn't you ever realize you were yelling at Zero?"

"Wait- you really are Zero? But I love Zero. Honestly, I can't stand you."Lelouch chuckeld to himself, and Kallen's face turned red.

"You never realized that Zero and I are one and the same? Wow, Kallen I'm amazed."

Lelouch had the smuggest look on his face. Just then, Kallen felt as if she'd lost all feeling in her arms and legs. She gasped as the floor came rushing up to meet her face. Before she could it the floor, Lelouch had jumped off the bed, and caught her with surprising speed for one so atheletically challenged. He picked her up and carried her to the bed, where he gently set her down. Hehadn't realized that revealing himself to his ace pilot would have shocked her o the piont of passing out. He felt bad that he had scared her, but he also felt better that he didn't have to put up the charade any longer. He kissed her forehead and waited about a minute before her eyes stared to flutter open.

"Lelouch?" she asked.

" I'm still here, Kallen." he said quietly.

"Why didn't you just tell me in the first place?"

"I wasn't sure if you would follow me as readily if you knew." He looked at her for a moment while he waited for her to reply.

"I think I would have run away screaming!" Kallen gave a feeble laugh, then added, "Thank you for catching me."