Prologue

"AAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!" was the near inhuman scream that shook the foundations of the vi Brittania household that morning. If one were to be asked who, the answer would be quite obvious, so nobody asked that. Instead, they wondered what could've caused the normally calm Lelouch to scream that way.

Said Lelouch as pressing her back against the wall, looking at the eerily familiar figure occupying her bed at the moment. From what she could recall, she went to bed ALONE last night.

The figure shifted, sat up sloppily, rubbed his eyes, yawned and then looked at her. It was a BOY by the way. Avery familiar looking boy at that.

And Lelouch had to wonder how anyone can yawn and still seem ethereally graceful. But enough of that at the moment. More pressing matters are awaiting.

Someone barged in, and when she looked at the door, her father sans rolls stood there like a bald avenging angel… or Buddha…. Or Batista(1) depending on one's imagination.

"LELOUCH!" he called out.

"Yes?" she replied at the mention of the name, only to realize that she didn't reply alone. She looked at the stranger and studied his features further…

Wall clock ticked and tacked away ten fateful seconds of her life.

"Lelouch!" Father shouted, boy on bed flinched, she noticed, "I told you never to sneak in your sister's bedroom!"

……

………sis…ter? What the…?

"Twins and everything, I know you're close, but Lulu-" and she cringed at the mention of the nickname; her father never called her that, "-needs a lot of privacy now that you're both grown up!" her father shouted with each stomp as he pulled the stranger's ear.

"Yeow! Ouch! Father that hurts! Hey!" Stranger flailed his arms and tried to pull away, in vain, considering how skinny he looked compared to Bat- err… their father. Said stranger looked at her with familiar pleading purple eyes, "Lulu-chan! Father's being mean! Help me here!" were his last word before he was out of the door.

Moments to contemplate and to realize…

Stranger had HER features… the purple eyes, the high cheekbones, the black hair… he even had HER name… and father mentioned something about being twins….

… But she thought she was an only child?