Disclaimer: I don't own code geass and I've run out of snappy comments.

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Within the hour Lelouch was sitting at the table with Leon waiting for Malachai and Quatre to show up.

"Aldair said that I might take years to grow back." Lelouch sighed as he to see

"I highly doubt you've got that type of redemption. I know dad was just given something more of a second chance with his. That's why he was with Grandma Kallie." Leon said, glancing outside.

In the couple of weeks she had stayed there Sahara had become part of the family and Lelouch, Kit, and Mercy all loved her like a mother, which was why she was currently outside playing with the two children on the swing set.

"I wanna go play." Lelouch muttered. "But I'd rather wait for Mr. Malachai. I want to go back to normal."

"It could be worse I suppose. At least you can still talk normal." Leon shrugged.

"But I sound weird!" Lelouch said stubbornly in protest.

"Well there's not much I can do about that." Leon sighed as the door bell rang.

Lelouch hopped off his chair and followed Leon to the front door where he got quite an unexpected surprise.

Standing there with Quatre was Cecile and holding her hand was a very tiny……

"Suzaku?" Lelouch asked curiously.

"Oh no! Not you too!" Suzaku sighed.

"Did this happen this morning?" Lelouch asked him.

"Yeah. I woke up and I couldn't reach the light switch in my bathroom." Suzaku admitted. "Then Jurri helped me climb on the counter so I could see in the mirror."

Lelouch giggled a little. "Daddy picked me up and I started screaming." he said with a smile.

"I almost did."

"Well first let's see how long this is going to last for the two of you." Quatre said as they all walked into the dining room.

Suddenly Malachai appeared in his black uniform, but this time he had very large, black feathered wings that made the two boys jump behind Leon when they shook and ruffled.

"Am I really that scary?" Malachai sighed.

"Yes." said Lelouch stubbornly.

"Not really. Scary's when I do this." He said kneeling down before him. "Boo!" he yelled, making a scary face as he stretched out his wings a bit.

Lelouch starred before suddenly, no matter how hard he tried not to, he burst into tears crying as he clutched Leon's pant leg tightly.

"Great job Malachai." Quatre muttered sarcastically as he rolled his eyes.

"Oh come on kid! I'm not that scary trust me!" Malachai said trying to get him to stop. "Ouch!"

Suzaku gave him an angry glare. "That was mean Mr. Malachai!" he said, after giving him a nice wallop on the head.

"Come now Lelouch, you're a big kid, you don't need to cry." said Leon picking him up.

"I know!" he admitted trying to wipe away the tears, "But I can't get it to stop!"

HE suddenly let out a silly little squeak as Cecile poked his side. Then she began tickling him making him giggle like crazy before he almost fell out of Leon's arms.

"Careful there." Leon said setting him down.

"I feel much better now." Lelouch sighed with a tiny smile as Suzaku giggled a little at him.

"So how do we know what's going to happen Malachai?" Quatre asked.

"Well I have to find their paper work." said Malachai.

They watched as he shook his hand a little, but when nothing happened, he tried again before looking frustrated.

"Alright! Where the hell's my damn clip board?!" he growled.

Lelouch and Suzaku just glanced at each other, shaking their head's a little.

After a few more attempts he sighed. "I didn't want to summon the stupid book." he muttered walking over to the table. "Now how did that go again? Oh Yeah! Reverto ut mihi meus libri animus!"

After a moment nothing happened and everyone starred.

"Hey! Are you listening?" Malachai snapped at the sky. "Reverto ut mihi meus libri animus!"

Suddenly a monstrous book fell out of the sky and landed dangerously close to crushing Malachai's hand with a loud crunch coming from the wooden table.

"What are you trying to kill me?" Malachai growled at the book.

"Well it serves you right!" the book snapped back it's pages splitting open and a huge red ribbon acting as a tongue. "You haven't summoned me in nearly thirty years!"

"That's because I stopped taking souls nearly thirty years ago! Doesn't the word retirement mean anything to you?!"

"Well that doesn't mean you can't say hello and have a pleasant conversation once in a while."

"Oh shut up Mortacai." Malachai sighed.

"Fine then I'm leaving."

"Not a chance!" said Malachai pouncing on the book and trying to pry it open. "Open up!"

"No!" said the book sticking out the ribbon.

Malachai grabbed it and tugged. "Who's the master here?" he said darkly.

"You are." the book mumbled.

"Thank you. Now, please open up." said Malachai letting go.

"Only if you promise to summon me a little more."

"Fine, I promise I'll summon you more often so we can talk. Now please open."

"To what?"

"Mmm…… that's a good question. At least we have names." Malachai muttered.

"Names? Really? Since when? For who?"

"A couple of kids."

"Why?"

"Mortacai please……" Malachai groaned.

Lelouch and Suzaku just watched in curiosity as Malachai bickered with the gigantic book.

"What is it?" Suzaku whispered in Lelouch's ear in curiosity.

"I think that must be……. The book of souls that Mr. Ashtor told me about." Lelouch whispered back in awe. "It really isn't all that big for seventy million souls."

"Behave Mortacai!" Malachai snapped. "Sheesh! Why couldn't I of gotten Taluken instead of you?"

"Because you're the unruly Angel so you get the unruly book." said Mortacai stubbornly. "Names please!"

"Fine. I'm looking for Lelouch Vi Britannia first." Malachai sighed, resting his head on the table in annoyance as Mortacai flipped pages.

"Found him!" he said proudly. "But he's not under any category."

"That's because he didn't die in WWII." said Malachai reading the page.

Lelouch felt curious so he climbed up on the chair beside him to look at the book.

There were two whole pages for him. His picture on the top left hand corner of the left page, his date of birth, of death, his parents, his sister, his life accomplishments, everything.

"Not exactly a spotless record." Mortacai muttered.

"Which is why he's serving redemption Mortacai." said Malachai as if it was obvious. "And you got off easy. Five months of redemption growing a year every two weeks.

Lelouch starred. "If I only grow a year every two weeks for five months that leaves me at……." he paused counting on his fingers. "Thirteen?"

"After that then you grow normal again."

"But why?"

"Don't complain. You could just die and go straight to hell for starting a war and indirect suicide."

Lelouch turned bright red and shut his mouth tight.

"You wouldn't give your uncle the satisfaction of claiming him." said Quatre with a raised brow.

"True, true."

"Uncle?" Suzaku asked curiously as he got up on another chair to look at the book.

"Lucifer Morningstar, the prince of lies himself." said Malachai.

"Lucifer? Isn't that another name for satin?" Cecile asked slowly.

"Very good Cecile." Malachai muttered.

"We're related to the devil?!" Lelouch screeched.

"Wow, that really would make you the demon emperor wouldn't it?" Suzaku chuckled.

"That's not funny Suzaku!" Lelouch protested.

"Anyway children……!" said Malachai interrupting them. "Now we get to see Suzaku's blemished record."

"I'm pretty sure I don't want to see it." Suzaku mumbled.

"Mortacai, find Suzaku Kururugi. You may have to search though because he never died."

"Then why would I have him?"

"Because he was rescued."

"Fine." Mortacai sighed.

After several minutes of pages flipping back and forth, Suzaku's picture appeared on the open page along with his record.

"It's not much better." Mortacai muttered.

"No shit Sherlock. That's why he was rescued, and that's why he's got the same redemption. Ten years worth of growing in five months. Have fun with that kiddies." said Malachai, flipping the book shut.

"Is Cameron in here?" Lelouch asked curiously.

"The entire Ashtor family is." said Malachai walking over to Quatre. "Three brothers, five sisters, mom and dad."

"How bad was Cameron's record?" Suzaku asked.

Mortacai flipped open to the pages with Cameron Ashtor's records.

"He looked happy enough." Lelouch admitted.

"He sure beat up Travis a lot." Suzaku muttered.

"Yeah well Travis did beat back." Malachai admitted.

"It say's he's only served half his redemption as a guardian." Said Lelouch.

"He was Grant's guardian with Travis for several years until Leon died and joined them. Now they're just waiting for Cameron to play nice and apologize. Travis has, but it doesn't get revoked until Cameron agrees to the truce."

"Not like that's really gonna happen anytime soon." Lelouch admitted remembering Cameron's hostile attitude.

"So how does this work?" Cecile asked as the boy's continued to look through Mortacai.

"Hey Mortacai, can we see Mr. Ashtor's page?" Lelouch asked.

Mortacai flipped through to show Leon Ashtor's record.

"Wow, he had a rough life." Suzaku whispered sadly.

"But he lived a lot longer." Lelouch pointed out. "Hey, is grandpa in here?"

"Of course he is." said Mortacai flipping more pages.

"Look, grandpa's picture." Lelouch said smiling.

The boy's giggled at Quatre's picture of him around mid twenties with his blonde hair in a military cut, in his infantry uniform.

"He looked kinda funny." Suzaku giggled.

"Gee thanks guys." said Quatre. But he had a good natured smile on his face as he chuckled at them making them laugh some more.

"So what now grandpa?" Lelouch asked.

"We let you grow and see what happens." Leon said with a shrug. "There's nothing else we can do really."

Lelouch and Suzaku just pouted a little, not quite sure they were ready for what was to come in the next five months.

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Ginger:Well we finally get to see a little more of Malachai like some people had asked in the last story. I figured everyone would find a scared little Lelouch a bit cute. Was I right guys? ;) Anyway, thanks for reading and staying with me! And just out of curiousity, I'd like to know what everyone thinks about Mortacai, Malachai's book of souls.