I'm sooooo sorry it took me so long to get this chapter up!! You see I had no Internet for how long was it? more than 1 month!! Once again I apologize! Hope it will not happen again!! But anyway here it is.

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Chapter 3: Lesson one! Never feed of the maids.

"Weir here." Cagalli excitedly peeked out of the carriage. It's been two days since she's left her home. And if you just sit there staring at the countryside, day in and day out. It kind of gets to you after a while. To say she was bored was an understatement. Constantly she fidgeted moving from one side to the other. Athrun even had to scold her severe times, just to get her to sit still. But now they've finally arrived, and he was all to glad about that. One more minute with this girl and Athrun would have cracked. Tall trees stood towering over the road on each side, casting their shadows on the ground. A steel black gate up ahead. Its wall's going right and left, covering any possible entrance to the other side. Men bowing as they went past. Riding further, a building came in view. Cagalli tried focusing on the structure. It had a big wooden door, two white pillars on each side. With widows so tall, they almost reached the sky.

"It's beautiful!!" Athrun nodded. "Yes it is." The carriages slowly came to a stop. A man that looked like a butler or some sort, opened the door.

"Please follow me milady." Cagalli turned to Athrun, a confused face.

"Welcome to your new home milady." Athrun joked. Smiling he extended his arm for her to take. She did, willingly leaving the carriage. Lucky for Athrun he had a coat with him, so some of his earlier action was not so visible to the eyes outside. (Meaning the blood stains)

"Okay, all you have to do now is follow Lucerne here." Athrun gestured to the old man next to him.

'Oh the person who opened the door.' Lucerne bowed, placing a hand on his chest. This movement creaped Cagalli out.

'Why does everybody keep doing that to us?!'

"Lucerne will show you your room now and I will see you tonight for dinner. So if you'd excuse me, I have some matters to attend to." Athrun turned about to leave, but Cagalli stopped him grabbing his arm.

"You're leaving?"

"Uh, Yes. Is that a problem?"

"You can't leave!! I barley know these people!! What if they do something to me?" Athrun chuckled, placing a hand on Cagalli's face.

"Don't worry, as long as you don't go around chewing at people's necks .They can't do anything to you. Come on, I know you'll be fine." This comment, made Cagalli blush furiously.

"I-I'm not like that!"

"I know, I just like teasing you."He stepped back smiling.

"Now go, I'll meet with you later tonight okay?" Cagalli nodded.

"Yeah uh, bye."

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"Dinner will be at six every night. All your belongings are in the closet and tomorrow you will have your first lesson at 9 am. Will that be all milady?" Cagalli turned to Lucerne.

"When's breakfast?"

'What!! Don't look at me like that. So I like my morning snack, sue me!'

"At 7 am milady." Cagalli nodded.

"Thank you that will be all." The butler nodded his head and left the room, closing the door behind him. Cagalli turned, inspecting her new bedroom. A double bed stood in the middle, backed up against the stone wall. The linens made out of grey silk, with matching black pillows. On each side of it stood bed lamps. And a big window at her right.

'Why do I feel like royalty?' She looked out the window.

'The suns about to set. Which means, it's almost time for dinner? I should get going.' Cagalli turned exiting the room. Thoughts started to dwell in her mind.

'Mom what are you doing right now? I wish you were here.' Her eyes sadden. She kept walking, passing every closed door. Cagalli came to a holt at a door that looked familiar. Earlier when Lucerne showed her around, she learned that the house consisted out of two levels. The first level was your kitchen, dining room, library etc. And the second floor was your bedrooms, study rooms, bathrooms etc. Entering the dining room, Cagalli's mood lifted a bit. There was Athrun sitting at the table smiling, talking to his mother. He noticed Cagalli and motioned for her to come sit next to him. She did.

"I'm glad you decided to come eat with us child." Leonor said smiling.

"So what do you think about your room. I hope it's to your liking?" Cagalli nodded.

"Yes thank you, but, it's really not necessary that you do all this for me."

"Oh no not at all Cagalli! Think of it as a welcome present from us all. Beside, this is going to be your home from now on as well." Cagalli could not help, but feel uneasy about what Leonor said.

'But I don't want to live here, don't I have a say in all this?'

"Ah Here comes the food! I hope you like meat with vegetables Cagalli?" Servants came, placing trays of food in front of them. Patrick followed, seating himself next to his wife.

"Sorry I'm late everyone, had to take care of a few things."

"It's alright dear, they just brought the food anyway." Cagalli stared at the meat for a while, before taking a bite. The taste was awful! Disgusting, so dull.

'What's going on? Why does it not taste like meat? It feels like eating a mouthful of salt all at once.' Athrun noticed this, and leaned to his side taking one of Cagalli's hands in his own.

"Don't worry." He whispered.

"Just don't think about it, it helps." He smiled at her, and continued eating still holding Cagalli's hand. She wanted to cry, a lump forming in her throat. But she ate in silence forcing the food down, swallowing the lump as well. 'I guess human food; have no meaning for me anymore.'

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"I guess, I at least owe you an apology." Athrun said. He stopped in front of Cagalli's bedroom door.

"I should have warned you about the food, sorry." Cagalli just nodded in response.

"Okay, I'll see you tomorrow then. Don't forget you've got class in the library."

"I won't, goodnight Athrun." Cagalli smiled and closed the door behind her. Sighing she took off her clothes and got in her nightdress, feeling very tired all of the sudden. The bed looked sort off welcome at the moment. Cagalli got in, but somehow it didn't feel right. The bed was cold, not warm like the one back home. The lump from earlier appeared again, her eyes feeling heavy from all the pain. And breathing started to become harder with every second that passed by. Almost immediately tears appeared on her cheeks. Clutching the pillow hard, Cagalli cried into it.

'I feel so lonely here. I don't want to be a monster. Is there no place where I truly belong?' With that last thought she finally fell asleep, having nothing near a sweat dream at all.

"Run!! Run till you're outside the house. It's not save here anymore." A woman with long brown hair, and violet eyes yelled at the blond girl.

"But mommy what about you?" The woman smiled and crouched down, touching the girls face. "Mommy's going to get your father and brother Cagalli. Don't worry I'll meet you outside okay? Now go quickly!" The girl nodded, a small tear running down her face. She turned, and ran out the door. A group of people had appeared that day all of them holding torches. Throwing rocks and screaming things at the house like: "The hell with you demons!" And "May God be on our side!" With seconds the house caught fire, flames everywhere. Cagalli had just made it out in time, but her mother was nowhere to be found. She attempted to enter the building again, but it was impossible. The heat of the flames was intense, smoke everywhere.

"Mommy!!" Cough- Cough. "Daddy!!" Cough-Cough.

"Yeah!!" Loud cheers came from every angle. This was too much for Cagalli. Tears came running down her cheeks. Everything started to spin around her.

"Whe-Where are you?!" Wood started cracking, slowly breaking under the heat. Cagallistood watching as the doors arch gave in. Pieces of wood falling down, and knocking her out. And all she remembered was seeing black all around her, followed by two blurry figures appearing in front of her.

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"Nooooooo!!" A loud yell filled the halls. Cagalli bolted up in her bed, clutching at her head. Within minutes a worried Leonor came bursting through the door, gasping at the sight.

"Cagalli child!" Cagalli was drenched in sweat, trembling with fear. Leonor rushed to the crying child. She sat on the bed, bringing Cagalli closer to her chest.

"What happened child. Did you have a bad dream or something?"

"I-I... It was awful, flames everywhere!"

"Flames? Child what happened?"

"I-I" Sniff "I feel like I know the place somehow."

"What place?" Leonor asked concerned.

"In my dream, a town house. People burned it down, and a woman told me to run. I called her mother for some reason." Cagalli buried her face, clutching at Leonor.

"It was awful."

"Shhhh ... It's okay. It was just a bad dream." Leonor soothed. "Don't be frightened." Amidst all this Athrun and his father stood at the door. Athrun kept staring at Cagalli's face. She's stopped crying, but was now weeping silently.

'Getting her to adapt to this place, is going to take longer than I predicted.' Athrun thought. 'I kind of feel sorry for you little Cagalli. May tomorrow be a better day.'

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Leonor sighed, closing the door. "Poor child, such horrible dreams."

"Will she be okay?" Athrun asked concerned.

"Yes, she's calmed down a bit. But somehow I feel that was no dream, maybe a memory?"

"What are you talking about mother?" They started walking down the hall.

"I mean as in how can one dream of a house to such detail, and not have seen it once? Surely it must have been a memory. She even explained the woman to the last detail!"

"I guess you're right. It is kind of strange for her to dream of a house to such extent, and not know it. But we don't know for sure." "Yes, I know." Leonor said.

"But I still find it strange. Somehow I feel like I know the woman Cagalli talked about." Athrun looked at his mother confused. She saw this and quickly added.

"Oh no, don't worry. My minds just running away from me, I mean how can that even be possible." Leonor stopped and touched her sons cheek.

"Now go to bed it's late and you've got class tomorrow." Athrun nodded.

"Goodnight mother." And went to his room. Leonor glanced one last time at her son, before taking off again.

'Something's off. Something's really off.' She thought.

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"Miss wake up, you're going to be late for breakfast." The maid shook a bit at Cagalli's still body.

"Miss?" A low groan came from the girl. Slowly she sat up, rubbing at her eyes.

"What time is it?" Cagalli asked groggily. The maid smiled at the sight. The girl's hair was ruffled in all possible directions. She looked so sweet and innocent.

"It's six thirty am miss." Cagalli yawned some more, and got out of bed.

"I should get ready then hu?" The woman chuckled.

"Yeah I think so. Do you need any help getting dressed?"

"No I'll be fine, thank you ...?"

"Silvia, my names Silvia." The maid added.

"Silvia" Cagalli repeated. "Well thank you, but no thank you. Like I said I'll be fine." Silvia nodded and left the room. Cagalli stared at the retreating maid. Her long brown hair caught Cagalli's eyes.

'Why do I feel like I should remember something? Humph.' Cagalli shrugged her shoulders.

'I'll remember it later, I know I will.' She turned and went for the door, which led to the bathroom.

'Time to clean myself up, and head for breakfast.'

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Cagalli walked, passing doors in the hall. Upon reaching the dining room on the first floor, she entered smiling.

"Morning everyone!" Athrun looked up concerned and Leonor stopped her conversation with Patrick.

"Uh morning Cagalli, I hope you slept well?" Leonor asked.

"Yes thank you, I slept like a rock." Cagalli beamed even more. Sitting next to Athrun, she started eating in silence. Athrun started to worry.

'Is she putting up a smiling face to fool us all?' He lifted his hand placing it over Cagalli's. This movement surprised her a bit.

"Cagalli ..." Athrun started.

"Do you remember what happened last night?" Cagalli looked up confused.

"What are you talking about? Should I remember something?"

'She doesn't remember, that's odd. Unless...' Athrun turned to his mother furious.

"Mother!! You didn't-"

"No! Of course not, Athrun I'd never do that!"

'God I don't hope so. Taking someone's memories away from them. It's cruel and unjust.' Leonor had once taken Athrun's memory away from him after he had had a horrible dream. Although the dream was unpleasant, Athrun had still found it a bit irritating that Leonor had just taken it away. (A/N: Leonor's ability is to take away peoples memory, or temper with them.) Athrun turned back to the girl.

"The dream Cagalli, that you had last night. You were devastated!"

"Dream? What dream? Look I don-" Cagalli's eyes felt heavy again. It all came back to her. The house, the flames and that woman. That's why this morning with Silvia, she felt like there was something she forgot. Silvia's brown hair was the same colour of that woman in her dream. A creamy brown, which attracts your eyes so easily. Cagalli tried to smile, but she could not. The dream felt so real, almost as if it just happened yesterday. A tear ran down her face.

"I'm – I'm sorry. I try to be strong, but I can't seem to do that. So many things happened so fast for me, I can't take it all in at once." Leonor quickly stood up, but Patrick stopped her and gestured to Athrun. He brought Cagalli closer to him, hugging her tightly.

"I just want to go home."

"But Cagalli you are home, this place is your home now. We want you to be here." Patrick said. The girl calmed down a bit and relaxed in Athrun's arms. Leonor spoke this time.

"If you let us into your hart Cagalli, we can love so much. Just like Maria and Uzumi. But only if you let us in." She stood walking to Cagalli.

"We are your family now. And I see you as my own child, my daughter." Athrun dropped his hands from Cagalli, smiling. Leonor touched her cheek slightly.

"Will you give us a chance Cagalli? Please?" Cagalli was shocked. She never knew they felt that way about her.

'Is this really happening? Do they really want me to stay with them?' She found herself answering the question, smiling.

"Yes, thank you for everything." Leonor embraced Cagalli with all her love.

"Promise just one thing."

"Yes? What is it?" "Promise me never to cry again, only of joy." Cagalli hesitated for a bit, but answered anyway.

"I promise mother." (A/N: Cagalli has moved on that is why she called Leonor her mother. But she has not forgotten Maria or Uzumi!!)

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Cagalli walked silently next to Athrun. They were heading on their way to the library, for their 9 am class that was about to start. The girl was completely nervous.

'What are they going to do to me?' Cagalli thought with a blank face. Athrun noticed this and kind off guessed what she was thinking. One thing that even amazed Athrun was that since he was little he was able to tell what people were thinking. And most of the time he was more than 80% correct. (A/N: Athrun's ability is to read peoples expressions.)

"Don't worry ... They're just going to provoke you with blood, nothing serious." Athrun said smiling. His face suddenly harden and he frowned.

"But if you can't resist temptation you will get punished severely." Cagalli's face paled.

"You got to be kidding me. That's how they teach you to control yourself?"

"Yes but you see, it's the thought of getting punished that kind of sticks to your head after a while. Well only if you've gotten punished before that is, then you will most likely not go for the blood. Trust me, I know."

"Oh ..." Came the toneless reply. They stopped at a wooden door, and Athrun opened it. A man with blond hair and blue eyes was sitting behind a desk looking at some papers. In front of him were two tables, no wait three tables in a straight line?

"Please come in, sit down" The man said. He lifted a hand gesturing to the open tables.

"My name is Mu la Flaga. I'll be your mentor for the remainder of the year. That's you off course Cagalli, but with Athrun here I've been his mentor for almost three years now. Oh ... And you can just call me Mu." Mu said smiling. Cagallinodded and took a seat at her left. There were bookshelves all around them. A candle here and there lighting the room. And a big portrait of a country house above a fireplace next to Cagalli. Athrun sat down to Cagalli's right.

"So I'll be handing out some books that I want you to read later one, especially you Cagalli." Mu placed one of the said books on each of the student desks.

"Athrun where's Kira today? It's never like him to be late." Mu asked turning to his desk.

"He's sick sir, something about a stomach ache, but I don't think that's the real reason."

"I see." Cagalli leaned in closer to Athrun.

"Who's Kira?"

"Oh just a friend of mine. He's really nice and I'm sure once you meet him, you guys will be the best of friends. That's why there's three desks."

"Oh ... When will I meet him?" Cagalli asked excitedly. Mu started to walk forward, faking a big smile. Athrun started to talk again.

"Well like I said, he does have stomach ache. So he won't be here in at least two to three day's I-"

"I'm really glad that you two are bonding" Mu said mockingly.

"But, where in the middle of a class ... PAY ATTENTION!" Cagalli and Athrun quickly turned their heads forward, apologizing at once.

"Sorry sir!" Mu just shook his head.

"Never mind, just don't let it happened again." He walked behind his desk opening a drawer.

"So today I'm going to be putting blood packets in front of each of you. The first one to even touch it or drink it will be punished severely." Mu took the packets and placed them in front of Cagalli and Athrun.

"It's simple really. This should even be an easy task for Cagalli. She had never tasted blood as far as I'm concerned, hhhmmm?" Mu eyed Athrun.

"Please do not hesitate to correct me if I'm wrong." Athrun shifted in his chair.

'What's he getting at too? Mu is acting strange today.'

"No your right, she had never drank blood before." Athrun stated plainly. For a second he could have sworn he saw disgust on Mu's face, but it disappeared just as quickly. Mu started to laugh out loud.

'Shit!' Athrun glanced at worriedly at Cagalli.

'What if she can't take it!?' They exchanged glances. Pain was written all over Cagalli's face. This was actual torture for her.

'Damn!' Athrun scolded mentally.

'Why didn't I tell anybody?! I knew this was going to happen, yet... (A/N: I must say, for a fourteen year old he sure swears allot!!) Mu sat down in his desk, eyeing them both nonstop.

'This should be interesting' Mu thought.

'This shall also teach Athrun a lesson about holding his mouth when he should not.' Cagalli looked around nervously. Her thoughts were running wild in her head.

'What am I going to do?! I won't be able to hold in for much longer, what kind of class is this anyway?!' With every minute that ticked by, it became even harder for Cagalli to strain herself. The bloods scent was so delicious, luring you in bit by bit.

'I can't take this anymore!' Cagalli thought angry. Her thoughts were clouding again. All these events didn't go unnoticed by Mu.

'Somehow I feel sorry for you Cagalli.' Mu thought sadly.

'It has to be done; it's for your own good.' Knock-Knock. Mu snapped back out of his mind. The door at the back opened and in came a maid holding papers, that looked all too familiar to Cagalli.

'Silvia' everyone thought at the same time.

"Sorry to interrupt sir."Silvia said, coming closer. She held out the papers.

"But I've got some urgent documents from Sir Patrick, that he wants you to look at."

'Just my luck!' Athrun thought angrily. 'If the scent of the blood packets weren't enough, now there has to be a damn human in here to! Kill me now' Athrun looked at Cagalli. She was eyeing Silvia intensely.

'Crap! She won't last one more minute in this room.'

"Awww! Oh, ah paper cut." Silvia said pulling her hand back. A thin line of blood came to the surface, only to fall to the ground. This one movement completely tipped the 'scale of restrain' for Cagalli. A growl came from the girl, as she lunged head first to Silvia. The said person gasped and took a step back, tripping to the ground.

"NOOOO!!" Athrun screamed. Mu quickly stepped in front of Silvia, shielding her from Cagalli.

"Stop Cagalli!!" In one swift movement Athrun jumped out of his desk, tackling Cagalli to the ground. His heavy body pinned her down.

"Get off me!" Cagalli screamed, struggling.

"No!" Athrun tightened his grip on her.

"Snap out of it Cagalli! Don't do this" Athrun said angry. Mu helped Silvia up, quickly leading her to the door.

"Please I believe it would be best if you left this instant. I' am deeply sorry about this." Mu apologized opening the door.

"Please tell this event to know one, for now ..." Silvia nodded, closing the door after her. Mu turned to the screaming Cagalli and glared at Athrun furious.

"You will do good to tame her from now on! You realise that if you did not stop her in time, Silvia could have been badly injured by now?!"

"I know that!" Cagalli kept on struggling, almost throwing Athrun off balance.

"You mind helping me out Sir?" Athrun hissed through his teeth.

"She's getting to strong for me."

'And all this happened because I gave Cagalli fresh blood. Maybe next time I'll listen to my Parents and stop my pity act, because all it seems to do is get me in a world of trouble!' Athrun thought helplessly. Mu came closer and placed a hand on Cagalli's shoulder.

"Don't touch me! Please just let me go!" She pleaded.

"Sorry ..." Mu said sadly. Pain jolted through Cagalli's whole body, as she felt two fingers press down on her pressure points. Slowly her vision started to blur, until she was completely blacked out. The harsh movement died under Athrun. He looked one last time at Cagalli's face, before standing up and sighing a breath of relieve. He picked her sleeping body up, heading for the door.

"I'm going to take Cagalli to her room. I don't think mother would be too pleased to see a passed out student on the ground."

"This is your fault you know ..." Mu said bemused. Athrun turned around confused.

"My fault Sir? I don't really understand."

"Oh don't play dumb with me!" Mu snapped back angrily, turning to his desk.

"I know very well what you did in that carriage! And frankly ... I'm not too happy about it." Athrun starred back blankly.

'He knew?! That's not good.'

"Well ... What do you have to say for yourself Athrun?"

Well hope it was okay . . . R&R!! And longer chapie!! yeah!!