"So you'll be here by the end of the week?" asked a timid voice.

Lelouch gave a small smile to the boy on the screen. It's been over a year since she's seen her brother in person, so she made sure to make every video chat count as it was the only way she could see him.

"Yes Rolo. I'll be arriving there around Friday afternoon, but I'll only be able to see you a few days after I've settled down in Area 11 though"

She had wanted to see him straight away, but her itinerary was packed full of meetings with various military officers for the first few days that there was no way to squeeze in time with Rolo.

"It's alright Big Sister. Besides you know my existence is still a secret, I-I think it's best if you try not to visit me first. It'll draw attention, plus what's important is that we'll finally be in the same country"

That's right. Rolo's identity was known only by select members. For the life of her she can't remember just why that was, but he kept claiming it was some big safety issue. She didn't understand the whole thing to be quite honest but at the end of the day all she wanted was for him to be safe.

"Your right, what matters is that I'll be finally be close to you now. Oh, by the way did you get my birthday gift? I sent it a bit late but I hope it got to you"

He pulled out his phone and showed her the white gold heart locket attached to it "It came just in time. Thank you Big Sister, I love it"

She had just gotten back from St. Petersburg when she had realized she didn't have a gift for Rolo yet. Amazingly though she found the locket in a box of her old things from Area 11. She had no recollection of ever buying it, but there was a nagging feeling in the back of her head that it was meant to be given to someone. So she had wrapped it up, and shipped it to Rolo for his birthday.

"I'm so glad you like it, for a moment I thought you'd be embarrassed by it cause it's too girly" Lelouchia let a sigh of relief as Rolo seemed to clutch tighter onto his locket.

Rolo opened his mouth to answer but a loud crashing sound echoed from his side of the screen, and Lelouchia jumped back slightly as she heard the loud, shrilly voice of a woman.

"OH ROLO! WHERE ARE YOU?" the footsteps got closer to Rolo and he jumped up from his seat. Lelouchia saw him struggle with a woman as he tried to keep her away from the laptop "WHAT ARE YOU DOING ROLO? ARE YOU TALKING TO SOMEONE? DOES OUR LITTLE ROLO HAVE A GIRLFRIEND?"

"Milly come on. You know you shouldn't burst into my room. Come on, this isn't funny anymore" She could see Rolo's hand in the view of the camera, trying to turn it off before this Milly girl could see her.

"Oh come on Rolo just show us -" The screen turned to black before Lelouchia could hear what the girl had to say. She shook her head as she laughed.

She was glad Rolo had found friends to be himself around without having to worry about his status as a prince. She had never met his friends, but every time she'd call Rolo it would either include a hilarious antic involving the student council, primarily how Milly would involve him in one of her crazy scheme, or one of them would be barging into his room to drag him off somewhere. Lelouchia would've been glad to meet his friends, but given the circumstances she'd simply have to settle for stories.

"Milly you know I hate it when your barge into my room"

"Oh come on now Rolo, we're all friends here, there's nothing to be afraid of. Now come on, spill, who were you talking to?"

"I wasn't even talking to anyone; I was doing homework"

"Yeah right, then why did I hear voices before I entered. You have a girlfriend don't you"

"Prez come on, just leave the poor guy alone"

"Don't tell me your not even the least bit interested in our little Rolo's love life?" Milly flashed one of her sly smiles at Rivalz as she continued to interrogate Rolo.

"Rivalz right Prez! Leave Rolo alone, his business is his business"

Nunnally sighed as she heard the three of them argue with each other with Rolo simply stuttering in the background, looking for a way out. Milly was just being her usual invasive self into the lives of her fellow council members. No matter what task they were given Milly always found a way to interrogate any council member about some embarrassing topic, or being her usual perverted self. It was a breath of fresh air to be quite honest, but they really did need to get back to the purpose of the meeting at hand.

The sand haired teen took a couple of deep breaths to try and relax and focus on the papers before her. But she couldn't help but wander back to past and just imagine a certain lethargic yet genius black haired, violet eyed girl sitting beside her and sighing at the antics of the students in the room. This had been her life for the past year. Sitting with the student council members at meetings and lunch, going to class, living with Rolo at the clubhouse, readjusting to being able to see again, and missing her big sister terribly. Nunnally loved being able to finally see how Ashford and all her friends looked like, though how she got her sight back was still a bit fuzzy to her, but she would give it up again just to be back with her sister. She still couldn't believe she had gone half a year without even realizing that Lelouchia wasn't with her, that no one in the entire school, not even Rivalz, Shirley, or Milly, could remember the black haired beauty.

Nunnally looked to her side and stared for a moment at Rolo, the boy who wasn't related to her but had to have the same last name as her for unknown security reasons as the name Lamperouge was supposedly a common enough last name for him to be lost in a crowd. But Nunnally swore she had never even met the boy once in her entire life, and even before she could see, she would know if she recognized his voice anywhere. However, none of the other members seemed to question why he was there in the place of Lelouchia.

She sighed as she went back to the papers before her. There was no use in questioning things right now, there was no way to redo the past all over again. She simply had to have that C.C.'s plan would work and that she would be one step closer to being reunited with her big sister.

-FLASHBACK-

"Miss C.C. are you sure this will work?"

A green haired woman sighed as she looked to the monitor where a sandy haired, violet eyed young girl's face was displayed on. She honestly couldn't believe that they had found her and not only that, but find a way to safely communicate with her. It seemed that Lelouchia's endless back-up plans and paranoia payed off.

"Nunnally you have to have faith in this plan, and if you don't have faith in that have faith in your sister. Her plans never fail."

"If her plans never fail then why is she not here with me?"

Nunnally still had a hard time processing that her sister, the one she had always idolized as a child, was the mass murderer Zero, the terrorist responsible for countless people's death among those were Shirley's father, Clovis, and Euphemia. C.C. had found her a few days ago and had told her everything, from the moment she made a contract with Lelouchia to what had happened during the Black Rebellion, and had also filled in the blanks as to how she went half a year without looking for her sister. Apparently she didn't notice her sister was missing due to a mysterious power held by her father called Geass, and his had the ability to rewrite any memory he wished.

"That was - an unforeseen oversight. Nunnally just keep up the charade. We're still trying to find where Lelouchia is, ever since that announcement that she was alive a few months back she's seemed to have dropped off the grid. But we will find her I promise." Kallen ever the supportive friend. Out of all the Black Knights who had managed to evade capture Kallen was perhaps the one who felt most guilty, she was the one who had run off on Lelouchia that resulted in her getting captured by Suzaku.

"D-Do you at least know how I got my sight back?" Kallen and C.C. looked to one another. They still had no idea how Nunnally had regained her sight, but they suspected that the Emperor had something to do with it.

"Nunnally we still don't know," sad Kallen gently, she didn't want to upset the young girl any further "But please be patient Nunnally. The plan will be in motion soon so just wait a bit longer, please."

-END OF FLASHBACK-

And Nunnally had been waiting, for the past few months since regaining her memories she had to resist the urge to tell the student council all about Lelouchia and just get out of the school and start looking for her sister. She had had to keep pretending for months on end that Nunnally Lamperouge was an only child, that she was the ward of the Ashford family because she lost all her relatives during the invasion that had crippled her as well. At first Nunnally was fine with keeping up the ruse but after months of not hearing any news about her sister, or even contact from C.C. and Kallen, she was just about ready to lose her mind.

'Big sister wherever you are I hope you're okay.'