C.C. and Lelouch, hand never been so happy than with their new baby boy. C.C. had never felt a greater purpose in life than she did now as a mother to her child.

By the time their son was two, it was apparent how much he looked like his father. He had the same angled face, the same pointed nose, the same black hair that was also structured the same way; so it was fairly light and fine and had more that came down the back of his neck. Not only that, but C.C. and Lelouch found out that their son had a Geass in his left eye. He did, though, have his mother's bright amber eyes along with a section of green hair right above his right eye.

At two he was able to say simple words and phrases; his favorite being "What's this?" C.C. or Lelouch would carry him around the house, answering when he would ask in his high, cute, 2-year-old voice, "What's this? What's this? What's this?" He would constantly ask, pointing his small finger in the direction of what he was talking about.

Sometimes Lelouch and C.C. would take him out at night to a field where they would lay down and look at the stars. Along the way, without fail, he would go around pointing at everything in sight asking, "What's this?" he would say plucking up a blade of grass and holding it up to his father.

"It's grass," Lelouch would say smiling down at his son's curiosity.

He would look down at the blade of grass again in awe. Then he'd soon drop it and then spot a flower when he'd again ask, "What's this?"

"It's a flower," C.C. answered.

"Flower," He'd repeat, staring down at the dandelion.

C.C. and Lelouch laid down a blanket for the three to sit on, and as soon as they were all looking up at the sky, a small finger pointed up to the bright lights, "What's this?"

"They're stars."

"Star."

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He would go out and play out in the large fields a ways from the house, where he would find other children playing. Being too young to understand the effect just the knowledge of his Geass would have on others, he would show other kids the power of his Geass. When others saw the odd power the boy possessed they would keep away in fear of him. This tended to cause serious problems for his social life.

Neither C.C. nor Lelouch could allow the secret of their Geass' or their son's to be found out. So when this did happen Lelouch would use his Geass to make the children and their parents forget anything about his son's Geass.

C.C. and Lelouch knew he probably wouldn't understand, but none-the-less they tried to explain to him that his power was to remain a secret…to everyone.

He at first didn't abide to this rule well, but after seeing so many children fear him and his power he quickly got the message the hard way. It was especially hard on him since they lived in such a desolate area, and since he wasn't allowed to be around that his father's Geass had been used on, he quickly became incredibly lonely.

C.C. and Lelouch felt terrible about their son's isolation, but made the executive decision to keep him out of school, and they found some closure knowing he did find an interest in home schooling. Since C.C. wasn't very well educated herself, Lelouch would be the one to teach him simple math, science, and how to read.

Once he learned to read, he could almost always be found reading a book. His parents made sure to provide him with all sorts of books. He'd actually acquired quite the collection, since he was such a fast reader.

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One sunny day when the wind was scarce, he was reading a book in the empty field. He was wearing a red t-shirt and navy blue shorts; relaxing in the sunny light.

"What're you reading?" a young boy about his age asked.

He turned around from his book and saw a boy with dark brown hair that swooped down to the left side of his face and was fairly structured and thick, he had brown eyes, wore a dark blue shirt and a pair of black shorts, he was about the same size as him but a bit taller. "Another kid," he thought, "Don't use Geass. Don't use Geass…" he repeated to himself over and over. "It's called Walk Two Moons," he said while holding up the cover of the book.

"What's it about?" the other boy asked.

"It's about not judging people until you've experienced their way of living."

"Ah huh," the other boy said losing interest.

He didn't want the boy to leave, it had been a while since he'd been with another kid, so he quickly asked, "Do you like to read?"

"Sorta...I guess. I prefer writing though."

"Oh," he said in response.

The two boys looked down at their feet, wandering what they should do next.

"Ah, I've never seen you before around her."

The other boy looked at him and stated, "My family just moved here."

"Ooh."

The two looked at the ground again.

"Do you want to go play in the tree house?" the other boy asked.

"What tree house?"

"The one in the woods over there," the other boy said pointing in the direction of the woods that bordered the empty field.

"I didn't know there was a tree house there."

"Well, I'll show you," the other boy said grabbing his hand and pulling him to the woods. The other boy stopped for a second and said, "Oh, by the way my name's Haru. What's yours?"

"Zaydyn."

Haru smiled at him and he smiled back. "Maybe they could be…friends."

(Up in the tree house)

"Do you mind if I read this?" Zaydyn asked pointing at the collection of notebooks Haru had in the tree house.

Haru looked up from yet another notebook he'd been writing in and said, "Sure if you want to, but it might not be any good."

Zaydyn opened up the notebook and started to read the story all about adventure with the main character a pirate who fought off zombies and sea monsters, all in exploration for buried treasure. Zaydyn could make vivid pictures in his head of the marvelous pirate story; Haru was quite the superior writer, which he probably should be, considering the large stack of note books towering in the tree house.

"Do you want to go play pirates," Haru said regarding the notebook in Zaydyn's hand labeled "The Pirates' way".

"Sure."

"Hey, look out behind you," Zaydyn shouted out.

Haru swiveled around and punched the air. "There's a zombie in front of you."

"There are zombies everywhere!"

"We can take them" Haru said putting his hands in a fighting pose. "Alright, charge." The duo stormed off to fracas off the cave zombies by copping and kicking at the air roaring fierce battle cries as they did so, "Hiya, pow!"

They continued their epic battle to the death until Zaydyn yelled out, "Oh no look," he pointed at a nearby tree, "It's the zombie king."

The pair went off to brawl, wrestling with the large pine tree. Zaydyn then heard a voice in his head, "look out he's going to hit you from behind." Zaydyn swiftly dodged the pretend attack, but who had been the one who said that just now? He hadn't heard Haru say anything, and he wasn't the one who'd consciously thought it.

Zaydyn turned and asked, "Did you say th-," he cut off seeing Haru with a sigil filled magenta left eye.

Haru noticed Zaydyn staring at him; he was filled with horror at the realization that yet another friend might be drifted away from him today. His eyes filled with tears and he brought his hand up over his face to cover the eye, before her said, "I have to go," all choked up. He then tried to run off.

Zaydyn stopped him though saying, "Wait," after him. Zaydyn ran after him and continued to yell, "Wait." Haru must have noticed Zaydyn's cries because he stopped long enough for Zaydyn to grab him by the arm and turn him, so they were facing each other. Haru had his eyes tightly shut and tears made a continuous stream down his face. Zaydyn used his hand to wipe the tears from Haru's face. Haru was surprised at the kind gesture and opened his eyes to look at Zaydyn; sure enough there was a Geass in his left eye.

Zaydyn was looking at the eye, when Haru said, "I'm sorry," genuine hurt filling his voice.

"For what?" asked Zaydyn.

"Aren't you scared of me?"

"Why would I be scared of you?" Zaydyn replied with a bit of laughter.

"My eye," Haru says puzzled at his friend's reaction.

Zaydyn closes his eyes and laughs again.

"Why was he laughing?"

When Zaydyn's eyes reopened, Haru could clearly see an identical eye to his present in Zaydyn's right eye. Haru's eyes widened. Zaydyn smiled.

"How do you have that?" Haru asked in shock.

"I was born with it. Were you born with it?"

"Ye-yes…I was."

They looked at each other; Haru's face still in utter shock, while Zaydyn's showed every sign of over excitement.

"So, you can talk to people without opening your mouth?" Zaydyn asked.

"Yah, something like that; it's called telepathy…when you can talk to someone directly through your mind."

"Wow, that's so cool. Do you want to see what my Geass is?" Zaydyn asked; excited to show his power freely for the first time.

"Ah…sure."

Zaydyn placed his Geass on Haru looking him directly in the eye. Then Haru saw not the trees of the forest but a large cave filled with gold and jewels in treasure chests. Outside was a pirate ship with a big skill pirate flag billowing in the calm twilight wind.

Haru's eyes widened at the amazing sight, accompanied then with a huge open smile. "This is amazing! How can you do this?"

"With my Geass of course," Zaydyn said laughing.

"This is really cool! Can you do anything else?"

Just then the pirate ship scenery washed away like a painting being splashed with water, to be replaced with a meadow full of wild flowers.

"Wow," Haru said.

The duo played with each other all day long, using their Geass powers all the while. Once it grew dark though each one waved good bye as they parted in separate directions, towards home.

*A couple of minutes later*

"Mommy, Daddy!" little Zaydyn cried out as he burst through the door with a huge smile on his face.

"Yes dear," C.C. asked from behind the kitchen counter.

"I made a friend today."

Lelouch's eyes shot up from the book he was reading to look up at his son, "Did you remember what I told you," he asked shifting uneasily in the maroon armchair.

"Well…" Zaydyn stammered said fiddling with his hands and fingers; his dad had a way of using a tone of voice that seemed like it was dripping with acid; it terrified him often.

"Zaydyn!" Lelouch said; his eyebrows arching down towards his infuriated eyes. Zaydyn looked away from his father, quivering from the anger present in his dad's voice.

"Zaydyn," C.C. said in a very concerned motherly voice.

"It's okay though," Zaydyn said quickly. C.C. looked down at her son curiously.

"Zaydyn, I told you to never use it in front of anyone!" Lelouch says, getting up from the chair and going over to his son. "I don't just make these rules for no reason," Lelouch bent down and hugged his son, holding him close to his chest. Lelouch then pulled away and said, "Promise me you won't do it again," he said lovingly but still firm.

"But daddy," Zaydyn said, "he had Geass too."

Both C.C. and Lelouch looked down wide eyed at their son. The first thing that popped into Lelouch's head was the experimental children they'd found when taking out V.V.

"A-are you sure honey?" C.C. asked.

"Mhm," Zaydyn said nodding his head and brightening up.

"I think we need to go investigate this "new" friend of yours," Lelouch started looking up at C.C. who nodded.

"His name's Haru," Zaydyn said happily.

*The next day*

C.C. and Lelouch followed their son through the open field into the woods. Zaydyn led them to the tree house Haru had shown him the day before.

Haru, who was up in the tree, heard them coming and poked his head out of the tree house door way.

"Hi Haru," Zaydyn called out, waving his hand up at his friend.

"Hi," Haru replied with a big smile on his face. He started to climb down the tree to where his friend stood in wait. When the two boys came together and talked and laughed with one another, Lelouch leaned over to C.C.'s ear and asked, "What do you think?" C.C. just shrugged her shoulders. Lelouch looked at the boy and thought, "He doesn't look abnormal."

Then Zaydyn told Haru that his parents wanted to meet his parents. Haru placed his pointer finger on his chin, in deep contemplation over the situation. "Well," Haru started off, "daddy us working right now, but mommy is home…you can meet her," he finished looking up at C.C. and Lelouch.

"That would be wonderful, thank you," C.C. said kindly. She didn't really know what to make of the small boy, she didn't think they should just ask if he had Geass, but then how were they to know. C.C. started to think of the possible outcomes of meeting the boy's parents and whether he had Geass or not, she figured that any combination of events was going to end well. The mere idea of the confrontation was already exhausting her.

"Come on, my house is this way," Haru said pulling Zaydyn along and waling in the direction opposite from the woods.

They finally came across a simple faded blue house that was perched on a slight grassy hill. When they got to the door, Haru opened it and called out, "Mommy!"

"Home so soon?" a woman's voice could be heard.

Lelouch and C.C. caught sight of the woman as she turned into the main room from a hallway. The woman wore a somewhat short black dress that had a kimono like cut. She was about the same size as C.C., with long flowing brown hair. The woman, who was apparently Haru's mother, stood statue still when her glance caught the sight of C.C. and Lelouch.

"Mommy, my friend's parents said they wanted to meet you."

"You didn't tell me you'd made a friend," the mother's voice that'd been so light and sweet a moment earlier was not cold and sharp.

"W-well…yah," Haru's voice sounded very quiet.

The woman looked up at Lelouch and C.C. Lelouch thought that he could even detect some fear in the way she was reacting to them.

"Come on Zaydyn," Haru said taking Zaydyn's hand then pulling him to his room. The three adults watched the two as they made their abrupt departure.

Then the woman turned back to Lelouch and C.C. with apprehensive eyes, but then suddenly she her eyes slightly popped out and her mouth became agape slightly hit with an unexpected epiphany. "Your…Lelouch vi Britannia…correct?" the woman spoke now without fear or the cold tone she'd used.

Lelouch and C.C. tightened up at the accusation.

"And if I am?" Lelouch said, "Zaydyn," he shouted. Zaydyn them came running back to his father from his friend's room. Haru was left waiting with his hear poked out of his ajar bedroom door.

Lelouch brought out his Geass and before he could even give a command the woman snapped her head back to her son and told him to get in his room, her voice sounding desperate. Haru quickly fled behind the barracks of his room, hurriedly closing the door.

"Oh well," Lelouch thought, "I'll just get him later." He looked at the woman and commanded, "You aren't to remember any of this or any of us."

At first the woman looked fearfully at Lelouch then relaxed once Lelouch was done giving the command. He didn't particularly like scaring small children with the Geass but there was no avoiding it, so he started to walk over to the boy's room. Lelouch stood stunned though as woman then quickly blocked Lelouch's way with her arms.

"You're not getting anywhere near my son," the woman determinedly declared.

"Daddy you can't, he's my friend," Zaydyn said grabbing onto his father's leg.

C.C. truly didn't know what they were going to do. "Why hadn't she been affected by Lelouch's Geass?" C.C. thought about it and how Zaydyn had told them that the boy also had Geass. C.C. kneeled down to her son's height and asked him, "Zaydyn, didn't you say that that boy also had Geass?"

The woman shot her head down at C.C. and Zaydyn and took a gigantic breath and held it.

"Yes," Zaydyn answered.

The woman let out the huge breath she'd taken through her nostrils like an angry bull.

Lelouch and C.C. looked at the woman questioningly. Her only response was holding her stance between them and her son's room, as if to say, No one lays a finger on him.

"Does he?" Lelouch asked.

"Why do you want to know?" the woman countered.

"I suggest you tell me," Lelouch said taking out his Geass again.

"Hmph," the woman sneered, "You know that's not going to work on me."

"Why not," Lelouch said irritated, yet honestly curious for the answer.

The woman slightly laughed again and proceeded to say, "Cuz that's just how it works," she then closed her eyes then battered her eyelashes a bit so all three, Lelouch, C.C., and Zaydyn, could see the two magenta eyes with the two red sigils alit in the middle.