Disclaimer: I do not own in any part Code Geass or any of it's Characters.

It is the year 2028 it has been ten years since Britannia's tyrant 99th emperor Lelouch died at Zero's hands. The progress of the world has gone from one of grudging hate between peoples of different nationalities, races, and religions to one that has new found respect between people with great differences and works around them. This great age is led by Britannia's Empress Nunnally "The Innocent", Zero, the leader of the Black Knights, Prince Schneizle of Britannia, and Empress Tianzi of the Chinese Federation among others.


Hannah sat on the bed in the room that was spare of anything and no windows. It was not a jail cell and she was happy for that as she enjoyed a solid bed. Although it was silent, she could hear the sounds of the Avalon in flight. She had been brought aboard and placed in a cell in the early morning hours and had yet to see anyone other than the guard bringing her some porridge and a paper cup of water.

Hannah sighed as she dozed her mind and body drained from the events of the past day. Although she had slept on the transport it hadn't been reviving and she was now hopelessly bored so sleep seemed to be her best option at the moment.

She heard a swoosh and a breath of air. Footsteps came in and someone cleared their throat. She didn't look up but rolled toward the wall instead moaning, "just five more minutes." There was a chuckle from someone behind her making her smile.

"Someone has a sense of humor," she thought and the voice cleared itself again.

"Miss Hannah, I am sorry to disturb you but we must have answers on some things. What do you know of Zero, Geass, and the boy Aaron?" a voice she recognized from broadcasts as being Prince Schneizle's. Her eyes flashed open and she sat up looking at him her mouth open that such a man was standing beside her. She would have been ecstatic if she wasn't being interrogated for theft and treason.

"Miss Yoshikawa please answer our questions and we may stay civil," Kanon said from behind Prince Schneizle.

"Um, Zero, he is the hero of new world order; Geass, it's the power of the kings and gives supernatural powers to people. Um, Aaron, met him yesterday or the day before and he told me about Geass," she said in simplest forms.

"Everything. Do you know who Zero really is?" Schneizle asked clasping his hands behind him.

"Um, I believe Zero was original Lelouch Lamperouge actually Lelouch Vi Britannia, your younger brother and sister to empress Nunnally. Um, he was the original Zero and someone else is Zero now. Who I don't know," she said her forehead creasing trying to remember her thoughts and theories and forming them into short sentences.

"You are correct, my brother was originally Zero but now he is dead and hopefully laid to rest somewhere safe," Schneizle said.

"Prince Schneizle?" Kanon said with warning and confusion.

"It's alright, she guessed this much so I assume someone took her notes and published them," Schneizle said waving a hand at Kanon, "especially since she was tailed from the library to her home that night she couldn't have sent anything to a publisher."

Hannah's eyes widened and she remembered what Ushio had showed her and she ground her teeth. She was mad at whoever had taken her hard work and published it for themselves leaving her to take the blame. It would have been one thing if she had published and gotten but it was entirely different from the situation she was in now.

"I would like to confirm that this boy is the same one that you met a few days ago," Schneizle continued after watching Hannah's features tense with anger at her thoughts and left the cell with Kanon sighing.

"Follow him miss," he said and signaled for two guards to flank them. They walked a short ways and through a passage into the medical bay. Jeremiah stood there watching the curtains that enclosed the bed as a female doctor sat reading an electronic file her face concentrating on the words.

"Is this all you have on the subject?" she asked looking up when she heard the door open and then noticed that Schneizle had a prisoner and guards with her and she closed her mouth and turned off her pad.

"Doctor, Jeremiah, this is Hannah Yoshikawa I want her to identify the patient as the same one who she met with two days ago. Miss Hannah please," Schneizle beckoned her to the curtain and when she looked she say a young kid with long black hair cuffed to the bed. The kids face was covered as he was curled up in as much of a fetal position as he could. Stepping close she brushed his hair back touching his cheek.

"Please don't touch him," Jeremiah ordered causing her to jerk back missing Aaron's eyes flashing open the bird insignia flashing. Jeremiah handed Hannah a glove and confused snapped it on and picked up his hair again. She gazed at his sleeping face and watched his breathing. Although his hair was different this was the same boy he had met though he seemed more at peace than before.

"This is him," Hannah said letting his hair fall back in his face. Aaron opened his eyes watching them from beneath him hair. He could see them talking, the guards walking Hannah back out of the room. He remembered enough to know he had caused the problem and he sat up and spoke.

"Hannah, ce n'est pas de te faute. Je cherchais pour C.C. et le code qui a disparu," he said everyone stopping and looking at him puzzled. He knew what he said but they hadn't understood him. Hannah was looking at him her eyes narrowed.

"Ce n'est pas de me faute. Pourquoi, tu entrais mon vie et tournais mon vie à l'envers. Mais, tu me dit à propos de Lelouch et Zero," she answered him in her childhood language and everyone stared and looked at her.

"What?" she asked them confused.

"What did he say?" Jeremiah asked.

"None of you speak French." She asked incredulously.

"Obviously we would be following the conversation if we could, Prince Schneizle and myself had translators when we dealt with French dignitaries in the past.

"Basically Aaron said it wasn't my fault and he was looking for C.C and the missing Code. I basically said that if he hadn't turned my life upside down I wouldn't have learned about Lelouch and Zero," she said quickly with exasperation.

"quoi?" Aaron asked this time puzzled.

"We know you can understand us so stop faking," Jeremiah said.

"Je ne vous comprend pas," Aaron said looking at Jeremiah; his voice childlike and full of confusion.

"Doctor?" Schneizle turned to the doctor and she looked at her monitors.

"His brain has changed and is fluctuating. I don't understand the patterns; they're weird, like there are many brains being interchanged on the wires. Here," she handed her pad to Schneizle who looked at the scans showing the spikes and falls of brain activity from the boy.

"It seems when Miss Hannah touched him she caused a Geass reactivation," Schneizle said with a sigh. Aaron looked about him confused.

"Quoi?" he asked trying to get someone to tell him. He felt himself start hyperventilating his palms breaking out into a cold sweat.

"Doctor please run more tests. Miss Hannah I am going to have to ask you to be translator until we can find someone else, please," Schneizle said and Aaron felt that they were talking about him. His left arm began to ache and then went numb. Something behind him started to beep loudly, he glanced and saw the numbers on the screen were really high. He wasn't sure if they were supposed to be that high and then he lost consciousness.

"Oh No. I need a crash cart in here stat," the doctor cried pushing past Schneizle to the boy without putting on gloves or anything as she watched her monitors and feeling his neck looking for a pulse. In seconds the crash cart had rolled in with a team of nurses and another doctor as they began to work.

"What happened?" Hannah asked as she was being pulled from the room by Jeremiah.

"He had a heart attack by the looks of it," Jeremiah said as his firm hands on her shoulders pulled her down the corridor.

"Heart Attack? He is only a teenager," she said glancing back at the room where the frail boy lay with doctors trying to resuscitate him.

"I don't pretend to understand what is happening I only know that the boy Aaron went into Cardiac Arrest. I am sure we will be informed at a later time when they stabilize him or not," Jeremiah said as he walked her into her cell and closed the door. He hit a switch on the outside and the top of the wall pulled back revealing a window with the landscape far below that went from a city to beaches to a sea.

"Geez, when did journalism develop such an action packed work day," she said crashing on the cot burying her head into the thin mattress.


"He has no beat. Charge those paddles," the doc ordered her hand pulling from where she had been doing CPR. She took the paddles and placed them on the boy and counted. "Clear," she heard the whine of the machine and the jolt of electricity as it flowed through the metal into the boy's chest and into his heart. His body jumped a bit and there was a slight beat before he flat lined again.

"Clear," she said again and she heard the machine run again. Again Aaron's body jumped at the shock but nothing happened.

"Increase the voltage. Clear," she ordered hysteria in her voice. The machine operator turned a dial and hit the charge. This time Aaron's heart beat.

Beep…. Beep.. beep…..beep…beep… beep….. beep…

"He's tacking," a nurse called.

"Diazepam," the doc said and was handed a syringe and bottle she pulled the required dose and ejected Aaron.

beep….. beep…. beep…. beep… beep… beep…

"He's stabilized," the doc breathed with a sigh and from her pocket lifted Aaron's lids and dropped them with a shock.

"What's the matter," the nurse asked reaching for Aaron's eyes.

"Stop. Everyone leave the bed side and close the curtain. This boy requires clearance to attend, I will call if I need any," she said and waited as the nurses stood back and closed the curtain. She heard whispers, the cleaning, disposal and packing away of medical supplies.

With a deep breath the doc drew her pen light and once again lifted Aaron's eyes. The red bird sigil was bright in his eyes but behind it she saw that Aaron's eyes were dilated and unresponsive.

She sighed as she checked his other eye and saw it was the same. She stepped out and picked up her pad from where it had fallen and pulled up Aaron's brain charts. They were flatlined and unresponsive.

"Doctor?" Kanon asked from where he stood in the corner.

"He's a vegetable," the doc said flatly.


"A vegetable?" Lelouch said looking at the latest report anya had handed him.

"Yeah, it just came in. Jeremiah said that once everything was cleaned up he would be back," Anya said as she watched C.C. sitting on the edge of the porch her hair in curled pig tails and wearing overalls clutching Cheese-kun that was well worn with age.

"Even if the threat is gone, C.C. and I need to be moving on. Just because one geass user has been found and taken care of doesn't mean that another that we overlooked won't," Lelouch said handing the pad back to Anya as he lifted the overly large suitcase and put it in the back of the antique convertible car.

"Now you are just showing off," C.C. said as he flexed his arms. Ten years of living on the fringes with C.C. had worn off on Lelouch so that his physique could lift a basket loaded with oranges and run down a orchard aisle without being too winded.

"Hey I'm proud that if I raced Suzaku now I would at least keep up with him for the most of the race," Lelouch said proudly.

"Yeah, when Suzaku chased you down the drive with a sword for making him and everyone else believe you were dead for ten years," Anya said with a smile.

"You wouldn't," Lelouch paled.

"Stop teasing L.L. Anya, you know he has guilt about his human life," C.C. remarked standing and hopping into the passenger seat.

"Thanks C.C.," Lelouch said snapping the trunk shut. "Anya, tell Jeremiah thanks for putting up with us. We will drop by next season," Lelouch said as he opened his door and slid into the seat. Anya leaned on the door frame, "please call once a month. Jeremiah freaks if he hasn't heard from the son of Lady Marianne every once in a while."

"I will remind him to do so. Take care Anya," C.C. said turning in her seat so she spoke directly at Anya.

"Drive safe you hear," Anya called and took a snap shot of the two driving off down the road.


Hannah: Aaron is DEAD!

Author: Yes, he is a vegetable, for now.

Hannah: Hunh?

Aaron:... *drools in a broccoli suit*

C.C.: Vegetable Pizza...

Author: that's all I am going to say. Hey C.C. where did the Pizza go?