Disclaimer: as always I don't own anything that has to do with code geass.

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It had been a long day at school and Lelouch felt relieved to finally be home. But he was surprised when he found Leon in the living room, stretched out on the couch, still in his flight suit.

"Hey dad, what are you doing home?" Lelouch asked cautiously.

"That squadron's a pain in the ass!" he snarled, covering his face with his arm.

Lelouch starred. "Are they really that bad?"

"They managed to piss me off within the first five minutes." he sighed. "I haven't been this grouchy in years. I almost punched one of them."

"So? You're like that with Uncle Roddy all the time." Lelouch shrugged.

"These guys make Roddy look like a well behaved little angel."

"Ouch." Lelouch said with a wince. "Are you going to be okay?"

"Captain Henderson sent me home early so I wouldn't break someone's nose." he admitted sitting up.

Lelouch just shook his head as he went to the kitchen to grab himself a snack.

"Just don't go disappearing on us here dad." he asked, returning to the living room.

"I won't. Promise." Leon sighed.

Just then the doorbell rang and they looked at each other in curiosity.

"Now who could that be?" Leon muttered in curiosity as he went to answer the door.

Lelouch just shrugged and turned on the television which was on the history channel as he started munching on crackers. But right as he got comfortable, Leon called him.

"Lelouch! There's someone here to see you!" Leon called from the door.

Lelouch got up, walked to the door and peaked around his father to see someone he almost wished that he would never see again.

"It's about time I found you Lelouch." said the green haired witch.

"C.C.? What are you….. How did you….. ?"

"I came to take you back home." she said reaching towards him.

But then something unexpected happened.

Leon lashed out with a nasty roar, blocking her and Lelouch looked up to see him changing suddenly. His hair rippled almost like a cat's fur when it's scared, and his eyes became dark as he growled bearing very long nasty fangs along with incredibly sharp claws that were almost like Aldair's teeth.

Lelouch quickly hugged Leon's arm tightly.

"Dad, it's okay!" he said, trying to reassure him. "She's not taking me anywhere. I promise."

After a few moments, Leon seemed to change back to his usual self and he shook his head, obviously confused about what had just happened.

"Maybe you should go lay down for a while dad." Lelouch suggested.

"I think that may be a very good idea." Leon sighed, then he left them alone in the doorway.

Lelouch quickly turned on C.C.

"What are you doing here?" he asked darkly.

"Now that I know you're alive, I came to take you home." she said.

"I am home C.C." said Lelouch. "I'm not going anywhere."

C.C. scoffed a little. "This place? This old house in who knows where? This is your home? And since when do you have a father?"

"Since I was rescued and adopted. I'm no use to you anymore C.C. My Geass is gone. I'm not even my old age. I had to serve redemption for the things I did to get this second chance, and I'm not going to loose it."

C.C. just gave him the cold blank stare.

Lelouch sighed. "Just come in. We'll go talk up in my room." he muttered.

So C.C. followed him inside and up to his room where Aldair was asleep on his bed and Sandy was dozing on the window bench.

But what astonished Lelouch was that Aldair had woken up so suddenly and immediately turned defensive towards C.C. roaring and baring his fangs waking Sandy and causing her to respond the same.

"Okay! Okay guys! Stop!" said Lelouch. "C.C. already got the animalistic growl as a welcome from dad, she doesn't need it from the two of you."

"She's not taking you anywhere!" Aldair snarled warningly.

"She's not going to, honest Aldair."

"But Lelouch…." C.C. began.

"And that's final C.C.!" he said sternly. "This is my home, this is my family, and I'm not leaving."

"I don't understand why you wouldn't." she muttered, looking at his pictures on his dresser.

"Give me one good reason why I should go back."

"Because you belong with us back in our world."

"No I don't. I felt I didn't belong anywhere, so I belong with the Midnightstar family. I have a dad, and two grandpas, two grandmas, a bunch of aunts and uncles. More then I can count really. I've got Sandy and Aldair, a baby brother and sister. Friends! I go to school and I feel normal. Well, I will once I get used to it here. Today was my first day because we just moved here." he admitted.

C.C. just sighed as she picked up the picture of six year old Lelouch and Suzaku sitting on Leon's shoulders grinning happily.

"Is that Suzaku?" she asked.

"Yes. Miss Cecile adopted him. Her dad is my grandpa Midnightstar. So Suzaku's my cousin now, and don't bother trying to make him leave because I doubt he'd go anywhere. Now then, while it's nice to have this little chat, you might as well head back to where ever because I've got a lot of homework to do tonight. My math teacher gave me six pages worth of problems, my English teacher wants me to have a rough draft essay done by Wednesday, and my Biology teacher wants me to finish the questions to chapter eight. Luckily Uncle Braydon decided not to give any homework."

"So that's it? You're staying here?"

"Pretty much." Lelouch said with a stubborn nod.

"I suppose I have no room to argue. But I would like to know how you got here."

"It's kinda hard to explain. Mortacai could probably explain it better."

"And how on earth would you get Mortacai here?" Aldair asked.

"Mr. Malachai made it so that I can summon him sometimes because I guess I'm one of the only one's that can take his attitude."

"That's for sure." the anteater mumbled, rolling his eyes.

"Who's Mortacai?"

"That you'll have to see to believe. Reverto ut mihi meus libri animus!"

Mortacai suddenly fell out of the sky and onto the floor.

"Hi Mortacai." said Lelouch with a smile as C.C. starred.

"You finally figured out how to summon me like Malachai taught you. Good job Lelouch." said Mortacai proudly. "So what did you need?"

"It's a talking book." said C.C. cautiously.

"This is Mortacai. The book of souls that belongs to the Master of the Angels of Death. Mortacai, can you show her exactly what happened and how I got here?"

"Of course I can. It's a lot easier to find you now that I know where to look." he admitted flipping through his pages. After a moment he found what he was looking for and opened himself up to the page with Lelouch's information on it.

C.C. kneeled down and looked at it in curiosity. "So…. You did die?" she asked softly.

"I guess I did." Lelouch shrugged.

"Redemption and a second chance? So that's why you're staying is it?"

"I'm a normal kid now C.C. There's nothing I can do for you anymore."

"If you say so." C.C. sighed, standing up.

"Lelouch, what did you mean your father growled at her?" Aldair asked curiously.

"I think I figured out why Captain Holloway said that he was developing a psychotic temper." Lelouch admitted. "It was kinda freaky. He just started changing. He had these big fangs, and huge claws, and he let out this crazy roar."

"That's odd. That's sound like Malachai's old friend Lucilius when he would develop a temper." Mortacai said.

"Mortacai? Do you know anything about Lucilius's knight Sarafi?" Lelouch asked.

"How did you find out about her?" Mortacai asked in curiosity.

"It's a long story."

"Well they say she was banished with Lucilius. She was an odd one though. I believe she was having a bit of a love affair with Malachai before he fell to earth."

"Yes I do seem to recall that." Aldair sighed. "Anyway, she was considered Lucifer's first creation gone wrong when she was granted admission to heaven by the Great Creator because she began protecting mortals. Lucilius was almost given a guardian status when he spent fourteen years keeping a young man alive instead of retrieving his soul for constantly attempting suicide. I believe that would be your Uncle Braydon."

"Am I the only one confused by this?" C.C. asked.

"No, I'm pretty lost too." Lelouch admitted.

"Ask Braydon about it." Aldair said as he got up and stretched. "Now then, I'm getting hungry, are you going to feed me or not?"

"Fine." Lelouch muttered, rolling his eyes with a smile.

"So there is no way to convince you to return with me is there?" C.C. asked.

"Nope. Sorry. You're welcome to come visit and say hello once in a while though."

"You've become somewhat strange." C.C. said, starring at him.

"So I keep hearing." he said. "Anyway, I better go feed Aldair and Sandy. I'll be right back."

Before he could say anything more, Sandy dragged him downstairs.

But after making sure they had their lunch, Lelouch ran back up to his room, just to find C.C. gone, and Mortacai still sitting in the middle of the floor.

"Where'd she go?" Lelouch asked in curiosity.

"I don't know. She just disappeared." said Mortacai.

Lelouch just sighed and shook his head, wishing he could've at least said goodbye.

"I better start my homework Mortacai. Mind if I bring you back later?"

"Not a problem." said Mortacai. Then he disappeared as well, leaving Lelouch to sit and do his homework, wondering why C.C. had wanted to take him back with her.

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Ginger: okay, I'm finally getting back into the swing of things with this story. As always though, give me reviews and I will continue. So hopefully you guys will keep reading and keep enjoying.