"I must have been out of it so much after I killed my father that I didn't even notice that you looked identical to Lelouch, even back then." Suzaku shook his head. After their emotional rollercoaster settled down for the moment, the two were now sitting at the table, their hands clenched together on the table between them.

Kat smiled sadly. "I had a feeling something horrible happened to you, but the villagers never told me anything. They were determined to keep your secret."

Suzaku smiled tightly. "Hai, well. But what would have happened if I had realized? I knew Lelouch and Nunnally were royalty."

Kat laughed lightly. "I still can't believe you knew them when they were banished here. Such a small world." Kat trailed off, looking into the distance. Suzaku had filled her in on everything that had happened over the last two years and her heart ached for those she lost before she even met them.

"Hey." Suzaku squeezed her hands, bringing her attention back to him. "It's not your fault. It's mine and Lelouch's for not being able to fix our mistakes quick enough."

Kat sighed. "I just wished I figured it out sooner, then maybe I could have helped."

Suzaku shook his head. "You were safe. That's all Lelouch and Nunnally would have cared about if they knew about you then. But do you know why Charles and Marianne sent you away?"

Kat sighed. "I have a feeling." She glanced up into his deep green eyes and concentrated. She wanted to bring the power to the surface, but didn't want to alter too much. So she choose a harmless memory of the moment before and altered her hair color.

Suzaku blinked his eyes for a moment. "Hang on wasn't your hair just red?"

Kat giggled as she unveiled her Geass in her left eye. Like her twin, her Geass could only be used once per person.

"A Geass?" Suzaku gaped, and then he chuckled. "You really are his twin."

Kat giggled. "Thanks, I guess."

"Who gave you the contract?" Suzaku asked. "C.C? or V.V?"

Kat shook her head. "It's very rare, but I was born wired as it so happens. Which means that I have a latent Geass ability without forming a contract. A member of the village told me this."

Suzaku hummed. "So your Geass is like Charles then."

"I guess so, from what you've told me anyways." Kat nodded. "Explains why he got rid of me. Couldn't have me disrupting his plans."

"Sounds like that bastard, throwing away his own children for the sake of selfish plans." Suzaku growled.

Kat smiled tightly. "Hey, just cause we both had tough-ass, stubborn, stupid, selfish fathers doesn't mean that we have to get hung up on them. Ok?"

Suzaku shook his head laughing. "Damn could Lelouch and I have needed you about a year ago."

Kat grinned. "Well, unfortunately, you have me all to yourself since Lelouch isn't here." She looked down at that though, a tightness in her chest growing.

"I'm sorry you didn't get to meet him. He was something else." Suzaku said softly. "To the world he's the Demon Emperor who Zero killed for peace. But what people don't remember is that he got rid of all of the corruption in the Britannian Government, setting it up for his sister. And on top of that, it was his plan to die so that peace could reign free. He failed a lot, but it was all his idea to come up with the Zero Requiem. I still miss him, how could I not? But it's what he wanted; he knew it had to be done for the world to move to the next stage, to get to our future."

"I'm glad that you and Nunnally are here though." Kat smiled. "You two will be able to tell me things like that about him. It's like I'm getting to know him even though he isn't here anymore."

Suzaku nodded. "So are you ready to face Nunnally with your true identity. To tell you the truth, she has a sixth sense about these things and probably already knows subconsciously."

Kat giggled. "Probably. I have a feeling Sir Xingke knows too, he had that feeling about him."

Suzaku laughed. "He and Lelouch were the same in that sense. Both master tacticians and excellent deducers of the environment around them." He also smirked. "You have a bad habit of calling royalty and the like by their titles too, even when they tell you not to."

Kat blushed. "Sorry! It's habit! Until two weeks ago, I was a nobody!"

Suzaku grinned. "Not anymore Your Majesty."

Kat glared. "Don't call me that, it feels…weird, for a friend to call me that."

"That's how they see it too." Suzaku chuckled, cornering her. "They already view you as a friend, strange as that may seem. And it's just as awkward for you to call them by their titles as it is for me to call you by yours. Although Ohgi still calls Nunna, Empress every once in a while." He laughed. "But when we are talking seriously, titles tend to slip out and always in public are we formal."

"Who knows that you are Suzaku under the mask of Zero?" Kat asked.

"Nunnally, obviously." Suzaku said, thinking about it. "Kallen figured it out during the assassination. Jeremiah, Lloyd, CĂ©ceile, Sayoko and Nina knew as they were apart of Lelouch's inner circle while he was Emperor. Your older sister, Cornelia knows, Xingke, Kaguya, Tianzi, Gino, Anya, Rivalz, Milly. Ohgi figured it out finally." Suzaku chuckled. "I think he underestimated how close Lelouch and I were. Tohdoh and Rakshata also know. The other members of the Black Knights have a feeling, but don't know for sure, and honestly, know one else should know or it'll get out that the whole assassination was staged." Suzaku shrugged.

Kat laughed. "Thats already 19 people that know, including me."

Suzaku shrugged. "What are you going to do. We are both blessed and cursed with having a lot of smart people in this small inner circle that we have."

Kat laughed, tears collecting in her eyes as Suzaku laughed with her.

"So are you prepared for this?" Suzaku asked her seriously.

Kat shrugged. "Not really. I wasn't planning on anyone knowing until I had gotten used to it first, but you figuring it out so easily has shifted things."

Suzaku blushed. "Hai, sorry about that." He said looking down. "Sometimes my 'Live' command manifests in strange ways."

"The one Lelouch gave you?" Kat asked curiously.

Suzaku nodded. "It was at a time when we couldn't be further apart in our stances. But I've come to look at it as a blessing and a curse."

Kat nodded; she could understand both sides. "Do you think I should see her now?"

"Only if you are prepared to do so." Suzaku said softly. "You said so yourself. You just found out two weeks ago that you are a princess. Do you want to open that door?"

Kat sighed. "Not really, but I'd like to really get to know Nunnally. And by extension, through her and you; Lelouch."

Suzaku squeezed her hand and stood up. He released her hand and put his mask back on. "Then lets go. Nunnally is waiting for you."

"I don't understand Zero." Nunnally hummed. "Why did you pull us away from the representatives? And where have you been?"

Zero looked at first Kaguya, Tianzi, Ohgi, Xingke and finally Nunnally. He couldn't believe it when Kat said to bring them all, guess she wanted to announce herself as well. "I was with a special someone who would like to formally introduce herself to all of you. But only you for the time being."

"Ok, where is she?" Ohgi asked.

Zero nodded and stepped back, half facing the door that lead to the hall from the small conference room in the Student Council Building. "You may come in." He raised his voice slightly so that he could be heard from the hall.

Kat hesitated slightly before taking a big breath and opening the double doors.

Xingke looked over and narrowed his eyes. "What kind of game is this? We just met Kat Kingsley."

Kat shook her head. "I'm sorry for the confusion and for lying to you before. My name is not Kat Kingsley."

"Then what is it?" Ohgi asked, suspicion growing in his chest.

"Probably who you all thought I was a first sight." Kat smirked. "My name is Katerina vi Britannia, Third Princess of the Holy Britannian Empire, Lelouch vi Britannia's twin sister, and your older sister Nunnally." Kat said with all of the confidence she could muster up at the moment, looking at Nunnally in the eye.

"H-how?" Nunnally stuttered, her eyes wide. Kat gave her a narrowed look; so Suzaku was right, somewhere deep inside her she already knew.

Kat sighed. "Charles and Marianne gave me up the day Lelouch and I were born. I've been burdened with Geass."

Ohgi and Xingke narrowed their eyes suspiciously as Kat spared them a glance.

"Don't worry, I don't intend on using it on anyone here." Kat assured them. "Besides, I already used it on Suzaku, so it would be pointless to try and use it on you when he would be unaffected. Lelouch and I are the same in that respect."

The room froze as Zero removed his helmet, now that he was no longer in the public's eye. "Don't worry, she knows everything. It's the truth Nunna." He said sweetly, with such brotherly affection that Kat's heart twisted. "She is who she said she is. You have a sister." He chuckled. "Well, a full-blooded sister anyway."

Nunnally looked up at Kat and held her hand out to her. Kat tipped her head sideways and stepped towards her, gently placing her hand in her little sister's. Nunnally closed her eyes and Kat decided to help out a little. Her eye swirled and the red wings of the Geass formed in her left eye.

Nunnally went ridge, but Suzaku slid in to stop Xingke from interfering. "It's ok Xingke. Trust her."

This was going to hurt, but Kat went for it anyway.

Nunnally's eyes went wide as images flashed through her head. She realized that these images were Kat's memories when the girl that the images focused on grew up into Kat herself. She saw everything. She knew everything. "Kit-Kat."

Suzaku looked back at the pair as his secret nickname was spoken for Kat. "Kat?"

Kat gasped as she dropped Nunnally's hand and sunk to her knees. Suzaku was at her side in the next second, holding her upright as she breathed heavily.

"Are you ok Kat?" Nunnally asked, her eyes wide in concern.

Kat nodded, allowing Suzaku to take all of her weight. "Hai. It just took a lot out of me to show you my memories like that. That's why I didn't do it with you." She said, wincing as she looked up at him, her head spinning.

"Wait, you can show her your memories?" Kaguya asked, stepping up.

Kat nodded, reaching to hold her head. "My Geass is very much like Charles's Geass. It allows me to suppress and alter the memories of those I make eye contact with, but I'm also capable of sharing my own memories with those that I make physical contact with. But it is very taxing to do; especially since I showed all of my memories to Nunnally."

"You need to lay down." Suzaku said, preparing to gather her in his arms.

Kat shook her head. "No. I'll be fine in a minute Zu-zu."

"Zu-zu?" Tianzi cocked her head.

Nunnally giggled. "Kat and Suzaku knew each other back when they were children, right after the war."

"Hai and somehow I didn't make the connection between her and Lelouch." Suzaku shook his head.

"Everything happens for a reason Zu-zu." Kat sighed as she nodded to Suzaku. Suzaku nodded and took the cue to stand up, helping Kat to her feet. She wobbled for a second, but stayed on her feet, her head still spinning, but only slightly. "I'm ok, it'll pass." She reassured Nunnally and Suzaku. "I'm so sorry for deceiving everyone at first, but I myself just found out who I was two weeks ago. I was hoping to get to know what life was like for Nunnally and Lelouch at the Academy before everything happened, but Suzaku just had to ruin it." She gave him a wry smile.

"Would that have anything to do with the marks on your neck?" Kaguya giggled.

Suzaku blushed as Kat laughed with the young mistress. "Hai. He basically attacked me, but we figured it all out."

"I understand Kat-chan." Kaguya nodded. "It's a lot to take in, you wanted to try and extend the normalcy for a while longer."

Kat nodded. "Exactly. I wanted to try and come to terms with it before I approached Nunnally and then formally introduced myself to the world." She smirked. "That still sounds weird to say."

Tianzi giggled, walking up to Kat. "Well at least you aren't the only princess in the Imperial family, unlike me."

"That may be true, but I'm the Demon Emperor's twin." Kat narrowed her eyes. "My mere face would only remind the world of the evil things he did in their minds." She sighed.

"Well, I'm sure our brothers and sisters would love to meet you regardless." Nunnally smiled.

"So this is the blast sight." Gino said, kneeling down among the debris from the bomb that went off. He could easily located the trigger and the wiring used and he noticed that it wasn't actually too far from where he and the others were standing before.

"It's pretty small." Anya commented off-hand.

"The blast radius you mean?" Kallen asked as she looked at the blacked marks on the cobble-stone. Anya nodded. "I agree. It's very contained, almost as if it was meant for either a single person or just to scare."

"I think a single person." Gino said, standing up. "Look at the shrapnel in the cobble and along the wall here." The two girls walked over and Kallen ghosted her hand along the wall as Anya snapped another picture. "If someone was standing here, they would have been torn to shreds." He continued as he looked around. Whirling lights were bouncing off the walls of the government buildings around them as emergency personal tended to shock and abrasion wounds, along with concussions from the sheer force of the blast.

"But no one was." Kallen narrowed her eyes. "And there were tons of options. Who?"

"We were standing pretty close if you remember correctly." Gino narrowed his eyes.

"So then someone could be after one of us." Anya shrugged as if it wasn't a big deal.

Gino and Kallen shared a look. "I mean sure we could all be targets I guess, especially if someone doesn't like Britannia, but Nunnally has done so much to prevent hostile feelings like that." Kallen mused. "Plus even though you two are Knights of the Round and I'm second-in-command of the Black Knights and their ace, there were Prime Ministers and royalty all around us when the explosion went off. Why not them?"

Gino nodded. "Excellent point. There is something bigger going on here. We better report in for Nunnally and Ohgi."

"Agreed." Kallen nodded as Anya snapped another picture of the blacked cobblestone with shards of metal embedded within it's surface.

Out in the countryside, a horse drawn wagon bumped along as it had been for the past few months. The wagon was full to the top with fluffy hay that somehow wasn't covered in snow, but on top was a strange sight; or maybe not so strange. A beautiful women with long lime green hair and striking gold eyes looked up at the sky in boredom, dropped in furs to stay warm. Behind her head was a stuffed animal and a few feet from that was a folded paper crane.

"Where are we going now Lelouch?" She asked, tilting her head back to hear the driver better.

The man in front tipped his hat back, the sun hitting his young face and highlighting his amethyst eyes. "To town C.C., we need food."

"Pizza?" C.C. smirked, knowing the response that she would get.

A groan was her anticipated response as her companion rolled his eyes. "Sure C.C."

And so, Lelouch vi Britannia, former Eleventh Prince and 99th Emperor of Britannia drove the horse drawn carriage to the small quaint town.

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I took the idea of 'Wired' from "Nightmare of Nunnally", just FYI