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It was bright an early the next morning as the sun streamed into the bedroom through the lace curtains of Lelouch's bedroom, slowly waking him as he tried to hide underneath his blanket.

"Lulu! Lulu get up! Come on you lazy bum!" came a familiar voice.

"Not now Shirley, I'm tired." he mumbled sleepily. Then his eyes snapped open with realization and he sat up, ignoring the slight pain it caused. "Shirley?!"

Sure enough, standing before him was his dear red headed friend, her green eyes watching him closely.

"It's about time you woke up Lulu!" she said stubbornly.

"Shirley? What are you doing here?"

"Visiting Leon with Euphie. He wanted me to wake you up because we're taking Kit to the aquarium today."

"We…… we are?"

"Yes, now are you going to get out of bed and come with us or not?"

"I don't have any clothes to go anywhere." he admitted.

"Here." she said holding up a stack of clothes. "I picked them out at the store with dad last night. I figured it kinda suited your style."

Lelouch took the clothes then headed into the bathroom to change, yawning along the way.

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"Shirley? Are you sure these suit me?" Lelouch sighed, walking out of the bathroom.

"Yup." she said smiling from her spot on his bed.

Lelouch starred down at himself.

She had picked out a pair of slimming black jeans, a black shirt, a black silk vest, and a maroon tie, as well as black canvas sneakers.

"I think you took the black a little serious." he sighed.

"Well you were the leader of the black knights weren't you?"

"Was. That's the keyword here. I was. I'm not now."

"Well if you don't like it, change your vest."

Lelouch starred. "You brought another one?"

"Nope."

"Then how am I supposed to……"

"Sit and think about it turning into a different color." she said.

"Shirley that's ridiculous."

"Just do it."

Lelouch just sighed and thought about the vest being white.

"There see, it didn't……." he froze when he looked down. His vest was now white. "What the hell just happened?"

"It's Mr. Malachai's old vest from when he was younger. He said it changes colors and he thought you might like it to go with your outfit. It's a very special one."

Lelouch turned to look at the back just to spin around a little. "I guess after everything else that goes on here I shouldn't be too surprised.

"What do you mean?"

"Shirley, you're sitting there in front of me and I saw you die months ago. I thought I died, instead I woke up to a half dead man taking care of me. I live in the house of a twenty year old genius fighter pilot, and his son who's best friend is a ghost that died sixty years ago, and this is all after a former angel of mass death rescued me. This place is weird."

"But it's home." shrugged Shirley.

"Yes, I'll give you that. It is turning into home."

"Well I'm glad you agree." she said jumping up and grabbing his hand. Then she tried to tug him out the door. "Now let's go!"

But Lelouch just pulled her into a hug. "I'm glad you're alive Shirley. After you died, everything just started going down hill for me." he admitted.

"Well now we can be friends again Lulu." she said smiling at him. "But are we going? I've been wanting to go to the aquarium for months now!"

"How'd you get here?" Lelouch asked.

"I uh…… I ended up in Leon's cabin while he was on deployment instead of at home and dad didn't have time to bring me home."

"ON deployment?"

"I spent two months on an aircraft carrier." she said. Then she turned bright red. "Sharing his bunk because they had no where else to put me."

"Interesting way to get to know each other. By the way, what are you wearing?" he asked tugging on the sleeve of the gigantic leather jacket that Shirley seemed to be swimming in.

"It's Leon's M-1 flight jacket. The one he puts all of his patches on."

"Why are you wearing it?"

"Because it's comfy." she said with a smile. "Now let's go!"

Lelouch finally let Shirley drag him downstairs where he was pounced on by Euphie in a big hug.

"Hi Euphie." he said.

"Hi Lelouch." she said smiling, "It's nice to see that you've joined the family."

"It's nice to see you alive. Maybe we should bring Suzaku to say hello sometime." he said with a smile.

"I'd like that." said Euphie with a nod.

"Well as nice as this reunion is are we ready to go?" asked Leon walking down the stairs with Kit who immediately jumped into Euphie's arms in a hug.

"I guess so." said Lelouch.

Kit giggled at him.

"What's so funny?" Lelouch asked.

"You look like you're going out on a date." Kit giggled.

"Blame your Auntie Shirley. I guess she picked them out last night." he shrugged.

Kit just giggled even more. "Are we going now daddy?" Kit asked.

"Yes Kit we're going now." said Leon as they all walked out the front door.

But suddenly Shirley and Euphie were giggling.

"What's gotten into the two of you?" Leon asked.

"Nothing." said Shirley, grinning broadly.

"Right." said Leon slowly.

They watched as he walked over to the open garage door before peeking around the corner and grabbing something.

Lelouch watched in curiosity as Leon pulled out a young man that looked much like him, only skinnier and with brown hair.

It was rather obvious the two were related.

"And who invited you Roddy?"

"I did." the man said with a matching British accent and a childish grin as Leon set him down.

"And who says I want you to come?"

"No one."

After a moment the young man jumped up tackling Leon and before long the two were jumping and tumbling, pouncing on each other like children.

"I'm going to assume that's Roderick." said Lelouch starring.

"The only one that can get Leon to act like a kid." said Euphie with a smile.

The play fight was over just as quickly as it had started when Leon grabbed Roderick, his hand wrapped around the man's leg just under the knee as he held him upside down.

"Hi Uncle Roddy!" Kit giggled, kneeling down in front of Roderick so they were face to face.

"Hey there Kit!" Roderick said smiling. "And how are you today?"

"I'm waiting for you and daddy to start behaving so we can go to the aquarium."

"Oh, alright. I suppose I better stop tackling him then, shouldn't I?"

"That might help." said Kit with a smile.

"Can you put me down now Leon? My head's beginning to spin."

Leon lowered Roderick down onto the pavement where he rolled over and stood up.

"That was mighty kind of you. Normally you just drop me face first." said Roderick, brushing himself off. "Are you feeling alright?"

In one swift move, Leon ducked down and kicked Roderick's feet out from under him, sending him flying backwards onto the ground.

"Does that answer your question Roddy?" Leon asked with a satisfied smile.

"I guess your feeling just fine." Roderick sighed standing.

"Wow, and I thought I had a strange relationship with my family?" Lelouch whispered, making Shirley giggle.

"Hello, hello? What's this? A new family member?" said Roderick curiously when he spotted Lelouch. "Who's the new kid Leon?"

"His name's Lelouch. Dad brought him here a few weeks ago."

"Here? Why isn't he at the Sanctuary?"

"Probably because you were there." said Leon grabbing him from behind and roughly ruffling his hair.

"Hey! Let go!" cried Roderick with a laugh. Then he tried to elbow Leon in the ribs, making him pause before shaking his hand like crazy. "Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow!" he cried. "What did you eat for breakfast? Rocks?"

"Oh ha ha." Leon muttered sarcastically.

"Are we gonna go now?" Kit asked impatiently.

"I suppose." said Leon. Then he looked at Roderick and sighed. "And I guess you can come along Roddy."

"You guess?"

"I don't trust leaving you here alone. We all remember what happened last time Ashtor had to baby sit you."

"I annoyed him to death?"

"You're the first person besides Travis and Cameron that ever made him say the F-word as every other word in a sentence." said Leon rolling his eyes.

"That was funny." Roderick laughed.

"Just get in the car Roddy." Leon sighed.

"Okay! I call shotgun!" he laughed. Then he ran into the garage, the others following him.

"He strikes me as being your opposite." Lelouch said, walking with Leon towards the garage.

"Attitude wise yes. It's like Mr. Malachai and his brother Nicolai. You're comparing dark and light, day and night."

"You're the dark and he's the light?" suggested Lelouch.

"Roddy always has been unusually cheerful. Sometime he's so cheerful it scares me." Leon admitted. "There are times I try and hate him, and times I act like it too. But he knows how much I love him so he just shrugs it all off and continues messing with me anyway until he gets me to smile and admit that he'll always be my twin brother and that I'm stuck with him for life."

Lelouch saw the affectionate smile that Leon had and smiled himself.

"That's a good thing." Lelouch said. "Sometimes we need the insanity of friends and family to keep us sane."

"Exactly." said Leon smiling. "Which is what makes our family so special. It's all enough to drive you insane but it's what keeps you going in life. Always remember that Lelouch."

"Promise." said Lelouch smiling.

"Good now let's get going before Kit get's anymore impatient."

"Good idea." said Lelouch smiling, then he climbed into the truck beside Shirley and they were soon heading to the aquarium.

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Ginger: Chapter 8 now finished! I'm on a roll with this story!