Couldn't sleep again so hammered this out, hope you enjoy going to down some NyQuil now.

As the customized time turner pulsed Lillith found herself before Lelouch's apartments during the early evening roughly a week earlier, she was desperately trying to process all the information she'd gathered today but it was just so damn hard to stay focused. She was acting irrational, incredibly forward, and far too Gryffindor'ish for her own liking; as she reviewed her thoughts with her occulamancy barriers running at full the answer hit her and she groaned her annoyance loudly,

"Of course he had a magical core and an organized mind, whatever that power he has is it basically boiled down to a single shot imperius...hmm probably created a two way data stream between us and I being the arrogant bitch that I am didn't have any barriers up as I was assaulting what I thought was a muggles brain...great..." It really did make sense; she'd unintentionally formed an empathic bond with the teen due to her rather cavalier usage of mind magics so without her normal shields in place the boy she'd known less than an hour had wormed his way into her heart through his memories.

Gently tapping her head against the granite building she mumbled out, "And this is why daddy constantly told me to be aware of my surroundings, ugh, such a dunderhead, ok ok...ok, focus, focus." She was the unofficial Empress of Europe and most of Asia, a Countess by birth, and quite used to being a part of high society, the very idea of pretending to be a commoner was just unacceptable. So that meant Pendragon, taking a very deep breath she focused on Clovis's stolen memories and extending her magic she felt herself slingshot over countless hundreds of kilometers of ocean and land.

Crashing quite spectacularly into tree of all the goddess be damned things Lilly shook her head and took in her surroundings and was shocked by what she saw, it wasn't the opulent palaces, ridiculous statues or even the armed guards eyeing her in confusion that caused her pause. No it was the massive network of wards surrounding and cutting through the Imperial capital, summoning Death's Cloak she willed herself invisible and jumped out of the tree. Oblivating the pair of guards after scanning their minds for a layout of the city she made her way towards the records building, after breaking in she had a bit of a heart stopping moment when she saw the warded magical parchment in the muggle files.

"Looks like Gringott's exists in this world and they're still running a tight ship, good on them, hmm... the Black's, Potters, and Slytherin's all mostly died out during Napoleon's invasion and this old paperwork registered me as the true heir when I arrived...interesting...depressing but interesting." Resolving to visit Gringotts when she and Lelouch conquered Europe she removed her cloak and presented her credentials and after a blood test (muggle tech seemed to be quite a bit more advanced then back home)and the overly liberal usage of a few obliviates and imperius curses she was officially the Countess of Pottermoore, a rather yummy stretch of land along the coast of northern California. She'd contemplated busting into the Imperial Palace to wack Lelouch's dad while she was still in the capital as a kind of present for the boy but the place was warded to the point it would take a nuclear warhead to break in.

Shrugging at that she apparated to California where she looked over her little fiefdom and set down some new ground rules for its inhabitants, she'd have to split her time with Lelouch with this place since loyal followers were a must for any would be conqueror. After a few days she apparated back to Japan, throwing up this time she shook off the jump and cleaned herself up, wasn't the first time it happened and it certainly wouldn't be the last. Next step involved her registering at Ashford Acadamy which was a very simple process, and with the philosophers stone money would never be an issue so she paid her entire tuition upfront. After her orientation and meeting Rubin Ashford and his rather forward granddaughter Lilly got the two pence tour and was informed that her first classes would be on the day after her initial arrival.

Lilly was not a fan of inducing paradoxes (they could get...messy) so she hung low exploring the settlement getting a feel for the populace while waiting on her counterpart to gate crash this reality, she'd discovered a few things about her future Empire that honestly disgusted her and consumed a full day trying to process. It appeared to operate almost completely on social Darwinism and treated conquered territories citizens like they were live stock, worse the Empire's people saw nothing wrong with this, definitely something to address at a later date.

Mulling this over as she pooled her memories of Clovis 'Suicide' and his recorded orders of the Shinjuku genocide along with several unedited videos of innocents being slaughtered Lilly was soon distracted with editing the lot to a Benny Hill tune. Casting an Imperius curse on the local news stations board of directors she left the video in their care with some very specific orders, after that it was show time.

Nunnally perked up as she heard a knock on her door, perhaps one of the student council had come to visit her while nii-san was out? Sayoko-san excused herself and approached the door, the live in maid/servant/mother-figure opened it with a tentative,

"Yes can I help you?" The responding voice was clearly female, almost musical with a hint of mischief in it, honestly the tone was very reminiscent of Millicent which concerned the Princess in hiding a bit.

"Ello love, I was hoping I could possibly have a word with young Nunnally?" Sayoko's voice tensed a bit as she replied,

"And why would you need to speak to the young mistress?" Still sounding a bit mischievous the woman replied,

"Well since I'm dating her brother now I thought it'd be good to get to know his little sister since she's all he seems to think about," Nunnally's heart skipped a beat at that, nii-san had a girlfriend? Why didn't he say anything, not really thinking it through she called out,

"Please let her in Sayoko-san, it's all right I'd love to meet nii-sans girlfriend," there was a bit of shuffeling and the sound of the door closing, sensing the air around her shifting Nunnally extended her hand forward. "I'm pleased to meet you I'm-"

"The Princess Nunnally vi Britannia, the discarded child of the late Empress Marianne vi Britannia, quite nice to meet you little one!" Nunnally froze in shock and terror as the woman yelped out, "Holy shit ninja!" There was a thud and another shuffling noise, "Ninja maids, swear I was done with that shit after Roanapur, don't worry little one she's just in a body bind I won't hurt you." Nunnally jerked back when she felt a soft hand land in hers as her unfortunate birthright activated, she felt the womans soul and it both seared and calmed her all at once.

There was true brutal darkness in the womans heart equally surrounded by love and playfullness, a black avatar of balance and restraint, Nunnally felt the tears forming at the corners of her eyes as she gasped out,

"Oh my...oh my god...you've...you've suffered so much..." She heard the woman gasp in return and felt a shudder spasm down the held hand,

"An empath...no way...no way I could be that lucky..." Nunnally felt a swish of air as the woman spoke something in latin and she began laughing manically, "No bloody way, you have an active core...this...this changes thing." Quite on automatic due to countless hours dealing with Rivalz Nunnally calmly chided,

"Language miss," distractedly the woman pulled her hand back and quickly replied,

"Sorry 'mione...hmm...this is...now what's this? Princess can you open your eyes?" Shuddering for reasons she couldn't explain Nunnally stuttered out,

"I'm blind I can't see I was injured with my mother's death, my eyes no longer work," the woman sounded a bit contrite,

"Not what I asked... Princess...can you physically open your eyelids?" Now fully spasming Nunnally nearly wailed,

"I'm blind I can't see I was injured with my mother's death, my eyes no longer work," the woman growled,

"When I find the monster who cast a geis on a little girl I'm going to...grrr...Nunnally this is going to hurt like a nothing else but please trust me, you'll thank me later," unable to defend herself she just cringed as a gentle pair of hands grasped her eyelids and forced them open, "Legillimens." Nunnally felt herself reliving the murder of her mother, the crippling of her own young body and then she felt something crack in the back of her mind, suddenly she was screaming as new memories flooded her mind nearly overpowering her. As she spasmed again the world suddenly seemed so bright...so full of color, trying to fight off the shock of pain from the light her eyes began blinking rapidly.

The blur in front of her left and she heard a click as the lights died down, the blur returned and keeled before her, after a few minutes of rapid blinking Nunnally stared in wild eyed shock at the most beautiful woman she'd ever seen. Her raven black hair framed a heart-shaped face, her piercing and glowing(?!) emerald eyes staring at her with concern,

"Princess are you ok?" Stammering all she could ask was,

"Wh-wh-who are you?" Smiling she reached toward Nunnally's face and cupped her cheek affectionatly,

"I'm your brothers girlfriend, on paper here I'm the Countess Lillith Dorea Black of Pottermoore, but back where I'm from, on my world I'm a witch, the Empress of the Republic of Brittania, the Lady of Slytherin Lillith Dorea Potter-Black-Peverell." Feeling the woman's emotions and staring into her eyes (Staring! Eyes!)Nunnally shuddered again,

"What do you want?" Smile turning a bit wicked she drawled out,

"Well I had just planned on fixing you up to help your brother but you just became far more interesting to me then he was five minutes ago," confused the brunette waif asked,

"Wha-what do you mean by that?" Grinning brilliantly the woman, Lillith chuckled before replying,

"You're a witch Nunnally, would you perhaps like to be my apprentice?"