Please read the A/N at the end.

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C.C…

She stirred a little. A voice… is calling me?

C.C…

Another troubled stir. Again?

A light knock on the door followed. "C.C.?"

The golden orbs popped open immediately. The voice she was hearing apparently belonged to the last person she wanted to see right now.

Lelouch Lamperouge.

"C.C.? Are you in there?"

Grunting, she put the puffy pillow against her ears in a futile effort trying to shut the sounds out. "Why does he have to come now out of all time?" she murmured.

"Hey, what's the matter?" The knockings stopped, much to her relief. Just as she was about to let out a long, tired sigh, the doorknob turned.

"It's not locked? Well, I'm coming in."

What the? She cursed under her breath as a memory suddenly crawled its way into her mind, reminding her that earlier this evening when she was in such an emotional upheaval, locking the door was the last thing on her mind. She reckoned that she was fortunate enough to not have a robber, burglar or worst, rapist tiptoe into her house while asleep.

"Why is it so dark in here? I can't see anything..." said Lelouch

"Where's the damned light switch?" Now, it sounded like he's talking to himself instead.

"Next to the kitchen door," suggested C.C. helpfully.

"You're here all along?" He queried, surprised.

"Just turn on the light, will you?"

Roaming his hands on the wall until he found the switch and flipped it on at once, and—

PUFF!

"What the?"

Lying on the woodened floor in front of his feet was a pure white puffy pillow that seemed to sail all the way from the room opposite from where he's standing; the master bedroom, in which its master was sitting very casually on the bed masked by an emotionless face, and in one of her hands was another 'weapon', a cheese-kun stuffed toy, large-sized.

"What are you-"

PUFF!

Another item was added onto the pile before him.

"Stop it! What are you doing?" This time, he managed to get the whole question out without being interrupted by her attack. It didn't last long. The next thing he wanted to ask was cut off when a new, bigger, puffier pillow landed on his face.

When it trailed down, he could only stare with widening eyes. "What in the world- Woah! Hold that."

C.C. was holding a thick-looking alarm clock that didn't seem to be made out of soft, non-damaging material at all. Rather, it was steel, hard steel, and she was aiming right at him.

"OK, whatever you have in mind, think it through," he said quickly as he fearfully took a step back. Who knew what that thing could have done to his beautiful face?

"Just calm down and-"

It sailed right past him. Exact one inch to the right and he'd be a goner. Slowly turning his head around in a stunning fashion to see the clock smash hard against the wall with such force that he had to gulp. It shattered into million pieces on the tiled floor. Lelouch slowly swirled his head back to stare at his 'assaulter'.

"Wha-"

"I hope you get the message," she remarked boredly.

"What are you talking about? What is this?"

C.C. scanned her room. "Let's see what other items I still possess…"

The door to her bedroom suddenly got swung open with such force that it almost sent her door flying from its hinge. She looked up, slightly startled.

Lelouch barged in and without wasting a second he jumped on the bed, pushing her down and pinning her wrists down on the mattress with his hands. "Enough," he growled.

She stared back at him, eyes unwavering. Lelouch really didn't expect her expression to change from stoic to shock either, so he wasn't caught off guard by her indifference.

First time she ever had a guy looming over her in bed while not even in a romantic mood. Interesting.

Their eye-contact was still held sternly. Well, if she wasn't going to say anything, he'd better make a move first.

"I need some answers to this, don't you think?" he said.

She blinked once. He went on, "Explain to me why, out of the blue, you decided to murder your boyfriend."

"Boyfriend?" she chuckled. "I've never considered you as one."

He frowned. Confusion evident on his face, "What are you talking about? Didn't we already go on a date?"

She cocked her head slightly to one side. "I wouldn't call that a date. Ahh, even you said that it's just a day-out between friends."

"I don't understand." He was really lost.

"Well, actually I'm glad that it was just that, because I'm a mere substitute whenever you're bored of your real girlfriend anyway."

Now he was really lost. He tilted his head to one side, eyebrow raising high to his hairline. "Substitute? My real girlfriend? Where did you get all of that?"

"Oh, you mean that was supposed to be a secret? Too bad boya, because I know everything now."

"Is messing with people's head one of your special abilities?"

This wasn't time for a joke because she didn't even so much as twist her lips. This wasn't time for some humors to fly around, this was business, real deal. She was really hurt. He could see it clearly in her golden eyes.

"C.C., what's going on?" he queried, letting go of her wrists and slowly sat up. So did she. She then wrapped her arms around her legs and put her chin on the knees, eyes not meeting his.

"C.C.," he said again.

"Why don't you go ask Shirley?"

Shirley? What does Shirley have anything to do with this?

"What do you mean 'ask Shirley'? Did you meet her?"

She looked away as if not wanting to recall the moments. After a long stretched minute, she turned back to him and replied in a cool voice. "Yes, I did, Lelouch. Thanks to her, I know your true personality now."

"Need I mention how lost I am right now?"

C.C. took a deep breath. "She told me she's been your childhood friend for as long as you two could remember and became your official girlfriend some time ago. She said you only befriended me because you have never had a commoner as friend before, but it'll never last because it's not the way it's meant to be."

All this time she was talking, her eyes were roving everywhere except his face.

A second passed, then a minute, then two. C.C. thought he must be very, extremely shocked to learn that she had already known too much about his nature and he could no longer be two-timing. That thought must have rendered the cheater speechless.

Then five minutes passed and he still didn't say anything. None of them did. The silence was growing uncomfortable and unbearable. Finally, it was her who looked up-

And stared directly into his indifferent face.

That really surprised her. She had anticipated anything and everything except that, of course. He was wearing an unreadable expression, so as much as she tried, she couldn't know what's going through his mind.

"Say something," she croaked, "anything. Don't stay silent like that."

"You actually believed what she said?"

Now that was not expected at all.

"You actually believed what she said," he repeated, stared right into her eyes. Though this time, it wasn't in question form but a statement instead.

"Why shouldn't I? After all, you're an aristocrat and I'm just a mere commoner. It will never work out!"

"How could you be sure?" he whispered.

Her eyes widened a little. "Because it never did," was her soft reply.

All of a sudden, without warning, he reached out his hand to grab hers and pulled her into a tight embrace. "You have to trust me, C.C. In this era, there's no such thing as love between aristocrat and commoner, that's why I need you to absolutely trust me," he said, burying his face into her shiny green locks.

"If such thing doesn't exist, why bother then?"

"Because it has to… for our sake."

"You're not making sense you know," she sighed, trying to wriggle out of his grasp. It was futile. The guy got quite strong when he was in an emotional state.

"You know it's not possible," she muttered, "many have tried and failed. It will never work." Even my own parents.

He stayed silent. Then he spoke, "It may be the most difficult thing we'll ever do together, but as long as we're together, it's going to work out right?"

She closed her orbs. "You sound rather confident."

"Because everything will be fine. I'll make it all work out."

"So what she said… it's not necessarily true?"

"Didn't I already tell you that so long as you're a witch, I'll be a warlock? And no one can claim your place because no one is as bewitching as you?"

She smiled against his shoulder. "You did, Lelouch."

It was then that he pushed her out slightly, hands still resting on her slim shoulders. "This deep resentment of the upper class, it has something to do with your past, am I right?"

"How did you figure it out?"

He chuckled, "It's quite obvious for someone who's as observant as me."

She rolled her eyes, "It's a long story,"

Lelouch smirked knowingly at her as he let go of her entirely and crawled toward the head of the bed, flopped down with his arms behind his head and a dazzling smile spread across his handsome features. "I've got all night."

"You're sure you're not going to miss your luxurious, comfortable bed?" she queried jokingly.

"Of course not," he huffed, "because you're going to provide me with all the comfort I need."

"What a warlock," she chuckled, crawling her way up next to him and lied down. He then pulled in her in, resting his head on her hair. "Let the story begin," he announced theatrically.

She snuggled close and closed her eyes, letting the memories engulf her once again. "Well, once upon a time…"

A/N: Woah it must have been decades since I've last updated this story! Time sure goes by fast huh? Well, I don't think I really have any excuse for this extreme lateness so I guess we can settle down with me being a lazy bum? Yeah that could work lol. Anyway, thank you all for reading and reviewing this story, I appreciate it from the bottom of my heart. And I'm sorry if this chapter is so short (you would expect when an author takes a long break, her next work will be long right? Not really in this case...), I was planning to add this to the previous one but it seemed rather long that way and I know when you open something up and it's frigging long, the first thing on your mind would be "Woah why is it so long? My eyes are going to hurt after reading this..." Aand you'd get bored easily too.

So yup, that's pretty much what I wanted to say. Hopefully, the next and last chapter will be up pretty soon and wouldn't take decades lol, but I can't really make any promises... Anyway, thanks again for reading and reviewing guys!