(A/N – Disclaimer: Code Lyoko and all respective ideas/characters/etc. do not belong to me in no way, shape or form.

However, Ryka and all other made up names and OCs are mine. –hiss–)

I stare over to the window from my hospital bed, waiting, hoping, that somehow this is all just a dream and I'll wake up. It hurts to move, to breathe, to live….

I've played the scene over a thousand times and more in my head. The bright light, the screeches, the screams, the crash…the utter silence that somehow makes you know someone has died.

My mother died in that accident. My father won't stop crying, for her, for me…

I feel my breath get shallower; it's becoming harder for my lungs to get the oxygen they need.

I watch the rain slide down the windowpane as my father holds my hand. I can't breathe any more; I know I'm going to die.

As I look for one last time at the hospital window I stare in disbelief. The rain is not moving anymore. My dad isn't making a sound, everything is quiet.

A bright, white light engulfs everything. I'm scared. What's happening?

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"Ryka," I hear someone whisper at my side. It's dad. I open my eyes and sit up straight. I'm not in the hospital any more.

"What dad?" I ask. He looks grim.

"I…I don't know how to tell you this…" he sighs. I can tell he's trying not to cry in front of me. "Your mother…she died in a car accident an hour ago."

My eyes widen, I want to scream. It's like every muscle in my body wants to run away from here, the pain, everything that's making me hurt.

He hugs me tight. Dad's crying now. "I would have lost you too if you'd've gone."

I try to remember. What was I going for? Then it hit me; this morning mom had asked me if I wanted to go along with her to the store, a simple enough thing. Somehow I remember saying yes, but…this time it looks like they just let me sleep in and I didn't go so…was this the past?

I just hug my dad back and cry. After what felt like forever I just pull away and crumple into the bed. I want to yell at him to leave. He must understand because he leaves several moments later.

After he leaves I just feel like I have to run somewhere; somewhere as far away from here as possible. He'll come looking for me, but where can I go that he won't think to look? I think about it, and then I know; school. I leap from bed, not wanting to be in this house for another second. I pull on an old T-shirt on the floor, it's a light rosy pink, though I don't feel like that color at all right now, and a pair of jeans that were tossed over the edge of my bed.

My room is on the first and only floor, so it is easy enough to get outside. After that I just run, the rain blurring in my eyes, the cold biting at my uncovered arms.

I slow to a walk as I hop over the gates, ripping the jeans on the lower left leg. I dash under the covered walkways at the side of the building. Looking over I see the school's sign, "Welcome to Kadic Jr. High".

I was about to go inside when I noticed a group of five kids dashing off from the school. If there were five of them then something must be up.

I follow them; first of all because I need something to take my mind off mom and pretend life was normal again. Second, because I'm way too curious for my own good.

They don't know I'm following them as they run through their little "secret passageways" and to their "hideout" or whatever you call them. I have to run hard to keep up, not like that's hard with the searing pain built up inside of me.

Silently I observe as they all cram into one giant elevator of sorts and descend. After I'm sure they've all gone to wherever they're going I head over and push the same button to open the doors. Still curious I step inside. I wince slightly as the doors close; I wasn't looking…

Pressing what looks like a "down" button, the freight elevator starts to move. After a few moments it stops, but the doors don't open. Great.

Walking over to the key pad I wonder what my chances of guessing the right code are. Zip, I assume. As I'm about to just go for it and press something the door opens. A blonde haired boy just stands there and stares at me for a minute. He's totally in shock.

"What?" I ask him, walking past him into the room. As I notice what's inside though I realize. "Oh…" I mutter.

He still hasn't said anything yet as he dashes back to his computer, though that seems to be quite an understatement for it. "Guys!" he yells, clicking the keys faster than I thought was humanly possible. "Someone's here! They've found us! We have to cancel the mission and go back in time!" he's blabbering on like I'm not even in the room anymore.

"Past?" I ask him, thinking he might be able to answer my question.

He just keeps on ignoring me, clicking away at his keyboard.

I'm about to ask again when a huge white light bursts up into the room and I know it's happening again.

"Return to the past now!" he states flatly and pushes yet another button.

Well, at least I know what's going on now…

The next thing I hear is someone whisper, "Ryka," I know it's dad.

(A/N – So, what did you guys think so far? Please R&R, it's my first CL story.

Also, I think this is a little confusing, but what's up is that Ryka got returned to the past, but at the same point in time as her mother died. People can't become alive again from returning to the past, as noted in several CL episodes. Just go with me here, okay?
Thanks

Kayleth)