Elle: this story was inspired by a Flashpoint story that I read awhile ago as well as the song "Face Down" by the Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
Yumi Ishiyama wasn't a pushover. She knew that, three years of fighting XANA was proof. Yumi was the type of girl who would take a megatank head on and destroy it with a flick of the wrist.
She studied martial arts so she knew how do defend herself against attackers. But she always thought an attacker would be some stranger on the street who wanted to take her money or worse. She never thought her attacker would be someone she knew, someone she was close to.
After Jeremy had managed to set William free from XANA and the supercomputer had been shut down for good things started to slow down. The gang still hung out but it was obvious that without XANA they were starting to go their separate ways.
Jeremy and Aelita started going out, it was bound to happen eventually. Odd steadied his reputation as the biggest womanizer on campus, with a different girl on his arm every week. And Ulrich, Ulrich started to become what his father had always wanted him to be. Without XANA holding him back his grades improved and he had a chance at playing soccer professionally.
Yumi had decided to go back to William. There was a mutual attraction between them and since they were teenagers they figured they'd explore it a little.
It started out totally innocent. He would walk her to and from school and they would eat lunch together in the cafeteria. The rest of the school figured, like Jeremy and Aelita it was bound to happen.
Three weeks in it started to go down hill. Yumi was a few minutes late to lunch and William jumped to conclusions that she was with another guy. Yumi stood her ground and swore that that wasn't the issue but William already had his mind made up. He grabbed her by the wrist and dragged her behind the building.
All thought of self defense fled from her mind.
He loves me, Yumi thought to herself. He would never hurt me
How very wrong she was. When he was sure they were alone William slapped Yumi hard across the face. She staggered as it stung but didn't say anything.
It was only this one time, she told herself as William leaned in and kissed her gently on the lips. It won't happen again.