Disclaimer: I don't own Code Lyoko!
Warnings: Slightly O.C.
Every chapter is about one of the warriors. This one's Odd's chapter.
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Odd wouldn't sleep.
It wasn't a matter of that he couldn't or that he didn't want to, it was that he wouldn't.
He knew he wasn't going to sleep that night, long before bedtime rolled around. There was to much he could be doing for him to sleep peacefully.
He rolled onto his side. Ulrich was on his back, Kiwi curled up on his stomach. Ulrich didn't sleep on his back. He never had.
"Ulrich, you up?" He whispers, not wanting to alert outsiders.
"Yeah." He opened his eyes, reaching up to pet his bedmate.
"I can't sleep." He complains, sitting up "It just doesn't feel right."
"I know."
It never had felt right. They should be at the factory with Jeremie and Aelita. But they'd sent them home, reminding them that they hadn't slept and days and needed the rest.
Not they had either.
"I want to help them out... Or be there, or something."
"Theirs not much we can do." Ulrich grunts, scratching Kiwi behind the ears. "All we can do is wait."
"Yeah, but maybe we could-" It suddenly strikes him that Ulrich- ever the pessimist- had a point. When the world wasn't in danger and Jeremie didn't need help with an experiment, what use where they? "Keep them awake?"
Ulrich shoo'd the little dog off his stomach and rolled over. "Go to sleep. Jeremie'll have a bunch of tests and stuff for us to help him with tomorrow. Then we can help."
Odd sighed and rolled over, back facing Ulrich. Another good point. two-Ulrich, zero-Odd.
Dang it, what was wrong with him? Sleep was one of his two favorite nonliving things! Yet here he was, trying to worm his way out of the first good nights rest he'd had in days.
It had to be because of X.A.N.A. Before he'd been activated and stuck them in a world of crazy monsters and towers and sector, you couldn't pull him out of bed before noon. Now he got up early every day, jut to check on the computer with everyone. Now he went days without food or sleep (his two favorite nonliving things!) to sit on a cold steel floor and watch a guy type into a computer or throw himself into danger just to test something out.
Wasn't this stuff for grown-ups? Staying up late, missing meals, sacrificing your life and happiness for the greater good? Kids weren't supposed to do that. Kids were supposed to sleep in, eats tons of food, and be as selfish as they wanted!
Maybe... they weren't kids anymore. They certainly didn't live like kids anymore.
He glanced at the clock. 2:00 A.M. If he was going to sleep, he would have done it by now.
Sitting up again, he looked over to his roommate. Ulrich was flat on his back, eyes clenched tight. Seems he wasn't the only one unable to sleep.
Slipping out of bed, he shut the alarm off. "Hey, Jeremie and Aelita might have some stuff for us to test, or something. Wanna go check?"
His answer was the brunette throwing the blankets off and starting the search for his jacket and pants.
No, they definitely weren't kids anymore.
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