No, I can't love her

This idea came to me while I was writing Different the other day. It is going to be a longer fic. I warn you now, pairings are UxO and AxW, if you don't like that or don't want to read that I suggest you stop reading now, otherwise I'll let you get to reading.

Disclaimer: I do not in any way own Code Lyoko.

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For everything good, there is also something that's bad. Everything comes with a price, nothing in life is free. Are our actions all predetermined and unchangeable? Are our paths all written in stone?

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Aelita's POV

He was going to help so many people. Was going to bring so much to the future. Was. How could he die? He never did anything to dangerous. He was smart, and always careful. Always. I, on the other hand, let myself forget sometimes. That's what killed him. Jeremie is dead because I couldn't stop and look at where I was going. I haven't ridden a bus since.

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Yumi's POV

It's so weird. Thinking about my friends now. Without Jeremie. Without me. I wonder how much they miss me. I wonder if Ulrich still thinks about me the way I know he used to. Wonder how many girls Odd had had in the past week. In the past month. I wonder how William's doing. I wonder how Aelita's dealing with the loss of Jeremie. Does Odd still tell those lame jokes of his that always make us laugh or want to pummel him? Do Ulrich and Odd still bicker the same way they used to? Is Ulrich with Sissi or Emily? Or maybe nobody? I don't know. I haven't heard from them at all since Jeremie's death. At that point everything seemed pretty much the same as it used to be before I left. I miss them so much, I want to go back but I know that I can't.

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Ulrich's POV

What am I thinking? What if me and Yumi really were meant to be just friends, like really just friends and nothing more? What am I talking about? Meant to be, have I completely lost it? I think maybe I have. I mean, Yumi's my friend, but is Odd more? No, no, Ulrich stop that's crazy talk. Or is it? Maybe it isn't so crazy, maybe it is. Odd has been single for… twenty-four days. Not that I'm counting or anything. Am I? I knew this would happen, I knew I'd go crazy since the day I met Odd, well, since the day I met XANA really. I think I've finally lost it. I should go find Odd before he hurts himself.

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Odd's POV

"A buzzy bee. Heh, that's cool. Spring must be here. Wait, it's been spring for a few weeks now. A few weeks now? How did time go so quickly? I mean; it's been almost three weeks since spring began and I hardly realized until today. Birdy! Birds must be getting ready to make nests and find mates. I wonder how the others are; I haven't seen them all day. I've been lying here all day. It's nice here in the park, with all the trees, and the animals. Butterfly! That's a pretty one; it's blue and black. Like a bruise. Do I have any bruises? Oh yea! That one that William gave me the other day for making that joke. Boy, that was brilliant. Wait, that wasn't a bruise, was it? No, no it wasn't. Bruise, fractured radius, it's all the same in the end isn't it?"

"No Odd, it's not the same thing." Ulrich's voice came in its gentle firmness from just behind me.

"Ulrich?" I asked, looking around in confusion to find Ulrich standing over me.

"Yes Odd, hello." Ulrich said patiently.

"What's not the same thing?" I asked, "A bruise and a fracture? How would you know what I was thinking?"

"Because your not thinking Odd, your babbling." Ulrich replied patiently, his voice still gentle but firm, almost affectionate. Wait, affectionate? Ulrich? For me? Could it possibly be? Hang on a moment, am I babbling again? Or thinking? I can't tell.

"Come on Odd, let's go back to school." Ulrich coaxed. Ok, good I'm thinking.

"Ok then, help me up?" I agreed, offering my good arm to him.

"Alright then, but only because your other arm is hurt, don't expect this every time." Ulrich consented, heaving me to my feet.

"I'd never expect it every time." I said with a smile.

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William's POV

No, I can't love her. She's a year younger than me. She hasn't experienced the same thing as me. She looks so vulnerable, so fragile. Does age matter to love? Does age matter in anything? I don't know, but I want to find out. Perhaps, could she show me? Could she explain to me what I have missed during my lifetime? She's so insightful, so intelligent; she understands things that would take most people a lifetime to grasp.

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Normal POV

"Where is everybody?" Aelita wondered aloud, Ulrich and Odd has disappeared which left only William. Yumi was gone and Jeremie was dead. "Dead because of me." She whispered sadly, tears stinging her eyes a little. It had been almost a month since the bus had hit him. "It should have hit me, it's my fault." Aelita murmured miserably.

"Don't say that." William said as he walked up behind the pink haired girl, "Everything happens for a reason. You can't blame yourself, you didn't make him jump out in front of that bus."

"But I should have known it was coming. Should have been paying attention. If I had he would still be alive." Aelita argued.

"Maybe, maybe not." William comforted, "What would he say if he heard you talking like this?"

"He'd say I'm being illogical, that I shouldn't blame myself for things I have no power over." Aelita murmured.

"See, You shouldn't blame yourself." William said, "If you dwell on the past you'll never see the future."

Aelita turned her emerald eyes to catch William's and she gave him a smile, "Thank you William."

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Odd and Ulrich walked back towards Kadic through the park. Odd turned his head to see a bird sitting on the branch of a tree. He stopped to look up at it.

"He manu ke aloha, 'aohe lala kau 'ole." He murmured.

"What was that Odd?" Ulrich asked his highly distractible purple friend.

"Oh, nothing." Odd replied lightly, picking up his pace to catch up with Ulrich.

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Note - He manu ke aloha, 'aohe lala kau 'ole is Hawaiian for 'Love it like a bird, there is no branch it does not perch upon.' That's why Odd was looking at the bird when he said it.

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