Don't kill me 'cause I killed Sora first. It's just the thing that popped into my head. Small signs of Sorato in this chapter. Oh, and I don't own Digimon.

Chapter 2-It's Just Beginning

"I can't believe she fell out the window." Kari muttered. Matt was still sitting by the bed where they'd put Sora's body until she could be properly buried back in Japan. "How? Why?"

"Maybe she was leaning against the window and it opened on her." Yolei put in.

"Nah." Ken shook his head. "There was a pretty good lock on that thing. She couldn't have just undone it…"

"Suicide?" T.K. suggested.

"Why would she want to kill herself?" Tai asked. "She was happy, wasn't she?"

"Well, you know what they say." T.K. said with a shrug. "The people you least expect to do it are the ones that do."

Kari took one last look at Matt, then a worried glance at T.K. and disappeared into her room.

~ * ~ * ~

"Matt!" Kari called, sticking her head into the older boy's room. He was sitting on the bed, his back to her, reading a book in his lap. "What'd you want on the pizza?"

Matt turned. The little brown teddy bear Sora had found was in his arms. "Anything's fine with me."

Kari grinned. "I'm gonna put in your vote for pepperoni, just so Davis doesn't convince Tai to order mushrooms, anchovies and green peppers again." she began to leave, then turned back. "What are you doing with that bear?"

Matt looked down, almost surprised, at the bear in his arms. "I dunno. I just thought…it was cute. And it reminds me of Sora."

Kari gave him a little half-hearted nod, then turned and left again. As she walked down the hall, she stopped a moment to notice a very well decorated sword mounted on the wall. It looked like it had been taken special care of for years, and the blade was very sharp. "Wow. It reminds me of the ones Piedmon used to use, only smaller." she muttered, touching the silver and black helm. She turned and walked back down the hall.

As the girl turned the corner, a hand grasped one of the doorways. The figure walked slowly down the hall. In one hand hung a brown teddy bear, his black eyes gleaming in the pale light. The other reached slowly for the long, glistening blade…

"Matt! Dinner!" Kari called, "Hope you don't mind anchovies!"

No answer. Kari walked down the hall. "Matt!" she called again. "Come on, it's time for dinner!"

She came to Matt's room. Something about it made her almost afraid to open the door. But she did it anyway. "Matt, come on, it's…Matt?"

She looked around. She couldn't see him. "Matt? Yoo-hoo? Matt?"

Then she saw the bear. It sat on the bed, grinning at her like something hysterical had just happened. "What're you laughin' at?" she asked, walking over to the bed with her hands on her hips.

As she reached the bedside, she clapped her hands over her mouth and let out a terrified scream. Tai and T.K. were in there in an instant, Davis on the younger boy's heals and the others only two paces behind. "Kari!" Tai panted as he reached his sister's side. "What's the matter?"

Kari was shaking. "W-When I said I wanted something to happen, I-I didn't mean anything like this!" she gasped, pointing at something on the other side of the bed.

Tai took a deep breath and stepped forward. As he looked over the edge his face went pale. He turned back. "You better not see that, T.K."

T.K. took in a steadying breath. "I've seen some bad stuff, Tai. You of all people should know that."

Kari looked up at the tall fifteen-year-old boy. "I don't think you should look." she warned, gripping his arm. "It's…It's…"

T.K. pulled himself away from her and walked to the bed. Tai tried to stop him, but after a moment of muffled whispering the older boy gave way. T.K. gazed over the edge.

His bright blue eyes faded slightly and widened. His mouth fell open in sudden shock. His knees suddenly gave way and he fell to the ground. And he did something he hadn't done since the battle with MaloMyotismon.

He cried.

He sniffled and sniffed at first, trying to keep it in, not wanting the 'crybaby' label to get stuck back on his forehead, but in the end he couldn't hold it back, and he cried, sobbing into his arms as his head lay down on the bed. Kari came slowly forward, knelt on the ground beside him, and gave him a friendly, comforting hug.

Matt's eyes were closed and he looked at least normal, like he was asleep. But his hand was clutched around the helm of the sword that had hung on the wall. The blade glistened in the pale moonlight.

The blade that had been buried deep into his chest.

~ * ~ * ~

T.K. was close to over come with grief when they cleaned Matt's lifeless form and lay him back down on the bed. He just kept muttering to himself, staring at the floor, his eyes clouded with memories of his brother. Kari tried her best to comfort as they sat together on one of the many couches in one of the many sitting rooms. Davis gave the two an annoyed look, but he did have the brains to stay away for this. (I told you they'd managed to hammer something into his empty head)

He turned back to Tai. "Another suicide." he said grimly, "It's definite this time."

Yolei disappeared up the stairs to move the teddy bear back to its spot in the nursery. Tai sighed as he looked at his old friend's face. "Yeah." he said slowly. "Yeah. He must of done it 'cause of Sora. He cared for her a lot."

Ken glanced at Tai sternly. "Don't you go doing anything crazy." he warned. "That's Sora and Matt. Probably your two closest friends. It'll be hard enough just keeping track of T.K. so he doesn't lose it. So don't you go and do anything. We don't want to lose you too."

~ * ~ * ~

"Goodnight, everyone." Yolei called.

Ken sighed as he opened the door to his room. "I'm not gonna get a wink all night."

Kari glanced over at her DNA Digivolve partner. "Yolei." she said slowly, "What do you have behind your back?"

Yolei blinked. "What? This?"

She pulled out the small, brown teddy bear, his black eyes gleaming at them playfully.

"What are you doing with that?" Kari gasped.

Yolei looked defensive. "I just need something to hold onto tonight, okay?" she said. "Sora and Matt are dead! I can't just take that. I…I just need this…"

She vanished into her room. Kari put a finger to her lips. "I wonder…" she shook her head. "Nah." she muttered and disappeared into her own room.

~ * ~ * ~

Kari walked into the kitchen the next morning to a roomful of relieved faces. Tai stirred his coffee sleepily. The others looked very weary, but also like they were on the verge of shouting, "Yahoo!" and leaping into the air.

"We're outta here today." Ken sighed, taking a bite of cereal as Kari sat down.

"No more deaths. No more suicide. No more creepy old house with too many rooms." Tai murmured.

Kari looked over to the right of her. T.K. sat there. He dropped two pieces of sugar into his tea and watched them dissolve with a slight interest. She frowned. "Hey T.K., you alright?"

T.K. looked up, looking pained and weary with big bags under his eyes. "I didn't sleep a wink last night." he said sleepily. "Every time I dropped off I kept dreaming of swords and windows and bodies and that little brown bear just glaring at me with those big, dark eyes…"

Kari touched his shoulder. "Is that all?" she asked.

He shook his head. "There was that little girl in the picture upstairs." he looked at her. "The one that looks like you. And…oh, my head!"

He held his head in his hands and messaged his temples. Kari nodded sadly and looked around. "Hey." she said suddenly. "Where's Yolei?"

Davis took a bite of toast. "I think she's still in bed." he said. "Why?"

"The cab'll be here soon." Kari stood. "If she wants any breakfast, she needs to wake up now."

T.K. stood. "I've got a bad feeling about this." he said, not really seeing anything in front of him. He walked quickly down the hall and knocked on Yolei's door.

"Yolei?" he called. "Are you in there?"

No answer. The others stood. "Yolei!" T.K. called again, pounding this time. "Answer already! It's me, T.K.!"

The others gathered around him. "It's too quiet in there." Ken whispered. "Something's not right."

"Yolei!" T.K. shouted. "Answer now, we're coming in!"

He turned the knob and opened the door. The kids looked in.

Yolei lay under her blankets, eyes wide, staring up at the ceiling. Her face was ghastly white and pale, and she looked blank and zombie-like. "Yolei?" Ken asked, coming to her bedside. He shook her. "Yolei? Are you okay? Yolei?"

He shook her harder. She didn't move. Davis bent down and picked up her wrist. He felt it, then moved to her neck. He put and ear to her chest. He looked up. "I can't find a heartbeat." he said shakily. "I think she's…"

"Dead." Tai whispered. "Just like Sora and Matt."

"But how?" Ken asked, wiping his eyes on his sleeve. "How?"

Kari had a strange hunch. She leaned down and looked under the bed. A small, empty, glass bottle lay under the bed. She picked it up, looked at the label, and her faced paled. "Kari?" Tai asked. "You okay?"

Kari shakily held out the bottle in her hand. The label said 'Guaranteed Sleep Aid'. Ken paled. "Oh no…"

Kari nodded. They looked at Yolei, then, one-by-one, moved slowly out the door.