Title: What If?

Summary: What if Kyle had jumped, that fateful day on the roof with Jessi? What if no one stopped them?

Pairing: Kessi

A/N: Yes I know I'm late so sue me. :D Considering this was supposed to be a mere one shot, I'm pretty proud that I managed to churn this out. I know, shocker. For some reason, I was watching Merlin and attempting to do my chemistry when I had the urge to write this. Sorry its unbeta-ed and bound to be fraught with errors. This will also be extremely AU and hopefully some of the characters won't be that OOC, but I haven't watched Kyle XY in yonks, and by yonks I mean AGES. And yes, I have dropped the slight, from the pairing. I am unsure where this will go, but I have hols soon so you never know. Feel free to comment, pick apart, compliment. I'm willing to get all the criticism I can in order to improve this story and my writing, including spelling mistakes. Feel free to speak up!


A thud that seemed too soft rang throughout the crowded parking lot, cameras and phones were eagerly pushed around, and after all who wouldn't want footage of the two seemingly suicidal people. Jessi glanced over at Kyle, and then down to their still intertwined hands. A feeling rose within her chest as his eyes met hers and, unable to contain herself a wide smile graced her face. Kyle returned her smile and laughed softly before pulling her into him.

"Well, aren't we showstoppers?" The blinding flashes off the cameras had forced him to squint across the lot. Jessi followed his gaze, unsure as to what he was searching for.

Up atop the roof, the many students looked down, some in wonder while others in complete horror. Declan and Josh glanced at each other before very slowly attempting to inch away from the crowd. They had to get down, attempt some crowd control. Unlike Jessi, they were all too painfully aware of who Kyle was waiting for – Latnok. Who knew what the consequences would be if, no when they found out the exposure that had occurred. Hello nine o'clock news, goodbye normal life. The hallway echoed with the sound of their anxious feet racing down the stairs. Running through the doors, they both looked left and right.

"Damn it. Where are they?" Josh paused.

"Seriously? Dude, I've been here for the same amount of time that you have, how could I possibly know where the socially inept lovebirds are?"

Declan gave him a harsh glare. "Josh this isn't the time. Latnok will go psycho, not to mention the news, the government, your family…" He paused. "Your family? What's going to happen to them? They can't really go public saying how they've been sheltering a super genius albeit probably illegal science experiment in your house. Yeah, that conversations going to go just great!"

"Okay, I get the point. Dial down the sarcasm." Josh hastily ran his fingers through his hair and glanced over the crowd once more. A grin appeared and he hastily whacked Declan's chest.

"There!"


Meanwhile Kyle satisfied that no ominous black cars had pulled up, tightened his hand around Jessi's, "And again with the running." He smiled before starting off across the lot with Jessi in tow.

"Where are we going? Kyle!" If there was one thing Jessi hated, it was being kept in the dark. It had occurred all her life, her rather short life but still. Always in the dark, never knowing what was happening. Especially after that stint with the fake personality imprint, Jessi needed answers.

"We have to get to a secluded, well more secluded area. We really shouldn't have done that Jessi."

Her smile faded and her feet came to a screeching halt, causing Kyle to backlash.

"What?" her voice cold. "Now, you're going to assign blame. Sure, at the time it's 'I'll jump with you' but in hindsight it was a mistake?" Jessi could feel her voice reaching a piercing decibel. "Well maybe you should have thought it through with that giant head," she poked his forehead forcefully "of yours before making me believe that you actually cared! That you actually wanted to reveal to the world what and who we are. You're just like Latnok! Always hiding in the shado –"

Her rant ceased when she made eye contact with Kyle. She didn't know what she expected, but it certainly wasn't confusion.

Kyle took a step forward and grabbed her other hand. "Jessi," his voice soft and gentle "I don't regret it. In fact it was quite exhilarating. And I'm not blaming you." He added sternly at her eye roll. "I'm simply saying that, we have to tread carefully. Maybe this will blow away. But one thing's for sure, Latnok isn't going to take kindly to us showing up on the nine o'clock news. Who knows what the consequences will be."

Jessi's temper had burn out and instead she replied with indifference. "So what now?"

"Now? Now we have find Josh and Declan, and hopefully manage to get home. We'll figure out our future behind closed doors." Kyle stopped, turning his head and a look of concentration came over his face.

"What? What is it?" Jessi began to look around in worry.

Kyle looked behind them across the horizon, "There."

Jessi turned and something akin to a sigh escaped her lips, and relief filled her body as she saw who was following them. Well, at least tempered relief. It was better them than Latnok.


Declan continued to run towards the couple, his thighs burning and pushing his body forward. He slowed to a halt and began to catch his breath. "Damn, you run fast." He gulped once ortwice, leaning over with his hands on his knees. "And you couldn't give us warning, maybe a sign or something? Going here, be home soon?" Kyle smirked and began to formulate a response when a cry caught his attention and a bundle of skin and clothes tumbled down in front of them, groaning. "Why did you run so far away?" the bundle wheezed, "Couldn't you have least waited, all those lollies are giving you far too much sugar man."

"Nice to see you too Josh" Jessi commented wryly. "No one asked you to follow us; we were perfectly fine by ourselves."

"Until Latnok shows up" Declan retorted, glancing at Josh who nodded weakly.

"Why does everyone think Latnok is out to get us?" Kyle attempted to reply but Jessi continued. "Look, its been ten minutes. And still no Latnok. They don't care, or they don't know. Either way, we're fine."

A screeching sound of tyres and road pierced the air and the foursome looked over towards the road to see a black SVU plough across the park towards them. "Way to go Jessi. Bravo. You jinxed us." Jessi whipped her head around and glowered at the teenager, her heart skipping a beat once more – this was becoming a daily occurrence.