The cold morning did nothing but fill the heart with heaviness. Even though waking up next to the love of his life, it still felt like there was the world on his shoulders.

He only had 3 more days until he was to be called down to the courtroom and tell everyone the story, although as much as he really didn't want to mention it again, he knew he had to.

For Elise's and Kaori's sake, it was one thing to save them, he hated the sound of a woman crying, something deep inside him always felt guilty whenever he heard it.

He guessed it had something to do with that car crash he inflicted; he couldn't get the sound of that angry mother's cries out of his head, no matter how many times he whacked it against the wall. They just came back.

He felt really bad knowing that Elise had cried herself to sleep half the time. It was rather depressing that she was sad all the time, Psymon would had preferred if she spent his possibly last moments with her being happy.

He got out of bed and looked at himself in the mirror; he hadn't realized how much of a beating he had taken in that place he loathed so much.

He had pale stripes racing down his face and his eyes were darker than he remembered.

He placed his hands against the mirror and stared at the ground.

There was no way in hell he was going back there again…

He didn't dare wake up his sleeping girlfriend and he found his clothes on the floor, he put them on and sat down on the bed beside her.

His eyes gazed upon the clock and he saw that it was only 8:30 in the morning, strange he was usually up before this hour, well, he didn't blame himself, it had been a long time since he had a decent amount of sleep without being interrupted just to be shocked every two hours.

He sat there for awhile before he heard a knock on the door.

With a sigh he opened it to find Mac standing there rather uncomfortable.

"Mac? What are you doing?" Psymon asked rather like his usual self.

"I just wanted to say thank you for saving kaori that night. I never said it so I'm saying it now." Mac said softly.

Psymon smiled and Mac was a little bit surprised, it had been the first time he had seen Psymon genuinely smile.

"Your welcome." He said softly.

Mac had never heard Psymon talk like this and he was wondering if the real Psymon had been abducted by aliens.

"So um, yeah thanks anyway." Mac bowed his head and started to walk away.

"Hey Mac." Psymon called.

"What?"

"How is Kaori anyway?"

"Well, still a little shocked by the whole thing, well, I don't blame her, I mean she saw someone die…I'd be rather shocked too. But she's taking it rather well. She keeps in mind that something good came out of something bad, I guess." Mac explained.

"Good? What could have been good about the whole thing?" Psymon asked as he closed the door behind him.

"Well, you and her ain't enemies anymore. You and Elise are back together, Hayden's dead, need I say more?" Mac lightened up a bit, he was beginning to like this new Psymon, maybe all the scariness was shocked out of him. Maybe he was seeing the Psymon Elise fell in love with?

"Hmm, yeah but not all the corruption is over." Psymon sighed.

"What's there to be afraid of?" Mac asked.

"Let's see, me being jail for the rest of my life, Elise becoming nothing but a mindless zombie who will commit suicide. Kaori missing a friend, you put up with a sad Kaori. Zoe can't throw me out a window anymore…yeah everything will be fucked up once I leave." Psymon sighed.

"Yo Psymon, who said your leaving us? It wouldn't be SSX without you, sketchy. Besides, we know you won't be leaving us. They can't lock you up without the proof that you're innocent." Mac defended

"Thanks for the support; I never had it before…it's nice." Psymon sighed.

"Cheer up man, your dragging me down." Mac smiled.

"Yeah, I'll take you down, more than six feet under." Psymon joked.

"Thank god you're joking. If you want to take me down race me in Happiness tomorrow and then you can spend the rest of the day being all depressed with your girlfriend." Mac laughed.

"Isn't your girlfriend still sad through?" Psymon asked.

"She finished crying herself to sleep ages ago. I still hear Elise through the walls; I can also hear you bonking her every other night as well."
Mac laughed.

"Oh shut your trap. Just cos you're too young to know." Psymon joked

"Ha-ha, very funny, well as it happens I made out with Kaori in the hospital, how's that for romantic?" Mac bragged.

"Ooh big deal, I made out with Elise behind the gondola station." Psymon bragged.

"Wouldn't have that been really cold?" Mac asked.

"We were standing up moron." Psymon smiled.

"Yeah, I really didn't need to know that man. Okay well, I should get back to Kaori, she's probably still in the shower. Good luck on the trial." Mac called as he walked away.

Psymon was left with his thoughts; he really hoped that Mac's good luck would do some good.

He sighed and stepped back into the room and found Elise sitting up in bed with the blankets covering her body but her hair had been played with cos it was straighter than what it was when he first looked at her.

"Hey, morning, have a good sleep?" Psymon asked.

She nodded her head.

"Who were you talking to?" she asked.

"Mac. He just thanked me for saving Kaori's life." Psymon told her.

"How did that feel?" she smiled.

"Weird…it was kind of nice." Psymon closed his eyes and secretly savoured the feeling.

"Well it felt good pulling him off her in the first place."

"You enjoyed it didn't you?" Elise smiled.

"Maybe." Psymon teased as he climbed on her and sat on her.

"Hey get off me fat ass." Elise joked.

"How rude, I'm on a diet." Psymon joked.

Elise just laughed and didn't struggle, she just laid back down and closed her eyes.

"Hey, don't go back to sleep!" Psymon pouted.

"I'm not, I'm just resting my eyes." She said without opening them.

"Oh yeah sure. Well this will make you open them." Psymon teased and Elise instantly opened them and was surprised when he started tickling her.

Elise started to protest and she started tickling him back.

"Hey! No fair! I'm ticklish!" Psymon protested.

Elise saw his bare feet and she felt devious and she barely touched his feet and Psymon yelped a little bit and then pinned her hands.

"I am extremely ticklish there. Don't touch the feet." He smiled.

Elise stuck her tongue out, and then Psymon continued tickling her, but almost 3 seconds after it started, the two were locked in a passionate embrace and kissing each other, letting their emotions go after such long period of time.

"I love you Psymon." Elise whispered in is ear and he kissed her on the check and hugged her and in her ear he faintly whispered.

"I love you more."

Later that day, Psymon was in the kitchen area and he was the only one there, everyone else was either in another room or off snowboarding.

He sat there but he was soon interrupted by Kaori who was standing in the doorframe, unsure whether to approach him or not.

"Kaori, you have been closer to me than this. It is okay I'm not going to bite." Psymon sighed and Kaori walked forward.

"Your going to court aren't you?" she asked and Psymon knew where this was going.

"Will you be there and tell them the truth?" Psymon asked her.

"As much as I want to help you Psymon, I don't think I'd be able to speak my horrible memories to everyone. I'm sorry." Kaori said slowly.

"It's okay, I know what it must have been like, well not that I'm saying I've ever been raped before but you know what I mean, I'm not blaming you." Psymon found it really hard to talk without making her recall the incident.

Well it was pretty much impossible considering that they were on that subject anyways.

"Sorry," Psymon sunk his head into his arms.

"Don't say sorry, I'm the one who should be more stronger, I feel as if I'm letting you down and it's a pretty poor way to thank you for saving my life." Kaori sighed.

"It wasn't much besides it felt really good to threaten him. I'm sorry you had to see him die, that wasn't really fair to you but hey he would have hurt you more I had just let him go." Psymon lifted his head up.

"I know, I'm glad you did what you did. Thank you again, for understanding, but who knows maybe I'll have enough courage when the time comes." Kaori said as she stood up and walked outside.

Psymon still sat there; he really did hope that she would have enough courage, hearing Elise's testimony wasn't enough. They needed hers to…