Bianca stepped into her room a month after unloading everything to Yumi. It felt so different to have someone in on her secret horror. She had just left his office and she felt so dirty.

Yumi hugged her tightly as she sobbed. She had been stunned that she had been able to keep her parents in the dark on the issue this long but not seeing her parents on a day to day basis helped her keep her secret.

Yumi wanted to insist she go to Delmas with what was happening. She was certain that no matter what the initial incident had been he would believe that she didn't deserve what she had gone through the past couple of months. She wanted to say this but she said nothing, just held her tightly.

~*~

It took until that Wednesday for Yumi to gather the courage to do what had to be done. She had decided she had to tell, let the cards fall where they may. She couldn't watch Bianca go through this anymore. Her parents had noticed she was conflicted about something she wouldn't talk about and discovered they could only hope she would see fit to tell them what was wrong.

~*~

Jean-Piere looked up as his office door opened just enough for a stand shut.

"Yumi, what's wrong, dear?" he asked at seeing the tension in her form and fear in her expression.

"I… I'm terrified I'm about to cost myself a friend but… but I can't do this anymore I… I can't watch her get hurt anymore."

"Yumi… my God… what are you talking about?" he asked walking over to her.

"Bianca… she… she told me she caused the damage in the science lab… but that… that is trivial compared to the hell she has been going through since."

Jean-Piere guided Yumi to sit and she told him everything Bianca had told her and watched as his face hardened in rage.

"I don't understand… I thought I made it clear we understood it was an accident and the punishment would be minimal."

"He was already in her head at that point and had her convinced that was a lie to get her to come forward." Yumi said suddenly finding her shoes extremely interesting.

"I will speak with her… she doesn't need to go through this anymore." He said "If you see her before I do please send her my way and assure her she is in no trouble."

It was clear that he was livid but then Yumi could understand that entirely. He was principal but he had no idea that a student was going through that kind of hell right under his nose.

She left and looked at her phone to find out that Jeremy had messaged her before her meeting with Mr. Delmas to tell her Xana was attacking.

She got to the factory and her phone rang, it was Bianca.

"Hello… what… Bianca calm down… what happened… he did WHAT?"

Yumi got downstairs as Aelita started to deactivate the tower. Ulrich and Jeremy were at the computer.

"Don't return to the past yet!"

"Why…" Ulrich asked.

"Is there a way to exclude someone in our gang from remembering the return?"

"Um… yeah… why?" Jeremy asked in confusion.

"We need to exclude Bianca!" Yumi replied her expression tense with worry.

"What happened?" Ulrich asked.

"I don't have time to go into details but while I was in the office telling Mr. Delmas what Mr. Dubois was doing… was doing to Bianca he… please don't tell her I said anything" Yumi wasn't stuttering so much as completely winded from running to the factory then deciding the elevator was taking too long and using the ladder.

"Okay we promise… what was he doing?"

"He…" tears squeezed their way out of Yumi's eyes. "He raped her!"

Ulrich's expression hardened in rage and Jeremy gasped in horror.

"Hopefully I can talk her into going to Mr. Delmas now that I know she won't get into trouble."

The return finished and Yumi grabbed Bianca before she went to Mr. Dubois's office.

"You have to come with me."

"Yumi…"

"Bianca you don't have to do this… go tell Mr. Delmas he will put a stop to it."

"How do you know?"

"Before I tell you what I did I owe you a huge apology we had a return to the past earlier and before that I talked to him about your situation and he assured me you wouldn't be in trouble and he would protect you."

Bianca looked hurt for a moment.

"Why can't I remember the return?"

"Because then you would remember that before the return… before the return Mr. Dubois raped you."

Bianca gasped then agreed to go with Yumi. She had been terrified that he would do that eventually. It was only a matter of time before it happened.

They arrived at Mr. Delmas' office and Bianca was shaking with terror.

"Bianca… Yumi… what brings you girls here?" he asked then noticed Bianca's fear.

"Bianca, sit down." He told her.

He noticed Yumi whisper something to her in Japanese before she finally sat down. He figured it was some sort of reassurance in their other shared tongue.

Bianca was wringing her hands nervously when she finally began to speak.

Jean-Pierre was horrified as she described in vivid detail the horrors of the past three months of her life. Inappropriate touches, kisses and the fear of losing everything if she didn't comply with these demands.

"Bianca… this… dear God… I wish you had told me of this before. I can understand why you didn't but… I am appalled by his behavior in this situation. Your crime was trivial, it was an accident your presence in the school was never in any danger."

Yumi left the room as the police were called. She figured at this point they would call her if they needed her.

She turned the corner towards the sewer entrance that lead to the factory when suddenly she found herself pinned to a tree by the throat.

To Be Continued…