I really should be updating my other story because I got more reviews for that one but I had this chapter done and most of the next so I decided to update. Feel lucky that I did because next time I will wait. Now to the good stuff, my writing.
Disclaimer: you see the truth is that I do have over a million dollars and I did buy code Lyoko… but then I woke up and I found out it was all a dream
Grace paced around the computer room. Ulrich, Odd, Aelita, Yumi, and Jeremie watched. Well Jeremie was monitoring Kristina's health points on the screen.
"Her heath points are intact so he's not harming her" Jeremie reported. "What?" Grace snapped out of her trance like state. "He said she hasn't been hit yet" Yumi repeated for Jeremie. "That's not normal" Grace ran over to the screen to look for herself.
Then the card disappeared. "I stand corrected" Jeremie said calmly. "No she devertualized herself" Grace said ending the statement with a sigh.
They herd a noise coming from the elevator, and Kristina came out slightly wobbly with a dazed look on her face. "Kristina!" Grace shouted and ran over to see if she was okay. "What happened?" Grace asked after making sure Kristina was still intact.
"Well...Max was about to hit me, hard I might add, and then...he just stopped and looked at me in a way I never thought I would see him like again... so I looked down and for some strange reason I started to cry. He then said he had never seen me cry before I'm not exactly why but I had to devertualize like I couldn't let myself cry in front of him." Kristina answered looking down in embarrassment.
Just as she finished the elevator door opened and Max and Dan walked in. "You okay?" Dan asked Grace once the door had closed again. "Yah... I'm fine" she said a little confused. "What about you?" Max asked Kristina who was taken aback by the concern in his voice. "I'm fine as well" she answered looking him boldly in the eyes as if daring him to say anything else.
Everyone watched silently afraid to get in between the feuding friends. Finally someone spoke up. "It's almost 9:00 we have 15 min to get back to the dorms before Jim does his rounds" Ulrich was the one to speak up. Everyone nodded and left for the dorms. At the schools doors Yumi turned to the group and said "well I'll see you guys later...hope everything is alright in the morning" "I'll walk you home" Ulrich offered ignoring the stare Odd gave him. "Alright " Yumi said happily.
As the group watched their two friends get swallowed up by the darkness Odd mumbled "hope he says it this time". "I hope so to" Aelita added heading into the building closely followed by Jeremie who had offered as well to walk her to her room.
"Well... goodnight" Odd said with a huge yawn and left for his dorm on the next floor, leaving the four fuming friends alone together.
Kristina and Max each turned to each other simultaneously and just look into each others eyes for the longest time before Dan interrupted the awkward silence. "Well...um...I think we should leave them alone for a bit...don't you Grace? Can I walk you to your room?" he asked with an overly exaggerate bow and offering his arm. Rolling her eyes at Kristina Grace took his offered arm and they walked away leaving the two friends alone.
After a few minutes Max said "so...um..." "Is that all you can say?" Kristina asked in annoyance. "No... but do you have anything better to say?" Max asked "Yah... bye" Kristina said starting to walk away.
"Oh one more thing" she said turning back around "why the hell do you have it out for me and Grace?" "Oh... well Xana he, well it, sometimes takes control over me. Actually the only time I have total control is right after I come back from Lyoko trips." Max answered looking down as he finished.
Kristina looked at him like she couldn't believe what she was hearing. "Why didn't you tell us?" She asked. "It's not a big deal I just get a little snappy that's all. Plus it's not like I've had ample amounts of time to tell you, it happened that day Xana took over me and tries to get rid of you... for good and after that we moved remember." Max acted like it wasn't a big deal.
"This is a huge deal this kind of problem doesn't go away it only gets worse. You need to get rid of the virus before it gets irreversible. Trust me you don't want it to get that far." Kristina saw his eyes flicker purple for a split second and she wondered why she didn't notice it before.
"I can handle it I don't need help" Max replied becoming stubborn. "Fine be that way" Kristina turned to leave but stopped and turned back around. "Just one question" Max shrugged "shoot."
"What about in Lyoko today... how come you didn't kill me? You know you have the powers to do it and Xana had control?" Kristina asked all hostility that may have been in her voice at one time gone and replaced by curiosity. "Well when I saw you start to cry...it kinda...well brought back memories... you know from when you and me were dating." "Oh" was all Kristina could say.
They stood there looking at their feet before Max said "well I think we should get to our dorms...you know before Jim finds us." "Yah... we should" Kristina whispered.
"Would you like an escort?" Max asked her. "You don't have to" she replied starting to walk towards her dorm once again. "What if I want to?" He asked. Kristina sighed knowing he wouldn't give up. "Fine" she replied irritably. Jogging to catch up Max link his arm around hers though he quickly removed it when Kristina sent him a sideways glare.
When they got there they heard voices inside Kristina's dorm. Looking at each other with confused looks Kristina took out her key and unlocked the door soon pushing it open.
Looking around she saw Grace sitting with her knees up against her chest on her bed while Dan sat in the desk chair. They were looking in opposite sides of the room when they noticed Kristina they both jumped.
"Took you guys long enough" Dan said being the first to recover. "Yes well...we had a lot to talk about" Max said with a glare in Dan direction. "And what were you guys doing?" Kristina asked Grace her eyebrows raised.
"We were talking about..." she started to answer but Dan cut in with a wary glance in Max's direction and said "about what we did in the span of time when we weren't talking."
"I thought I told you, you have no business talking to Dan and you have no business talking to Grace!" Max said to them both his tone of voice changing instantly.
"Xana has a, shall we say a certain influence on Max at times mostly when he's in Lyoko" Dan muttered to Grace for he had moved to be next to her.
"What's happening?" she asked him in even a quieter whisper from fright. "Xana" Dan said then he turned to Max "we should go before Jim comes." "Yes, we should" Max replied. As they left Dan turned to Kristina and Grace and mouthed the word 'sorry'.
As soon as the boys left the room they could hear Jim yelling something along the lines of what are you doing on the girls floor. Kristina sighed "can't they go 12 min without getting in trouble?" "Nope" Grace answered. Kristina opened the door to see Jim standing with Dan and Max a stern look on his face.
"Hey Jim, it's ok they were helping us un pack in exchange for showing them around the school, they were just leaving" Kristina put on an innocent smile to make it convincing.
Jim grumbled for a moment "yah alright but I better not catch them on this floor at this hour again." "You won't" Kristina promised trying to stay pleasant. The boys quickly nodded.
Jim obviously bought it and kept on walking down the corridor.
"You so owe me for that" Kristina said her dropping the innocent look. "Yah, yah" Dan replied. "Well see you tomorrow in class" Kristina waved goodbye and stepped back into her dorm.
When Kristina came back into the room Tiggy was waiting with her laptop case. "You really scare me with the way you now these things you know that?" She picked up the kitten with one arm and the laptop case in the other.
"What are you looking for?" Grace asked from her position at her drawing desk. "Dan said that Xana takes over Max a lot right?" Kristina sat down on her bed and booted up the laptop soon opening a Lyoko character analyzation file. "Yah" Grace responded not really seeing where this was going. "Who situation dose that sound like?" Kristina asked. "Yours" Grace was still confused.
"So maybe we have a similar problem and all he needs to do is work on his resistance" Kristina opened a picture of her virtual DNA. "So you think you can help with that?" Grace got up from her desk and sat next to Kristina so she cold see the screen.
"Xana only seems to have a slight hold on him that's probably because right after that cliff incident we moved cutting him off from Lyoko thus preventing the virus from progressing" Kristina explained. "Have you been thinking about this for a while?" Grace asked. "No, but it makes sense" Kristina answered. Grace nodded in agreement.
Kristina pulled up pictures of both hers and Max's virtual DNA and placed them side by side.
"See" she said pointing to the DNA. "That's the virus Xana put in me" Kristina indicated to the black segments that was imbedded into the normal ones. She then pointed to Max's "they're only a little different my guess is that his we could get rid of his if we found out more about it because it doesn't seem to be imbedded like mine is."
"So how did Max get his?" Grace asked. "No idea, don't think it was the scyphozoa though." Kristina selected one of black spots on Max's DNA that shouldn't have been there and ran a scan on it.
Kristina yawned and set the laptop aside. "I'm going to bed I'll figure this out after school tomorrow."
Throwing on some bed cloths she jumped in-between her comforters.
Ok the numbers of reviews on the chapters are starting to go down, and that my dear reader is bad. So I will only update when you guys reach a least 5 reviews but the story that gets the most reviews will get updated before the others. So if you don't review this story will start to update a lot less than it already is and I know for a fact some of you wouldn't like that. There is only one way t o avoid this horrible fate… review!
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