*Warning*

Hello everyone who is still reading this even though I suck at updating anything on time, sorry. Thor94 says that he wants to see more of how Odd got all of his scars let me know if anybody else does too. This chapter is going to be slightly graphic because of how much work needs to be done on Odd.

I do not own Code Lyoko *sigh*

Chapter 11 Scars Uncovered and Scars Remembered

When XANA walked out of the shadows he had brought Odd back to his cell, but instead of going into the cell he turned towards a hallway that wasn't noticeable unless you knew it was there.

XANA heard a groan from his arms and odd shifted slightly causing the blood to flow harder.

"Merde!" XANA swore walking faster to where he knew the medical area was in the hallway that was where the jailor stayed.

When he got to the medical area he set Odd gently down onto one of the medical tables eliciting another groan from the injured cat. He then went over to one of the cabinets and started pulling out gauze, betadine, saline, alcohol, and a needle and thread to give stitches, along with some Novocain in case. He started by cleaning the wounds on the front before he tried to tackle the back wounds and where the chains were still embedded in the skin. As he was cleaning Odd's eyes opened briefly, his light brown eyes dulled with pain.

"Who, who are you?" He managed to rasp out.

"Easy, you're alright, Lyoko told me that you were hurt and I rescued you," XANA answered softly not looking him in the eyes, knowing that he would recognize his red eyes.

"Why, I am unwanted?" Odd said softly with absolutely no emotion.

XANA swore to know that he actually believed that, he raked his hands through his black and white hair trying to think of what to say. "That's not true you know if you were so unwanted as you say you are, then why would your friends spend five years looking for you, and even going so far as to ask your worst enemy for help."

"What do you mean?" Odd asked as XANA finished us wrapping one of the cuts on Odd's leg.

"Lyoko she went to XANA to see if he could help her, he was sick and couldn't leave his cell so he told her about me, because I had fought against these people before, and I knew where they kept their prisoners since I had been one before," XANA said shrugging even though he himself still carried the marks of his imprisonment.

"Then I guess that means I was right," Odd said softly falling back to sleep.

"About what?"

"XANA not being as bad as we thought he was," Odd answered falling asleep.

"I guess you were you foolish cat," XANA said softly applying some Novocain to a few of the deeper cuts so that he can sew them up. When he got done with the front he rolled him gently over so he could see his back and he let out a tired sigh, as he took in the words again.

As gently as possible he applied a heavy dose of Novocain to the scars as he prepared to sew them up.

"No one should ever have to live with reminders such as these." He said as he started to sew them up, as he was working he thought of his own scars covered by a large tattoo of black, red, white, orange, yellow, and gold fire the goes from his waist up to his back, and over his shoulders covering the worst of them. Maybe I should ask him later if he wants one too.

I also need to figure out how to contact his friends too when he is able to stay awake longer than two minutes, he thought as he put in the last stitch. He gently picked Odd back up and moved him over to one of the beds that were in the corner of the room, so he could keep an eye on him.

He walked out of the room and towards where he knew that his office was, when he opened it he took in the red walls and white furniture, with the black desk. He pulled open his laptop and logged into it, "I could always send a message to the supercomputer and hope that they are there."

He typed in a message letting them know that Odd was okay but not where he was or who he was because he did not think that would go over well, to let them know that XANA had them. He had no doubt that they would eventually figure it out, and come after him, but he hoped by then Odd would be well enough for him to not need medical support.

As soon as he leaned back in his chair to rest the alarm went off around Odd's bed. He hurried to the room and saw Odd trying to get up straining the stitches.

"Whoa, whoa you cannot get up," XANA said rushing over to Odd's bed and gently pushing him back down as Odd looked up at him with his big brown eyes. "Do you remember where you are?"

Odd nodded his head.

"Alright, so you remember that I rescued you?"

Another nod.

"Can you talk?"

Another nod.

"Alright, now I am not going to push you too because I don't think it will work, so I am going to ask you, yes or no questions, is that alright?"

Another nod.

"Ok, do you remember where you were?"

Nod.

"Do you remember what happened to you?"

Nod.

"Do you remember who your friends are?"

Nod, and then Odd raised an eyebrow and looked at him.

"Are you wondering why I am asking you these things?"

Nod.

"Okay, well when people have been traumatized for as long and as hard as you, people tend to lock certain parts of their memories or personality up inside so that, some semblance of themselves stays untainted. I am asking you these questions to see if you did the same thing, and if so how much of it, make sense?"

Another nod slower this time, as he is trying to understand this information, he then looked at XANA and as if he was asking how he knew this.

XANA sighed and raked his hands through his hair as he knew that this question was coming. "I was held hostage by them too and I hid a large part of myself away and have only recently managed to unlock it myself, so I kind of get where you are coming from."

Odd studied XANA closer and then gasped softly, "XANA?"

"Hello, Odd."

Odd looked at XANA like he was asking why.

"Well like I said Lyoko came to me, me your enemy to ask for help, and I decided it was better than letting myself rot away in that cell, so I pulled myself together literally and went to where I knew you were."

Odd looked at him as if what do you mean.

XANA stood up from the chair and walked over to the cover to pull out some antiseptics and bandages, "When I was captured they had torturer who liked to experiment with techniques and he found a way to pull someone apart so that they had no physical form, then he would put them back together and pull them apart over, and over and over again. So when I was freed I was charged with being these peoples jailor since I had no form, needless to say, I was not exactly in the best state of mind so when people started to well you know the story, I got angry then when Hopper came and he almost released the sins I got angry again and started to take people and things over since I myself had no form."

He walked over to where Odd was sitting down and started to remove the now red bandages that covered every piece of pale thin skin. "I was able to pull myself together because I didn't want anyone else to go through that same pain that I had to live. I am only sorry that I had not gotten there sooner or I could have saved you from a few of these eternal memories." XANA said as he wrapped the new bandages around his thin waist.

Odd pointed to his bandages and then to XANA.

"Where are mine, they are on my back, and my chest and before you ask no I will not show them to you yet, I do not need you to slip into a panic," XANA said firmly standing up.

Odd pouted and crossed his arms, as he winced.

XANA laughed softly, "If you are hungry I can bring you some broth, but that is it."

Odd nodded enthusiastically at the thought of food.

XANA walked out of the room and went to grab the broth he had warming up in case Odd did wake up when he walked back in he saw Odd fingering the bandages that covered his wrists.

"I wasn't able to get those off and I wasn't even going to try to take them out, since I don't know how long they have been there and what has grown over, under, and around them." He said as he handed the soup to Odd.

Odd shook his head and held up one finger.

"Day one huh, merde, anyways I left a message on the supercomputer to your friends, I didn't tell them where you were or who had you, because I don't fancy myself being locked up again, but I did tell them you were okay."

Odd looked up gratefully at XANA.

"I also didn't think that you wanted them swarming all over you, at first sight. However, I don't think you will be able to hide away from them forever, especially with that hacker on your team." XANA said sitting down in the chair and leaning back.

Just then he heard a separate alarm, that he had set up to track the sins, he stood up and was starting to walk away when he felt Odd grab his wrists.

"Don't worry I'll be fine, I can handle a few measly criminals," XANA said his eyes burning with anger. Then he turned around and walked out the door and stepped into the shadows.

When he came out of them he saw Lyoko and a brown-haired boy laying on the ground with Envy standing on top of them. XANA whistled to get her attention, and she turned toward him a look of shock on her face.

"Who let you out of the cage?" She sneered at him.

XANA just stood there his hands in his pockets, but his eyes were burning, "Nobody I decided that I was tired of just laying around doing nothing and decided what better than catch some escaped inmates, and look at that I managed to find one."

Envy sneered at him and then laughed, "and what are you going to do, last I hear you were weak and broken."

XANA just stood there and sighed, "You know I thought you had more brain cells than to believe everything you are told."

Envy just yelled and ran at him her whip lashing out at him but he ducked and grabbed it pulling her towards him where he slammed her into the ground crushing her skull.

"I may be too weak right now to take more than one of you on, but don't underestimate me, say hi to everyone else in sector 13." He said as she disappeared, he stood up and brushed his hands-off wincing at the burns that were wrapped around his hand as he staggered a little at the output of strength.

He looked over at where Lyoko had passed out and the brown-haired boy was looming over her protectively he had a white gun in one hand and a dark blue dagger in the other. He was dressed in dark blue and black armor with boots and night vision goggles resting on his head and he was badly injured.

XANA sighed. "let me guess you were captured by them originally, Odd went to save you and he ended up getting captured and your avatar is too injured to be fighting but you came back anyway."

The boy looked up shock evident on his face, "how, how did you know?"

"Because if your avatar was that injured you wouldn't be here." He said as he walked over and looked down at them, "can you walk?"

"Yes?"

"Good, I need to take Lyoko to go get treated and I can't carry both of you." He said as he picked up Lyoko, "grab my arm it should help stabilize you and we are going to be traveling a different way."

The boy walked with XANA till they got to a shadow and XANA stepped through to come out in the infirmary. The boy looked over and saw a sleeping Odd, and was about to run over when a hand grabbed him and pulled him back.

"Leave him he needs to rest, and you need to go sit down," XANA said pointing at a cushiony chair in the corner, the boy was about to argue but XANA gave him a stern look, and he listened and went to sit down, and immediately fell asleep.

XANA chuckled and went to work patching up Lyoko, luckily nothing was deep enough to need to be stitched so he just cleaned and bandaged then laid her down on the bed that was next to Odd's. He looks over at the exhausted and hurt friends of Odd and couldn't fathom how it is that Odd thought that nobody cared about him, he just shook his head, turned off the light and headed to his room.

He walked in and looked over how nothing had changed the walls were white with red furniture and black sheets, he as suddenly very glad that he had never painted any of the walls black, as that would remind him how he had been locked up. Too tired to even change he just flopped down onto his bed and fell asleep.

When he woke up the next morning he headed down to the infirmary, where only Odd was awake, he looked at him like why are they here.

XANA walked over to Odd and whispered so he wouldn't wake up the others, they were attacked by Envy yesterday so I brought them here for treatment, well Lyoko at least he just needs to go back to the earth and have his avatar repaired, so when he is done asking all the questions that he can think of and you can nod too, you can send him back, alright?"

Odd looked skeptical and then nodded.

"Good well I am going to go make breakfast, they should be waking up soon, I'll come back with some breakfast." XANA walked down to the kitchen and started making eggs, sausage, and pancakes along with some toast for Odd since he can't eat a lot of heavy food yet.

When he walked back towards the infirmary he heard Lyoko and the other boy talking to Odd and asking him questions that he knows Odd can't answer. He walked over to a table and set the food down.

"He won't answer any questions except yes or no since he doesn't talk," XANA said as he brought the toast over to Odd.

"Alright, Odd is he the one who saved you?" Lyoko asked.

Odd looked up from his toast and nodded his head.

"Okay, and Marine is he the one who saved us."

Marine looked up from his plate of food and nodded also, "Yeah he also took down Envy all by himself."

"Okay, well thank you Mr?"

"XANA my name is XANA." He said sitting down and eating his own plate of food.

He looked up and the only person eating was Odd, Marine and Lyoko were both staring at him.

"What?" He asked with a smirk.

"XANA your name is XANA like the person who tried to kill us?" Marine asked shocked.

"First of all I was not really in my right mind for a long time, and second nobody ever actually died I would have stopped it if it ever got that far."

Marine looked at him, "Okay." Then he went back to eating.

"Wait is that it?" Lyoko asked now shocked at Marine.

"Look he saved us when he could have let you die, he rescued Odd and patched him up, and when we were asleep last night he had ample opportunity to kill us but he didn't, so yeah that is it."

Lyoko just sighed, "Well alright, if you and Odd are fine with it I have no real reason to argue." She said as she went back to eating.

Well there you go, everyone, the flashback is complete, wow I think that is the longest chapter I have ever written but I felt that it needed to be that long since I couldn't find a place that felt right to end it. Tell me what you think is there anything else you want to know before I continue into the present.

Odd: Yeah when am I going to wake up?

Author: *Shrugs* I don't know not for a while I think.

Odd: Great just great.

Author: Oh cheer up at least I almost have Lyoko fixed.

XANA: What was wrong with her?Author: It is called not reading the warnings syndrome, it can cause shock or even loss of control over emotions.

XANA: That sounds serious.

Author: It is, many readers are affected by it each year, due to carelessness.

Odd: Really? *raises eyebrow and crosses arms*

Author: *squirms* look Lyoko is fixed.

Odd: *turns to look*

Author: *runs away*

Odd: *sighs*

This is Luminoslight1313 signing off.