Heh sorry about the long wait and truthfully I don't have any excuse I've had this does for a long time I even have like the next 3 or 4 chapters done. So anyway I don't think I have anything to say… yep nothing… wait I rememberd something. I know normally people in Kristina's condition wouldn't be let out for a couple of days but hmmmmm how about her powers helped boost the healing process… yah I think that'll work
Disclaimer: what part of I don't own code Lyoko don't you understand
Claimer: ha but I do own… Kristina (ha I own myself), Grace, Dan, Max, and the plot you can't have them unless I give you permission but I'll tell you right now you aren't getting your paws on my plot
Max woke early the next morning, even for a Tuesday morning. Breakfast hadn't even started yet. Today he had gotten a pass to go and pick up Kristina because the morning classes had been canceled due to a staff meeting.
Quickly he turned off his alarm so was not to wake Dan up, but when he looked over at his companions bed he saw that it was empty. Smiling he assumed correctly the his friend had spent the night with Grace.
Jumping out of bed he quickly put his clothes on and ran out the door carful to lock the door behind him.
As he walked towards the hospital he kept remembering things from the past especially the first time they met, it happened to be on Lyoko. Kristina was extremely weary of them at first not used to seeing other humans for the face that she had never been outside of Lyoko before.
He had worked really hard to get her to trust him and a couple of years later he totally shatters what he worked so hard to achieve. Shaking his head to get rid of the thoughts he ran his fingers through his hair, a nervous habit he had.
Yah he was nervous, though he wasn't sure why, it wasn't like this was his first time ever seeing Kristina. Heck, he had known this girl for 3 or 4 years.
Nearing the hospital he slowed till he was at a complete stop a few feet from the door. 'This is it," he said then pushed his way threw the great glass doors.
Slowly he walked up to the front desk with as much confidence as he could and asked. "Which room is Kristina Ebony's?" He said in a much higher pitched voice then he would have liked.
"What is your relation to her?" The lady said in a bored tone without looking up.
"I'm her boyfriend...I mean boy who is a friend...of...her...yah," Max stammered blushing a bright pink.
"Room # 113," the lady said handing him a card with the number on it then went back to typing on her computer.
"Thanks," he muttered as he turned and headed down the hall.
Once he came to the door labeled 113 he stopped, carefully he reached out and grasped the door handle then before his nerves told him to do otherwise he pushed the door and entered.
Looking around he saw Kristina lying in her bed she appeared to be asleep. She was sleeping on her side with her back facing him. This didn't surprise him it was still early and Kristina had never been a morning person, she had always been a creature of the night, 9:00 was too early for her.
As he walked up to her bed she started to twist and turn slightly. Soon she started to mumble incoherently, and her heart rate monitor started to beep at a quicker pace.
Charm waves of fright and pain were streaming off of her like water runs from a faucet.
Quickly he walked around to the other side of the bed and felt her forehead. It was cold and sweaty.
'She must be having a nightmare' he thought then he gently began to shake her. She woke with a start breathing heavily and looked around.
When she saw him she jumped in fright and gasped "you...you tried to" then her voice gave out and her eyes glistened with tears that threatened to fall..
Unsure of what to do he sat down next to her and gently rubbed her back. She sat up at his touch and subcaunciously leaned her head on his chest gasping for breath and trying to control her heart rate which had sky rocketed to the point where Max wouldn't have been surprised if a nurse came running through the door.
"What's the matter?" He asked once she had quieted down.
"Nothing...I'm sorry," she said sitting up and looking down in embarrassment, she didn't usually cry about things.
"Come on...it has to be something," he pestered putting his hand on her shoulder.
"I was having a nightmare... that's all." she said looking at his hand on her shoulder questionably.
"Come on...you can tell me...you used to tell me everything," he said squeezing her shoulder comfortingly.
"I...I was just...reliving the time when you tried to...tried to... to... you know," she muttered tears leaking silently out of her eyes.
Startled Max stood took his hand away from her shoulder and walked over to look out the window his hands jammed into his pockets.
"I thought you had forgotten that," he said after a few minutes. "How could I...one of my best friends and former boyfriend tried to kill me," she stated in surprise.
"It...it wasn't totally my idea," he said turning around.
"Totally?" She snorted looking up at him in disgust.
"Look...I was angry about...the fight...and Xana took advantage of me," he said sitting down next to her.
"Right," she said rolling her eyes and moving away from him.
"Look...why do you have to be so self centered?...Why can't you try to look from my point of view?" He snapped.
"I have!" She said whirling around to look at him. "No matter how many times we fought...none of them gave you a reasonable reason to kill me!" She screeched.
"But...but" Max spluttered unable to come up with a good come back.
"Look...Max if you really are my friend...or want to be my friend...you would admit that what you tried to do was wrong, really wrong...not try to find a good reason to have done it." Kristina said trying to be calm, and failing miserable.
After a few moments Max looked up to meet her gaze. "What will it take for you to forgive me?" He asked though it sounded more like a plead.
"You could start with earning the rest of my trust back," Kristina informed him her arms crossed over her bandaged chest.
"How do I go about doing that?" He asked scooting closer to her. Kristina tensed and moved away from him.
When she was satisfied with the amount of space between them she replied, "you're smart you can figure it out."
He scooted closer to her and lay his hand on hers. She winced at his touch and pulled away. Max sighed, "why do you keep pulling away?" He questioned.
"One you aren't exactly my favorite person in the world, and two you have a girlfriend back in the states correct?" She pointed out bluntly.
"Yes well...I haven't seen her in a really long time," he said taking her hand in his and with the other stroking her hair, something that he knew usually calmed her down.
"Max...stop...I don't want anyone else to feel the way you made me when I found out you had dumped me for someone else, even cheated on me a bit..." she said sliding out of his grasp and gazing at him sternly.
Max looked at her questionably, "how did you find out about that?"
"One your excuse for breaking up with me was incredibly stupid, and two Grace is horrible at keeping things from me." She stated bluntly.
"I'm sorry, but it wasn't really cheating on you..." Max was cut off by Kristina.
"You asked her out before you broke up with me, if she hadn't forced you to break up with me before she said yes then you would have been." She pointed out bluntly.
Max ran his fingers through his hair and sighed. This was true, and they both knew it.
"Look let's just get back to school, I want you to come with me to check on certain someones," Max said adding the last part mischievously.
Kristina gave him a questioning look. "What?" She asked in a slightly irradiated tone.
"You'll see," Max answered as he pressed the button to call the nurse.
Once the nurse had come she took out the IV port, removed the bandages, put her shirt back on, and replaced her shorts with her jeans. Max being shoved outside the curtain that wound around the bed when she was changing.
A few minutes later the curtain was removed to reveal kristina slipping her feet into her shoes.
"Now the doctor told me that crutches weren't necessary, you might be a little sore because you pulled a couple of muscles but crutches would just slow the healing." The nurse informed them. Kristina groaned but she didn't argue.
"I had to call the school to make sure that this young man was actually given the privilege of bringing you back but everything is alright," the nurse said happily. The tone kinda annoyed Kristina she seemed a little to happy bubbly in her opinion.
She smiled at them and then told them just to sign out at the front desk then they could be on their way. They nodded signaling that they understood and the nurse left.
"Let's go I can't handle a moment more of this place." Kristina said flatly.
"I agree and I haven't been here nearly as long as you have." Max managed to agree with Kristina on something.
They checked her out of the hospital and soon the two were walking back to school.
Kristina took in a deep breath and turned to Max, "Max...what does Aly have that I don't?" She asked boldly looking at him with a much dignity as she could muster.
Sighing Max looked at her an said "do we really have to talk about this?"
"Yes...it has been bugging me ever since you sent me the e-mail," she said exasperated.
"Well... I'll just name all the things that she had that I liked...she is smart...pretty...she has attitude...she's nice...she's funny...and she likes me back." Max stated the list while Kristina listened with growing annoyance.
Once he finished she then asked in a deadly quiet voice, "and what do I have that you liked."
"Well...you're...everything she is...plus you can relate to things that she never could," Max said shrugging his shoulders as if he said this to a girl everyday.
"Max...then why?" She asked quietly.
"Because...you had been acting...different...and I was afraid that you didn't like me anymore," he said looking away from her pleading eyes.
"Max...stop lying to yourself and me...what is the real reason as to why you dumped me?" She said trying to be as calm as she could at this stressful moment of time.
"I don't know...we had been having fights a lot more then usual and..." he started then stopped as he stared into her blue eyes. "I don't know...maybe...I was just afraid of you," he said laughing slightly.
"Why would you be afraid of me?" She asked raising her eyebrow.
"I don't know...I'm just making excuses...I knew the minute I hit send on that e-mail that...that I would regret it." He whispered moving closer to her.
"Max...stop...you still are dating Aly..." she whispered preparing to strike him across the face if he seriously tried to kiss her.
"But she has been acting strange lately...I think she is cheating on me," he said smiling leaning in again.
"You seem happy about that," Kristina said dodging away from him again and starting to walk away.
"Well...I'm not that happy about it...but it means you and me might be...you know... able to get back together?" He said shyly.
"What the...what or who put that idea in your head," she said startled turning on him.
"Well...I thought...that since you have been talking about how bad you felt when I broke up with you that you were hinting that you wanted to get back to together," he said still looking at the ground.
"Uh, no sorry that wasn't my intention, not in the slightest. If you even want a sliver of a chance of getting me back you are going to have to work a lot harder than that," she said walking up to face him again.
"Alright," he said then grabbed her shoulders and began to kiss her. After a split second Kristina pushed him away her hands burning with her fire. "You haven't even come close to earning that, your lucky I just got out of the hospital or you might be there yourself." she spat glaring at him as his smile turned into a frown then began to walk again.
The rest of the way to school they walked in silence, Max occasionally trying to put his arm around Kristina or hold her hand but she would just smack him or speed up. By the time they got to school Max had given up with the trying to get close to her and was just following her his head down in dejection.
As they walked into the building Max remembered something. "Hey... Kristina ...I want to show you something," he said grabbing her arm and running toward her dorm. Once outside the door he stopped and looked at her.
"Yes Max...this is my dorm...I don't have amnesia," she said looking at him like he was crazy.
"No...let me see the key," he said holding out his hand. Handing him the key Max put it in the lock and turned it. Holding his hand up to his mouth signaling for her to be quiet he pushed the door open silently on its greased hinges.
Quietly they both walked in and looked around, the first thing they saw was Dan lying on Grace's bed with her wrapped protectively in his arms. They both had to cover each others mouth to stifle the others laughter.
Kristina removed Max's hand from her mouth as she removed hers from his. "Awww so cute," she cooed.
"Think they got together?" Max asked quietly as they approached the sleeping pair.
"Nah, she would have made up an excuse," Kristina told him.
"You got a camera?' Max asked.
Kristina smiled mischievously and answered, "yah, and it's digital." Soon after she said this Tiggy came trotting over with the camera in her mouth.
"Who's that?" Max asked.
"That's Tiggy my kitten, if you tell anyone you will wake up the next morning very confused and in Cuba." Kristina warned. Max noticed that she was serious and nodded.
Picking up the camera she wiped the kitten drool from it and smiling turned it on. "Say cheese," she muttered before pushing down on the button. A clash of horror crossed her mind as she realized he had forgotten to turn off the flash.
A bright light lit up the room and Dan began to stir and soon his eyes fluttered open.
Kristina smacked her forehead. "Smart Kristina," Max commented. Dan blinked a few times before he noticed Max ans Kristina standing in the room.
"Why is Kristina in our dorm? And when did she get back from the hospital?" Dan asked.
"You aren't in your dorm Dan, and I just picked her up because everyone else was too busy to come with me." Max stated trying to hide his amusement but failing miserably. Dan started at the two looking very confuse for a moment until he felt something move against his chest.
Dan looked down to see Grace cuddled up against him. A bright red blush fell across his cheeks.
Dan was lying on his side with his back next to the wall with Grace next to him on her back. He had his right arm wrapped around her shoulder while the other was wrapped around her waist. Looking up he blushed even redder when he saw them both burst into laughter.
"Shut up...your going to wake her up," he whispered fiercely.
"Nah...she has slept through fire alarms before," Kristina managed to say threw her laughter.
"What's going on?" Grace mumbled shifting not opening her eyes. They all stopped and looked down at her.
"Uh...this is going to get awkward...want to get some breakfast Kristina?" Max said heading for the door.
"Sure," Kristina said quickly walking towards the door. Just before the door closed Dan saw another flash of the camera and heard some laughter as the door snapped shut.
"Are they gone?" Grace asked blinking slowly.
"Yes," Dan said.
"Who took the picture?" She asked sitting up half way and slowly rubbing her eyes.
"Kristina did," Dan answered yawning.
"Did you sleep in here last night?" Grace asked looking down at him still lying next to her.
"Yah... that okay?" He asked cautiously not sure of what her response would be.
"I suppose," she said with a mock sigh.
Smiling Dan poked her in the side before pulling her down so she was lying next to him again her head lying next to his.
"When does class start?" she asked after a few minutes of silence.
"I think they start after lunch, and breakfast hasn't even ended yet we have plenty of time," Dan mumbled into her hair which he had started to stroke.
"We should get up...the others probably want to get together," Grace sighed sitting up again.
"Aw...but I was so comfy," Dan complained.
"Come on lazy...it's my dorm which means you have to do as I say," Grace said smacking him with the pillow.
"Cool...so if your in my dorm I'm in control?" Dan asked sitting up slowly.
"Within reasonable limits...but don't think is going to be a habit of us sleeping together, as wrong as that sounds." Grace said walking across the room to get her hair brush.
"Why not?" Dan asked playfully.
"First of all because we aren't going out, second we only did that because you were to lazy to get up, third of all it's totally against school rules, and fourth... never mind," she said starting to tug at the snarls.
"Come on admit that you liked it," Dan said getting up and picking up his binder from the floor and placing it with the rest of his stuff.
"Fine...I liked it...a lot...but I just don't think we should do it again," she said brushing harder and harder taking out her frustration on her already frizzy hair.
"If you liked it why not?" Dan asked again walking over to her and taking the brush out of her hands to prevent further damage.
"I don't know," she admitted sighing and trying to get the brush back. Holding the brush out of her reach he walked around to behind her and began to work at the snarls.
"That's reason isn't good enough" he said after a few minutes.
"Well...I honestly don't think we should," Grace said as Dan put the brush down so she could put up her hair.
"Please," Dan begged leading her to the bed and sitting down next to her.
"Why do you want this so badly?" She asked looking at him.
"Because...I liked being so close to you...it felt good...besides you even said you liked it," He said stating the obvious.
"Maybe," she said standing up and heading towards her dresser she side tracked and headed towards the door. Opening it she said, "you have to go out while I change."
"Why...I won't look," he said sitting back down on the bed.
"I'll let you back in when I'm done," she said.
"Fine," Dan muttered head down like a dog and walked slowly out the door.
Sighing Grace went over and changed into her regular clothes then gathered her things for class and got them ready before setting them aside and heading out the door.
Looking around she didn't see Dan anywhere so assuming he had gone to change she headed towards his and Max's dorm.
When Grace got there she found Dan with his ear up against the door, when he saw her he motioned for her to be quiet then for her to come over. Quietly she walked over and put her ear to he door as well.
When are Grace and Dan going to get together? Ha only I know… ok Grace knows too. Ok now here is the part where you click the 'go' button and complain about how I didn't post fast enough unless you want to praise me in which case I will bask in all the wonderful praise.
Oh one more thing… for all you Sasha fans don't worry all I have to do is a bit of copying and pasting and I'll have the last chapter posted in nothing flat.
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