Author's Note: The rating stays at 'T'. For now, anyway.

Disclaimer: I don't own Code Lyoko.

It was morning and it didn't take long for Jacob to realize that Emily was missing.

"Emily? Emily!"

Jacob was too busy to notice the black shadow sneaking up on him.

On Lyoko...

Maki focused her power on her target. Forcing her shadow into the target was harder then she thought.

A rush of emotions told her that she had succeeded. She had possessed her target.

With Jacob

"Emily!"

Jacob's voice went without any response. No one was there.

She's gone. There's no one here but me and this stupid forest. Why did I have to go through this? There must be thousands of people with mistakes on their birth certificates! Emily...I hate you! I hate you for getting me involved, I hate you for finding you under that rock, I hate you for everything that's happened, I hate you, I hate you, I hate you!

Jacob sat down on the grass. He didn't hate Emily. He was almost happy that he was involved.

Emily, I hate you, but I love you.

On Lyoko

Maki gasped as her target's emotions broke loose. Passion, hatred, care. Who knew such emotion could lie within a child?

Maki wanted to find out more. She sent the child directions. Directions to her parents' home.

With Jacob

Jacob sighed in defeat.

Well, there's no one here. I should just leave.

He got up to leave, but saw that something was wrong. Which direction did he come from? It was as though the world had spun around. He didn't recognize any of this!

Then, someone appeared. A girl with black hair. She motioned to Jacob and ran off. Jacob saw her and chased her. The girl vanished as she approached an old house.

"The Hermitage. Wonder who lives here?"

Jacob knocked on the door. A young woman answered it. She had pink hair and green eyes.

"Yes?"

The woman spoke in a soft voice.

"I'm lost. Can you help me?"

"Okay. Come up to my room."

Jacob followed the lady up to her room where Katie was waiting.

"Katie!"

Jacob was surprised. He didn't expect to see her for a while.

"Hi."

Jacob frowned. This wasn't like Katie.

"Are you okay, Katie?"

"I'm fine, Jacob."

"No. No you're not. You don't know my name. I heard your mom saying yours, but I never told you mine. What's going on?"

Katie didn't answer. She walked over to the closet door and opened it. Emily fell out.

"Emily!"

Jacob rushed up to his friend.

Emily opened her eyes. The first person she saw was Jacob.

"Jacob. Where am I?"

"I don't know where we are, but I think we're okay now."

We. He said we.

We're okay now? How could I say that?

Jacob and Emily stared at each other.

"You're okay, right?"

Jacob asked, trying to make up for what he had said.

"I'm fine."

Emily had to resist adding 'now' to the end of that sentence.

It was a very awkward moment, relieved only when the woman with the pink hair entered the room.

On Lyoko

Maki smiled. Her work was done.

She called her ghost back, unpossessing the little girl she had used earlier. She spoke softly to the girl as she did so.

"Thank you for helping me, Katie."

Even though Katie wouldn't know who Maki was, she would always remember this.

"It looks like I have an intruder."

A cold voice stated, calmly.

Maki turned around and glared at her brother.

"What are you doing here, Maki? I told you to stay out of the way!"

"You're not my boss! I'm not in your way and I have every right to be here."

"You're interfering with my plans, Maki. You are in my way.

"You want to kill your enemies' children! You've already imprisoned one. Isn't that enough?"

"Maki, Maki, Maki. How many times have I told you to stay out of my business? I imprisoned Anna Ray, because I know that Katie will rebel against me. Anna Ray is my key to success. She is, after all, related to Emily. Just not in the way Emily thinks. In fact, she's related to Katie and Jacob, too. So-"

XANA hit his sister on the head, knocking her out.

"Stay out of the way."

With that, XANA left his little sister to help herself. After all, when he was her age, fifteen, he was already fighting for his life. There were times when he just hated his sister. She was a rebellious girl. Her hair was fine, nothing is wrong with dark black hair. But her eyes. XANA just knew that wasn't right to have that hint of brown in her eyes. It made her almost human.

Author's Note: You know the drill.