"No," Elle whispered. Why would X do something like that? Why would he try to kill himself? "Didn't he know that I was okay?" she demanded.
"I don't know," Kay told her. "I'm sure that they tried to tell him but he was so upset by then.... He snapped after your heart stopped, Elle. Slick hit him after they drug him out and he didn't even flinch. He threw the the person the Alien Rights Commission sent to talk to him out. When I found him, his entire face was soaked with tears."
"No. No, no no!!!" Elle sobbed as she threw herself into Kay's arms and clung to him. It wasn't fair! She and X were finally friends after months of partnership and arguing and now he was gone. Why in the world would he have done something so stupid when.... Just then she remembered the scene in his bedroom, when he had came back at the sound of her tears and she had broke down and begged him not to leave her alone.
"He promised not to leave me alone," she whispered. "I thought that he was going to leave and I would be all alone with no one else would could see or hear me. He was trying to keep his promise." She started to sob harder. It was all her fault that X was gone.
"Where is he?" she whispered a few minutes later when her tears had finally slowed enough for her to talk again.
"He's in the other room. Do you want to go and see him?" Kay asked and when Elle slowly nodded, he scooped her into his arms and carried her in.
Elle started to cry harder when she saw X's body laid out on the table, clad in that prison uniform. She reached out, touching the dark bruise on his face and the bruises on his neck, sobbing as her fingers came into contact with his cold skin. "I'm sorry," she whispered. "I'm so, so sorry." She reached out, wrapping her arms around him, holding him against her as if she could somehow infuse his lifeless body with some of her warmth, as if she could somehow bring him back.
"Kay, what's going on?" Jay asked as he appeared in the door with Zed behind him. He stopped in shock when he saw Elle. "Elle?" he cried as he darted over to her. He couldn't believe that she was finally awake. He reached out a hand but Elle angrily slapped it away.
"Get away from me!" she cried as she glared at Jay and Zed. This was all their.... She staggered to her feet and stumbled for the door. "I can't take this anymore! Just stay away from me!! I hate you both!!"
"What happened?" Jay demanded. He didn't understand why Elle was so upset. X was the one who hurt her, not them.
"X didn't hurt her, Slick. He was trying to help her," Kay told him as he headed out the door to find Elle.
A little bit later, Kay came into X's room. "Elle?" he called as he pushed the bedroom door open. Elle was laying there on the bed, clinging to one of X's precious crystals and sobbing hysterically.
She turned as he approached her, looking up with him with empty, dead eyes. "Kay, I need you to do something for me," she whispered.
"Anything," he said as he gathered her in his arms to try to soothe her.
"Neuralyze me. I can't stay here. Not after this."
"Elle...."
"Please!" she begged him. "If you're really my friend, do this one thing for me. Neuralyze me!"
