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Author's Note-This story takes place when Tai, Matt, Sora, Izzy, Ken, Joe, and Mimi are in collage, and Kari, TK, Yolei, Davis, and Cody are in High School.
Kari sighed as she looked around the crowded cafeteria. TK was no where to be seen. This was the third week in a row that he hadn't shown up to drive her to school, or sat next to her in class, or talked to her a lunch. He was avoiding her. She wished she knew why.
She smiled as she felt something warm and comforting slip over her bare shoulders. She turned to smile at Davis.
"Hey Kari." Davis said, slipping his arm around his girlfriends waist and dropping a kiss to the top of her head.
"Hello Davis." Kari said, snuggling into her boyfriends letterman's coat and embrace.
"Why does a beautiful face like yours look so glum?"
Kari sighed. "TK's been avoiding me for three weeks. When I call, his mom says he's not home, and he doesn't return my calls. He doesn't stop by before or after school, he won't be my partner for any class, he won't sit by me in class, and I can't find him at lunch. I wish I knew why he's avoiding me."
"Why don't you ask him? He's right over there." Davis pointed at TK, who had come in, and glanced quickly around the room.
"Here, hold this." Kari handed Davis her tray, and put her arms through the sleeves of his letterman's coat. Then she made her way through the crowds of people toward TK. Unfortuntioaly, TK saw her coming and made his way to the door.
"TK! Wait up! I need to talk to you!" Kari yelled. TK ignored her and walked out the door to the outside patio where some kids were eating lunch. She saw him slap hands with a couple of his basketball teammates, and smile and flirt with a few cheerleaders. She felt a surge of jeoulsy, but brushed it off. She was dating Davis now, had been for two years. Since 9th grade.
She made her way to the parking lot in time to see TK jump into his convertible and drive out of the parking lot, his blond hair flying out behind him.
TK's heart pounded as he drove away from the school. He was running away from Kari again, but he couldn't help it. Every time he saw her wearing Davis's letterman's coat, his blood boiled, and he had to get away. He pulled into the park, and hopped out of his car. Shoving his hands into the pockets of his own letterman's coat, he strolled the dirt paths until he found the almost invisible side path that led to his secret place.
He pushed back the tree branches that hid the small side path from view. He jogged now, excited to get to his place. It belonged to his Grandfather, and now it belonged to him. TK used the key on the chain around his neck to open the huge gate. He closed it behind him, and looked at the 5 acres of land spread out before him.
Smiling now, he ran towards the huge mansion house set down in a small valley. He bounded up the stairs, grabbed the cordless phone from it's hook, and flopped down on the couch. He pressed speed dial, and his mother picked up the phone at home.
"Hello?"
"Hey mom, it's me."
"Hey baby."
"I'm at the place."
"Are you sick?"
"No. I just had a really bad day at school so far. Can you call the school and excuse me for the rest of the day? I don't want to go back."
"Sure. Are you going to come home?"
"No, not tonight. I think I'll spend the weekend here, and then I'll be back home on Monday. Is that okay?"
"Yes. Just call me every night okay?"
"Okay. Thanks mom. Bye, I love you."
"I love you too TK. Bye."
"Bye."
TK leaned back on the couch and closed his eyes. His mom was the greatest. She didn't know where the place was, no one knew but TK now that his Grandfather was dead. But now that he was a junior in high school, his mom trusted him more. She never pried when he said he had a bad day and wanted to get excused. She just let him stay by himself and trusted him to come to her if he needed too. TK smiled as he drifted into sleep.
Kari sat on her balcony late that same night, Davis's coat wrapped snugly around her shoulders, and a blanket tucked around her legs. She was sitting in a white plastic chair with her thoughts and a cup of hot chocolate. She was alone in the house.
Tai was in his dorm room studying, and her mother and father were out for the weekend. They would be back on Monday. Davis was at his grandmothers for the weekend, Yolei was spending the weekend with Ken and his parents. Cody was on an overnight field trip Tokyo, Matt was at a weekend gig with his band, Sora was at a tennis tournament, Izzy was a weekend long computer conference, and Joe was spending the weekend somewhere with Mimi and her parents. And TK...
Kari sighed. She had no clue where TK was. She'd called his house, but his mom said that he was spending the weekend at his Grandfathers place. Kari was puzzled. She knew TK's Grandfather was dead. He had died last year. Kari had promised to go to the funeral with him, but then remembered that she already had plans to do something with Davis. She had wanted to cancel, but TK wouldn't let her. He told her that it was okay.
Kari sat up straight, Davis's jacket falling off her shoulders. Was that when TK had started distancing himself from her? No, that had only started happening these last three weeks. She sighed again, wrapping Davis's coat around her shoulders again. She wished she knew what was wrong with TK. Why was he distancing himself from her? Why didn't he trust her anymore? Kari sighed and went back into her room. Maybe a good night's sleep would help her clear her head and help her think.
TK woke up when he felt something bouncing up and down on his chest.
"Whoa Patamon. I'm awake, I'm awake." He said, pushing the small orange digimon off his chest.
"Yeah! Can we play now TK, can we, can we?" The Digimon stopped bouncing around to scratch behind it's ears. It's scratching loosened the bandage wrapped around one of it's ears.
TK smiled at his one close friend. "Yeah, we'll play. After I change the bandage on that ear of yours. Okay?"
"Okay!" Patamon said happily, jumping up into TK's arms. TK smiled and held his friend close as he climbed the stairs to the huge bathroom. He opened the door and flicked on the light. Then he sat Patamon down on the wide sink and unwrapped his ear gently. Even through he tried to be careful, he could hear Patamon whimpering in pain as TK tried to dislodge the blood soaked bandage from Patamon's ear.
"It's okay, it's okay." TK whispered comfortingly. He finally got the bandage off and threw the whole blood soaked mess into the trash can next to the sink. Then TK very gently washed Patamon's ear off and looked at it. The cut on it was very deep, and still oozing blood, but it didn't look infected. TK spread disinfectant on the wound, then wrapped a water proof bandage around the ear. Then he released Patamon. Patamon jumped up on to TK's head and sat there.
"Thank you TK! My ear is starting to feel better. I'll be able to fly soon, won't I?"
TK laughed and reached up to rub behind Patamon's good ear. "Yep. You'll be flying in loop-de-loops soon. Maybe you can impress Gatomon." He teased. Patamon stopped laughing, and TK sensed his change in mood. "Are you all right?" He asked his friend, concerned.
"No." Patamon whispered.
"What's wrong?"
"It's just that, every since Davis and Kari started going out, Gatomon's been ignoring me to go do stuff with Veemon. I feel like I lost my best friend. And it's only these last three weeks that she's noticed something's wrong with me. She keeps trying to talk to me, but I keep avoiding her. That's why I like staying here. No one knows where this place is, so I can come here when ever I want."
TK sighed. "Yeah. I know what you mean. It's the same thing with Kari and me. I've been avoiding her for close to two years, and she's only noticed these last three weeks. No one but me and you know where this place is, so it's a good place to be when I need to be alone with my thoughts."
At this, Patamon and TK both fell silent, lost in their own thoughts. Then TK mentally shook himself and took Patamon off of his head. "Come on, let's go swimming. It's something to do, and it'll take our minds off these troublesome women."
Patamon giggled. "All right," he said.
Kari stared at her celing. She had gone to bed an hour ago, but she couldn't seem to fall asleep. Vison's of TK kept drifting through her head as she tried to think of why he was being so cold. She remembered when they were eight years old, and he had promised Sora that he would protect her. How he had held her hand as they fell through the air towards the ground. How he wouldn't let go even after Angemon digivolved into Magna-Angemon and cought them. When they were set on the ground, TK had held her hand until the battle was over and she was safe in Tai's arms, and he was safe in Matt's.
She remembered seeing him for the first time in five years. He had slid into the seat next to her and smiled. He had smiled and joked with her and she relixed how much she missed him all those years. She remembered him saying that he cared to much about her to let her disapear. And she remembered his bright blue eye's sparkling with an inner fire when he wouldn't let them give up in that last battle in the digital world. Kari sighed and threw her blanket aside. She swung her legs out of bed and walked over to her computer.
She quietly got dressed, then held her digivice towards the computer. "Digiport open!"
TK opened the Digiport and felt him and and Patamon get sucked into the Digital World. He relaxed and looked down at his clothes. Comfortable jeans, a loose green tee shirt with a baby blue basketball jersey with the crest of hope over it, comfortable sneakers that were well broken in (and indestructable), a white and gold Yankees baseball cap, and his purple and silver letterman's coat over that.
TK picked up Patamon and set him on his hat.
"Come on bud. Let's go see if we can find Kittenmon and Pupmon."
"Okay." Patamon agreed.
Kari disappeared in a flash of white light. When she blinked again, she was in the Digital World. She looked down. Sneakers, capri pants, a baby cut tee shirt, and a leather jacket.
"Kari!"
Kari turned around to catch a flying ball of fur. "Gatomon!"
"Kari, I missed you so much. I haven't seen you in three weeks. And I have a problem."
Kari looked at her in concern. "What is it?"
Gatomon looked at the ground sadly. "Patamon's been avoiding me for the last three weeks. Every time I try to talk to him, he just runs away."
Kari frowned, "Runs? Don't you mean flys?"
Gatomon shook her head. "No. He runs. He hurt his ear awhile ago and he can't fly."
"Oh no! What happened?"
Gatomon shurgged. "I don't know. He won't talk to me. He keeps avoiding me."
Kari sighed. "Yeah, TK's been avoiding everyone too. He won't talk to any of our group. I'm worried, I really am."
"TK! PATAMON!"
TK cought the flying ball of fur that threw itself at him.
"Hey Kittenmon." he said, setting it down on the ground. It bounced strait back up into the air and landed on his shoulder. TK winced as she dug her claws into his shoulder. Kittenmon looked like a baby saimese kitten, all white except for brown around her mouth and nose, brown eyelids, brown on the tip of her tail, and brown paws. Kittenmon also had wide green eyes that were crossed, and huge purple, blue, and silver wings that were folded up on her back right now.
"TK's here! TK's here!" Panted a small puppy like digimon as it came running out of the forest.
"Hey Pupmon." TK said, bending down to scratch behind the digimon's ears. Pupmon looked with a dachshund puppy. He was pure white, with gold floppy ears, gold paws, gold on the tip of his tail, and gold around his eyes like a mask. His eyes were silver, and slightly crossed. There were two light blue lines on his back, where wings would be when he digivolved to Minimon.
"Where's Alexz and Angel?" TK asked his digimon friends.
"Right here." TK turned to find his new friends, Alexz and her twin brother Angel.
As always, Alexz took his breath away. She was short, only 5 foot and thin at 110. She had long, thick, silky black hair that was pulled into a ponytail and then braided and fell to her waist. She had golden-brown skin, a small rounded face, high cheekbones, a tiny snubbed nose, and a small full mouth. But it was her eyes that caught peoples attention. They were huge, almond shaped, and bright green with long black lashes. And her bangs were pure white. Kittenmon was her digi partner.
Angel was Alexz's twin brother. He had the same think black hair as Alexz, along with the huge eyes and long lashes. His green eyes danced with laughter, and his hair was spiked, but looked a little wind blown. He was only three inchs taller and ten pounds hevier than Alexz. Pupmon was his digimon.
As always, Alexz was wearing a pair of blue camo drawstring pants, purple seankers, a silver New York Yankees jersey and a black leather jacket that had the crest on Innocence on the back of it in green.
Angel was wearing silver hightop sneakers, cargo pants, a green tee shirt, and a long black leather duster that had the crest of Energy on the back of it in blue.
Angel gave TK a high five, and Alexz hugged him. "We were expecting you. Come on, we have a picnic set up and everything."
"All right!" TK and Patamon said at the same time. "Food!" Alexz and Angel laughed, and TK blushed before starting to laugh too. As always when he was with these two, all his problems seemed to disappear.
Feedback-Please, please, please read and review. Or e-mail me at bed_time_bear@hotmail.com.
Author's Note-This story takes place when Tai, Matt, Sora, Izzy, Ken, Joe, and Mimi are in collage, and Kari, TK, Yolei, Davis, and Cody are in High School.
Kari sighed as she looked around the crowded cafeteria. TK was no where to be seen. This was the third week in a row that he hadn't shown up to drive her to school, or sat next to her in class, or talked to her a lunch. He was avoiding her. She wished she knew why.
She smiled as she felt something warm and comforting slip over her bare shoulders. She turned to smile at Davis.
"Hey Kari." Davis said, slipping his arm around his girlfriends waist and dropping a kiss to the top of her head.
"Hello Davis." Kari said, snuggling into her boyfriends letterman's coat and embrace.
"Why does a beautiful face like yours look so glum?"
Kari sighed. "TK's been avoiding me for three weeks. When I call, his mom says he's not home, and he doesn't return my calls. He doesn't stop by before or after school, he won't be my partner for any class, he won't sit by me in class, and I can't find him at lunch. I wish I knew why he's avoiding me."
"Why don't you ask him? He's right over there." Davis pointed at TK, who had come in, and glanced quickly around the room.
"Here, hold this." Kari handed Davis her tray, and put her arms through the sleeves of his letterman's coat. Then she made her way through the crowds of people toward TK. Unfortuntioaly, TK saw her coming and made his way to the door.
"TK! Wait up! I need to talk to you!" Kari yelled. TK ignored her and walked out the door to the outside patio where some kids were eating lunch. She saw him slap hands with a couple of his basketball teammates, and smile and flirt with a few cheerleaders. She felt a surge of jeoulsy, but brushed it off. She was dating Davis now, had been for two years. Since 9th grade.
She made her way to the parking lot in time to see TK jump into his convertible and drive out of the parking lot, his blond hair flying out behind him.
TK's heart pounded as he drove away from the school. He was running away from Kari again, but he couldn't help it. Every time he saw her wearing Davis's letterman's coat, his blood boiled, and he had to get away. He pulled into the park, and hopped out of his car. Shoving his hands into the pockets of his own letterman's coat, he strolled the dirt paths until he found the almost invisible side path that led to his secret place.
He pushed back the tree branches that hid the small side path from view. He jogged now, excited to get to his place. It belonged to his Grandfather, and now it belonged to him. TK used the key on the chain around his neck to open the huge gate. He closed it behind him, and looked at the 5 acres of land spread out before him.
Smiling now, he ran towards the huge mansion house set down in a small valley. He bounded up the stairs, grabbed the cordless phone from it's hook, and flopped down on the couch. He pressed speed dial, and his mother picked up the phone at home.
"Hello?"
"Hey mom, it's me."
"Hey baby."
"I'm at the place."
"Are you sick?"
"No. I just had a really bad day at school so far. Can you call the school and excuse me for the rest of the day? I don't want to go back."
"Sure. Are you going to come home?"
"No, not tonight. I think I'll spend the weekend here, and then I'll be back home on Monday. Is that okay?"
"Yes. Just call me every night okay?"
"Okay. Thanks mom. Bye, I love you."
"I love you too TK. Bye."
"Bye."
TK leaned back on the couch and closed his eyes. His mom was the greatest. She didn't know where the place was, no one knew but TK now that his Grandfather was dead. But now that he was a junior in high school, his mom trusted him more. She never pried when he said he had a bad day and wanted to get excused. She just let him stay by himself and trusted him to come to her if he needed too. TK smiled as he drifted into sleep.
Kari sat on her balcony late that same night, Davis's coat wrapped snugly around her shoulders, and a blanket tucked around her legs. She was sitting in a white plastic chair with her thoughts and a cup of hot chocolate. She was alone in the house.
Tai was in his dorm room studying, and her mother and father were out for the weekend. They would be back on Monday. Davis was at his grandmothers for the weekend, Yolei was spending the weekend with Ken and his parents. Cody was on an overnight field trip Tokyo, Matt was at a weekend gig with his band, Sora was at a tennis tournament, Izzy was a weekend long computer conference, and Joe was spending the weekend somewhere with Mimi and her parents. And TK...
Kari sighed. She had no clue where TK was. She'd called his house, but his mom said that he was spending the weekend at his Grandfathers place. Kari was puzzled. She knew TK's Grandfather was dead. He had died last year. Kari had promised to go to the funeral with him, but then remembered that she already had plans to do something with Davis. She had wanted to cancel, but TK wouldn't let her. He told her that it was okay.
Kari sat up straight, Davis's jacket falling off her shoulders. Was that when TK had started distancing himself from her? No, that had only started happening these last three weeks. She sighed again, wrapping Davis's coat around her shoulders again. She wished she knew what was wrong with TK. Why was he distancing himself from her? Why didn't he trust her anymore? Kari sighed and went back into her room. Maybe a good night's sleep would help her clear her head and help her think.
TK woke up when he felt something bouncing up and down on his chest.
"Whoa Patamon. I'm awake, I'm awake." He said, pushing the small orange digimon off his chest.
"Yeah! Can we play now TK, can we, can we?" The Digimon stopped bouncing around to scratch behind it's ears. It's scratching loosened the bandage wrapped around one of it's ears.
TK smiled at his one close friend. "Yeah, we'll play. After I change the bandage on that ear of yours. Okay?"
"Okay!" Patamon said happily, jumping up into TK's arms. TK smiled and held his friend close as he climbed the stairs to the huge bathroom. He opened the door and flicked on the light. Then he sat Patamon down on the wide sink and unwrapped his ear gently. Even through he tried to be careful, he could hear Patamon whimpering in pain as TK tried to dislodge the blood soaked bandage from Patamon's ear.
"It's okay, it's okay." TK whispered comfortingly. He finally got the bandage off and threw the whole blood soaked mess into the trash can next to the sink. Then TK very gently washed Patamon's ear off and looked at it. The cut on it was very deep, and still oozing blood, but it didn't look infected. TK spread disinfectant on the wound, then wrapped a water proof bandage around the ear. Then he released Patamon. Patamon jumped up on to TK's head and sat there.
"Thank you TK! My ear is starting to feel better. I'll be able to fly soon, won't I?"
TK laughed and reached up to rub behind Patamon's good ear. "Yep. You'll be flying in loop-de-loops soon. Maybe you can impress Gatomon." He teased. Patamon stopped laughing, and TK sensed his change in mood. "Are you all right?" He asked his friend, concerned.
"No." Patamon whispered.
"What's wrong?"
"It's just that, every since Davis and Kari started going out, Gatomon's been ignoring me to go do stuff with Veemon. I feel like I lost my best friend. And it's only these last three weeks that she's noticed something's wrong with me. She keeps trying to talk to me, but I keep avoiding her. That's why I like staying here. No one knows where this place is, so I can come here when ever I want."
TK sighed. "Yeah. I know what you mean. It's the same thing with Kari and me. I've been avoiding her for close to two years, and she's only noticed these last three weeks. No one but me and you know where this place is, so it's a good place to be when I need to be alone with my thoughts."
At this, Patamon and TK both fell silent, lost in their own thoughts. Then TK mentally shook himself and took Patamon off of his head. "Come on, let's go swimming. It's something to do, and it'll take our minds off these troublesome women."
Patamon giggled. "All right," he said.
Kari stared at her celing. She had gone to bed an hour ago, but she couldn't seem to fall asleep. Vison's of TK kept drifting through her head as she tried to think of why he was being so cold. She remembered when they were eight years old, and he had promised Sora that he would protect her. How he had held her hand as they fell through the air towards the ground. How he wouldn't let go even after Angemon digivolved into Magna-Angemon and cought them. When they were set on the ground, TK had held her hand until the battle was over and she was safe in Tai's arms, and he was safe in Matt's.
She remembered seeing him for the first time in five years. He had slid into the seat next to her and smiled. He had smiled and joked with her and she relixed how much she missed him all those years. She remembered him saying that he cared to much about her to let her disapear. And she remembered his bright blue eye's sparkling with an inner fire when he wouldn't let them give up in that last battle in the digital world. Kari sighed and threw her blanket aside. She swung her legs out of bed and walked over to her computer.
She quietly got dressed, then held her digivice towards the computer. "Digiport open!"
TK opened the Digiport and felt him and and Patamon get sucked into the Digital World. He relaxed and looked down at his clothes. Comfortable jeans, a loose green tee shirt with a baby blue basketball jersey with the crest of hope over it, comfortable sneakers that were well broken in (and indestructable), a white and gold Yankees baseball cap, and his purple and silver letterman's coat over that.
TK picked up Patamon and set him on his hat.
"Come on bud. Let's go see if we can find Kittenmon and Pupmon."
"Okay." Patamon agreed.
Kari disappeared in a flash of white light. When she blinked again, she was in the Digital World. She looked down. Sneakers, capri pants, a baby cut tee shirt, and a leather jacket.
"Kari!"
Kari turned around to catch a flying ball of fur. "Gatomon!"
"Kari, I missed you so much. I haven't seen you in three weeks. And I have a problem."
Kari looked at her in concern. "What is it?"
Gatomon looked at the ground sadly. "Patamon's been avoiding me for the last three weeks. Every time I try to talk to him, he just runs away."
Kari frowned, "Runs? Don't you mean flys?"
Gatomon shook her head. "No. He runs. He hurt his ear awhile ago and he can't fly."
"Oh no! What happened?"
Gatomon shurgged. "I don't know. He won't talk to me. He keeps avoiding me."
Kari sighed. "Yeah, TK's been avoiding everyone too. He won't talk to any of our group. I'm worried, I really am."
"TK! PATAMON!"
TK cought the flying ball of fur that threw itself at him.
"Hey Kittenmon." he said, setting it down on the ground. It bounced strait back up into the air and landed on his shoulder. TK winced as she dug her claws into his shoulder. Kittenmon looked like a baby saimese kitten, all white except for brown around her mouth and nose, brown eyelids, brown on the tip of her tail, and brown paws. Kittenmon also had wide green eyes that were crossed, and huge purple, blue, and silver wings that were folded up on her back right now.
"TK's here! TK's here!" Panted a small puppy like digimon as it came running out of the forest.
"Hey Pupmon." TK said, bending down to scratch behind the digimon's ears. Pupmon looked with a dachshund puppy. He was pure white, with gold floppy ears, gold paws, gold on the tip of his tail, and gold around his eyes like a mask. His eyes were silver, and slightly crossed. There were two light blue lines on his back, where wings would be when he digivolved to Minimon.
"Where's Alexz and Angel?" TK asked his digimon friends.
"Right here." TK turned to find his new friends, Alexz and her twin brother Angel.
As always, Alexz took his breath away. She was short, only 5 foot and thin at 110. She had long, thick, silky black hair that was pulled into a ponytail and then braided and fell to her waist. She had golden-brown skin, a small rounded face, high cheekbones, a tiny snubbed nose, and a small full mouth. But it was her eyes that caught peoples attention. They were huge, almond shaped, and bright green with long black lashes. And her bangs were pure white. Kittenmon was her digi partner.
Angel was Alexz's twin brother. He had the same think black hair as Alexz, along with the huge eyes and long lashes. His green eyes danced with laughter, and his hair was spiked, but looked a little wind blown. He was only three inchs taller and ten pounds hevier than Alexz. Pupmon was his digimon.
As always, Alexz was wearing a pair of blue camo drawstring pants, purple seankers, a silver New York Yankees jersey and a black leather jacket that had the crest on Innocence on the back of it in green.
Angel was wearing silver hightop sneakers, cargo pants, a green tee shirt, and a long black leather duster that had the crest of Energy on the back of it in blue.
Angel gave TK a high five, and Alexz hugged him. "We were expecting you. Come on, we have a picnic set up and everything."
"All right!" TK and Patamon said at the same time. "Food!" Alexz and Angel laughed, and TK blushed before starting to laugh too. As always when he was with these two, all his problems seemed to disappear.
