Author's note: I have the perfect ending for this fic… but since I think this fic's all to short, I'm prolonging it a bit… so this is a 'filler' chapter… and anyway, it'll work well leading about to the final chapter.
They released Jeri from the hospital the next morning. She unraveled the bandage and looked at the grotesque scarring skin. She sighed sadly and put a new, clean bandage on them. "Maybe Rika's right…" She murmured to herself as she finished bandaging her right wrist. "Maybe I do need to stop pushing them away…" She started on her left wrist. "Why did that hurt Takato so badly…?" "I'd do anything to make you happy…" She blushed. "Anything… to make me happy." She sighed. "Maybe he cares for me more than I think he does?" She walked out of the bathroom and sat down on her futon, to think. "And Rika… she's been so supportive about my insanity…" She murmured, laying back. "I don't deserve them…" She said. "Hey Jeri." She moved her head to look behind her without getting up. "Oh, hi Ryo." She said a bit surprised. "How are you doing?" He asked concerned. "Uh, as fine as a girl who's family is dead and just tried to commit suicide can be." She said with a forced smile. He smiled back. "Ryo!" Rika called. "We better get going!" "Right, Rika! Sorry!!" Ryo turned back to Jeri. "If you need anything…" He said. She nodded, still forcing herself to smile. "Thanks, bye." "See ya." He said before walking off. "Ryo's a nice guy…" She noted. "Like it was unpredictable that those two would get together…" She snickered to herself. "I'd do anything to make you happy…" "Why can't I forget what Takato said to me…?" She said softly. "He's… always been like that… so kind to me…"
"Be brave, Jeri… Part of me will always be with you… Remember, you have a lion's heart…" And with that, Leomon turned into data that Beelzemon soon absorbed. Jeri began to cry uncontrollably. Her digimon was gone, dead. "Guilmon, digivolve to Mega!" She heard an enraged Takato command. She was surprised, why did kind, sensitive Takato sound so enraged? "Digivolve!" Did Takato care for her that much…?
Though memories returned of how Guilmon had dark-digivolved into that… beast… and Jeri had told Takato stay away from her. "Don't come near me! Guilmon was so sweet and cute! Look what you did to him!!" She sighed. "I was so mean to Takato after Leomon died… I was so mean to all of them… like I am now…" She said rolling over onto her side. "I'm so confused…" Suddenly, the phone rang. She stood up, walked over and answered it. "Hello?" "Hello, Jeri. This is Takato's mother, Mrs. Matsuki… have you seen him by chance? He hasn't been home since he went to see you in the hospital last night and… *thud* Jeri? Jeri?" Jeri just stood there, shaking, and took no notice to the phone hitting the ground. "Takato's… missing…?"