Nope still not mine, and in case your wondering, no I don't hate Mat. As a matter of fact he is one of my favorite characters. He just happens to have some depth to him and a dark side that no one ever seems to bring up but I just can't seem to forget. I guess the spitefulness in me is getting the better of me and I should blame who ever got high and made the 02 ending but poor Mat just has to take the brunt from me, its ok though, he's tough.

Chapter 10

Testing to see if she was right Kari walked into the fog, as she did so a small smile graced her lips as the fog swirled but thinned out in front of her. She opened her mouth to call out to TK but stopped dead when the voce of the boy she had just been thinking about cut though the fog like a knife.

"Kari!" Davis' voice called, "I'm so glad I found you! Hay where is TS? I can't believe he would let my girl walk off on her, own you could get hurt!"

At his words something in Kari snapped. She was always nice and sweet. The so called perfect one but she was fed up with Davis thinking that he owned her, and she was more then fed up with Davis being so dense that he couldn't even get TK's name right!

She knew he knew it, how could you not know TK? But he refused to say it right in an immature attempt to belittle TK. He was so idiotic in this attempt that he couldn't even tell how stupid it made him look. So she decided to end this game for good, something that she had just realized was something that she should have done a long time ago. What she had tried to do after the US fiasco and his jealous fit over Willis.

"For the last time Davis, I. Am. Not. Your. Girl." She all but spat at his silhouette. "And do yourself a favor and learn TK's name, the others might start to respect you for once if you didn't come off as such an idiot all the damn time!" Now this really shocked her. She almost never swore, and never at her friends, she wanted to apologize but she just couldn't seem to, something was holding her back, and it was making her want to hurt him for all the crap he had pulled in her life. So it went on and on. She called him everything in the book and most likely even made up a few words in doing so, by the end she was red in the face and panting and he seemed to be crying.

"Fine! If that's the way you really feel about me I'll... I'll leave you alone... forever..." Still in the grips of what ever was making her like this she didn't pay attention to the depressed tone in his voice and her rather chipper "Good!" didn't help any. His last remark however did manage to cut though the red haze that had taken hold of her mind. "Ok then, Kari, good-bye..." the awful note of finality in that last word as he faded away, was like a slap in the face and a bucket of cold water at the same time as she realized just what he meant by good-bye. She heard his scream and ran forwards calling his name, having been blinded by tears after realizing what he had done, she didn't notice the fog had lifted almost immediately afterwards.

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TK's call for Kari wasn't answered by her voice, no it was answered by the closest thing TK really had to a rival for the girls love, Davis.

"Yo, TP that you?" TK had gotten used to the Tai wannabe messing up his name, even if he didn't truly understand why he did it.

"Yes, its me. What are you doing here Davis? Aren't you and Willis supposed to be on the other side of the digital world?" 'Ten to one its going to be something about making sure Kari is safe or I'm not hitting on *his* girl.'

"I got a funny feeling that Kari was in trouble and their was no way I was going to let Willis get close to my girl, your were in the way enough as it was."

'Right on both counts.' TK thought to himself, 'what a minute, did he say I *was* in the way? What the heck does that mean?' and that was exactly what he asked. It wasn't that he didn't think that Kari wouldn't chouse Davis, on the contrary he was deathly afraid of it.

He knew how much she loved her brother, and that she had even had a crush on his at one point, and Davis was like both of them in some ways. It was a fear that he lived with constantly. No it was the idea that she wouldn't have told him about it that didn't sit easily with him.

"That's right TR, Kari and I are a couple now, and it was all because I saved her from the big scary fog monster." TK could hear the smile in Davis' voice but only gave the whole explanation a mental snort.

If Kari had been one to run into a relationship just because a guy saved her life then he himself would have been set for life just because of Piedmon alone. 'Not counting getting the group out of that house when she had been sick that one time in the digital world, or even getting her out of the Dark Ocean, just to name a few.' He was just about to say that to the pompous windbag when suddenly the fog cleared...