Escape By Henrika

Disclaimer-I don't own Digimon! I wish I did but I don't.

Henrika-I am so sorry! I meant to get this chapter out a lot sooner, BUT I didn't get my review requirement until now and then my computer crashed and I lost everything. So I'm afraid the rest of the chapters are going to be slow in coming. Since one person wanted this chapter I am going to write it. And this time I have to get 30 REVIEWS before I continue. Enjoy and Review!

Chapter 4

"Ouf!" Henry grunted as he was tossed out onto a cold metal floor. "Where am I?" He wondered out loud as he got up. The entire room was sheathed in metal, except for part of it. The part of the room that wasn't was a shining digital gate; the one Henry had just fallen through.

"Guess I may as well look around since I'm going to be here awhile." Henry said as he remembered the letters he had left with Terriermon. He opened the door and found himself in a library.

"Wait a second. This is Mr. Mizuno's place. Why did the gate send me here?" Henry wondered out loud. "Great, I've already started talking to myself." It was then that he noticed something warm was running down his hand. The fall had re-opened the half-hearted cut he had made on his wrist.

Using some of the pressure points he had learned from Sensei, he grasped his arm and stopped the bleeding. "Is anyone here?" Henry yelled as he started wandering around the house. Silence greeted his ears and he sighed. "Well at least here there's no one to hurt me." He thought of Rika and sighed again.

"How could I have been so stupid?" Henry yelled as he punched the wall in frustration. He began to run just for the sake of taking away some of his energy. The twisting hallways ran on forever, leading to all sorts of place, not just in the house, but into the digital world.

Finally Henry reached his goal and stumbled down a hallway, falling to the floor. He didn't even notice the door until he flipped over onto his back. "How did this get here?" He said in confusion. He looked for a knob or some way to open the door and found nothing. Angrily, he kicked the door, trying to force it open.

"What is going on here?" He muttered as he slumped against the door and passed straight through it. "I guess you can't be angry when you're trying to go through it. Must be a defense mechanism Mr. Mizuno put in." He explained to himself. Getting up again, he wandered into the little room at the end of the hall. It was small and had a window seat in the center of the farthest wall. It was what was out the window that made Henry gasp. It was the digital ocean, the same one he, Takato, and Terriermon had swam through to get here the first time. Thinking of that made him think of his other friends and more specifically, Rika.

Although he had not said so in any of his notes, he had done what he had because of her. He had begun to drift away from everyone after the D- reaper's defeat. The thing that killed him was that nobody noticed. "Nobody was supposed to notice." Henry thought out loud. When Rika had accepted Ryo's date he knew it was her decision, but he was still crushed.

Henry crawled onto the window seat, knowing somehow that he would be spending a lot of time here. He laid down and fell asleep, tears slipping from his now-clouded eyes.

Henrika- Sad and short. Did that qualify as a tearjerker? I'm afraid the next chapters will be slow since I have to remember what I had typed the first time. Remember, must have 30 reviews to post the next chapter! Review Folks!