Here it finally is! I had to run all the way back and reload it on my other computer, then bring it back over. (20 miles) Not fun, but you guys deserved a better chappy. The first part you'll have read, the next is new and I think a little longer than usual. I'll try to update soon! (but my grandparents computer might die if I upload something on )

Deathwisher!!!! A cliffy is when an author stops at a very dramatic point, leaving the reader wondering what comes next. All clear??

Shattered
-=- By Suki -=-

Chapter 10 -=- It's the Choices...

Carly sighed, she hadn't gotten hardly any sleep. It was already time for her dad to pick her up. Although, she wasn't going to go. She couldn't.

"Carly?" Odd poked his head into her room. "He's here. Let's go..."

Carly nodded. "Right. This should be quick. Good thing Yumi's not here, right?"

Odd smiled. "Yes, it is."


Yumi awoke with Ulrich still holding her hand. "Ulrich," she whispered. No answer, she looked and saw that he was sleeping peacefully in his chair. The scary thing was, he was still up right.

"Ms. Ishiyama?" a nurse walked into the room.

"Yes?" Yumi nodded, wondering who the new nurse was. Last night a different nurse had taken care of her.

"I have to ask that you remain calm... this won't come easy. You see, I'm supposed to arrest you because you tried to commit suicide," the nurse said, shifting uneasily from side to side.

"Arrest me?" Yumi squealed. She didn't want to go to prison. It was just wrong for her to go.

"Why? All she did was slip off the bridge?" Ulrich told the nurse. He had awoken right after she walked in and didn't like the look of her at all.

"I can't help it. Take it to court," she said, turning and leaving as fast as possible.


"Go Carly! I'll catch up with you later, okay?" Odd said, waving his hands to shoo her off.

"Alright, but be careful Odd," Carly warned, kissing him quickly on the cheek before departing to the old factory.

"No worries," Odd smiled and hurried off to find her father. He found the man sitting on his car waiting for Carly, too bad she wasn't coming.

"Hey you!" he called, waving Odd over. "Have you seen my daughter?"

"No sir," Odd lied. "Not since dinner time last night."

"You lie," the man hissed. "Where is she?"

"I really don't know," Odd insisted. "If I did, I'd tell you."

"You do know though. I know you do!" he shouted, his face was turning steadily redder.

"I don't. Honestly, I'll write my name in blood if I have to," Odd told him, smiling serenely.

"Love your enemies," his father had told him once. "It pisses them off." This my friends, is what Odd intended to do.


"What am I supposed to do Ulrich?" Yumi whispered. "I can't go to jail!"

"Just tell them you slipped," Ulrich told her. "That's all you should say. Meanwhile I'm going to go visit someone here that I know."

"Who?" Yumi asked. She really didn't want him to leave. It was like a princess being left alone by her knight in shining armor.

"A friend who knows some stuff," Ulrich replied and left. He found his friend taking a break at the nurse's station.

"Ulrich! How are ya?" the nurse asked, looking up from her paper work.

"Good, but I've got some questions about some... stuff. Can we talk?" he asked. "Pretty please, Charlotte?"

"Oh fine," she agreed and lead him to the empty staff lounge. "What's the matter?"

"My friend tried to kill herself. She's in rehab now and a nurse came in and told her she was going to be arrested for attempt of suicide," Ulrich explained.

"Ahh... well she shouldn't be arrested," Charlotte replied. "Perhaps therapy, but nothing more."

"Okay, can you help her? It's Yumi Ishiyama in room 318," Ulrich said, smiling from ear to ear.

"Sure, I'd be honored," she smiled back, happy that she could repay her debt to Ulrich.


"You do know where she is! You little liar! Tell me right now!" Carly's father shouted at Odd. He had gotten off his car and was walking slowly over to the place where Odd was standing.

"Sir, I really don't know. Please, you don't need to shout," Odd said kindly. Inside, however, he was ready to rip the man's throat out. Only Carly stopped him from actually doing it.

"Don't you dare tell me what to do!" the older man bellowed, spit flying out of his mouth and landing on Odd's cheek.

"I'm sorry, but wouldn't it be easier on your voice to be quieter?" Odd asked again, wiping the spit off his face.

"Shut up!" he grabbed hold of Odd's collar and hoisted him up easily. "I've had enough!"

"Hey! You there!" Jim called out. "Put him down!"

"Fine," Odd's form dropped onto the ground, he landed with a light thud.

"I'm going to have to bring you to the Principal," Jim told him. "Anyone who manhandles the students must be escorted there immediately."

"Fine," he repeated and the two made their way to the Administration Office.

"Thank God that's over," Odd mumbled pushing himself up. He quickly evaluated the damage, only scratched palms, nothing serious. "I better hurry over..."


"Odd! You're back!" Carly exclaimed, running over and giving him a big bear hug. She had been hiding out at the factory since their last parting and found it boring. The lift was too rickety looking for her liking and the place was some what eerie.

"Yeah, I am. Your dad got in trouble," Odd said, smiling a little.

"What'd he do to you?" Carly asked her expression grim.

"Nothing..." Odd trailed off.

"What did he do to you?" she repeated.

"Nothing..." Odd avoided her gaze.

"Odd! What the hell did he do to you?" Carly shouted.

"Okay, okay. I'll talk, just don't yell," Odd gave in. "He picked me up."

"That's all?!" Carly looked at him as though he was sprouting wings.

"Yeah... Jim said it was manhandling," Odd explained. "Cool huh?"

"No... this means he'll start going after you!" Carly said; her expression graver than it had been only seconds ago.


"Yumi?" Charlotte called into the girl's room.

"Yes?" Yumi looked up from the book she was reading.

"Can I talk to you?"

"You are," Yumi replied, smiling a tiny bit at her own joke.

"Cute. It's about the jail thing," Charlotte told her. The smile faded from Yumi's lips.

"What?" she hissed. Anyone who brought up the subject received similar treatment. Yumi despised the whole idea of going to jail and with good reason.

"Please don't yell at me. I can get you out." Charlotte said, a smile playing at her lips.


Better than only the short one? Hope so. -Suki