Summary: Sequel to Enter the Song, and only more fluff for everybody's favorite 'only a world apart' couple. (aka Jeremie and Aelita) Plus now it's Sissy's turn to wreck some havoc, and Theo makes a slight return. It's placed about a month after Jeremie and Aelita first have gotten together.
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To Love A Genius
Chapter 2
"Can you explain this?"
Aelita felt like she was going to faint. "X.A.N.A.", she whispered, and swayed slightly. It had been two full years since she had seen that symbol, but no matter what, it still terrified her.
The man, the principle, looked at her sharply. "What did you say, Ms. Lyoko?" He snapped, and Aelita stood straighter, hearing the name of her former home. That symbol just didn't stand for X.A.N.A. after all. She looked the man in the face.
"That, sir, is something only belonging to nightmares. What it stands for can be pure good…or pure evil. Two sides of the same coin."
Jeremie, Odd, Yumi and Ulrich looked at the pink-haired girl in wonder. Never before had they heard her speak so strongly about the connection between her own self, and X.A.N.A. The principle frowned.
"Is this a riddle, Ms. Aelita?"
Jeremie stepped forward. "No, sir. She's serious. That's-"
"I know she's serious!" Jim yelled suddenly. All six people looked turned to stare at the physical education teacher. "It was in a dream!" The principle rolled his eyes.
"Jim, not your dreaming stories again, please-"
"But it's true, sir!"
"Jim, please!" The principle faced the five students, frowning. "Now, you listen to me. I do not know what that thing is, but I do not want to see it again. Jeremie, I trust this is not a prank of some such?"
Jeremie shook his head so fast his hair flopped everywhere. "I don't know how it got there, sir. I really truly don't know."
Jim glared at him. "It was in your room, blazing for all the world to see! What is it?"
Jeremie gulped. "I-I-" Aelita, realizing he needed help, squeezed his hand, then stepped forward.
"It's just something from a…a video game the five of us used to play. That was the symbol for the…enemy. I thought the game had been broken." Jim and the principle both raised their eyebrows at each other, but seemed to accept her answer. They were dismissed, and the five of them jogged out of the office, waited two seconds, then all looked at each other.
"X.A.N.A.'s back," Yumi confirmed, cracking her knuckles. "Somehow."
"What's with Jim having dreams about X.A.N.A.?" asked Ulrich and Odd at the same time. Jeremie smiled wryly.
"At least that's answerable," he stated softly. "Jim helped us, remember?" The other four nodded. "The conscious mind may forget what happened before the 'return to the past' process, but it is still possible to have dreams." He smirked. "As we all know."
Aelita nodded, but still looked extremely scared. Jeremie noticed, and put an arm around her waist, pulling her close. Aelita looked at him with a strange light in her even stranger green-black eyes. "Lyoko is shut down," she said softly. "How are we to fight him?"
"Maybe it's not X.A.N.A.."
All four of them stared at Odd, who had spoken. "You never know. Maybe X.A.N.A. had an apprentice or something. A backup thing." Aelita raised her eyebrows.
"You know Odd?" she said, very softly. "You just might have something there…"
Yes, another cliffie. So…the possibilities are endless…Bowahaha! Do you like? Please review, and THANK YOU! You all ROCK!
