lostmoonchild: Chapter fifteen is here finally! Thanks for reviewing! I don't own Code: Lyoko or any of the songs unless I say otherwise. I only own the characters who aren't part of Code: Lyoko so you canna' sue me!
Chapter Fifteen
Odd found himself walking down a hallway, confused as to how he got there. He could sense something wasn't right, for some reason he was afraid as he heard the sounds of the TV blaring. He walked into a living room and gasped -or at least tried to- when he saw Mr. and Mrs. Kaze sitting in the living room, both drunk. "Bitch, where were you?" Mr. Kaze demanded his voice slurred.
Oh please don't let him get up. Odd found himself thinking. Mama, say something. Please, don't let him hurt me again. "I was in my room, father." Odd said before something hit him. He was in one of Morgan's memories and instead of watching, he was seeing things through Morgan's eyes.
"Doing what? Dressing like a slut?" Mr. Kaze said starting to get up.
"Wait a minute, dear, lets hear what the girl has to say." Mrs. Kaze said simply, sorrow clear in her eyes. "Ami?"
"I was wondering, honorable father, if I could get an after school job. I mean, don't we need the money?"
Mr. Kaze got up and slapped Odd, sending him against a wall. "Are you saying that after I've put clothes on your back, let you eat food off my table, bought you those damned CDs and that damned CD player, you are unhappy with what you have?"
"N-no, I was just asking.." Odd started to say before Mr. Kaze kicked him. I need the money to get a place of my own away from you, you damn bastard.
Mrs. Kaze watched and got up to get a couple of beers. "You should know better than to ask your father for things, my dearest Ami." Mrs. Kaze said a couple hours later as she tended to Odd's newest injuries. "He wants you to be happy."
"By beating me! Mama, he hurt brother and he's hurting me too! Let me call the police and have him arrested. Then we can move back to Japan. Grandpa will let us stay at the hotel until we can pick up the pieces."
She lived through this kind of beating? Odd asked himself completely amazed. No wonder she was terrified. Everytime somebody touched her, she ended up hurt. Except for now. Her mother's caring for her injuries since she's too injuried to even take care of herself. "Summer's almost here, my little Ami. You go back to Japan, establish a life for yourself there. I can't leave your father, he's all I have left."
"What about brother and me? Aren't we worth anything to you?"
"Yes, you two are my world. Except your father's taken care of me ever since I was a teenager and pregnant with you and Sano." Mrs. Kaze said with a gentle smile. "Did I ever tell you that the doctors thought that you and Jason were going to be twins? They were shocked a week later when your aunt came into the hospital in labor the day I went into labor with you. They were even more shocked when you and Yumi were born. She was born first and when she cried, you came right out. When you both saw eachother, you both stopped crying and seemed to fall into a little conversation nobody could hear."
Odd felt a taste of loathing as he listened to Mrs. Kaze and he wasn't sure if it was just his loathing or Morgan's loathing. "I'm tired of this. I have a life and I'm not going to end up like you." Odd found himself saying as he struggled to get up. "I want to leave father, I want to live without fearing of being hurt." Odd said after Mrs. Kaze left the room. "I know that somebody wants me out there. Maybe if I go to where Yumi is... but I don't know where she is anymore. All I know is she's somewhere in France."
After a couple hours of managing to make the room look like a kidanpping, Odd grabbed a knife and cut his arm. That's where she got those scars. She did it to herself. Odd realized as his arm was shook so there were blood droplets all over the room. He covered the wound and looked around the room completely satisfied with the results. "Time to say goodbye." Odd murmured leaving the room and walking into another bedroom, amazed to see Mrs. Kaze asleep on an unmade bed. "Bye, mama. Don't be mad at me, please don't. I'm not like you, I can't live with the beatings. Forgive me."
Quietly, Odd snuck past an unconcious Mr. Kaze and left the apartment building just as the front desk guy went to get a cigarette. "Benjamin Franklin Airport please." Odd said handing the taxi driver some money. Finally a second chance.
Odd woke up with a start halfway expecting to find himself somewhere OTHER than his dorm room and looked relieved when he saw that Ulrich was getting dressed for school. "Geez, Odd, I was about to wake you up." Ulrich said as Odd got up. "have a bad dream?"
"Yeah, I guess you could call it a bad memory." Odd said before explaining the dream.
"You were watching everything through Kaze's eyes!" Ulrich asked looking shocked. "Is that even possible?"
Odd shrugged and said, "I dont' know. All I know is that I learned some stuff that she didn't want to tell me and I learned WHY she didn't want to tell me. She didn't want to remember except for some reason, she remembered and let me see."
They left their room and went to get Morgan. "Time to get up, sleeping beauty!" Yumi shouted knocking on Morgan's door. "Morning, guys. Odd, did you and Ami sneak out last night?"
"No, she hasn't wanted to sneak out ever since her parents showed up." Odd said before knocking on the door. "Morgan, lets get some breakfast."
Slowly, Morgan opened her door and looked at them. One of her eyes was black and her lip was bleeding. "Oh my God, what happened?" Yumi asked as they rushed into the room.
Morgan shook as she stared at a knife that had fresh blood on it. "Ami, why do you do this?" Yumi asked wrapping the arm wound before starting to take care of any other wounds.
"I had to. He made me hurt some more and I wanted to feel something other than the pain HE gave me." Morgan said starting to cry.
Yumi sighed and started comforting her younger cousin, watching her friends' eyes and seeing shock along with some pain. "Hey, you survived some pretty tough crap." Odd said gently. "Your mother was being stupid by not ditching him when she had the chance."
"I'm stupid. I should have known that there's no way he's going to stop." Morgans said making a mad attempt to get the knife in her hands again but stopping when Ulrich stepped on the blade.
"You're not hurting yourself. If you keep doing that, he'll have a reason to have you locked away where he can find you." Ulrich said calmly. "Now calm down."
After half an hour, she was calm enough to put on enough make up to cover her bruise and some lip gloss to hide the cut on her lip. "So how'd you get that?" Yumi asked softly in Japanese.
"I got a message to meet somebody in the park. I thought that Odd had sent the message but when I got there, my parents were there." Morgan said shaking at the memory. ""Father" said that he was going to finish the "punishment" later on and that if anybody tried to stop him, he'd kill them."
"There's a plane heading towards Japan later on today." Aelita said suddenly. "You can go back to Japan until the police catch your father."
"he'll be waiting at the airport with police saying that I ran away from home which I actually did do." Morgan said unhappily. "I have to stay here, its safest right now."
They sighed and looked at the Japanese girl, seeing the eyes of a small child. She was scared and didn't know what to do. Everything she worked hard to keep secret was falling apart all around her and there was no such thing as safety in her world. Everything equalled pain.
A couple hours after breakfast they sat outside enjoying the sun's warmth when they heard gunshots. They attempted to run inside but stopped when Yumi screamed and fell down, her leg bleeding from a gunshot wound. "Shit. Shit. Fuck." Morgan whispered as they pulled Yumi towards the school building, her eyes widening in fear as her father walked towards them.
"GET OUT OF HERE NOW!" Mr. Delmas roared when he saw Mr. Kaze.
Mr. Kaze smirked and said, "I will after I collect my daughter. She's been very bad and needs to be punished."
"Don't let him take me." Morgan whispered holding onto Odd tightly, her eyes showing pure terror. She knew what was going to happen, she could see promises of a slow and painful death in her father's eyes.
"AMI, IF YOU DON'T WANT YOUR FRIENDS DEAD I SUGGEST YOU COME WITH ME NOW!" Mr. Kaze shouted in Japanese.
Whimpering in fear, Morgan looked at her friends and mouthed, "I love you guys and thanks for the best year of my life," before walking towards her father. "MORGAN!" Odd shouted but found himself being held back. "Don't! He'll kill you."
"He'll kill you, Odd. I don't want to be responsable for any of my friends' deaths." Morgan's voice filled his head. "Besides, I'm not afraid of Death... Not anymore."
Tears started rolling down Odd's face as he struggled to get to Morgan. "If anybody follows then I will kill the slut and whoever followed us." Mr. Kaze said coldly holding a gun to his daughter's head. "Say 'goodbye' to everybody, daughter."
"Bye..." Morgan whispered a tear rolling down her face as she was led away.
:"MORGAN!" Odd shouted more tears rolling down his face.
Yumi hissed as she dug the bullet out of her leg and said, "I hate that bastard but we have to wait. If we go now, her fate is sealed."
They looked over at Mr. Delmas and saw that he was calling the police and an ambulance. "A student has been taken at gunpoint by her father." Mr. Delmas said trying to remain calm. "Hurry and get over to Kadic school with an ambulance."
"DON'T NEED ONE BUT KAZE WILL!" Yumi shouted. "You'd best order a hearse too cause I'm gonna kill Ami's bastard father!"
"You five are going nowhere but to my office!" Mr. Delmas said. "Yumi, get to the infirmary to get you leg looked at."
"Bastard." Yumi muttered as she was helped up. "My leg isn't bad, it stopped bleeding. Its Ami-chan I'm worried about."
The police arrive fifteen minutes later and spent nearly half an hour questioning them about where Mr. Kaze could have taken his daughter. Then half an hour just planning their attack. "This is wasting too much time." Odd said. "We've got to look for her. By the time those guys find her, she'll be dead!"
Yumi nodded and said, "You four go look for her. I'll stay here."
Ulrich looked worried and he asked, "Are you sure?"
"Yeah. Just come back here alive and preferably unharmed with Ami preferably alive." Yumi said calmly. "Call me on your cell if you find her."
They nodded and snuck into the park, looking around for any sign of the Japanese girl. "Odd, is there any place that you think she might have gone if she attempted to hide from her father?" Ulrich asked.
Odd nodded a little and took off running, shouting for them to follow him. "She and I found this place after our third date. Its far enough away from the school that nobody can see or hear anything unless they follow." Odd said walking into a clearing and looking shocked as they saw Morgan lying on the ground, her arms and legs bent and odd angles. "Oh my God, MORGAN!" Odd shouted running to Morgan and genty kissing her forehead. "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry!"
"You're late." Morgan's voice filled their heads. Her voice was weak but that showed she was still alive.
Jeremy started throwing up behind a bush when he saw the damage that had been done to Morgan's body. Aelita started rubbing Jeremy's back in a comforting manner while Ulrich and Odd checked all of Morgan's wounds out. "You look like shit." Ulrich said putting Morgan's legs back in place.
"I know. All that make up wasted. It'll take a lot more than a couple layers of foundation to cover these injuries." Morgan attempted to joke. "Oh, God, this hurts so much. I just wanna die right now except for some reason, there's no light at the end of a tunnel. Hell, there's no tunnel at all."
"There not being a tunnel at all is a good thing." Odd said watching as Jeremy called Yumi telling her where they were.
Tears started rolling down Morgan's face as she tried to move her arms and legs. "Don't move, you'll only make your injuries worse." Aelita said gently.
"I'm scared. I wanna go home." Morgan whispered tears rolling down her face. "Brother won't let me come back, I know he won't. He doesn't want me to be where 'father' can get me without any problems."
"Shh. It'll be alright." Odd said as he attempted to pick Morgan up.
"Odd! What are you doing! You'll only make her wounds worse!" Jeremy shouted at Odd.
Odd held Morgan as close to him as he could without puncturing her lungs and said, "She needs help and by the time the paramedics get here she'll most likely be dead. I'm bringing her to them."
"I'm sorry." Morgan said attempting to nestle up against Odd.
"For what?" Ulrich asked.
"I shouldn't have come here. You all are risking your lives just to help me." Morgan whispered starting to slip into darkness.
"Hold on, Morgan. Just hold on. We're almost there." Odd said picking up his pace a little.
By the time they got out of the park, the paramedics had just arrived and were yelling at Odd for moving her. "Ami-chan!" Yumi said looking shocked.
"They won't let me die on them." Morgan said attempting to make another joke. "My jaw's broken so I'm stuck with telepathy."
Yumi brushed some stray hairs out of her cousin's face and said, "I don't want you to die on me, Kaze. You're the first person I had a conversation with and I'm going to be damned if this is the last conversation we'll ever have."
"There's no light at the end of the tunnel, Ishiyama, and there's no tunnel. That sucks, don't it? I was kinda wondering where people like us go." Morgan murmured wincing as the paramedics got her on a stretcher before privately asking Yumi, "Will you make sure that I'm buried behind the waterfall if I don't survive?"
"We're going with!" The five teenagers said climing into the back of the ambulance after Morgan was loaded into the ambulance.
Morgan looked up at her friends and smiled a little bit, staring at their faces before allowing unconsciousness to overcome her. My friends, my brothers and sisters. Morgan thought before falling unconcious.
No more than five minutes after the ambulance had left, the police chief pulled Mr. Delmas aside. "We have some good news. We caught Mr. and Mrs. Kaze."
lostmoonchild: End of chapter fifteen! Wow, I'm tired and its only 2:07 in the afternoon. Being sick totally sucks if you're throwing up during math but rocks when you get kicked home and you get to mess around on the computer. Well, I'm going so I can work on chapter sixteen before my brother gets home. Ja ne for now! Read and review, flames accepted.