Disclaimer: If I owned Code Lyoko, there would be a Code Lyoko movie out.
In what seemed like forever for Aelita, an unconscious Jeremie, Ms. Karol, and herself found themselves in the hospital intensive care section. The doctors asked for Ms. Karol and Aelita to step out in the waiting room, but Aelita refused to leave Jeremie's side. After a heated argument the doctors, seeing it was futile to argue with her, let Aelita follow them.
The wound Jeremie was dark red, but thankfully, the knife had missed all of Jeremie's vital organs. Aelita never took her eyes off o Jeremie as the doctors stitched up and bandaged his wound.
"I don't get it," stated a doctor, "The knife missed all of his vital organs and the boy hasn't lost too much blood, and yet the boy's heart if failing and his forehead is burning up."
"I fear he's the knife had poison in it," replied another doctor, "See. His temperature is rising continually. Quickly, we need ice!"
Aelita looked at Jeremie and held his hand, "Jeremie, please don't die. Please."
With Jeremie
Jeremie woke up with a start and found himself in an infinite amount of whiteness. He briefly remembered what it was like to be in between Lyoko and the real world and decided it was like that.
"Hello!" shouted Jeremie, "Is anybody here? Where am I?"
"Define where," said a voice and Jeremie found himself looking at a man dressed in white robes with wings sprouting out of his back.
"You're an angel!" gasped Jeremie, "Does that mean that I'm d-dead?"
"Yes and no," replied the angel calmly, as though things like this happened everyday, but then it probably did, "Your body on earth is barely working and is breaking down. So you are here, in a sort of limbo between Earth, Heaven, and Hell. Though it's funny, your heart should've stopped beating by now."
"But I can't leave Aelita," said Jeremie desperately, "I promised her I wouldn't leave her. I love her, I can't just abandon her!"
Then the angel smiled encouragingly, "Yes, of course. Why, I haven't seen this in over 300 hundred years! Yours and hers love for one another binds you together and thus gives you a choice."
"What kind of choice?" asked Jeremie.
"You have a choice on whether you go back to Earth or go to whatever awaits you Beyond," replied the angel.
Jeremie's heart (in the metaphorical sense of course) leaped, "I want to go back. I need to be with Aelita."
The angel nodded in understanding, "Are you sure? Your soul is pretty clean. If you choose to leave your life on Earth, you can probably enter Heaven in no time." As he was saying this a door appeared.
"I made a promise to Aelita. I promised to never leave her. I cannot break that promise," said Jeremie.
"Are you sure?" asked the angel.
"Yes I'm sure." stated Jeremie determinedly.
"Very well then," said the angel, "Just open that door and you will return to Earth. May God bless you."
Jeremie thanked him and opened the door in it he saw his body surrounded by many doctors and most importantly Aelita. Jeremie felt his heart twinge (again in the metaphorical sense) at the sight of her sobbing.
"Before I go, what's your name," asked Jeremie.
"My name is Ali," replied the angel.
Jeremie nodded and stepped through the door and Ali and the white place seemed to disappear as though it all had been a dream.
In the hospital
"He's flat lining!" shouted a nurse.
"Come on, breathe1" shouted a doctor as he shocked him with the heart stimulator (at least that's what I think it's called) with no avail.
"He's dead," stated another doctor.
Aelita sobbed as the heart monitor flat lined. She thought she was never again going to see his sapphire eyes light up in laughter. Never again would she feel the warmth of his hands. Still with tears she pressed her lips against his.
As though by magic, Jeremie's heart began to beat and his fever began to decrease.
He opened his eyes to find the distance between him and Aelita closed and as though by instinct, he kissed her back.
"He's alive!" shouted the first doctor.
Aelita broke off the kiss and said, "Don't you ever scare me like that again."
"Never again," replied Jeremie with a smile.
A couple days later, the gang was in Jeremie's hospital ward as they helped him pack the few things that were sent from Kadic during his brief stay. Jeremie wrenched in pain as his wound started to hurt again.
"Sit down Jeremie," commanded Aelita.
Jeremie reluctantly complied, "Really Aelita, I think you're becoming a little overprotective."
"Like you're not the same way," said Aelita playfully.
Jeremie chuckled, but then grimly asked, "What happened to Tom?"
"He got away," replied Ulrich, "He seems to have vanished in thin air."
"I can't believe we trusted him," said Yumi, "He just betrayed us and attempted to murder Jeremie like it was the most usual thing in the world."
Jeremie felt Aelita's hand clasp tightly around his, as though she might prevent him from being attacked again, "I know," she said, "I can't believe he did that."
Then turning to Jeremie she continued more softly "I almost lost you. Is it really true what Tom said. Am I really poison."
"No Aelita," replied Jeremie firmly, "You are the reason I didn't die. It was you that kept me alive after Tom stabbed me. It's you that gives me the reason for me to get up everyday."
Aelita smiled and kissed him gently on the mouth, "Thanks Jeremie."
"We're still here you know," interrupted Odd.
"I guess we should get going now," said Ulrich breaking the silence that resulted afterward as Jeremie and Aelita blushed.
Jeremie nodded and walked hand in hand with Aelita and beside his other friends. For now, they were safe.
With Tom
"Jeremie survived!" shouted Xana in exasperation, "You failed me Tom!"
"It's not my fault," pleaded Tom, "I stabbed him in the chest, your poison should've killed him."
"You're right," said Xana as he calmed down, "I'll give you another chance. I have a mission for you."
Tom grinned as his blue eyes darkened with malice, "I am ever at your service."
A.N. Please review! The story isn't over yet!