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It had been three days since Xana's attempt at building an army to kill all of Kadic's students. Odd was in such a bad condition that he needed a heart transplant as soon as possible, and there was no way he would be leaving the hospital until he got one. Aelita and Jeremie had been with him almost the entire time at the hospital, but this was Sissi's first day visiting him because of her guilt from their previous conversation. The three kids sat with Odd while Mr. Delmas talked to Dr. Greene just outside the door.

They were all awkwardly silent, but no one knew what to say. Just looking at Odd was painful for them. He was almost as pale as the white sheets that covered him, and his lips were bluish. A breathing mask was placed over his nose and mouth, and the heart monitor beeped with a barely steady rhythm. He could hardly keep his eyes open.

When she'd first walked into the room the scene had been all too familiar. Just a little over a week before she'd walked in to see Odd in a similar, yet less severe, situation. How had she fallen in love with the boy over the course of that week? It baffled her, but she wondered if somehow she'd loved him all along, even when she'd thought she hated him. Sissi wanted to hold his hand and tell him that everything was going to be alright, but she just couldn't bring herself to say a word of comfort to him.

Mr. Delmas and Dr. Greene walked into the room after a bit, their faces revealing emotions that seemed to be a mix of fear and relief. "Odd we need to talk to you," Mr. Delmas said.

Odd opened his eyes and looked at the two men tiredly in response. Dr. Greene offered him a small smile. "We found a donor," he told everyone in the room.

Aelita smiled and hugged Jeremie, while Odd just stared in silence. Sissi felt relief overwhelm her. "When is he going to get it?" she asked curiously.

"Tonight," Dr. Green replied. "Now Odd, I need to talk to you about the procedure. You know that it comes with its risks."

Odd nodded. "Yea," he replied in a soft, sleepy voice.

"Well, we want to get the surgery underway at 6 pm," the doctor told him. "And after that, if the surgery goes smoothly, you will be in intensive care for about a week and in the hospital for about three weeks after that. You'll be required to take medications for the rest of your life to prevent transplant rejection."

Sissi looked at Odd and saw no reaction on his face to the information he was being given, but she knew that he was scared.

"I've already discussed a lot about this with you before," Dr. Greene said, "but do you have any questions?"

"No," Odd said as he closed his eyes again.

With everything said, Dr. Greene left the room to go check on other patients before he performed the surgery. Mr. Delmas patted his daughter's shoulder, before excusing himself to try one last time to call the Della Robbias. Jeremie, Aelita, and Sissi were once again left in awkward silence, but Aelita had other plans to change that. "Jeremie, we should go see how Yumi and Ulrich are doing," she said.

Jeremie saw what she was doing and nodded. "Yea," he replied. "I'm sure Yumi could use some company other than Ulrich's parents."

"Are you going to be ok Odd?" Aelita asked. Odd nodded lightly, and she kissed his forehead. "We'll be back soon."

The couple stood and walked out, leaving Sissi and Odd alone.

Yumi sat beside her comatose boyfriend's bed, holding his hand in her own lovingly. His parents had stepped out to get some air, and she was happy to have some time alone with him. He'd been hospitalized after 'passing out and hitting his head.' The doctors expected him to wake up soon, having only received a minor concussion, but Yumi was still afraid for him. She ran her fingers through his hair. "Hey there," she said. "You're being really stubborn, you know. Why are you making us wait this long for you to wake up?"

She heard the door opening and assumed that the Sterns were back, but to her surprise, she heard Aelita's voice say her name. Yumi turned her head to see Aelita and Jeremie standing beside her. "How is he?" Yumi asked as she looked back down at the hand she held.

"Not good," Jeremie said. "But he will be. They found him a donor."

Yumi's eyes widened and she looked back up. "They… they did?"

Aelita nodded. "He's going to get it tonight," she said as she looked up at the clock. "In about 6 hours."

"Oh my gosh," Yumi murmured unsurely.

"You should go see him before the surgery," Jeremie told her. "I know that you don't want to leave Ulrich's side, but-"

"I'll go," Yumi said. "I want to see him. I'm just afraid that… What if Ulrich wakes up after the operation and Odd's… gone?"

"That won't happen," Aelita said briskly. "Don't even think like that. It's all going to turn out just fine."

"I hope so…"

Sissi watched Odd nervously for about a minute after the others had left, wondering what to say. She couldn't keep up the silence though. She knew that she had to say something and at least try to have a normal conversation with him. "You know," she said to him, causing him to open his eyes and look at her. "I still don't think I've got a grasp on all of this virtual world stuff." Okay. Scratch the part about the normal conversation and just make it any conversation. "I know that you guys explained Lyoko and Xana and all, but it's just so weird that this whole thing existed and I never knew."

Odd was silent for a moment before smirking. "Yea," he said tiredly, his voice still raspy and slow. "And, honestly… I've known a lot of things about you… that you'll never remember."

"But why do I remember now?" Sissi asked. "Because your 'return to the past' didn't work? Did Xana cause it?"

"No," Odd said. "Jeremie said it wasn't Xana… just a malfunction… But I think it was… supposed to happen…"

Sissi gave him a strange look. "I'm still confused."

"I think you remember… because… you're meant to know," Odd explained. "You're one of us now… I think you're… supposed to help fight Xana… in case I can't anymore…"

"No, you'll be able to fight," Sissi said, pushing that thought from her mind and grabbed his hand, catching him a bit off-guard. "I think there is something else I was supposed to remember," she said wistfully. "Yumi came to my room to talk to me about you. She… She asked me if I love you."

Odd frowned and closed his eyes. "We don't have to… talk about this… I understand… that you just want to be friends."

Sissi let out a sarcastic laugh. "No Odd. You don't understand, because that isn't what I want." She took a deep breath as Odd looked back at her inquiringly. "I want you to get your transplant, get better, and then… be with me."

Odd looked at his hand in hers, confused about how he should think. "Sissi…"

"Odd," Sissi said very seriously. "When I was talking to Yumi I realized that I was just scared because you're sick. I need to be brave Odd, because I think I'm in love with you. And I'm sorry that I hurt you. I never meant to do it."

After the longest minute of Sissi's life, Odd finally smiled at her and squeezed her hand. "You know," he said in a pretty sly voice for a boy in a hospital bed. "I think I figured out… what the real problem with my heart is."

"What's that?" Sissi asked curiously.

Odd's smile turned into a mischievous grin. "It hurts when you're not around," he joked. "But now that I've got… you, I have a feeling I'm going to be… feeling a whole lot better."

Sissi rolled her eyes and shook her head. "I bet you've said that cheesy line to a bunch of girls."

"Actually… I texted it to a bunch of girls… The difference is that… this time I mean it. I feel like we wasted… so much time not knowing… each other well enough…"

Sissi smiled. "Yea," she agreed as she kissed his cheek. "No more wasting time."

Odd smirked and weakly lifted his hand to the breathing mask, pulling it down low enough to uncover his mouth. "How about we really kiss?" he asked.

Sissi gave him a small nod and pressed her lips to his. In that moment, she could have sworn that fireworks filled the room, not at all like any kiss she'd ever shared with Ulrich. She brushed her hand across the side of his cheek as they deepened the kiss, before breaking away with a soft smile. "That was… perfect," she whispered before she put his breathing mask back where it belonged. She kept her face close to his, watching his exhausted eyes.

"Yea," Odd replied in somewhat of a daze. "You make me dizzy, Miss Lizzy," he mused quietly, recalling her fondness of the song.

Sissi giggled and shook her head as she sat up. "Della Robbia, you big cheesy dork…"

Aelita, Jeremie, Sissi, and Mr. Delmas were all sitting in the waiting room while Odd was being operated on. Yumi had gone back to Ulrich's room after visiting Odd and wishing him luck.

Everyone was fairly calm, with the exception of Sissi, who couldn't seem to stop pacing the floor. Her father would try to tell her again every 2 minutes that she'd do better to just relax, but she didn't want to hear it, not while her boyfriend was in there.

It wasn't until about 7:30 that she became too tired to pace any longer, and she finally sat down beside her father. At about that same moment, two people came running into the room, looking very anxious and confused as they went to the information desk. Sissi looked at the woman, finding her strangely familiar. "We're here to see our son," the woman said. "His name is Odd Della Robbia."

Yumi sat alone at Ulrich's bedside, holding his hand between her own as she closed her eyes. "I don't really know what to believe lately," she whispered to some invisible person. "Having faith that good things will happen seems to be a lost cause for me. Whenever anything good ever happens to my friends and I, Xana has to come along and ruin it. It's not fair… We save the world all of the time. Don't we deserve to be happy?" She sighed. "I guess, I'm just saying… If there is a God or whatever, why is this happening? We need something good to happen… Please…"

Yumi opened her eyes as the hand she held squeezed her hand lightly, as if in response her plea. She looked down at Ulrich to see his eyes fluttering open. "Ul… Ulrich?"

"Hmm?" Ulrich mumbled incoherently. "Yumi?"

"Ulrich!" Yumi cried excitedly. "You're awake!"

Ulrich looked up at her sluggishlyand nodded. "Wha.. what's going on?" he asked in confusion. "Where am I?"

"The hospital," Yumi told him. "You've been unconscious for three days."

"How?" Ulrich asked.

"Xana attacked," Yumi reminded him. "Do you remember it at all? The return trip malfunctioned and you were out cold."

"I'm sorry," Ulrich said softlyfor no real reason. "Is everyone else ok?"

"Well…" Yumi bit her lip and ran her fingers through his hair absently.

"What happened?" Ulrich asked, catching the nervousness in her voice.

"Odd's in surgery," Yumi told him. "He's getting the heart transplant as we speak…"

Ulrich pushed himself into a sitting position and held his head as it felt dizzy. He closed his eyes and tilted his head down. "Are you alright?" Yumi asked worriedly.

"Just a little headache," Ulrich said. When the dizzy spell went away he looked back at Yumi's nervous face. "It'll be ok," he tried to assure her… and himself. "Odd will be ok."

Yumi opened her mouth to say something else, but Aelita ran in excitedly, babbling about something Yumi didn't understand. When Aelita saw Ulrich, she came to a halt. "You- You're awake!" she exclaimed happily.

Ulrich nodded. "Yea…"

Aelita threw her arms around him in a friendly hug. "Oh this is great!" she said. "Ulrich, they came!"

"Who came?" Yumi asked. Ulrich, too, looked a bit confused.

Aelita's grin widened. "Odd's parents! They got the letter that we wrote to them, and we convinced them! They're here!"

Yumi and Ulrich looked at each other with smiles. "Well, what do you know?" Yumi said. "Two miracles in one night. Maybe we'll get a third."

Sissi looked at Mrs. Della Robbia again, realizing that Odd looked a lot like her, more than he looked like the man. Neither of the people was by any means short or scrawny, and Sissi wondered where Odd got it from. Mrs. Della Robbia looked fairly close to tears, and Sissi felt guilty that she'd ever resented Odd's parents for not spending time with him. Maybe it was the fact that she'd been so scared to be close to him that made her sympathize with them now.

Sissi's father was reassuring them that Odd's surgery would go just fine when a nurse from the OR came into the waiting room and walked over to everyone. Sissi sat up from where she was slouching in her seat while she waited to hear the update on the surgery. "How is the surgery going?" Mr. Delmas asked.

"Well, we're having some complications," the nurse answered truthfully. "He's losing a lot of blood, more than is usual for this procedure. We're doing our best to stop the bleeding, but we aren't sure that he'll make it..."

Sissi closed her eyes, as the rest of the nurse's words became lost to her. 'Odd can't die like this,' she thought. 'Please, don't let him die…'

Sorry for the evil cliffhanger there guys, but I had to do it! Only thing left to write is the epilogue!

And "Dizzy Miss Lizzy" is a really good Beatles song... in case there was anyone who didn't understand the reference.