Chapter 4: Confessions

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"Ughh... mmmuu.." Yumi Ishiayama groaned as she stirred form her sleep. "Umm..What a terrible dream she said to herself as she rubbed her face.

"ah.." she winced in pain as her forehead stung. "Damnit it wasn't a dream" she again groaned as she opened her sleepy eyes.

She found herself in a strangely familiar room lying on bed under some covers. She sat up to get a better look, at first it was hard to move as she ached all over. It felt as if she were hit by a train. so it took here a while before she noticed that she was Naked. "Naked" she silently exclaimed "Am I dead?" she thought "this doesn't look like hell, and it still hurts... Ughh... what happened last night?" she again grumbled as rubbed her sore head and scanned the dark room for something to wear.

A couple of moments later she creaked Open the broken door and stepped into the hallway. her eyes were still fuzzy but she could make out a light in the main part of the house and she walked towards it.

"Morning Sunshine." she was greeted by Jeremy who was standing at the table with one foot up on a chair and waiting a Pomegranate with a bloody, wait no just pom juice covered knife in the other hand. "Actually I should say evening." he reapplied taking a big bite out of the fruit. "You have been out for a couple of days."

"I have?" Yumi asked standing at the entrance to the hallway in nothing more than a bathrobe.

"yea, you have." Jeremy said to her with a sideways look. Her surveyed her in that brief glance with all the detail his meticulous nature could fathom, and then smiled faintly to himself. She still had a bunch of bumps and bruises but she was healing fast faster than he did anyway, It kind of reminded him of the times back when he was in..."

But Yumi interrupted his train of thought "So um... where have you been all of these years." she asked squarely.

"Sopose I should ask you the same question, Yumi." he said.

"With that the Events of the last I mean the night before last before last surged through her sore brain. The memories were painful but she shouldered them in her usual "be strong" way and spoke. "look I'm not proud of where I am or what i have done." she extended her arms out to her sides as if to issue a challenge. "But at least I haven't spent the last 15 years running from my problems.."

These words cut Jeremy to the bone and he broke his cool exterior for a moment and looked at her. "Fair enough." he sighed. "look After Aelita died I pulled the plug on XANA an just took off I didn't care really where i went what happened to me She was dead." Tears filled His Baby blue eyes and he looked away but still he continued. "The only woman I ever loved Ever could love." he gritted his teeth and bit his lip and choked back the tears still he continued through all the pain and rage the last 15 empty years had left him. " Of course with that attitude I was in and out of prison like it was a Luxury hotel." He paused As at that moment lightning flashed and in its wake thunder crashed. He looked up at her. "You know the only thing that kept me alive on those dark hellatious nights in prison was how much I wanted To see you again Yumi Ishiayama, How much I always wanted to tell you but I never got the chance... I HATE YOU."

Yumi was stricken to the heart, His words were steady and deliberate and she could feel that he meant them everyone. Tears welled up in her big brown eyes and he continued the ever so painful message.

"I don't know why I saved you the other night, why i stuck around for a couple of days taking care of you" He growled. "Maybe it easy because I wanted to tell that so badly." he cracked a weak smile regaining his composure just for a second before he broke down into tears as the memories burned into his large brain flooded it once more.

Yumi choked back the tears for a second as she remembered everything that happened.

Flashback...

Yumi lay there in the corner of the scanner room in the fetal position crying all the while hearing the screams of her Pink haired friend..." they still haunted her to this day" All the while jeremy screaming in hysteria at her to do something But she ...she couldn't she was frozen with fear. Who could blame her she always told herself that death like specter moving about he had already killed William on Lyoko that image was burned into the back of her eyes, it was so traumatic the way his virtual form was ripped apart on seemingly a molecular level and scattered to the four corners of that virtual universe of Lyoko, he screamed too but no where as long as Aelita did. "he died quickly but Aelita Goddess of Lyoko and XANA's arch nemesis was allowed to suffer as no one should suffer. Yumi wanted to do something but she just couldn't. "I have a life here a family here" She kept telling herself. the screaming went on for what seemed forever, but when it finally stopped and she began to move about again. Everyone was gone No Ulrich, no odd, and no Jeremy they were all gone...

And then she was back in her friends house standing in the hallway eyes filled with tears as if those events had transpired but an hour ago. She approached jeremy knowing Now how he mush have felt those 15 cold years and raised his chin.

For a moment their tear filled eyes met, both crying Both dieing on the inside for the last 15 years. Each found a strange comfort in the others eyes one set soft and brown the other beep and blue. The pain of the years began to subside slowly at first but then quickly as they each found themselves swimming in the others gaze. The tears began to dry and jeremy put his large hand on the back of Yumi head softly caressing her hair, and then out of no where they Kissed.

It was a deep soulful kiss, Neither was ready for it but Neither would let go as the embrace deepened. Each found the others hands on their love starved bodies as years of fear and hate were replaced with courage and love. The passionate kissing continued all the while rain beat upon the old pane glass windows outside and wind ravaged the cities dirty streets but When Yumi's hand's pulled Jeremy's belt form his body the embrace was momentarily broken.

Jeremy Moved her back and held her face in his hands just for a second as he asked. "why do they call this place the city of fallen angles?"

Yumi stared at him for a moment tears in her eyes and a smile on her face. Then she spoke softly her hands once again creeping to Jeremy's waist. "They say when the angles were cast out of heaven and fell to earth This is where some of them landed. They crashed into the earth with such a force they splintered the very ground where they touched causing these cliffs to rise up out of the sea. When they awoke they tried to ascend once again into the heavens but they were angles no more and could no longer fly on their broken wings. and Just like those angles those of us with broken wings just end up stuck here, unable to just fly away because we have fallen so far from grace...

Not another word was spoken as Jeremy fell to the floor Yumi straddling him they continued kissing and the storm raged on outside...

I dedicat theis chapter to all the JeremyXYumi fans out there all 8 of us need to read something romantic about thoes two every once and a while )