To protect the one he loves
By- Mika Kun
Chapter Five- The stem of all love
Aelita rode in the ambulance with Odd and Yumi. She had told Ulrich to stay behind and make sure that Xana did not activate any towers. She held Odd's hand, tears streaming from her eyes.
"Odd, Odd please be ok," she said to him. Yumi sat in silence. She knew that Aelita just wanted to be quit. Odd's eyes remained closed and the machines bleeped steadily, the only sign he was alive.
"Odd, I'm so sorry. I should have done something before it came to this. Please, stay with me Odd!" Aelita wailed.
"Aelita, it is not your fault. Odd would have risked his life even if he did not know you. That's the type of person he is. You could not have stopped him," Yumi told Aelita gently.
"I know, it's just… Yumi, I love Odd. I always have," Aelita told Yumi. Aelita looked down at Odd.
"And now, now I regret that I never told him," Aelita finished.
"Odd, I'm so sorry. I should have told you," Aelita said to him, her salty tears falling on him. She bent down and gently kissed his lips. Yumi and Aelita rode the rest of the way in silence.
"What happened Miss. Stones?" The doctor asked as Odd was rushed to the emergency room.
"He was walking in the forest with Yumi and I and fell. Where he fell, there was glass. It stabbed him in the stomach, doctor. Will he be ok?" Aelita asked.
"I believe so, but we will not know for sure in till we see how bad this wound is," the doctor told her. Aelita and Yumi stopped outside the emergency room and waited in the chairs there.
Hours later, the doctor came out and told them Odd was fine, they could visit him. Aelita went into the room and went over to Odd.
"How are you feeling?" she asked.
"Fine. I would be better if you stopped blaming yourself, though," he told her.
"You know people passed out can still hear you, and feel you touching them," he told her, with a slight smile. Aelita gently wrapped her arms around him.
"Odd, you know that was all the truth. I really do love you," Aelita said, her voice cracking. She broke down and started to cry.
"It's ok, Aelita. I'm here. I wont let go. I know how it is," Odd whispered to her. He had had this happen before; he knew how hard it was when a person's nerves were shoot.
A/N My nerves were shoot today, juts like I wrote Aelitas to be. It means that you just are sad and prone to mood changes. It is hard to deal with.