I'm so sorry about this being two days late! A combination of computer problems, work I needed to do, and general late night lazies ended up with a nice big delay on this. But I have all of the chapters ready, and I'll be posting seven and eight later in the day. And to all of my reviews who I didn't get a chance to respond to THANK YOU SO MUCH I LOVE YOU ALL. And now, on to the fic.

Quietly as he could, Odd crept along the hallway of the girl's dorms, red wrapped package in his arms. Having used the clever excuse of needing to go see the nurse, the blonde had slipped away from class to go and deliver his latest Christmas gift to Aelita's room. Glancing around a corner, he checked for any approaching gym teachers possibly heading his way. Seeing none, he slunk around the corner, package clutched tightly to his chest. He didn't have much farther to go!

The sounds of footsteps coming from the hallway he had just left caused Odd to stop in his tracks. They were accompanied by someone's whistling. Odd only knew one person who whistled so off key.

Jim was coming.

Odd felt a rush of panic. If Jim caught him wandering the girls dorm when he was supposed to be in class, and caught him carrying a little lock picking kit, he was would be back home before he even realized he'd been expelled.

If that happened, there would be no one left to deliver Aelita's gifts! Now that just couldn't happen.

And so, Odd, knowing he needed to get hidden quick, ducked through the first open door he could find.

He soon decided that it might have just been better to take his chances with Jim. One would think that few things would faze Odd, the risk taking child who spent most of his free time in the thick of a virtual war. But being a warrior did not change two simple facts-

One, Odd was still a young boy.

Two, he had just found himself in the girls bathroom.

Groaning, Odd, spun about and was just preparing to exit the unfriendly territory when he caught site of Jim's shadow growing closer along the floor. With a quiet curse Odd spun back around and, after a moment's hesitation, dove into one of the stalls.

As he sat, waiting uncomfortably for the danger to pass, Odd mentally prayed that all of this was worth it.

While usually Aelita worked hard to be the most diligent student in class, today found her staring out the window, unable to focus her attention on the things her math teacher was trying to teach. Her mind was on the gifts she had been finding scattered about the school lately. They didn't seem to have any real point to them, nor were they related in any way that she could see. It was so strange.

Fingering the necklace that hung across her chest, Aelita's mind shifted to a new issue- who was it leaving her all of these strange gifts? She knew that there were a good number of boys in the school crushing on her right now, but none of them seemed like possible candidates. As far as she was aware, not a one of them knew where her room was. Originally her suspicions had pointed towards Jeremy, but as the days went on Aelita had come to the conclusion that it wasn't the blonde at work. She didn't think he would condone, let alone partake in, breaking into girls rooms to leave gifts.

The bell's ringing broke Aelita's train of thought, and after a moment of sitting in her seat looking surprised, she gathered her things and joined her fellow classmates as they surged into the hall, happy to finally be out of class for the day.

Deciding to go and put away her things before meeting up with her friends, Aelita turned in the direction of the dorms. She passed Odd as she entered the building and said a quick hello, assuming by the fact that Odd didn't have a backpack that he must have been in the dorms for the same reason as her.

After taking the stairs up to her floor, Aelita pulled out her key as she reached her door, unlocking it and heading inside. As she went to set her bag down beside her computer, glint of red caught her attention. Turning her head, she noticed a red wrapped gift sitting on her pillow. Dropping her bag, she chewed her lip in excitement as she headed over to open the new gift.

Attached to the gift was a note, which read, as Aelita suspected, "Day six- open me!" Grinning, Aelita tore away the glittery paper to reveal a white box of thin cardboard. Lifting the box's lid, Aelita peered inside.

Sitting in the box, in a nest of golden tissue paper, where six large eggs, each a different color and topped with a small gold bow. Lifting one of them from the box, Aelita turned it over in her hand. It was made of some sort of smooth, cool stone and colored a vibrant magenta. Aelita thought it was gorgeous. But even so, there still the curiosity from earlier lurking in her mind.

"Who would get me eggs?"