Sing for Me

by Twiggy Strider

Of all the random places that one could travel, this collection of song drabbles will take us to all of them. Join the CL characters on as many short, random journeys as this author's iPod can possible allow. Rated "T" for possible violence or language.

6. Surfacing

Surfacing - Slipknot

"Can't you see? I'll never be like any of you!" Jeremie growled at the rest of the Lyoko Warriors. "I'll never change, I'll never be anything other than what I am, I'll never be a hero!"

He stormed off, running toward his secret sanctuary, the one place none of the others even knew of, not even Aelita. Once inside, he removed his glittering piece of life from its sacred spot on the cold metal shelf and gazed intently at its cool, welcoming, sharpened edge.

Without a second thought, he pressed the blade into his previously healed wound, opening up his line to feeling, to emotion, to the closest he'd ever felt to being alive.