"Pookie-chan?" Fai asked as he knocked on her door, his worry growing stronger as he noticed her door was locked. She had never locked it before and it was oddly silent inside. "Jessi-chan? I'm coming in." he warned her as he started a simple spell. The magic glowing runes filled the lock and unlocked it for him. Time felt as if it stopped as he entered the room. She was lying on the floor, a small knife laid next to her bloody, bitten hand. A large slash ran from her elbow to her wrist. Her legs and her arms were covered in scratches. Her wrists and ankles had rings of bite marks like sick, twisted bracelets and the room was filled with the scent of blood.
"Jessica!" he yelled as he ran to her, hoping he wasn't too late. He checked her pulse. She was still alive and just asleep. Her wounds weren't as bad as he had first thought. His voice echoed in his mind. "I don't even want to think what would happen if I wasn't there for her!" He had promised to be there for her. To make sure this never happened again. All the anger he had for Kurogane had vanished. All he could think of was the girl that was now in his arms. His 'sister', the only family he had left. "I'm sorry..." he whispered as tears started to fall from his face.
"F-Fai? What happened? All I remember is walking into my room and..." She gasped as she saw what had happened to her. "I-I've never gotten this bad." She said. She was probably in shock about it but she was still half-asleep, praying that this was just a horrible nightmare. "I'm so sorry, Fai!" She cried as she wrapped her arms around him. "I should have had better control! I shouldn't be hurting myself to begin with! I-I just can't control myself when it happens... All I can do is just watch as this thing takes over." she sobbed.
She was right. She wasn't the same person when it happened. Fai had seen this monster and wished that he could free her from it. "Pookie-chan?What's wrong?" Fai asked her. She was sitting on the edge of her bed. Her hair hung like a curtain from her lowered head, making it impossible to see her face. "They all died... everyone is dead because of me..." she said. "Everyone?" Fai asked. Fai had never heard Jessi talk about anyone dying before. That's when he finally saw that this wasn't his Jessi. Her aura had changed from its usual smoke grey to black. When she turned to look at him, she didn't recognize him and just looked right through him as if he wasn't there. "They all died for me... those idiots." she laughed bitterly. Was she possessed? he thought. "Who are you?" he asked. "You don't know me? Really, Yuui?" A chill ran down his spine but he tried to stay calm. "Who are you?" he repeated and she sighed heavily. "I'm Jessica, of course." she replied. "No, you're not." he argued. She was nothing like Jessi. He glanced to her wrists which were covered in bite marks. "Did you do this to her?" He tried to stay calm but his anger was slowly growing stronger. "They left me here... alone." she said as her fists tightened. A trail of crimson started from her palm. "How could they leave me!? Why did they think it would be better this way?! I didn't want this! I didn't want it to be this way!" she screamed. "They left me... there all gone." she said. All traces of anger and rage dissaperared suddenly as it left. "F-Fai?" she asked as she looked at her wrists. "Oh, Goddess! It happened again!" she started to sob. "I'm sorry... I'm so sorry..." she chanted over and over again.
"It's not your fault." he told her. "I shouldn't get so upset over this. I shouldn't get this bad because he loves someone else. I told myself that if- when this happened I'd be fine with it. I wanted him to be happy. That's all that mattered to me back then. Just because he doesn't love me doesn't mean I can't love him. But now... now even though I try my best not to care, I want to be the one and not just in my dreams. At least I had a chance earlier. A very,very,very small chance, but it was better than what I have now... which is nothing." She paused for a moment and then continued. "He's not the first guy I've had a crush on and probably not the last but... but this is different. I think I may actually love him." she said.
Fai wanted to tell her that Kurogane was just lying about loving Tomoyo and that he actually loved her... but she wouldn't have believed him. She truly believed that Kurogane hated her. Once Fai had gotten her calmed down and was done bandaging her arm, he went to find Kurogane. This had to stop.