Title: Can You Keep A Secret?
Genre: supernatural
Pairings: AelitaxJeremie
Notes: this explains why Jeremie is so pale in the mornings.
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"Jeremie," Aelita began, sitting on his bed for the twelfth night in a row. It was late at night and the only thing emitting light was the slightly eerie glow of the computer screen.
"Yes?" Jeremie replied, reeling around in his desk chair to face her.
"Do you ever get tired of working on William's materialization program?"
He sighed, "It doesn't really matter what I feel, I don't have much choice."
"Well you could at least take it easier on yourself, and actually get some sleep some nights," she suggested. "You look really pale in the mornings."
"Even if I could take a break from it, I wouldn't be able to sleep," Jeremie explained with a sigh.
"You don't have to feel guilty Jeremie, it wasn't your fault that he was captured by XANA." It was probably more my fault than anyone else's, Aelita thought.
"No, i-it's not that," he turned back to the glowing screen wih a sigh, "Never mind."
"What is it Jeremie? You know you can tell me anything," she assured him.
"You really mean that?"
"Absolutely."
He spun back around to face her wih a hopeful but usure look in his eyes. "D-do you trust me?"
She nodded.
"Then close your eyes." She immediately did.
Slowly, Jeremie slipped off his chair and crept across the room, sitting down next to Aelita on the bed. Timidly, he leaned in, and she could feel his breath on her neck.
Aelita suddenly felt a sharp pain on her throat, and she found it hard to breath. Her eyes were wide open as she gasped for air. "Jeremie!"
He retreated cautiously, and that's when Aelita saw the blood, coating his lips and dripping from two pearly white fangs.
She stared, horror filling her eyes, unable to speak.
Jeremie looked guiltily at her, as if begging for forgiveness. "Can you keep a secret?"