Chapter Four

Hannah woke up - tears falling down her face. It had all been so real dreaming about that night in Tokyo. She sat up and looked around spotting Tokomon sleeping next to her. Tai was walking toward the fire with some wood in his hand and stooped down to lay it on to rekindle the flames. He spotted Hannah awake and saw that her face was wet. He put down the wood and walked up to her slowly.

"Hannah - are you ok?" Tai asked, kneeling down to look at her. Agumon sat down next to him and Tokomon woke up.

"I don't know." She looked up into his eyes, trying to get her bearings.

'Where am I?' She thought, and then shook her head slowly realizing she was in the Digital world. She tried standing but felt a sharp pain at the back of her neck.

"Ow!" she said a little too loudly as Mimi stirred in her sleep. Tai helped her to her feet and she wiped away the tears from her cheeks. She put her hand on her neck and rubbed it slowly.

Agumon looked up at his friend and wondered why he was so drawn to Hannah. He had never seen Tai act so different around a girl before. Especially one of the digidestined.

"Here, let me help you." Tai grabbed Hannah's hand and helped her walk around. She was still a little woozy from her dream.

"Are you ok?" He asked her, and she looked at him.

"Yeah." Hannah said, letting go of his hand and sitting down by the fire. She rubbed the back of her neck slowly - wonder why all of the sudden she had pains.

Tai looked around; making sure that no one was near by ready to pounce. Agumon got up from his spot and began to look around, sensing something. Hannah looked at Tokomon, realizing that he had become alert and was on his feet – also looking around.

"What's going on?" Hannah whispered to Tai, who was on his feet - ready for what ever it was that was out there. She jumped to her feet and looked around – and then her eyes caught a glow coming from Mimi and Palmon.

"Tai!" Hannah pointed to Mimi, who began to disappear. All of the sudden, Mimi disappeared completely and there was nothing but Tai, Hannah, Tokomon, and Agumon.

"We've got to find Matt and Cia." Tai said, grabbing Hannah's hand and helping her to her feet. They both look at their digimon before running in the direction that Matt had gone in earlier that night.

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"Cia." Matt yelled when they reached the camp fire. No one was around and it sent shivers down Cia's spine.

"Matt, where did they go?" He looked at her, but didn't want to say what they both thought. Taken - probably to the place that the rest of the digidestined were.

"Hannah??" she asked, looking around and screaming. "Hannah - I swear – if you're playing a joke it's not funny!" She looked around as her voice echoed throughout the forest. She collapsed to the ground - more scared than ever. She felt so alone - the only person that she really knew was gone. Tears fell down her face, and she couldn't stop them from falling.

"I'm sorry." She whispered to Matt and he sat down next her.

"Cia, it's ok." He paused, wiping a tear off of her cheek. "You're in a place you've never been in before, and the only person that you know isn't around." He trailed off, wincing when he mentioned Cia only knowing one person. She looked at the remaining embers of the fire, and then back at Matt. He looked into her green eyes, and almost felt like wrapping his arms around her and just comforting her, but something told him that he shouldn't.

He resisted the urge with all of his might, and just looked up toward the sky at the stars. For a moment it seemed to make him forget all about the Digital World, his brother and other friends missing, and the fact that he was sitting next to a girl that gave him the weirdest feeling in the pit of his stomach.

"You almost forget that you're here when you look at them." Cia's voice broke through the silence, and Matt looked down at her. He nodded slowly – ignoring the feeling his stomach was making when he had heard her speak.

But, the feeling was changing from one of weirdness to one of ... something he couldn't quite tell. Nothing he had ever experienced before not even when he had dated Sora. It was something totally and completely different.

"Tell me something," Cia paused as she tried to determine the look on Matt's face. "What was it like, the first time that you were here?" She continued her question, averting her eyes so that she wouldn't catch his beautiful blues.

"At first I thought I'd been dreaming," He paused, looking at Cia who was looking at the stars. "like I was going to wake up in my bed at camp and be safe and sound." He continued.

"But when I realized that we didn't know how we had gotten here, or how we were going to get back, I was scared."

"But you always portrayed such a bad ass attitude." Cia blurted, as she looked at him. He looked at her directly, and their eyes connected. Cia felt a surge inside of her, and she couldn't help but lean closer to him as her body began to shiver. Matt began to realize that it was growing cold and he needed to get Cia warm before she went into hysterics. He saw a pile of wood and got up to pile it on top of the dying embers.

"Are you still scared?" Cia asked as he threw a log onto the fire. He looked at her, and couldn't help but frown. He seemed to grumble a little, and then he began to speak.

"I mostly worry about T.K. now - and that's what scares me..." He trailed off and Cia scooted closer to the growing flames.

"I'll be going to college in the fall, and T.K. will be left to deal with this place on his own without me there to make sure he's ok." he paused to study Cia. "It seems like every time that I'm not around him, something goes wrong and he's in danger."

"Matt, you'll always feel like you have to look out for you little brother, no matter how old he gets. It's what goes with being the 'older brother'." Cia smiled at him, knowing that he felt guilty for his brother's all of the sudden disappearance. Matt sat down next to Cia and looked back up at the stars.

"We should get some sleep." He said, looking back at her, and almost wished it was morning so that they could get looking for T.K. Cia's smile faded from her face. She nodded slowly and moved herself close enough to the fire so that it would keep her warm throughout the night. She closed her eyes slowly, trying not to think of all of things that were going on around her. About finding Hannah and a way home.

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Matt was up before the sun, with Gabumon at his side, rummaging through the brush for some sort of berries for breakfast. Even though he was too worried about T.K. to eat, he thought that Cia might be hungry.

He had hardly slept at all that night - his mind was racing with all sorts of what if's - and when he did sleep he could only see one person and he didn't want to think about her at a time when he was supposed to be looking for his brother.

He thought that maybe after he found out where everyone had gone, that he might get to thinking about her. He brushed the thought from his mind immediately - his conscience was always putting up some sort of flag whenever she spoke to him, even though he had spent the past day getting to know her some.

Cia woke up when the sun began to peek over the tree tops and waken everything else up for a new day. She sat up slowly and rubbed her eyes. When she looked around, no one was insight except for Salamon who was still asleep.

"Matt?" She asked quietly, hoping that he was somewhere close, but no reply came.

"Matt?!" She asked a little more loudly, trying not to panic. She jumped when she heard the bushes around her move and Salamon became alert.

"Matt?" She asked lowly, hoping that she would hear his voice and all would be ok. But what emerged was not Matt, but a wolf looking digimon with venomous eyes aimed at her throat. She screamed as it sprang towards her.

"Salamon evolve to... Gatomon!" She heard a voice say and felt her digivice (that she had placed in her pocket) vibrate.

"Gabumon evolve to ... Garurumon!" Another voice said and she felt someone's hands grab her and pull her out from underneath the attacking digimon.

Matt wrapped his arms around her waist and held tight to her as he pulled her away from the digimon. She felt her body growing faint and Matt tripped and fell to the ground.

"Cia????" He asked urgently, looking into her eyes and pulling the hair out of her face. "Cia?!!?" He asked again. She screamed out in pain when Matt touched her arm and looked down to see a gash as long as her palm gushing out blood. Matt looked at his hand and saw blood.

"Cia?!?!" He yelled as her eyes began to close. He shook her slightly –she couldn't black out. She opened them slowly and found that her head was resting on his chest, his hand on her wound trying to stop the bleeding. She heard a ripping noise and realized that he was tearing off some of his shirt and wrapping it around her arm tight. When the make-shift bandage was in place, Matt pulled Cia off of his chest and looked into her eyes.

"Cia, look at me." He commanded, and her eyes fluttered to his. The feeling her stomach, she noticed, wasn't there this time - and neither was the feeling in his stomach. All she could do was breathe in and out slowly and just look at the concern in his eyes. He couldn't take his eyes off her face for a long time. He didn't want to - he was too concerned to look away and make sure that Garurumon and Gatomon were ok.

He wrapped his arms around her waist and held her up right to try and keep her from blacking out.

She reached up her hand, wondering if what she saw falling down his face was just her imagination. When she focused in on her finger - it was wet. She looked back at Matt and knew that he was crying...

Matt didn't care if he was crying - for some strange reason... All he cared about at that moment was to make sure that Cia was ok. But it seemed that she was growing less lucid every second and the bandage was getting soaked fast.

"We have to get you back to the real world fast."