Here is chapter four of this story! I'm not sure how many more chapters of this story there will be... but I'm going to try and keep the total under ten! Heehee. Just so you know I-Breached-Ur-Security, this is still going only for you! Hahahah

Til Death Do Us Part

Chapter 4: Return to the Past

"What is it that I have to do to get out of here?" Mannie asked XANA, staring him down.

"I will make you a deal, Manuela."

'That's never a good sentence to hear from the bad guy…' Mannie thought to herself, her eyes following the pacing man in front of her.

"I'm going to send you back in time; if you can make Odd fall in love with you once again you can have your old life back. If not, you will be a prisoner in here forever and you will help me destroy the world."

"Ha! As if you could destroy the world, don't make me laugh. Maybe you could take down Kadic, but you're not that much of a super machine." XANA grinned at her response.

"I would think you would readily take my offer." XANA shrugged.

"How would you even send me back in time? There must be some sort of catch." Mannie narrowed her eyes.

"Do not worry about how. Yes or no?" XANA asked her. She looked at him, grimacing. 'There must be a reason he wants me out of this world… it's worth a shot though.. I should be able to help them.'

"Fine. I will agree to this arrangement, but on one condition." XANA eyed the grown woman.

"I believe I am the one making the conditions."

"You do not come near any of our children. You must promise no harm will come to any of them." XANA gave her one last sadistic grin, and right before her eyes, there were flashing lights and then everything went black.

Mannie opened her bright blue eyes and felt as though she was whisked away back into her memories. She took a deep breath and heard the almost forgotten humming of the virtualizers. She appeared in the factory, in the virtualization room. "Am I back... in the past?" She took a step out of one of the virtualizers and looked at her reflection. She gasped, and touched her face. She was 16 again, and she was definitely in the past. Her hair was long once again, and very blonde. She had heavy eyeliner on her eyes, and was wearing a short strapless floral dress, and some black flats. Mannie took a deep breath in and looked around. She knew her mission, and that was to find Odd and make him fall in love with her once again.

'I promise you Odd, I will fix this and make it home to you again...' Mannie nodded to herself and then climbed up the ladder to the Supercomputer room, and hit the button to the elevator, and then she went downwards to the forests of Kadic Boarding School.

Odd had decided to visit his wife at the hospital while Aria was in school, so he packed up Kody's diaper bag and loaded him into the car and drove the twenty minutes to Kadic City Hospital. It had become routine for him, he made his way up to Mannie's room on the fourteenth floor and set Kody in his lap while he scooted the visitor's chair over to Mannie's bed. The bruises from her face had finally started to fade and even though she never stopped being beautiful to him, her radiant beauty was shining through once again. He saw her chest slowly lifting up and down in a consistent manner. Odd heard Kody laughing and looked down to the little boy, who reached out for his mother's hand, so Odd placed his son to lie down on his mothers chest, which made Kody coo in happiness. He sighed and grabbed one of Mannie's hands, lacing their fingers together.

'I wish I didn't just see you in my dreams, you're missing so much of our life together...'

Mannie had found her way through the forest, déjà vu setting into her brain, but this time it wasn't from Lyoko. She saw her old classmates hanging out with their peers, people she thought she'd never see again. She continued through the campus, looking around avidly. 'Now if my memory serves me right...we used to hang out in the...'

"Odd, get back here!" Mannie heard Yumi call out in an angry tone. She saw Odd laughing and running away from Yumi, and she felt her heart grow tense. She didn't know exactly how they were going to react to her, but knowing XANA, he wouldn't make this easy on her. She smoothed out her long blonde hair and walked over to the group, clearing her throat. Odd stopped in his tracks, and Ulrich snatched the paper in Odd's hand and gave it back to Yumi. Odd looked over at Mannie with a strange expression, almost as if he was weirded out by her.

"Uhh can we help you with something?" Odd asked her, crossing his arms. "Do you even go here?"

"Odd! She's in first period with us!" Mannie heard Aelita whisper harshly as Mannie's face grew hot with a blush.

"Mannie Diazdeleon..." She whispered, staring in Odd's direction.

"Mmmm nope, name doesn't ring a bell!" Odd laughed. Suddenly his face lit up, and Mannie felt hope run through her, maybe he did remember! He stood up and walked over to her, but passed her in a hurried shuffle and ran over to a girl behind her. "Sam! There you are!" Mannie felt her heart sink down into her stomach, and she slowly turned to see Sam with a huge smile on her face being embraced by Odd. "I've been waiting for you all morning." And with that Odd planted a big, fat, sloppy kiss on Sam's lips, Mannie felt sick to her stomach and covered her mouth with her left hand, speedily walked away from the group. The bell rang and she assumed that that meant that it was time for first period. She walked to Hertz' class and looked around the room, she didn't even know if she was supposed to be in this class or where she was supposed to sit! She sighed and walked over to her old seat and sat down. Soon enough, everyone filed in and filled up the seats in the classroom and the tardy bell rang. Of course, Odd ran in last, breathing heavily.

"I'm here! I'm not late! I'm here!" He ran and sat in the seat right behind Mannie, seeing as how it was the only empty seat left in the classroom. 'I guess she is in this class with us...' He eyed her as he sat down. 'How I never noticed a pretty girl like her is beyond me.'

"How nice of you to actually show up for once Mr. Della Robbia." Mrs. Hertz grinned at Odd, picking up a piece of chalk and began to write the lesson plan on the chalk board in front of them, and most students began writing down notes avidly. Odd rolled his eyes at Mrs. Hertz remark, and pulled out a piece of paper, but instead of writing notes, he decided to draw. Mannie had remarkably good memory, and remembered this from a long time ago. Mrs. Hertz walked around the class and dropped off classwork at everyone's desk, and when she got to Odd's desk, she snatched the drawing from Odd's desk.

"Hmmm, this is a remarkable drawing of Ms. Diazdeleon, even though you are sitting behind her." Odd looked at her confused and grabbed his drawing back and looked at it. 'I just met this girl, I can't even draw Sam that good from memory.' He heard a few people snicker, namely Ulrich and Theo, and he turned around and glared at them, but they just looked away and played innocent. Mrs. Hertz slammed the worksheet down on his desk, and after she finished, she sat down at her desk grading other papers.

Mannie breezed through the assignment with ease, she even finished before Jeremy and Aelita! She got up and dropped the paper off at Mrs. Hertz desk who gave her a smile which Mannie returned and walked back to her desk, and Odd was glaring up at her.

"Show off." She heard him grumble as she sat back down, and she sighed.

'This is going to be a lot harder than I thought.'

Half the day had passed and after Biology, she couldn't find the group anywhere on the Kadic property. She wasn't exactly looking for them though, she needed to find Odd and get him alone so she could talk to him. Even if he wouldn't believe her right away, she needed to at least try. She missed her family and her old life, and she was sure they all missed her too. Speaking of her old life, where was Avril?

"You may as well give up and become XANA's slave." Mannie heard a scratchy voice from behind her, and looked up from tying her shoes. She was in the girls' locker room getting ready for gym. Sam was standing behind her with her arms crossed, with a slight grin on her face. "I've already got Odd wrapped around my finger here, and soon he will be that way in your other world as well." Mannie stood about to say something, but Sam held up her hand to shush her. "This is how life would have been if you had never existed, Odd doesn't remember you because you never interfered in his life. Even if you do get back there, Odd will never love you like he once did. You won't ever be the same, don't you understand? But I can be there for him, I can give him everything he's ever wanted in a wife." Mannie laughed and shook her head.

"Oh Sam, you truly are a simple minded fool. If you think for a second that you or that vermin XANA can destroy what Odd and I have, you are sadly mistaken. We didn't make it through everything together for nothing. I'm not just doing this for him, if you don't remember. Odd and I have a family together. I am the mother to his children. That instantly puts me in a place you could never physically or emotionally reach. Even if you did make him forget me, there will always be that void there that you could never fill. Though, don't get me wrong. I have no intentions of losing. I know things about Odd that no one else on this Earth does. Just remember that Samantha." Mannie whispered the last sentence as she walked past the dark skinned girl, tying her hair up in a high ponytail.

"Alright now 50 pushups and then 150 crunches and you all can rest." Jim was walking down the line of the students with his arms crossed, watching them, making sure no one was being lazy.

"Why don't you do 150 crunches, you could sure use them." Odd whined as he pushed himself up and down, blasting through the pushups. Jim narrowed his eyes at the teen and placed his foot on Odd's back which made Odd fall forward and flat on his face. He grumbled sitting up, and rubbed his nose. He looked over and saw Mannie breezing through the workout, she was already onto the crunches. He shook his head and faintly blushed when he caught himself staring. He'd never seen such athletic skill on a girl before, and not to mention how perfect her body was to him. Not even Sam was that attractive... wait, wait, wait, what was he thinking!? Sam would kill him if she knew he was thinking that way. He started over on his pushups, and when he was finished he walked over to the group.

"What do you guys know about that Mannie girl? Why haven't I ever noticed her before?" Odd asked them as he watched her, she was conversing with Theo, and laughing. Odd didn't know why, but he was starting to feel a little...jealous.

"Probably because you and Sam are so enveloped and obsessed with each other that you can't see past her." Ulrich mumbled out loud, texting on his phone.

"Speaking of being 'so enveloped', where is Avril?" Aelita asked Ulrich, smiling. Ulrich blushed and looked the other way.

"I guess she had a doctors appointment or something." He shrugged.

Odd closed his laptop and fell back onto his bed, sighing. Sam wasn't answering calls and everyone else was busy for the rest of the night. It was almost time for dinner, so he figured he may as well get a head start on the cafeteria before all the good food was gone! He hopped off the bed and slid on his shoes, giving Kiwi a scratch on the head before grabbing his wallet and dorm key, then he walked out of his room and started happily walking toward the cafeteria.

"Odd..." He finally recognized that soft voice, it was that girl, what was her name again? He turned around and saw her standing there behind him, her expression a bit distraught from what he could tell.

"Maria, right?" Odd asked, laughing nervously.

"Mannie. My full name is Manuela, so I guess you were close enough..." She said softly. For some reason she wasn't looking at him in the face.

"Uhh, I'm gonna go get something to eat in the cafeteria. You can join me, if you want?" He gave her a small smile.

"Actually, I need to talk to you about something." Mannie took a few steps closer to him, and he looked at her questioningly.

"And what would that be about?" He heard her sigh.

"How exactly do I... word this? Okay, you have to promise you won't get freaked out." She slowly raised her eyes to meet his, and he felt chills go down his spine.

"Uhhh...kay?" Mannie sighed once more and looked down to the right.

"I'm not...from here. I'm from...a different time." She paused and took a deep breath. "Where I come from, we already finished high school, college, and we're... married." Odd stared at her in disbelief and then started laughing, which frustrated Mannie. "Why are you laughing?!"

"Because you're insane." Odd stated and crossed his arms. "I don't know what looney house they let you out of, but you really need to go back and..."

"Your favorite color is purple. You're terrified of the dark. You have a dog named Kiwi who you would give your life for. Your favorite movie is The Lion King, but you're too embarrassed to tell anyone because you think it's a kids movie. You want to name your first born son Kody, but not spelled in the usual way because you like to be different. You're happiest when you're at home with your crazy five sisters, but you'd never admit that to anyone. Your parents love you more than life it's self. You tell everyone you want to be an artist, but deep down you want to be a record producer and make music because that's really you're passion, but you don't think you're good enough. But Odd you are, and you want to know how I know that? Because in the future you will be a record producer, you'll have two beautiful kids and be an amazing father, a daughter named Aria who is the worst morning person and sleeps like a rock like her father and she has a little purple spot in her hair, right here." Mannie pointed to her bangs, and tears were coming to her eyes, and Odd was staring at her wide-eyed. "You'll have a son named Kody who only stops crying when he's in his daddy's arms and is a bottomless pit like his daddy. And I know for a fact since I've come you can't stop thinking about me, or staring at me because I've seen it in your eyes." Odd stared at her for a few seconds longer, and then took two steps back and started laughing again.

"Yeah right. Get away from me before your crazy rubs off on me." He turned around and crossed his arms behind his head and disappeared from Mannie's sight. A few tears fell from her eyes and she fell to the ground, and broke down into tears.

'This isn't fair...I just want my life back.'

Okay, don't hate me! Hahahah, I hope you all enjoyed this chapter and more will come soon! Heehee please review! Thanks for reading! :D