Alright, here's the much awaited chapter 6 of Til Death Do Us Part. I hope you all enjoy, and please don't forget to review.

'Til Death Do Us Part

Chapter 6: The Deal

Disclaimer: Of course, I do not own Code Lyoko.

As you can probably guess, Odd wasn't exactly interested in studying. Although, since Mannie knew Odd in every way conceivably possible, she had managed to help him learn a few things in her own sneaky way seeing as how he wasn't that different than her husband. It was now three days later and she hadn't made much progress in getting him to remember her. In fact, he had seemed to lose interest in her completely. She kicked up her wardrobe a notch, that didn't help, she and Avril had even tried to recreate some of their best memories together, but that didn't help either.

Day 5

Days Remaining: 2

Mannie sighed, sitting in the cafeteria, pushing around the veggies on her plate that she had remaining. Her chin was resting on her fisted hand and she set down her fork and looked up catching Odd walking towards her. She straightened her posture, furred her eyebrows in confusion, and brushed her bangs back into her braided blonde hair. He pulled out the seat across from her and sighed.

"Is everything…okay, Odd?" She asked him as he took the same pose she had just been in a few seconds prior. He was wearing a dark blue, mid sleeve sweater and some baggy jeans. His face was covered with dismay, which made Mannie frown.

"No, everything's not okay. My parents are coming to visit and they're bringing my sisters." Odd hid his face in his hands and Mannie couldn't help but smile, memories running through her head of when she first met Odd's family. It was a little after their sophomore year, he was going home to visit them, and he had asked Mannie to join him. She had been a little nervous, wondering how intricate his family must be to produce such a strange young man, but she had agreed happily. His sisters were just as crazy and outgoing as Odd, but completely obsessed with their little brother. They pinched his cheeks, and chased him around. And then when they saw Mannie, they fell in love!

"Well, what's the matter with that?" She asked him, her fingers absent mindedly playing with the bottom of her dress. She smiled as she saw the look on his face when he pulled away his hands. His deep brown eyes were widened with anxiety, and he was making a face that she couldn't help but giggle at.

"You don't know my family!" He almost shouted, raising his hands in an overdramatic manner.

'Oh you really have no idea…' She thought to herself, but smiled getting an idea in her head. She straightened out her face and stood sharply grabbing her tray. Odd's eyes followed after her, questioning her sudden movements. He eyed her dress which was white with blue, green and black floral and peacock print and butterfly sleeves. It stopped mid-thigh and showed off her well tanned and toned legs, which began to make him drool. (Peacock ruffle dress on freepeople website) He stood up and scurried after her, after picking his jaw up off the floor. Every time he saw her, she never failed at making his mind go numb and his legs wobbly. "What does this all have to do with me anyways? You seemed to have no problem in ignoring me for the past few days…" She turned to look at him while dumping the remainder of her food in the trash, and he laughed nervously, playing with the sleeves of his shirt.

"Well, I have another favor to ask you.." He avoided eye contact, and she raised her brow, crossing her arms.

"And what exactly would that be?"

"Well… I may or may not have lied to my mom about having a girlfriend…and she said that she was dying to meet her…" He mumbled, but Mannie had no problem making out what he was saying.

"Again, I don't see what this has to do with me." She shrugged and walked past him back towards the table to grab her bag, purposely bumping into him. Odd sighed heavily, trudging after her with an annoyed look on his face.

"Look, will you just please play my girlfriend for the day?" Mannie stopped while bent over, and stared down into her bag. She felt as though her breath had been taken away, and that she had become light headed.

'Did I just really hear that?' She turned her head to look at Odd and saw him staring at her with his arms crossed. "W-what?"

"I know you heard me." His expression didn't change and Mannie stood back up, placing her bag on her shoulder.

"Why me of all the people at this school? I'm sure you could get aaany girl you wanted to help you."

Odd pursued his lips and tapped his chin with his pointer finger. "While that may be true, you seem to be the only girl at this school who knows anything about me... and the only one my mom would even come close to approving." Mannie raised her eyebrow and crossed her arms, in the same manner as Odd.

"And what, exactly, is in this for me?" She asked.

"Well you get to hang out with me, of course." He looked at her as if it should be obvious. "Just come by my dorm tomorrow morning, my parents will be here to pick us up around eleven."

"...fine." Mannie brushed past Odd once again with a smile on her face. 'I guess Fate is on my side today! Maybe things are looking up after all.' She had an extra bit of pep in her step as she stepped through the doors of the cafeteria and felt as though nothing could bring her down. "Take that XANA, when it comes to you, I am invincible." She giggled, yelling to the sky and ignoring the weird looks she was getting from her peers.

"Damnit! Why can't I get this right?!" Odd grumbled slamming his MacBook shut, he was working on some music for a new album. He leaned back in his chair comfy leather chair, pinching the bridge of his nose, frustration running through his nerves. He looked up to the portrait of his family, all smiling and standing together at the beach which was taken a few months before the accident happened, and he felt his heart swell at the memory. Suddenly, his phone went off and broke him out of his zone. He looked down at his desk and recognized the number as the doctor who over looked Mannie. He felt himself growing nervous, the doctor never called unless it was big news.

Was she awake? Did her condition worsen? The possibilities were endless, but there was only one sure way to find out.

"Hello?" He asked once finding his voice.

"Mr. Della Robbia?"

"This is him.." Odd confirmed standing up, he could never sit still while talking on the phone to this man. He heard the doctor sigh on the other side of the phone and that confirmed that his gut feeling must be right. This wasn't a good call.

"Mr. Della Robbia, I would like to speak to you in person, I just called to confirm that you were coming to visit Manuela within the next few days?" Odd nodded to himself, seeing as how the doctor couldn't tell.

"Well...yes. We were planning on going to visit my wife later on today."

"May I recommend you come and speak with me before you bring your children? I have news that should only be broken to them by a relative and I feel that you may be the best one." Odd blinked, feeling himself grow cold. "Mr. Della Robbia?"

"Y-yes.. I'll be there soon as possible.." He whispered into the phone, and then pulled it from his ear hitting the end button.

'What could this 'news' be?' Odd looked back up to the portrait one last time before grabbing his jacket and keys, and headed for the door. Thankfully for him, his children were in school and at daycare, so he could just head straight to the hospital. Whatever the news was, he didn't even know if he was ready for it.

"And the answers for the test are as follows. A, C, D, A, A, A, B, E, B, C..." Aria skimmed down the paper of the student's test she was grading, marking off the ones he got incorrect. She sighed as Mrs. Hertz's voice droned on. Aria had felt so withdrawn from everyone as of late. She had trouble wanting to get out of bed, as it was hard for her to just fall asleep. Nightmares of that day haunted her very soul, she was lucky if she even got four hours of sleep at night. Her friends tried to be there for her as much as possible, but there was only so much that they could do.

After they had finished grading the tests, she handed it back to her classmate, and leaned back in her seat, writing down an occasional note during the lecture.

Finally, after what seemed forever, the bell rang and she was released from her last class of the day.

"Ms. Della Robbia, can I please speak with you?" She heard Mrs. Hertz call just as she was about to take a step out of the classroom. Aria stared off into the distance before turning to look at the old grayed woman with blank face, but she was staring down at her desk, grading some papers.

"Yes, Mrs. Hertz?" Aria asked, walking over to her desk. Mrs. Hertz looked up at her with a smile on her face and pushed up her glasses onto her nose.

"I just wanted to check up on you and see how you are doing. Please sit." Aria blanky stared at the woman and sat in the desk directly in front of her desk.

"Listen Mrs. Hertz, this really isn't necessary. I'm perfectly fine and…"

"Yes, and you're about as good of a liar as your mother was." Mrs. Hertz clicked her pen so the ink was inside and set it down. "Your grades are falling, you hardly interact with anyone around you anymore… I really hate to see you like this." Aria didn't make any efforts to answer the woman, but her gaze diverted downwards to the floor. "I know this must be hard on you. I can't even begin to imagine what you're going through, but you must remember to keep yourself in good spirits. I can't even imagine how your mom would feel if she knew you were going through such misery because of her…" Aria lifted her eyes to look at the elder woman again, and she smiled. "I've known your parents for a very long time, and I also know that they love you exponentially. Don't let yourself fall into a hole that you're not able to pick yourself out of… you're a very smart girl, Aria." The little blonde teen felt tears coming to her eyes, and Mrs. Hertz stood and walked around the desk, hugging the girl.

"Odd Della Robbia." Odd walked up to the front desk of the hospital and signed himself in as usual, waiting to get the sticker badge with his picture on it. He looked around at all the people sitting in the waiting room. Some were crying, some just had devastated looks on their faces, and some were bursting with joy at the news of a new member added to their families. He sighed as the nurse handed him his sticker and he attached it to his gray sweater. He walked to the elevator with his hands in his pockets and pressed the up button, and climbed in once it beeped and the doors opened. He pressed the number '13' and it rose quickly to the level.

He peeked in the window to his wife's room and saw the doctor writing down some information. He sighed before turning the handle on the door and pulling the door open. The doctor turned and smiled seeing Odd standing there at the door and put the clipboard in the pocket at the end of her bed.

"Mr. Della Robbia, please have a seat." The man gestured to the chair next to Mannie's bed. Odd looked over his wife as he walked past her bed and realized just how frail and skinny she had gotten over the past couple of months. Her ring was almost hanging off of her finger, and he felt his heart sink down into his stomach seeing her. It never got easier for him to see her, every time was still like the first time he saw her after the car crash.

"What is this all about Doctor Ferguson?" He asked as he sat and the doctor looked over from him to his wife, and he had a depressed look on his face.

"Well, by the recommendation of our neurosurgeon, we ran a CT scan on your wife and I... have some bad news for you..." Odd continued to stare at the man, feeling nervous to speak. "I'm sorry to tell you this, but the likeliness of your wife ever waking up from this coma is extremely low. Something has caused her brain to stop functioning as it should, and if she ever did wake up, she would be in a very vegetated state. I doubt she would even remember who you or any of your family is... We...feel the best option for you all is to take her out of her misery and take her off of life support."

The world around Odd started in slow motion, his face grew hot and he felt like his heart would stop.

"W-what...? You can't be serious..."

"We, of course, don't need you to make any decisions right now, but it would be ideal if you all could decide by Friday." The doctor looked back at Mannie one last time and then headed to the door. "I will give you some time to decide." The doctor exited the room, and it grew extremely cold. Odd stood and sat on the bed next to Mannie, grabbing the her left hand, and he watched her chest slowly lift up and down with the help of the machine.

"After everything we've been through..." Odd felt tears coming to his eyes as he reached up and traced his wife's thin cheek and jaw with the back of his right hand. "I never thought that XANA would actually be able to take you away from me." He bent over the bed and kissed Mannie on her temple. "I'll be back later with the kids, I love you." When he went to pull away his hand, he felt her give him a small squeeze.