Jeremie: Part 3

Jeremie lay in his bed, staring at the blank computer screen. There was no way to alter the one program he so desperately needed to. No way to make the return to the past function bring back someone who was dead. There was no way to bring her back….

Why did this have to happen? Why couldn't we have protected her? Jeremie asked himself, glaring at the ceiling. This is all Ulrich's fault. He let himself be possessed by Xana and now he's gone and killed Yumi. There's no way I'm going to be able to get Xana out of him again….

… Maybe there's another way to get rid of him….

Lights out had been a few hours ago and Ulrich still lay looking at Odd sleep. Odd had told him that Yumi was killed and he'd cried most of the rest of the evening, skipping dinner. He had a huge blank spot in his memory again, he didn't remember most of the day.

Odd had tried to talk to him earlier that evening, but he'd just ignored him and continued to mope, telling Odd that he just needed to be left alone.

The blond had eventually given up and gone to attempt to do his homework, but had trouble concentrating so he left to go ask Aelita for help and ended up gone for a longer time than it should have taken to get done with the homework.

He rolled over on the bed and closed his eyes, trying to will himself to fall asleep again. It was then that door quietly opened and someone stepped in before shutting it again.

Ulrich feigned asleep so as to catch the person in whatever act they were trying to commit, so it was a totally surprise when his vision went black.

When he came to it was morning again. "I guess I just fell asleep…."

"What're you talking about, Ulrich?" Odd asked as he pulled a shirt over himself.

"Last night I was lying awake, just staring at the ceiling and I heard somebody open the door and then I don't remember anything from there. I think that I just passed out, but I want to know who was in here last night…."

"For all we know it was Aelita coming to see if either of us was still up, because she was upset. Jeremie's not really good with that sort of thing, so she tends to go to Yumi when she's upset, but since Yumi's gone…."

Ulrich clenched his fists and held back tears. What had happened to Yumi? Why had she died? "Please Odd, don't mention what happened…. I can't afford to be holed up in here all weekend…. I need to get Jeremie to trust me, because I know he still doesn't."

"It's not gonna be easy, good buddy. He's got it stuck in his head that you're the one that killed Yumi and that he's this monumental failure for not stopping you," Odd said, resting his arm across Ulrich's shoulders.

A quick flash of pain ran through his head as he fell to the ground, pushing the palms of his hands against his temples.

Jeremie. Walking into their dorm. A knife held high above.

More pain raced through his skull.

Ulrich yelling for help. Odd not responding. Jeremie plunging the knife downwards toward Ulrich's heart.

He screamed. He felt like his head was going to split open at any second. He saw Odd making wild gestures, notifying Ulrich that he couldn't hear anything as a fresh wave of pain crashed through.

Him stopping Jeremie. Jeremie crying out in pain, the knife dropping to the floor. Jeremie swearing he'd kill him, calling him Xana, someday soon. Something about avenging Yumi. Darkness.

Just like that, as soon as the flashes of thought ceased, the pain in his head decreased and left an incessant whistle noise in his ear.

"Ulrich, are you okay? C'mon, answer. … I'm going to go get the nurse," Odd said before Ulrich grabbed his arm.

"It's okay…. Just this weird headache came out of nowhere and then went away. I'm fine, promise," he replied, seeing the skeptic look on Odd's face.

"I still think that you should mention something to the nurse. Let's go to the infirmary. It'll make me feel better. Did anything else happen when your head started hurting?"

"I saw flashes of something, but it didn't make sense…. Jeremie wouldn't try to kill me, would he?" Ulrich asked, looking Odd in the eyes.

"Part of me wants to say no, but the way he was blaming you yesterday for Yumi's death and the way he was acting kind of screams to me that he might…. Why? Is that what you saw?"

He nodded. "He had a knife and was about to kill me, but I stopped him…."

"I'll talk to him, okay? If you're scared, there's no need to be…. We can sit somewhere else at breakfast if you want, too," Odd said, helping Ulrich up.

He nodded again and the two headed out.

"How could you?!" Aelita screeched, tears racing down her cheeks as Jeremie sat in his chair looking at his hands. "How could you, Jeremie?! We're not sure if he's guilty or not and you just tried to kill him! When did that ever cross your mind as a good idea?!"

"I don't know…. I wasn't thinking straight…. I'm so-" Jeremie started, getting cut off for the second time.

"Don't you dare try and tell me you're sorry! You need to be telling that to Ulrich! You probably creeped him out with that little stunt and if Xana still does have some sort of pull on him then you really need to apologize so that he doesn't gather more ground! Do you want that? Do you want to drive Ulrich away from us when we need him?!"

He shook his head in shame and continued to scrutinize his hands. Things just weren't going right for him at all lately and he had a feeling that they were just going to get worse as all this continued….

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