Return to Lyoko
AN: This is basically the fluff chapter showing friendships and relationships. Totally filler but hopefully enjoyable filler :D
Disclaimer: I don't own it.
-Chapter 3:Pillow Fights and Fighting Jeremy-
After dinner, the boys and the girls parted ways.
Ulrich and Odd were excited about the video games they had and Jeremy was intent on solving whatever he could on the whole XANA/Báis situation.
"So what do ya guys plan on doing when we get to the dorm?" Alana asked. She then remembered everything from the night they first slept in the room.
"Pillow fights?" Yumi jokingly suggested.
"Pillow fights?" Aelita questioned.
"How do you not know what a pillow fight is?" Alana asked in surprise.
"Stuck in a virtual world for 10 years?" Aelita laughed.
"Oh." Alana blushed a deep red.
The three girls laughed.
"Yumi! Aelita! Hey buddies! Nice to see you!" Sang the high-pitched voice of Sissy.
"Hey Sissy." Yumi and Aelita said in unison.
"Hi, I'm Alana. I'm a newbie here." Alana introduced herself with a laugh and an imaginary tip of her hat.
"I'm Sissy, daughter of the headmaster. It's so hard having to be so important to the school. I do so much for daddy I'm always sore." Sissy moaned tiredly.
"Well, we have to get to our dorms. We have a lot of unpacking to do!" Yumi said as she grabbed Aelita and Alana and ran.
They were still laughing as they entered the dorm.
The walls were a pale pink. There was a dresser, a desk, a single bed and a bunk bed. The room was absolutely boring. The girl's stuff was piled up in the middle of the room.
"Time to get started! Who wants the single bed?" Alana asked.
The girls shrugged. "I want the top bunk, if you don't mind." Aelita said.
"I'll take bottom then." Alana said, looking to Yumi for approval. She nodded.
They began to sort out clothes and everything.
"What are we going to do about the dresser? My clothes won't fit in just one drawer." Yumi asked.
Alana pulled out a knife and grabbed a cardboard box. After a couple of minutes, she held out 10 evenly sliced cardboard rectangles.
"We'll just use these to even things out. 5 drawers, 3 girls. We'll each have a third of each drawer." Yumi reasoned when she saw the cardboard.
The girls then arranged their clothing and organized the desk. A desktop computer -belonging to Aelita- sat on the desk and Yumi and Alana's laptops were stacked next to it.
Phone chargers were plugged in as well as laptop chargers. Flash drives were put into an organizer with pencils, pens, sticky notes, paper clips, highlighters, erasers and a sharpener.
A few posters were on the wall along with a picture of the forest that Aelita had sketched. Photos were put on the bulletin board and a calendar was neatly hung on the door.
The girls' room was fully organized and ready for the girls to talk and goof around for a while.
Jeremy, Ulrich and Odd were walking to their dorm when Odd bumped into a tall figure.
"Hey guys, how's it going?" said the familiar voice of William Dunbar.
"Oh, hi, William." Odd greeted without enthusiasm.
Jeremy and Ulrich's greetings weren't much different.
The boys entered their room and saw exactly what the girls' saw with light blue walls.
Ulrich, having already brushed his teeth, threw himself on top of his bare bed and pulled out his hand-held video games. Odd climbed up into his bed and did the same. Jeremy began to organize the dorm but simply gave up when Odd attempted to help and a molded pie fell out of his bag. The boys agreed that all trash was to be thrown on Odd's bed and that was that.
"So Yumi, how long have you been going out with Ulrich?" Alana asked. They girls were all sitting on the top bunk with a bag of chips Alana had brought.
"We've been going out a few weeks. It was so cute the way he asked me out. He was really nervous though." Yumi had the girl's full attention but paused anyway.
"How?" Aelita quickly asked.
"His parents and my parents went on a trip to Japan and he had gone to a gift shop to get me something. It was a small box of chocolates but it said in Japanese, will you go out with me? Ulrich was surprised when I said yes and kissed him... It was pretty awkward but cute. He actually had no idea what it meant!"
The girl's laughed. "So how did you and Odd meet each other?" Aelita asked Alana. Alana blushed.
"Well, I was walking to the bookstore one day and he accidentally ran me over with his skateboard. His parents were staying in my mom's inn. I recognized him and started talking to him. That night, we spent the whole night talking by a lake near the inn. The next day, his parents were going to leave but he convinced them to let him stay another week because he 'loved all Glasgow had to offer.' I took him to all my favorite places and he ended up staying there another month."
"That's sweet! So unlike Odd..." Yumi laughed. Alana randomly grabbed a pillow and hit Aelita over the head with it. Alana quickly jumped down.
"What was that for?" Aelita asked.
Yumi then hit Aelita with a pillow and yelled, "Pillow fight!"
Aelita quickly caught on.
After the girls had left, Jeremy was on his laptop trying all he could to organize a battle strategy. Alana had earlier given him a full journal of notes over her years fighting Báis. He had looked over about 20 or so pages and was going to look at more later.
Odd and Ulrich were bored. Very, very, very bored. So, Ulrich climbed into Odd's bunk and they devised a plan. Well, it was a plan made out of boredom so it wasn't exactly ingenious but...
"GAH!" Jeremy shrieked as he fell out of his chair. Odd and Ulrich stood over him laughing. They had each moved to the middle of the room and agreed to yell in Jeremy's ear at the same time. Jeremy wasn't amused.
A few hours later left Ulrich, Odd, and Yumi asleep.
Aelita saw the faint glow of a dimmed laptop below her. "Alana? You still awake?"
"Yeah, just reading Jeremy's notes. This is giving me some good ideas for later." Alana replied in a very quiet whisper, mindful of Yumi.
"Don't worry yourself over this. You and Jeremy both will probably never sleep just because of this." Aelita took a deep breath. "Be careful, okay? This stuff can always wait an hour or two."
Alana nodded then said, "Okay. Go back to sleep."
Aelita closed her eyes once more, her dreams filled with an overachieving blond.
Alana went online to the website she had created. Another sting hit her at the memories but she trudged on. She quickly swept through the members' database and saw Jeremy's profile. She joined him in a chat.
APfromGS: Still awake? I wanted to ask about the skid. Could you remake one? I can talk with friends and get help for you.
JBfromPF: No problem. I'll write out some of my codes for you. By the way, those codes your friends used for the antivirus, can I look those over?
APfromGS: No problem. I'll give them and some other codes we used tomorrow at breakfast. It's 3 am. I think we both need to go to sleep. We might as well get the rest now. We'll do as much work as we can during daylight. Night.
Jeremy looked at the screen with a feeling of slight disappointment. Did she really think that they can put this off?
He took a moment and thought about it. Alana was right. His over-working nature had caused a rift between him and Aelita. He was not going to even come close to losing her this year. He kept this in mind as he closed his eyes.
At 6 am, six teenagers managed to stumble out of bed. Yumi, Alana, Jeremy and Aelita out of habit and Odd and Ulrich out of Jeremy.
After a change of clothes and a shower, these teens were the first at breakfast.
"Jeremy, trade?" Alana said as she handed over a small packet filled with -what looked to Odd- gibberish.
He in return, did the same.
"Guys, I think we should invite William to join us. We're going to need help." Jeremy pointed out as he waited for Yumi to blow up.
Yumi surprised everyone by only nodding. "We need him."
"I'll go looking for him after breakfast and we'll have a talk with him. After that, we'll give Alana a tour of the factory and we can restart it. By 6, we'll leave, eat dinner and be merry." Jeremy called out the plan. Everyone else ate their croissants and hot chocolate without argument.
After breakfast, the group separated. Yumi and Ulrich went down to the forest. Alana and Odd went to the courtyard and Jeremy and Aelita planned to meet in the girl's room after he talked to William.
"So, Alana, what do you think of it here?" Odd asked her as he lay on the bench, his head in her lap.
"It's nice. Seems a bit better than Glasgow but ya never know. The company is nice." She blushed as she said this.
He blushed a bit too.
"So what do I hear about you being a real ladies' man?" Alana asked with a wink.
He looked ashamed. "Last year, I kinda, sorta, maybe dated every girl at school except for Sissy, Aelita and Yumi..."
Alana laughed. "Has that changed?"
"Yeah... I only like one girl now..."
"We've been needing some alone time." Ulrich remarked as he walked hand-in-hand with Yumi.
"We really do."
"What do you think about returning to Lyoko?"
"I'm not sure. I was pretty happy to leave it behind but I'm excited to go back. Do you miss it, Ulrich?"
He sighed. "I miss being a hero. Not just being a hero. I miss being your hero..."
"You're still my hero. Being my hero doesn't mean you have to save my life every step of the way..." Her face flushed.
"Just makes it all the more real."
"Jeremy, I see bags under your eyes." Aelita commented as she ran her fingers against his cheek.
"I went to bed around 3." He sighed. Might as well tell her the truth. "And I know that it's bad for me but I want to do everything I can to make sure you're safe. And since I can't run 100 miles per hour or cut a creeper into fifths, I do what I can."
"Jeremy, all I want you to do for me right now is kiss me and hold me. Everything else will come later."
For once Jeremy Belpois just did as he was told.
AN: Whatdya think? I need the OCs! :D