Disclaimer: I do not own Code Lyoko. Zoey, Cassie, and Brooke belong to HoboLover. I only own Musa, Cascada and anything else that wasn't in the show.

Recollecting Memory- Part 2

She could feel a happy grin play across her lips as her friends walked through the busy streets with her. Mocha curls of hair bounced as Sitara nodded her head agreeing as the other three girls animatedly talked to her about this and that. The mute girl felt her shyness wash away with each wave of laughter her friends caused. Brooke, Cassie, and Zoey always knew how to make her feel better.

"Hey, can we rest?" Zoey whined stopping, "I'm getting tired."

"Didn't I tell you not to wear those heels?" Cassie asked.

"I don't remember," the rose hair girl said thoughtfully. Cassie sighed, shaking her head.

"There's a bench over there," Brooke pointed out. They all made their way towards the bench that was near the town's square.

Zoey took Sitara's hand dragging the girl the last few feet towards the bench and making her sit next to her. Cassie sat on the other side of Sitara while Brooke leaned against the back of the bench.

"It's been awhile since we were able to hang out like this, together I mean," Zoey said smiling.

"Yeah," Brooke agreed, looking at the clouds above.

"It's nice," Cassie commented. A calm quiet over came the four as they just relaxed before Zoey suddenly turned towards Sitara, a rare serious look on her face.

"Have you found him?" she asked. Cassie and Brooke looked at Sitara expectantly. The girl looked down at her hands sadly before shaking her head.

"Don't worry," Zoey said, her usual perkiness back, "You'll find him." The other two nodded their agreement. Unknowing to their mute friend as they walked her back to her room they somewhat felt…relieved knowing the person that Sitara had been looking for hadn't been found…

CODE TWILIGHT

Tired onyx eyes stared at the resting figure before them. They took in all of the details of the unconscious person, from their disheveled hair to the way their lips were slightly parted. William made sure to commit these details and many more to memory. He felt like he needed to remember this day, this moment because it seemed like everything was about to change soon.

His hand slowly drifted to the strawberry blonde hair that was spilled across the pillows. He let the soft curls run through his fingers before gently letting them trace down to her cheek, her neck, and back to her lips where they lingered for a few moments.

The boy tried to stifle a yawn as his body once again told him that he was tired but he refused to listen. To go to sleep would mean that he would have to leave Cascada and he didn't want to do that, not until she was awake and deemed okay.

It had been a few hours since she had collapsed, the late morning slowly fading into the evening. None of the Lyoko gang had called the hotel's nurse, especially after they realized that Musa, Aelita, and Cascada fainting at the same time weren't coincidental. He wanted to stay with her and make sure she was okay. Also, he didn't want to go to sleep for another reason.

He didn't want to dream…he didn't want to remember a life that wasn't his...

CODE TWILIGHT

Dream…

She looked straight forward, perfectly still in the presence of the white coated men. She was young, but not stupid. She knew that what they were about to do to her would otherwise be against the law but in this place, the laws of the country didn't seem to apply. They were above the rules and they felt no pity for what they were doing.

The room slowly emptied till it was only filled with three other people besides her. Two of them were standard guards, both looking fairly new and inexperienced: one was older and larger then the other, seemingly in his early twenties with unruly brunette hair and a bandage on his cheek while the other seemed to be just getting out of his teens with low cut dirty blonde hair and blue eyes. The other man was well known to her; Mr. Schaeffer.

"How are you doing, my dear?" the glasses wearing man asked in his usual polite yet distant voice as he looked over her stats.

"I'm fine, sir," the girl replied though she wanted nothing more then to scream her outrage of being placed her.

"Have you been brushing your teeth and washing your face two times a day?" Schaeffer asked writing down notations on his clip board. To anyone else they would have actually thought he cared about the girl's well being.

"Yes, sir," she said in a tone that could easily imitate the man's tone.

"Good, good," the Schaeffer said nodding his head. "You can return to the room with the others."

She nodded as she stood up from her chair, smoothing her standard white dress out as she gracefully walked over to the entrance where the two guards were waiting. They led her out of the room and into the sterile white halls. She could hear the sound of other children but they weren't familiar to her. There was no way for her to tell whether or not they had recently come here or not since she was only allowed to see the other three children in her division.

She felt her emotionless façade slip as she wished she didn't feel so trapped in here. She was so deep in thought that she was startled when she felt a hand on her shoulder. She looked up at the larger of the men, eyebrow arched as he smiled down at her. She was wary of him since no one smiled at her or the other children unless they were going to tell them more lies.

To say the least, she was surprised when the man pulled out a several suckers from his pocket. The girl looked at the candy and then both men questioningly before hesitatingly taking the candy and slipping them into a pocket of her dress to give to the other chidren later.

"Thank you," she said showing a true smile to two strangers she had just met. They had showed her the most kindness any adult had ever shown her since she was here and for a moment as she stared up at the kind smiles of the guards, she forgot where she was; she forgot that she was a prisoner; she forgot that this was her hell…

CODE TWILIGHT

Jeremy typed furiously at his laptop, now and then looking above the screen to the pink hair girl sleeping before him before once again typing. He was worried and when he was worried he managed to submerge himself in his work. That was the thing about Jeremy Belpois. He was always able to get things done even in a moment of crisis. That could be a good thing and a bad.

Jeremy, for lack of better words, was a work-aholic and sometimes didn't know when enough was enough. He knew that was a habit he needed to break but he couldn't; he didn't want to break it. If he did, what would he be left with then? The others could fight, he couldn't. All of his talents needed the aid of a computer. He was horrible at anything physical, making him the poster child for computer geeks everywhere. He didn't want to be this. He didn't want to seem weak, but what else could he do?

He used to be the best at what he did, which was computer programming and hacking, both he used greatly with his work with Lyoko but with the arrival of Musa and Cascada he seemed to be pushed to the side and what human wouldn't? The two were computer programs who could always learn and improve. What came natural to them took weeks for Jeremy to figure out.

The blonde shook his head as he continued to work. This wasn't the first time her thought of this. He originally began pondering some of these questions when he thought that a disguised Xana was actually Hopper. At the time he had felt helpless. He hadn't been thinking about these things recently until the reality of actually reuniting Aelita with her parents actually seemed to hit home. With Hopper back that would mean that Jeremy would no longer be needed. Why have a novice when you could practically have a computer programming god? The others could always continue fighting on Lyoko or just return to their normal Earth activities but Jeremy…computers were his life!

The computer whiz just didn't want to feel useless. He had always felt like he could do more especially when his friends were practically sacrificing their life while he was sitting in his nice comfy chair in the factory, but what?

The blonde sighed putting away his laptop and just opting to stare at his pink hair princess. Could he ever be her knight instead of an onlooker?

CODE TWILIGHT

Dream…

It was night and she should have been in bed but the haunting dreams of the men in black kept playing in her mind, making sleep hard to grasp. With Mr. Puck kept closely to her person she crept the silent halls of her new home, expertly dodging the still unpacked moving boxes expertly.

The glow of a computer's light which was leaking from the bottom of the closed door was the only sign that she could tell that her father was still awake. She pressed her ear against the door and tried to see if she could hear anything.

"How's the program's progressing?" she heard her father ask.

"It's going, as expected," another male voice said. She knew the owner of the voice but it had been a while since she was able to talk to him. "It shouldn't be too long till we're able to bypass the fire wall and the government's security code. Then we'll be able to destroy Project Carthage."

"Good," the young girl heard her father say. "Anything else?"

"Yes, according to a scan of the house, your daughter is standing right outside your room listening," the other male said sounding amused.

The girl let out a squeak of surprise as the door opened to reveal her very disheveled and slightly sleep deprived father. "Aelita, why aren't you in bed?" he asked in a chastising tone.

"I couldn't go to sleep," she said in a small voice. "I had a bad dream again."

Hopper sighed his expression softening before taking the girl's hand. "Come on. I'll make you some tea. That should help soothe your nerves and make it easier to sleep," he said turning to close the door before he led her to the kitchen but not before Aelita was able to see the computer screen. It showed Leon smiling at her but his smile unsettled her because his eyes had a weird eye like symbol…

CODE TWILIGHT

Odd's fingers rapidly pressed the buttons on his hand held game device shooting down three attacking alien ships and gaining the high score. He sighed as he sat his game away, uninterested in it. His interest was on the sleeping bicolor hair girl next to him.

If William walked into the room he knew he was a dead man, but he didn't care as he turned on his side to get a better view of the other occupant of the bed. She seemed to be all right though now and then her expression would go into a frown or a grimace.

'She must be having a nightmare," he thought as he sat back up careful not to disturb Ichigo or Kiwi who were taking a nap cuddled together at the foot of the bed. Odd sighed silently again. He wasn't the type of person who could sit in one spot for too long but he didn't want to leave his girlfriend's side. Suddenly, he thought of something he could do. He grabbed a notebook that was near by and began writing in it, only looking up at Musa when he heard her whimper fearfully in her sleep.

CODE TWILIGHT

Dream…

Floating…

Surounded...

Trapped...

Hopper…looking away…

"Dad! Help me!" she tried to call out.

And then…crimsom red…

That's all she could see, red as she felt the rising panic consume her. She saw nothing but red but she heard faint sounds. Sounds like screams of mercy and death and then…they stopped.

She found herself huddle in a corner of a broom closet, her body feeling abnormal to herself and not even knowing how she had gotten here in the first place. She found that her nude body was caked in blood that was not hers and she was clutching something tightly to her. Tears rolled down her cheeks as she heard the pounding of boot clad feet running down the halls, the alarm blaring. They were going to find her. They always did and that made her fear and hate them even more. She could never escape.

"Just leave me alone," she whispered to herself shutting her eyes closed as her grip on the item in her arms tightened.

The door opened causing her eyes to snap open. A growl escaped her lips as two figures stood before her. She recognized them as the guards that sometimes escorted her throughout the base. That didn't make her guard drop though. They worked with them and were equally guilty for any crime that was committed against her.

The older guard looked her straight in the eyes as he handed his gun to his comrade, never breaking gazes with her. He slowly raised his hands in the air to show that he was completely vulnerable if she were to attack.

"Stupid humans," a thought floated around in her head before her eyes widened. No! She couldn't think like that. She was human! She was human! She was human…

The guard was now only a few steps before her. He stopped before kneeling down to her level in front of her. He extended out a hand towards her, slowly so not to scare her. "I'm not going to hurt you, kid," he said softly before motioning towards his partner. "Neither of us will."

The girl looked skeptically at the two for a long time and the guards began to fear that they would both either be caught and held treason for doing what they were planning to do or, that the girl would kill them before they even knew what happened, but neither of them showed their anxiety on their faces.

A little shockingly, the girl hesitatively placed one of her hands in his before saying in a soft and childlike voice, "I…trust you…"

CODE TWILIGHT

A pair of blue-green eyes opened to the now darkened room of what she assumed was her bed room. When her slightly more developed hearing picked up the sounds of various others individuals in the vicinity she was sure that her assumption was right.

Stiffly, she sat up right, pushing covers aside. She was surprised when she felt something brush against her leg. She looked next to her to see Odd fast asleep curled in a position that continually made her wonder whether her boyfriend had been a cat in a previous life.

She got up silently from bed and exited the room. She found Ulrich and Yumi asleep on the couch and with her hearing she could tell that Jeremy was with Aelita and William with Cascada.

She shook her head as she made her way towards the bathroom trying to shake away the ringing she was hearing in her ears. She turned on the faucet, splashing cold water on her face to try to wake her up. She reached for a towel, patting her face dry before looking in the mirror. A scream was emitted from her mouth before she was able to stifle it.

She backed away from the mirror, furiously shaking her head before the bathroom door opened to reveal a tired by worried looking William.

"Musa? What's-?" the boy was cut off as the girl through her arms around him, burying her head in his chest. The boy was shocked by her actions but quickly comforted her. "It's okay, Musa," he said calmly patting her head.

The girl sniffled as she cried, an image of a blood soaked version of herself staring back at her from the mirror. It wasn't the blood that scared her; it was the cold, emotionless look that her eyes held, devoid of any human thought…

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