#5 Naps
Aelita has a little picture in her scrapbook of Yumi and Ulrich asleep on each other's shoulders on a night where they'd been trying to finish a firewall. Odd went to Lyoko to watch a tower, and the other two warriors were on standby just in case. The way Yumi had her head on the boy's shoulder and the way Ulrich's arm curled around the crook of her elbow protectively was too sweet to not capture.
Odd catches the geniuses sleeping. Often. Sometimes Jeremie's asleep on his computer desk and Aelita is curled up with her laptop on the end of his bed. Sometimes they're cuddled up on the beat up old couch on the main level for what was supposed to be a quick power nap that lasted until morning. Sometimes they've been working all night and they both actually manage to find a bed. Regardless, Odd is usually the one who finds him, and he'll close Aelita's laptop, and ease Jeremie's glasses off his face and set them on the desk. He'll hit the save button and turn off the computer, or shut the files and put them in a neat stack. If he's got one, he'll throw a blanket over the couple. They need their rest.
When Yumi finally finds the boys during finals week, they're huddled around a table in the back corner of the library. Odd's asleep in his textbook, Jeremie doesn't look far behind. Ulrich's pouring over his notes for the fiftieth time, but Yumi saw the quadruple stacked cups of coffee behind his laptop. She takes it away from him and shut his laptop.
The first time Aelita passes out she sleeps for just over three hours. When she wakes up she asks about sleep, feeling rested and content. But when she sees the haggard and terrified looks on her friends' faces she decides naps aren't fun afterall. The second time she passes out she's afraid to open up her eyes and see that she's hurt them again. After they figure out the anti-virus, it takes Jeremie months to convince the girl she can sleep normally. Eventually he does, though.
Odd and Yumi are jet lagged when they get home from visiting family over the summer. For the next three days the gang finds them sleeping in various places. No one wakes them up, but once Ulrich moves Yumi from the floor to his bed and closes the door quietly behind him.
Jeremie remembers the moment clearly. The moment he woke up from a nap, Aelita still asleep on his chest, and he didn't feel the panic. The constant pressure of trying to find something, solve something, protect something. He just remembers letting his eyes close for another minute before Aelita stirred. "Jer, are you awake? We're having dinner at Mom's..."