Right... So this is embarrassing! I actually haven't updated this fic in over a year *hides face in shame* I'm sorry! If I still have anybody out there who is willing to read this story still even after the very unforgiving wait for an update then thank you so much! I don't know how frequent my updates will be but they will be more frequent than yearly chapters I promise! Anyway enough rambling back to the story!

Disclaimer: Not mine.

The digidestineds sat in silence as they ate their supper although none of them really had the appetite for food. Matt hadn't said a word since Tai broke the news about Tk and Kari lay huddled in a ball by the fire and refused to even look at her food. Izzy, Joe, Ken, Yolei, Cody and Armodillomon sat in a small circle and Tai and Sora sat on their own staring out vacantly as the river. As for Davis he hadn't returned from his walk yet. Everyone seemed lost.

Suddenly Sora jumped up. "I need a minute!" she cried as she ran off towards the woods.

"Sora wait!" yelled Tai racing after her.

Even though Tai had played football all his life Sora was still always able to outrun him, it took him quite a while before he finally caught up with her. "Sora wait," he said as he made a final push forward. He grabbed her wrist and spun her round forcing her to face him.

"I know you're upset, we all are but I won't let you run off in the woods on your own!"

"Why not Tai?" she barked back. "What if I just want to be alone eh?"

"You really think I'd leave you alone after what happened Mimi...Tk?"

Sora bowed her head. "I... I just... I can't believe they're really gone. Why now? After everything we've been through together. Why now?"

Tai pulled Sora into him and she buried her head into his chest wetting his jumper with her tears. "I know," he said softly. "I know."

"I don't know what I'll do if I lose anyone else," she said lifting her head to face him. "I don't know what I'll do if... I don't know what I'll do if I lose... if I lose you Tai."

Tai gasped silently and stared down at Sora taking her in. "Oh Sora," he breathed softly as he pulled her up onto her tiptoes and leaned into kiss her. After years of flirting, fighting and friendship finally the teens lips locked.

The pair lost themselves in a moment of passion. Sora ran her hands through Tai's silky flyaway brunette locks as he wrapped his strong arms around her middle pulling her in closer towards him. Sora kissed back hard pushing Tai backwards until he was up against a tree. It wasn't until she began fumbling with the buttons on his jumper that Tai pulled away. "Wait, are we taking this too fast?"

Sora pushed a strand of hair behind his ear. "It's been almost ten years Tai, it would be impossible to be taking anything too quickly."

Tai smiled weakly but he still wasn't convinced. "Sora I-

Sora placed a tentative finger on Tai's lips. "Don't speak, let it just be the two of us for a while okay? Please?"

"Okay."

Tai lowered Sora's hand from his lips and began kissing her again. This time when she began fumbling with his clothing he didn't resist he ran his hands up inside her jacket tearing it off as she threw his jumper to the ground. Sora allowed herself to slide down onto the makeshift mattress of clothes on the forest floor and pulled Tai by his collar down towards her. Tai kicked off his shoes as Sora unbuckled his belt and flinging it to one side.

The pair were totally lost in one another, even the sound of distant footsteps and the breaking of twigs didn't rouse them back into reality. It wasn't until the person who found them had spoke that the pair noticed him.

"Oh my God, what do you guys think you're playing at?"

Tai tore himself away from Sora quickly and looked up to see a disgusted and hurt looking Matt staring down at them.

"Matt I- began Tai but Matt cut across him.

"Save it Tai! Mimi and... and Tk are dead but it's soooooo much more important for the two pathetic lovebirds to have sex in the woods, how touching."

"Hey, it's not like that we-

"I said save it Tai!" Matt barked back. "Just... save it okay? I'm outta here."

Before Tai or Sora could say anything else Matt charged off into the trees and was hidden from view almost instantly.

"Fuck," muttered Tai and his hit the ground hard with his fist. "Fuck."

Matt crashed through the woods without any real sense of direction or idea about where he was heading he just needed to get away from Tai. How could he even think of getting off with Sora at a time like this? Since when were they even hooking up? Ugh, even just thinking of them made him feel sick.

Matt didn't truly become aware of his surroundings until he tripped over an exposed tree root and fell flat on his front. He hissed as he skinned his knees and grazed his chin off the rough forest floor. "Ahh," he groaned.

"Have a nice fall?"

Matt hopped up quickly to see Davis standing in the shadows behind him. The blond furrowed his brow. "Not really, I didn't see you there Davis."

Davis smirked. "Sure you didn't. I'm guessing you heard about Tk?"

There was something about Davis's tone that was unsettling to Matt. "Davis are you okay?"

"Never better."

Matt took a step back something was definitely up. "You don't seem to be fine to me."

"I'd be more worried about your safety than mine to be honest." said Davis monotonously.

Matt took another step back before bumping into someone he turned on his heel quick only to be fronted by Devimon.

"Hey Mattie boy, long time no chat, hows Teeks?"

Matt's eyes widened and he turned to run but before he even reached five paces the ominous roar of TOUCH OF EVIL shattered his eardrums before a sickening cold and painful attack struck his lower spine. He was knocked out instantly.

Devimon took a step forward chuckling to himself. "Looks like we have a new recruit in our army Davy. Two dead, two with me and eight more to go. I'm starting to like those odds."

Joe finished the last of the washing up and looked up, seeing that almost half of their group was gone he grimaced. "I really don't think we should be taking off on our own."

Izzy glanced around the group. "Yeah, Tai, Sora and Matt have been gone for like half an hour and Davis... well he's been gone since before nightfall."

"Should we go looking for them?" asked Yolei quietly.

"Yeah, I think so but... I don't really think we should all go, yet I don't want to split the group up any more either." said Joe as he stood akimbo looking back at the other digidestineds.

"You can't have it every way," spoke Kari softly without moving from her huddled position by the fire.

Joe opened his mouth to answer back but was interrupted by the sound of whispering from the woods. He sighed. "Well someone is back anyway."

Just at that moment Sora and Tai came out of a clearing in the forest. They looked worried. "Hey," they said in unison.

"Hey."

"Em... Matt didn't come back did he?" asked Tai sheepishly.

Ken furrowed his brow. "No, not yet neither did Davis."

"We were just about to send out a search party," added Kari sarcastically.

Yolei shot Kari a look but nobody else seemed to acknowledge the girl's sarcasm. "Do you think we should split up to look for them?"

"No need, we're here." replied a voice from behind Tai and Sora and out of the woods came Matt and Davis.

"We're back guys." said Matt a dark yet invisible to the others redness glinted his eyes.

"And we've never felt better." added Davis.

Nobody seemed to notice the sinister overtones in the boys' voices as Matt and Davis sat down beside the fire and joined the remaining digidestineds, nobody seemed to register at all that perhaps their friends were maybe not quite as friendly as they used to be.

The blond opened his eyes slowly and groaned as he was met by the intensely bright white light of his strange new surroundings. He was vaguely aware of the beeping of a heart monitor which told him he was still alive and he was conscious of the fact that a deep pain ran through every inch of his body. "Hah, I'm alive," he thought. "In theory."

"You're awake," commented a booming voice above him.

Tk shifted himself with great difficulty on the bed to look up at the person talking to him. "Who are you?"

"I'm Doctor Takumi Sun, myself and my dog found you late yesterday afternoon by the river bank, it looked like you had been swept down the whole length of the river. You have a few broken ribs, broken wrist and some nasty bruises but apart from that you're fine, you're really lucky you know."

Tk contemplated this for a moment. The last thing he could remember was finding Cody's crest at the bottom of the river and then... then... then what?

"Kid?"

Tk looked back up at the doctor.

"What's your name kid?"

"Takeru, but everyone calls me Tk."

The doctor smiled. "Well Tk, how are you feeling?"

"Sore."

"That's to be expected, I'd like to put you on stronger painkillers but with so many digimon nearby it would be easier to keep our patients conscious if at all possible, sorry we never know when we may be attacked."

"Attacked?" asked Tk groggily, then it all came back to him, the digimon the river, Davis. The others had to be warned!

Tk made a move quickly to get up but he felt the doctor's hand on his shoulder. "Woah Tk, you're not ready to over exert yourself just yet."

"But my friends-

"Tk, you need some rest, in your state with the digimon creatures outside so close you won't survive five minutes. You need rest."

Tk opened his mouth to protest but was silenced by Takumi's stern glare. "Well then do you have a phone or anything?"

"No can do I'm afraid," said the doctor sadly. "These digimon are smart they have been attacking the telephone wires and mobile phone services around the country. Everything has crashed it's impossible to contact anyone."

"Shit," muttered Tk angrily.

"Kid, I'm sure your friends are fine, don't worry about them now, you'll be back with them soon."

Tk smiled at the doctor's attempts to cheer him up. "Yeah... I hope so." He allowed himself to slide back down onto the bed. "I really do."

'Til next time, toodles :D