Thank you to everyone who has reviewed this fic but sadly all good things must come to an end... And today's chapter marks the end of Deja Vu... :'(

First though over to my anonymous reviewers who I can't reply to:

- To Kukipye, my answer to your question is no not not really, but I like to think that maybe Wing likes to have fun once in a while... Oh and congratulations on reading the fics so fast. Two days... *_* I really appreaciate it. :D (BIG CHESSY GRIN)

- And Starkidhufflepuff, It doesn't matter and you're very welcome. I'm flattered that you love my fic so much. It means a lot... :D (EXTRA BIG CHEESY GRIN)

Now...

ENJOY!

Chapter 17

Otto's eyes flickered open. The first thing he saw were strip lights. Harsh and blinding. He blinked rapidly for a few moments trying to clear his vision. Then the boy frowned. He was lying in a bed. But how did he get there? A pounding headache stopped him from thinking straight so he just lay there and stared at the ceiling.

Then he realised that he was in a cell. There were bars along one wall. The Detention Centre at H.I.V.E.? What had he done now? He glanced down at his hands. For a second they were covered in blood. And then they were clear again.

Had someone been hurt? Nero? Raven? Wing? Shelby? Rick?

Laura.

The shock was like a physical blow. He couldn't breathe.

The body lying in a pool of blood.

Francisco. He'd killed her.

Rage suddenly boiled up from inside him and he lurched off of the bed, gripping the bars.

"Let me out!" He screamed. "Let me out!"


Nero watched the video feed on the screen. He watched as Otto tried to break through the bars. He watched the boy scream and hit the walls in a frenzy. He watched him throw the bed across the small room.

"Do we have to watch this?" Rick asked turning away.

"We need to know when we can approach Otto. Right now he's a little angry I'll say." Nero replied.

"A little angry? He just lost the girl he loved and you say he's just a little angry. Don't tell me you'd be fine if Raven died." The boy continued.

"No I wouldn't because Raven's a good friend. But I do know what Otto's going through. I lost my brother that day just as he lost Laura."

"What can we do?" Shelby asked, leaning against Wing. They were were all stood in Nero's office waiting to see what would happen. "He wasn't like this when Lucy died."

"I say we tell him Francisco's dead. Then maybe he'll calm down." Rick suggested. "I mean you've fired him right. It's not like they'll ever cross paths again so it wouldn't matter."

"No. Otto will know we're lying. He may be angry but he that doesn't make him any less smarter." Nero said.

"Then what? Laura's funeral will be taking place in a couple of days. If he doesn't calm down we can't exactly let him come along. Who knows what he'll do." Shelby said.

They fell silent and glanced back at the screen. Otto had slid down one of the walls and sat with his head in his arms.

"I want to go and talk to him." Rick said, turning on his heel and heading for the door.


The guard wearily glanced into the cell at the overturned bed and the dinted walls. Then with trepidation, he pulled open the door and permitted the boy to walk in.

Rick stood there with his hands in his pockets, wondering how to start a conversation. The guard had shut the door behind him and had left them alone.

Otto seemed to be staring into space. His eyes were glazed and he wasn't moving.

"Are you okay?" Rick asked, shivering slightly. His brother didn't reply.

"Otto?" The boy bent down and waved his hands in front of his face. Still no response.

Rick pulled out the blacbox he'd been given and quickly contacted Nero.

"How is he?" The man asked.

"I don't know. You should come and see for yourself."


Nero had come down to the cell and frowned at Otto, sitting there, barely breathing. Then he'd called Professor Pike who'd looked cafeully at the boy and shook his head slightly.

It seemed that Otto had withdrawn into his own head and didn't even know what was happening around him. He wasn't aware. The Professor figured that maybe he was lost in the electrical world he interfaced with. But then no - one had been able to come up with a solution as to how to bring him back.

The funeral came and went. Rick, Shelby, Wing, Franz, Nigel and Nero had been allowed to attend, even though Laura's parents had avoided them on the actual day. They told Otto about it but he still didn't come back from where he was.

Everday Rick would come down to the Detention Centre and sit with him. Sometimes he'd read a book. Sometimes he'd tell his brother what was going on at H.I.V.E. Once he even brought down a chess board and set it up. It was left discarded on the floor.

Then several weeks later Rick walked into the little cell and found that a piece had been moved.

"Did one of you touch the chess board?" He shouted back to the guards. They looked up and glared at him.

Rick spun around and looked at Otto. But he didn't seem to have moved. "Did you move that piece?" There was no response. Nevertheless, the boy decided to continue playing the game and moved another piece. Then he sat down and read from a book he'd brought.

The next day another piece had been moved. Rick smiled and moved a bishop before cutting his brother's hair.

Several days later and Rick walked into the cell to find that he'd lost the chess game and Otto was nowhere to be seen.

"Where's he gone?" He asked the guards as he stumbled back into the corridor.

"He's not there?" They said in shock.

Rick didn't waste any time and immediately flipped open his blackbox.

"Nero? Otto's gone!"


They found the boy in H.I.V.E. mind's Central Processing Unit. He was sat in front of the central pedastel, tears sliding down his face.

"Otto?" Rick said, as he walked up behind his brother. He didn't expect a response and was about to turn away.

"Do you have any chocolate on you?" The white - haired boy muttered.

"Chocolate?" Rick asked, shocked that his brother had spoken.

"Yeah. Chocolate. You know the sweet brown stuff." Otto continued. He ran a sleeve over his face while his brother sat beside him.

"No I don't. I can get you some later though." Rick said. "But first, where have you been?"

"No idea. Have they had the funeral?"

"Yeah. It's been several weeks now since... you know."

"Okay."

"We've missed you." Rick said.

"I miss Laura."

"You know Professor Pike did some tests to find out what it is that I can do. He says that like you can interface with machines or anything electrical, I can interface with the nervous system of people and take control. The electric shock I had re - activated the chip in my head and set it to a different frequency."

"Oh..." Otto said.

"He also said that I could possibly contain the personality or electrical life force of a person if they died so that they were in my head and well then I could transfer that data to another host so that they weren't dead."

"Interesting..."

"A host like the H.I.V.E. system here." Rick continued. His brother frowned.

"It's good to have you back Otto. I'm sorry that Laura's dead but that doesn't mean you have to stop living your life. And besides she's not exactly gone...well I'll let you figure it out." Rick said, standing up. He turned and walked out of the room without a backward glance.

"Otto?" The boy froze. His brother had just left the cavern so who had said that. Slowly with mounting disbelief, he looked to his right.

Stood there was a hologram of Laura. She was crying but they were both happy and sad tears.


So yeah that's the end...

I do have other ideas for other fics but it depends whether I write them up or not and if I even have the time...

If you want me to lemme know, though it won't be a continuation of this two part fic.

:'( It's been a great journey and you reviewers have been the BEST! *flowers* for all of you!

P.S. For those of you not satisfied with flowers, why not take world domination instead? lol!