XANA's Olympics: the Drabbles

by The Real Snickie

It's a cruel, cruel game he plays, and he makes all the rules. This was all for the XL Olympics Daily Drabble Challenge, and I decided I wanted to keep this separate from my other unrelated drabbles. Shelved plans to turn it into a full-length story or even just the drabbles into animated shorts.

7. Fly

It's all my fault, she thinks. If I had been faster, he would still be here with us.

No! Not Jeremie! she wails. Now we'll never be able to stop XANA or have normal lives again.

Normally, he could think of a bad joke to lighten the mood here, but even this wipes the slate blank. There is nothing that he can say.

Jeremie saved my life, he thinks. Saved me from XANA. Why couldn't I save his life from XANA? We're all doomed.

In the shock of his death, they were high as kites, and they didn't enjoy it.