Odds POV

We headed down to the factory and it felt good to be able to hold Astrid's hand and chat. I kept glancing at the back of her neck ,though, and I think she could thing that hit her head came out of no where and i just wish I knew who did it. Rousing myself from my thoughts I listen to Astrid's question.

" So what are we planning on doing know at lyoko. William was right, I don'treally know that much, it's not like I've been here long." She said staring at the ground. I squeezed her hand and smiled. She looked up at me and gave a week smile back. Her head was probably still hurting but Im guessing she has so many troubling things on her mind to go with it. Im lucky I got a smile out of her at all.

" Frankly youve been doing things that are actually helpful longer than he has. The only reason he knows that is because that's the main thing we were working on when he was 'joined in'" I said making quotation marks with my dingers. She smiled and muttered thanks, but I get the feeling it'll take a while before she really sees it. I helped her climb down the latters, once we got down she yawned again.

" Why are you so tired?" ulrich asked her teasingly when he heard her yawn. She shrugged and gave a short smile. Come to think of it I wonder why she was so tired. I glance a the back of her neck as we skate down the sewers. As she reached up her hand to her mouth and yawned she hit a rock and a fell sideways as her skateboard slid from beneath her feet.

"aahhh!" She screamed as she hit the the sewer water. I quickly stopped in my tracks to help her out. i reached out my hands to her and pulled her up. She sat on the floor shivering for a second and when she opened her eyes I could see exhaustion lingering.

"You okay?" I asked and just nods. Her eyes flash with irritation as she muttered thanks again. She's had a rough day and it's not exactly swimming temperature right now. I pull off her jacket and squeeze the water out. The electric blue jacket didn't look so electric now.

"Are you guys okay?" Yumi called back and I waved her on. They didn't need to busy themselves with us. She stands there for a minute then calls back, " Okay just get to the factory quickly." Just then I notice William who was behind us come up. He walked past then stopped, through his jacket onto Astrid, then skater after the others not saying a word.

I stare after him for a moment until Astrid's head falls onto my shoulder. I snap my head around to see her asleep. I gently nudge her awake again, my eyes softening. "Hey, this is no place for a nap. Wake up. Your covered in cold sewage water, how can you even think about sleeping?" I say laughing as she groggily opens her eyes.

" Odd, I can't wake up. I-I really can't." She's says weakly and I quickly grow serious as I notice her struggling to keep her eyes open. "Odd.." She whispers than falls back on my shoulder. Panicking I start nudging her again. Harder and harder each time she didn't wake up.

"Astrid! Wake up!" I yell as none of my attempts to wake her work. I look around, there's gotta be something here to help. As I'm looking around I spot something coming behind us. I throw myself over Astrid to protect her just as a projectile zooms past us. I look up and stare at it as it keeps going, then flies up the porthole leading to the factory. I wince as I hear the loud "Bang!" of the man hole lid coming down on the ground.

I think rapidly. I can't carry Astrid to the others because of the ladder and the cable. Also I can't just leave her hear, not alone asleep. My thoughts are interrupted by a ring. I pull out my phone and answer Jeremy's call.

"Where are you two? A towers activated and William was hit by a Xana bullet of some sort. It made him fall asleep after a minute! We need you two!" Einstein exclaimed through the phone.

"Listen I think Astrid was hit by that too. Remember at lunch? And how she's been yawning?" I say

"Okay okay, bring her here and we'll deactivate the tower. Be careful though!" Jeremy says and hangs up. As I pick Astrid up and start running toward the sewer ladders I think, why would he need to say be careful? I've been doing this as long as he, I know how handle myself. After some troubles and make shift stair case I mange to get me and Astrid into the elevator. I see her eyes flutter a little as we go down but she doesn't wake up.

"Astrid" I whisper worryingly and hurry into the room when the doors open.

"Great your here, put her down and get to the scanners, Xana doesn't seem happy today." Einstein says and i set astrid down next to William. Hopefully this will be over soon. I climb down the ladder and go into the scanners. When does Xana ever seem happy?

Astrid's POV

Twice, I had been able to crack my eyes open twice. But I was only able to crack them open until I fell back into the nightmares. The nightmares were strange, strange but well scary, as nightmares tend to be. First of all Xana, who I'm assuming is the cause of this, some how knows about my fear of heights. Thats what the first one was. I was on top of the Eiffel Tower and looking over. Odd was beside me holding onto me so I wouldn't fall. Don't get me wrong that was the good part, because after that I was push by someone behind me. Then I was falling. It wasn't some num dream that would fade away eventually, I was actually falling. At least it felt like it. But that wasn't even the worst part. As I was falling I could see every one else falling too. They were fading away like dust as we fell.

There were more though. Or maybe they were the same, but as I hit the ground I suddenly changed into water and felt like when I hit the sewer water. Again the bad part was when I came up for air. Thick ice surrounded the top of the water, and every time I got close to cracking it it hardened again. Just as I had to take a breath of even water I was transferred again. I was suddenly standing in a burning building and as I took a breath it was a breath of smoke. That was the cycle. Every time I went through it I woke up for a few seconds. At least that's what I assume.

This time however when I opened my eyes I was back in the rec room with every one standing over me. I sit up and Odd leans me against his chest. Faster now I gain my bearings and look around. Weren't we in the factory? That's what I saw when I opened my eyes.

"I really hate random flying objects." I say randomly and everyone starts laughing. Somehow I think they were relieved. I look at Odd and he starts to explain about the Xana attack and we had returned to the past. I had fallen down with out waking up so everyone was worried I wouldn't wake up. I smiled, despite the nightmares, despite everything I felt happy. Every one took turns explaining that William was hit too and how the towers were guarded hard at fist but After ten minutes xana's little helpers just up and left. Somewhere during the explanation Ulrich left and brought back some coffee.

"You know I've never tried this before...oh blegh! I mean thanks it taste great Ulrich." I say as I take a sip. Everyone laughs again and I stand up, stretch and grab a few sugars like the people at the orphanage would do.

"Ulrich always makes his with what seems like negative sugar." Yumi said teasingly and after putting two packs if sugar in I tasted it.

"perfection." I say and notice William staring at me oddly.

" How do you know you like two sugars if you've never had it before?" William asked and I shrugged.

"The adults at the orphanage would always put two sugars in there's, I just assumed it would be good." I say and take another sip. Od took my left hand and I smiled at him.

"Wait you were in an orphanage?" Aelita ask and I shrug happily again.

" I'm still in the orphanage, at least until I can get a house and a job. Going to places like these with a scholarship helps with that. I don't have to use up the money my father left for me." I answered simply. Thinking about it I guess they don't know what I mean by that.

" wait but I thought it was your mother who put you in The orphanage." Jeremy said, even he was trying to wrap his head around this.

"She did, that's what they tell me at least. I was a baby then. " I say a little coldly so I explain further. "They told me that they were friends with my mother and father and when they notified my father that my mother put me in a orphanage, they were never married and my mother had gotten full custody of me, he couldn't take me so for a reason they never told me but he gave up a large enough sum of money so I could go to a good college."

They all stare at me in a quiet shock again. It's not very hard to understand, I mean pretty much my mother abandoned me and my father couldn't take me so he gave me money to support myself. How did we even get to this we were talking about coffee? I giggle to myself thinking about it and they all give me strange looks which made me laugh harder.

"Nothing nothing, I was just thinking about... Nothing" I say in between laughing breaths. Odd smile and squeezed my hand.

"well anyway we should head to class." Jeremy said and we all headed down. Smiling I walked a happy silence close to Odd, my fingers intertwined with his. He seemed content as well and we let the others carry the conversation.

We carried on through the day the same way it happened before. William and I were paired together, but this time he didn't seem as miffed as before, even though he seemed to try hard to choose Yumi's name. When we were heading for lunch Odd went to get a letter from the... Wherever you get letters here. Odd picked up mine when I got one. When we were walking back William came over and tapped my shoulder. No one else seemed yo notice as he pulled me away from the conversation.

We walked behind a corner and he asked, "When you were asleep, from the Xana thing, did you get those nightmares too?" I could head a tad of nervousness in his voice.

"Mmhmm." I said plainly, somehow I was at a loss for words being alone with him. I picked up my act and said, "Why?"

"Well don't you think we should try to see where it's buried?" He asked plainly like of course I knew what he was talking about.

"Whoa whoa whoa, where what's buried? What type of nightmares did you have?" I asked and a look of panic shot across his face.

" No, never mind-" he started to say.

"no way, no how. Spilled it, you already let it loose so give me the rest of it." I say curious but also angry. He shouldn't be keeping secrets from the group. Although I guess he didnt get a chance to tell them yet. Quickly I say, "It okay if you don't want to tell ME but just make sure you tell the others." My eyes softened as I took in his situation.

"No, I'll tell you. Can you spare some time tonight?" He said looking at me with intense thinking eyes. Something must have changed his mind.

"Yeah, when?" We don't have much time left before the others start to question.

"Meet me... Um, nevermind I'll text you later where to go." He said looking releived that I understood our time limit. After that we quickly hurried to the cafeteria. When we grabbed our food and sat down Odd was already reading his letter.

"Where were you two?" Odd asked when we sat down, do I hear suspicion in his voice? I better not.

" William was challenging me to a table tennis rematch." I lie easily. The others give a short laugh then continue with the conversation they were having. I glance over at William and our eyes meet. He gives such a small nod that I think I might have imagined it. Od had gone back to his letter and I wait for him to finish. When he looks up he turns to me and smiles. I smile back broadly. He reaches to grab my hand but then shoots it over to my plate and snags my roll.

"hey give that back!" I said laughing as I snatch it back from him. We do that back and forth, figuring out some way to get the roll from the other. Finally we got a warning glance from a teacher and we settle down.

"So." I say still laughing a little. the others had just rolled their eyes at us. "What's the letter about?" Once I say it he gets serious. The others turn and pay attention when they hear it.

"Well, do you remember brynga?"

Hey guys, I don't know but was this chapter shorter? Any way hope you like the cut off ending thingy. I was planning on adding williams point of view but it seems long enough by word amount. Either way I wanted to keep supplying you with content. It feels like earlier this week I was neglecting this story. Anywho thanks for supporting me and keep it up! :)