Innocents Pay (Code Lyoko) Chapter 1:Evangel by HeWalksInBeauty, literature
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Innocents Pay (Code Lyoko) Chapter 1:Evangel
As Ulrich stepped into his dorm on December 21st, he nearly keeled over. "Cheering up the place" as usual, Odd had decorated their shared dorm with a varied, immense, and tastelessly superfluous amount of holiday crap. Murmuring "Das viertel hat sich zur stucken" under his breath, he opened the wardrobe and pulled out a light parka. It had snowed almost two feet overnight in Amines. As he walked into the brisk outdoor air, Ulrich noticed his friends constructing a snowman. A remarkably accurate caricature of Jim, it came complete with his iconic cheek bandage. Ulrich crept up behind an unsuspecting Odd, and shoved him head first into a snowb
Innocents Pay (Code Lyoko) Chapter 2 by HeWalksInBeauty, literature
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Innocents Pay (Code Lyoko) Chapter 2
It was a rainy night in East Berlin. Two people crouched in an alley. One of them was kneeling on the ground, and the other standing above him. They were both wearing sopping wet overcoats, and the kneeling one, an old man, was in pain. Leaning down, the other one whispered in a terrified voice, "Father, we need to get moving. The train will be moving by soon, and the KGB are-"
"Yes, yes, Anitae, the KGB will be here soon."
Standing up painfully, the old man's face came into light, He was shaved bald, but his stubble was a strange color. Pink, actually. He grumbled "We must be moving." and then staggered out onto the platform. Screechi
Innocents Pay Chapter 3 by HeWalksInBeauty, literature
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Innocents Pay Chapter 3
The walk home from the hermitage was cold and silent. Warring in Jeremy's head were two conflicting ideas: regret and vindication. When Aelita burst out of the room with her good news, he had been harsh in putting her down. Telling her that such ridiculous thoughts were merely fantasies, that they were the "opium of the masses." He ruthlessly tore her down, but she had not submitted, and so he felt a wall of ice growing between them. Fancying himself calculating and scientific, he had grown increasingly infuriated throughout their interview at her simple faith, but in the end, he decided it was just something she'd grow out of. However, he s
Innocents Pay Chapter 4 by HeWalksInBeauty, literature
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Innocents Pay Chapter 4
--------June, 1984
Waldo Schaefer flinched when the door opened, shedding light across the floor and blinding him. A husky voice ordered, "Up." Creeping across to the door, Waldo realized that the rest of his life hinged on how he would answer the next few questions. However, he was dressed for the part, with a snazzy if rumpled tuxedo and a stylish hat. All he could do is wait, so he stepped into the "interrogation chamber" as it was euphemistically called, and brooded on how he would survive. Several short minutes later, his interrogator arrived. Unsurprisingly, it was the local pastor. Waldo smiled at him. Soon, the best man, Jim, arrived
Innocents Pay Chapter 5 (Code Lyoko) by HeWalksInBeauty, literature
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Innocents Pay Chapter 5 (Code Lyoko)
It was several months after Neil arrived. Many interesting things had happened. Jeremy and Aelita's faith had grown. Neil helped them along, and his rudimentary French was progressing in leaps and bounds-enough so that he could listen to sermons. Aelita had showed Jeremy the CD she had found in her father's desk. Mysteriously labeled "Edsonel Hoptoff," Jeremy's laptop system could barely handle it. Deciding it was time to fire the super computer up, he called up his friends to met him at the bench. Soon, they arrived. Jeremy sat at his laptop, working on the problem of Edsonel Hoptoff busily. The work was hard, but enjoyable. As he looked up
Innocents Pay Chapter 6: Ghosts of Stalin by HeWalksInBeauty, literature
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Innocents Pay Chapter 6: Ghosts of Stalin
The next few weeks were mind boggling for Jeremy, Aelita, and Ulrich. Jim had fabricated excuses for their absence, and spent the mornings lecturing them on "true history." "Time is not linear. Events occur to you as you see them, not before or after, no matter what the history books say. We can only travel backwards in time, and thus, we cannot change the true course of history. Whatever we have done has already changed what will happen. Here is our problem: The Soviets plan to use the C-bomb in May, this year. Edsonel Hoptoff, although he was a communist, believed that no nation should possess such power, and so he has left clues scattered
Innocents Pay Chapter 7 (Code Lyoko) by HeWalksInBeauty, literature
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Innocents Pay Chapter 7 (Code Lyoko)
Jeremy and Aelita turned around. Edsonel jumped when he saw Aelita. "Oh my, I didn't expect it to be you, Aelita! Come to Pappa!" Aelita shrunk back against Jeremy, and asked, "Who are you? I mean, other than the man in the video?"
"What do you mean? I'm your grandfather! Anitae-you would know her as 'Anthea' or 'Mom'- was supposed to tell you when you reached eleven!"
Aelita slowly shook her head. "She was kidnapped when I was really little. Men in all black drove off with her." Aelita's eyes started to water, but she did her best to restrain the painful memory.
Edsonel had no such inhibitions. He started weeping like a baby. When he lo
Innocents Pay Chapter 8 (Code Lyoko) by HeWalksInBeauty, literature
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Innocents Pay Chapter 8 (Code Lyoko)
JIm and Petrenkov's bodies lay on the ground. Standing in shock, Jeremy was only dimly aware of Aelita collapsing on her knees. He soon, however, was very aware of everyone's eyes turning to him for guidance. Apparently, with Jim gone, he had become the leader. Bouyed by a confidence he could not understand, he issued commands. "Yumi, start CPR on Jim. There might be life in him yet. The other man, frankly, has no chance." Jeremy sat down, and started working on the computer. "I will initiate a return to the past. If Jim is alive, he be safe and sound." Having entered the code as he talked, Jeremy executed it as soon as he finished. "Return
Innocents Pay Chapter 9 (Code Lyoko) by HeWalksInBeauty, literature
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Innocents Pay Chapter 9 (Code Lyoko)
--------July, 1984
Volk sat, tied to a chair. Waiting for Sergei Poliakoff, known widely as a mercurially mooded murderer, would have been nerve wracking for a lesser man, but Volk was raised in Siberia. He had waited, half buried underneath the rotting corpse of an elk, for three days time, in order to kill a wolf with his knife. Also, he was an old man. He had little left to live for.
Sergei walked in, ostentatiously flouting a pistol. "Do you know why you are here, Volk?"
"Yes, but I'll humor you. Pray tell."
"I have killed men for less than that amount of disrespect! You are here because you failed to kill your target last month. Do y
Innocents Pay Chapter 10 (Code Lyoko) by HeWalksInBeauty, literature
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Innocents Pay Chapter 10 (Code Lyoko)
As she was marched at gunpoint to the German command center, Aelita watched with increasing wonderment and sorrow at the landscape of war-torn Stalingrad. It was a surreal, shell cratered, flaming wreck of what used to be the gem of the U.S.S.R. A soldier behind her grumbled, "I wish her hair wasn't so flamboyant! That son of a-" Here, Stern cut him off. "Heinzl! She's just a child! Belay that language! Miss, what my kamerad is trying to say is that we are marching through the territory of one known by his people as 'the Volk.' We lost a boy to him yesterday. The child had lied about his age to enlist! He was so on fire for the maniac in Ber