Disclaimer: I do not own Code Lyoko or anything else recognizable.
Title: List
Warnings: There will be both het and slash within this chapter and insuing chapters.
Rating: T (for kissing and slash themes)
Author's Note: Well...I thought I'd lost my muse for CL, but apparently not. I know that things like this have been done before, but I got an idea and had to write it. This is something I've been working on for a few months now. This chapter will be the List, and then 25 chapters will follow, varying in length, on the subject of each number. Does that make sense? Please let me know what you think.
1. Ulrich ran away from home twice.
2. He was four when he learned his father favored Annie over him.
3. If he didn't have a twin, he wouldn't have a sister.
4. Indirectly, it was because of Elisabeth Delmas that he learned the irony of his name.
5. He was six when he met Eli.
6. His name is actually Charles Ulrich Stern III (but the only thing to acknowledge that is his birth certificate).
7. Kiwi was the first dog he liked.
8. Odd liked to call his father "Adolf" or "Hitler" behind closed doors and smirked lips.
9. His first kiss was with Eli at the age of eleven, the day before she left for France.
10. He was fifteen when he decided he wanted to be a doctor (it's also the day he got drunk the first time).
11. He really hates Sissi (but not Eli).
12. Contrary to the popular belief amongst his friends, his father has only hit him once – at his twelfth birthday party.
13. He relishes the time spent fighting monsters on Lyoko.
14. He and Yumi make it into the Kadic Chronicle together three times.
15. He kissed three girls and two boys by the time he turned sixteen.
16. Out of all of the adults in Ulrich's life, he thinks he's closest to Jim.
17. Odd may come up with the pranks, but Ulrich comes up with how to do them.
18. It's an unofficial ritual, meeting up with Emily for a Sunday morning hike through the forest, but it's one he looks forward to constantly.
19. Sometimes he has to stifle laughter when Jeremie harps about Lyoko-and-XANA being secrets, doesn't the blonde realize by now that secrets are his specialty?
20. He never says it aloud, but he envies Aelita.
21. Annie's first boyfriend broke her heart, Ulrich broke his face (neither mentioned the police station after).
22. He attended two funerals his seventeenth year.
23. He keeps a journal so he won't go crazy.
24. Some days he regrets ever getting involved with Jeremie-Lyoko-XANA.
25. It took four accidental kisses for Ulrich to realize he and Odd were not-just-friends but maybe-possibly-legitimately-dating.