[A/N] The full title of this chapter was "My Best Friend Left And All I Got Were These Stupid Dreams" Also review this if you enjoyed it =] That is all!

He could feel it. The adrenaline pumping. It wasn't his though, not really. Its someone else' dream he was having now wasn't about him. He wasn't even really there. He was looking though somebody else's eyes. In a matter of speaking. He couldn't see anything, but he knew what was going on around him. Any step, breath, or speck of dust that went in the air he knew about. He heard a man crying in the corner. The man was a mess, explaining over and over that he had know idea where 'he' was.

"That is unfortunate," he heard heard himself say. "After all, we are bound to this earth by the things that we know." He felt himself stride closer to the sobbing mess on the floor. "The less we know," he felt himself snap the man's neck within seconds, "the less bound to this earth we really are."

"Was that smart? To kill our only lead!" It was a woman's voice. She sounded... dangerous and a little frazzled.

"Kali, he may have been our current lead, but he was hardly our last to the boy. Trust me, we will find him. But I think you'll find it in your best interest, like my other pack should of, to not doubt me." He sensed the movement of the girl's head shift up and down. "Ethan! Aiden!" Two boys stepped up in tandem. "Make it look more realistic will you? Its not everyday a man gets almost eaten alive by a mountain lion. Though he was asking for it, considering where he was living. All the way out here with no one around..." He walked away, still able to hear the carnage behind him, sensing the enjoyment seeping off the two boys as they ripped and tore the flesh.


Danny awoke with a scream. This had been hapening a lot to him lately it seemed. It had all started when Jackson, his best friend, had left for London. It still tore at Danny's heart when he thought about it. He missed Jackson. The douchebag hadn't even really given him a reason. He had pulled Danny into a hug, which was weird enough for Jackson. He had seemed upset, scared even. He had told him that his dad was sending him away to some boarding school. The reason being that Jackson needed to get some perspective. This reason was all together believable. Jackson had seemed off all year. It was that damn hug he had given him though that made him doubt his story of a teen needing to get away from petty high school drama. Danny had known Jackson for as long as he could remember and never had he once given him a hug. Well, not since he had been told about being adopted, which had been around his tenth birthday. It was frustrating having such an emotionally challenged best friend, but Danny had forbeared becaused he loved Jackson. However, now he was gone and Danny wasn't even trustworthy enough to be told why. He was just told to be careful. All he was left with were these dreams that left him terrified upon waking.

Danny stood from his bed and went to his computer, pulling his shirt back on. There was no way he was getting back to sleep, meaning he'd have no energy left for school tomorrow. It was his first day and already he was gonna fall behind. He pulled up he e-mail account, trying to remember his dream. He never could. Any dream that caused him to convulse with terror also seemed to wipe out any memory of it. Maybe it was a self defense mechanisim his brain had cooked up for him. Checking his e-mail, he found a total of zero messages waiting for him. He had messaged Jackson five times already this summer and hadn't recieved one reply.

"Fuck this!" Danny punched the button to turn the monitor of with his thumb.

"Danny!" Danny jumped and turned around, hearing a whisper come from the bathroom down the hall from his room. "Danny!" It whispered again with renewed vigor.

"Mom!" Danny called, receiving no reply. That's who it most likely was. His mom was always doing stuff like that. She would call and call for him, but wouldn't say what she wanted until he actually got up and went to her himself. Which was total bullshit as far as Danny was concerned. If she could try and get his attention by yelling, why couldn't he answer with his own shouting? Nevertheless he got out of his desk chair and headed towards the bathroom. He heard more whispering from inside. "Mom, you okay?" No answer. He looked down and saw the light shining from under the door. "Mom?" He breathed. Slowly, he squeaked the door open. Hearing no form of protest, he opened the door.

Nothing awaited him though. "I must be losing my mind," he said, laughing uncomfortably to himself. He turned around only to hear more whispering from behind the shower curtain.

"Please, Danny!" That was definately wasn't his mother.

"Okay, enough!" He swung open the shower curtiain, only to be met by a dripping faucet. He stared at it for a few seconds before he turned the faucet all the way off. Grabbing his head, he closed his eyes, hoping to shake off whatever the hell was wrong with him. Whispering voices? Pleading for someone to help him? Dripping faucets? What was he, a ghost buster?

Bam!

The door to the bathroom slam shut! Danny leapt around, rushing to the door. He tried to jiggle the handle to get the door open but nothing happened. The lights began to flicker, causing him to panic. "Hey! Somebody, please! Help me! Mom? Dad?" He started to kick the door, hoping to break it as the lights went completely out. "Jonah, if this is a joke I swear I'll kick your ass! Open the god damned door!"

Then it was abosolutely quite. The whispering voice had been silenced, the door opened by itself, and the lights came back on. Danny slowly backed away from the door, afraid that something might jump out of the black hallway. Nothing No one could've gotten into the house; they had an alarm. Plus, his mom, dad, and brother were all here. So why wasn't anyone coming to help? Could they not hear him?

Shikitik!

Danny turned towards the mirror, only to watch in horror as the words, "Big Ben calls for the Grim Reaper" appeared in scratch marks on the bathroom mirror. He turned and ran out into the hallway, the whispering still coming up behind him. He could hear it get louder and louder. He just needed to get back to his bedroom. That's all he needed. Once he was there, he could lock the door and climb out the window if neccessary, and call the police. As he got into seeing distance of it, he noticed he was no longer running, but falling on his face. He felt his face it the ground and the pain as his nose was now twisted in an upwards position. He had bled all over the floor. He looked behind him and forced himself to get back up after seeing a black shape coming for him.

He swung himself into his bedroom and slammed the door shut, locking it for good measure. He could hear whatever was following him kock on the door, putting a stop to the whispers. "Go away!"

"Danny?" It was his father.

"Dad?"

"What are you doing? Open the door."

"But I- You-" He relaxed his body completely and sighed. Then he flinched and felt a dead chill go down his back as laughter crept up from behind him. He slowly turned around and saw someone in his computer chair. The chair slowly turned around. Everything in Danny's body was telling him to move, to answer his father's knocks at his door. He couldn't. He was frozen. The laughing darkness was now turned all the way around in the chair, yet Danny still couldn't see it. The thing wasn't waiting and took the opprotunity to jump at Danny, causing him to scream.


Danny awoke, once again, in his room, screaming and convulsing in bed, instantly forgetting what had made him so scared to begin with. He remained in bed until his breathing had slowed and he realized that the sun was up. He wondered why hs parents hadn't come in to check on him. They always did ever since the dreams started this summer. They had taken him to doctors about these nightmares, but were only given these shitty tasting pills that did nothing to alleviate the condition. That's when he remembered that his parents had gone out of town for something business related and his brother Jonah was staying at his best friend's house. And Danny... Well, he didn't have anyone's house to go over to anymore when his parents left.

He got up and streched, hoping it would relax his body further from the night's torment. He tried again to remember what happened in his dreams, but came up with only one name, "Ethan."Danny managed to get in the shower and let the heat from the water to relax him fully. He no longer felt tense. He got dressed in his best plaid button down shirt and took his pill. Disgusting.

Getting to school was a little more difficult without Jackson there to take him in his porsche, but he still had his bike. This way he'd at least get some more exercise in before practice for lacross even started. He was their best goalie. Without Jackson their team was gonna need to be in even better shape this year.

When he got to school he was greeted by Isaac. Isaac had kind of adopted him into his group of friends after Jackson had left. Danny never knew why and he never questioned it. Its not like Danny didn't have any other friends he could hang out with, he did. He was liked by everyone, and not to sound too egotistical, but even he knew that. It was just that he didn't feel the drive to make close friends. Isaac was different. Isaac kind of forced him to. He liked Isaac. He was nice, a little quite, but fun to talk to. And where there was Isaac there was also Boyd and Erica. Danny didn't really know much about Boyd other than the fact that he was always the silent one in school, even more so than Isaac. Erica was a little harder to read. She was so quick to change her personality in any given situation.

"School again, huh?" Isaac gave Danny a smile and shrugged. "Right. So what'd you do last night?" Danny asked, touching Isaac's shoulder.

"Well I-" Danny stopped dead in his tacks and put his hands on his head. It had only been for a split second, but he could've sworn he heard screaming. He also saw darkness and felt a desperate need to get out. "Danny? Hello?" Danny snapped his attention to Isaac. "You okay?"

"What? Yeah, yeah. I just, um, what were you saying?"

"Nothing. I didn't do anything last night. Pretty standard for a school night."

"Well what if we break your doing nothing on a school night ritual." Danny grinned.

"Why, what'd you have in mind?" Isaac looked cautious. Danny had been trying to bring Isaac out of his shell all summer.

"Its just this back to school party thing that this kid Greenburg throws every year." Danny always went with Jackson and this year would be no different. He wanted to forget all about the nightmares he'd been having, the friend he no longer had, and start fresh.

"Who's Greenburg?" Isaac looked like he was searching somewhere for a face to the name, like it was right there, barely masked by fog.

Danny laughed, "I'm not sure anyone really knows but Coach Finstock. But I do know that he's the one who throws the parties and that they're awesome. I also know I wanna go with you. You can invite Erica and Boyd too if you'd like."

Isaac lit up and smiled."Okay, I'll come. If you want me to."

"Oh look, how sweeet, he thought of us. Can we really come?" Erica mad her way towards the two with a predatory walk and a devilish smile. "Not that I'd care if you said no. No way you're taking my baby Isaac to a grown up party without me." She ruffled Isaac's hair which turned his smile into a glare. "By the way Isaac, drooling his not attractive." She winked at him as Isaac continued to glare.

"What?" Danny questioned, perplexed.

"Its nothing." Isaac assured him. "What time?"

"Not sure yet." The bell for their first class rang out across the campus. "I'll text you the details and pick you up tonight, kay? See ya." Danny headed off.


"Why would you do that?" Isaac complained.

"Do what?" Erica was unfazed by his accusing tone.

"With the drool thing... He doesn't know. I don't want him to!" Isaac exclaimed, throwing his arms out in exasperation.

"I personally don't understand why, sweetie. You've hung out with him all summer. You're tied at the hip. Carpe diem already!" Erica replied, just as fed up.

"He just lost his best friend to the U.K. The last thing he's thinking about is boyfriendly material. I don't want to push and you're not helping with the little hints, okay?"

"That's another thing I don't get. Why him? He was friends with the king of all douches: King Twhittmore. I don't trust him. Especially with you," Erica said, putting a hand on his shoulder.

"Boyd likes him," Isaac offered.

"Hmph! Like that counts. Boyd likes everybody!"

"Since when?" Isaac challenged. They sat in silence for a couple of seconds before both cracking up at the absurdity of Erica's statement. Boyd did not like everybody. Sometimes they thought he barely tolerated them.


Danny arrived in his first class, physics, which was unfortunately with Mr, Harris, and took his seat in the back of the room. This was where he and Jackson sat everyday. He remembered always goofing off during chem lab and one time making fun of Jackson when he messed up their project by spilling some chemicals that made the hairs on his arm fall off. It was quite awkward looking. He was okay, of course. He just lacked arm hair. He looked across the room and saw Scott sitting with Allison. Of course they'd be sitting together. They did everything together. Danny didn't have a problem with Scott personally, but Jackson seemed to despise him. Although, before Jackson had left, Scott and him had seemed to grow closer. Sitting at the table behind them was Stiles and Derek, the schools other do everything together couple. Danny never understood how they were even together. They seemed to always be fighting. Danny once spent a whole two hour bus ride on a field trip behind them, on which Stiles argued the finer points of why Derek needed scruff on his face but not too much as to avoid post-make out beard burn. Derek, on the other hand, didn't seem to care and seemed to growl everytime he brought it up. His arguement was, "I decide what goes on my face!" Danny was surprised that Lydia wasn't with five had seemed inseperable for as long as he could remember. Jackson was semi in that group, if only because of Lydia.

"Its weird, huh?" Danny jumped, not noticing Lydia had taken a seat down next to him.

"Christ, Lydia!"

"Jackson not being here, yet still feeling that all powerful douchey aura of his he had all around school." She grinned at him crookedly.

"How are you doing? Sorry I haven't talked to you this summer its been-"

"Don't. Its okay. I've been okay. Keeping myself busy with well, stuff that's not school appropriate. Somethings not even people appropriate," She winked at him. "So maybe it was for the best we didn't see each other this summer." Danny laughed. He had missed Lydia and her quirky attitude. She seemed to always be working an angle. "Danny, we've lived next to eachother since forever." They had. That was actually how Jackson and her had met. Danny and him had been kids in the sandbox in his backyard when Lydia had come over, proclaiming to have domain over his backyard because she was a queen or something... Most little girls liked to pretend to be princesses, but Lydia did nothing half-assed. "Our rooms are right across from eachother." They were. Him and Jackson would sneak over to her house sometimes when he slept over. Sometimes just Jackson... Wait, she couldn't possibly know about his night terrors, could she? "I'm not snooping I swear, but its kinda hard to miss when you're screaming at the top of your lungs. Then you start walking to the window." Shit, he did? "Is it Jackson or-"

"I honestly couldn't tell you Lyd. It's ineffable at the moment." He smirked, knowing she liked big words, causing her to roll her eyes.

"Oh. My. God." She glanced at the doors, allowing Danny to thank the stars that she had dropped the subject, only to also find his full attention at the door as well. Two students with the exact same dirty blond hair, same body build (great body build), and same, well everything. Twins. "I want one." He heard her mumble.

"Its not a prada bag at the mall," Danny dead panned, only to be guilty of thinking the same thing.

"Students we have two new students today. And although I couldn't even give one iota of energy into caring about new students or where they come from, I don't see what that has to do with science, the school enforces that I do. So introduce yourselves." The overdone speech by Harris was followed by him sitting down behind his desk, reading over his lesson plans.

"Aiden," Said one twin.

"Ethan," Said, in Danny's opinion, the more attractive one.

They both took their seat on the other side of the room, Ethan only stopping to smirk at Danny who had been staring. Danny quickly buried his head in his book, face turning red. Sure he had been looking because he was amazingly hot. However, his name was also Ethan. The only thing to ever stick from all his nightmares was that name. It couldn't mean anything. It was just a coincedence. That was all.

"Well that was draining." Mr. Harris sighed and made his was to the board.

This was going to be a long day.