1: Dan
I don't know where you're going
But do you got room for one more troubled soul?
I don't know where I'm going but I don't think I'm coming home
And I said I'll check in tomorrow if I don't wake up dead
This is the road to ruin
And we're starting at the end
Alone Together- Fall Out Boy
Dan Cahill was officially turning 16 in about 2 hours but instead of being with he's family, having cake, and opening presents, he was sitting a train station.
This is certainly something boys his age do not do. But then again, Dan wasn't like other boys. He lost his parents at 4, went through the clue hunt at 11, and battle and won against the Vespers at 13. He felt more like turning into a 100 year old army veteran then 16 teenage boy.
The clue hunt... That brought him to think of one person. That so happen to be the case for his presence in the rundown, grimy station that he has made into a fluid routine of visiting. The cause being the same individual that took main place in his changeless vivid sweet dreams and forever fond day time visions. For when these occur he could never easily turn away from them. As if they were his own drug that he needed everyday for the rest of his life.
The being was a female with cinnamon brown colour skin that remind him of coffee with too much cream. Her hair was a glossy mane of raven feathers, long and straight, never one strand out of place. Her gorgeous amber eyes full of life and endurance. Her perfect light pink lips that have said the most jocular and nervy comebacks he has ever heard in her stern british accent, even though most of them were towards him. Her name was Natalie Kabra, and Dan Cahill was wildly in love with her. Too bad she was dead...
She died when both of them were 13 and facing the Vespers. Natalie was one of the 7 Cahill kidnapped and right when she was reunited with her brother, she was shocked to death, trying to destroy the doom day device and save the world. But Dan's fascination with her started long before that which was likely to be why it hurt so much more then he thought when she was gone...
Just like Dan and Natalie's older siblings, Amy Cahill and Ian Kabra, it all began in Korea. When they both were 11 and they were sharing an alliance with each other and their uncle Alistair, being the reason why they were staying at his mansion, Oh manor. Dan wasn't like Ian with his sister as to him with Natalie. No, more like the opposite.
Natalie and Dan didn't come to terms on any similar grounds. But one night, around 2 or so, he was on his way down to get a midnight snack. The girl's room was only so far from his and at the moment he didn't even think of her name, he was too drain and bleary eye to do so. He was in a zombie like stage, bragging his feet across the plush, soft carpet, searching for food and yawning. He came across a wide unclose door, letting out the bright moonlight. Dan came to it and looked inside the room and was left speechless.
There she was. Laying in a simple white chair in front of the tall open window matching her silk white pajamas, making her dark skin the colour of dark chocolate. Her midnight black hair was reflecting the moonlight, causing her to radiate with profound beauty. Her eyes were close, but that just made him want to open. He knew they would be the image he had in his head- amber irises that stun all to see them with the angel like beauteous they hold.
Dan just stood there and stared for who knows how long, observing with amazement, as it all began.
From that moment on Dan has had a slight crush on Natalie Kabra, like every other boy in Britain. But Dan always denied it to himself and push the thought away. But over time, the feeling grow stronger inside him and the more he wanted Natalie.
After the clue hunt and the family was reunited and at peace, him and Natalie calmed down and actually became friends a little bit. They still yelled at each other most of the time but they started to hang out too. He even got a peck on the lips from her at a Christmas party under the mistletoe. That was one of the happiest day of his life. Sadly, it shortly went down hill from there...
But that whole time- from that night in Korea to the day the she snake beauty died then to this very day- Dan Cahill has had a stationary fantasy of himself and her coming to this very station, hopping onto the train with only each other an the clothes on there back. Just two beaten, broken, and damned to hell souls getting the hell away from it all to find a new home with the person they love the most. To start over and make things better for themselves. Being alone together.
It was what he look forward to every night, like his own sleeping pill that guarantees him to be in blooming bliss as he slumbers. In his darling hallucination, nothing really bad happens. Through out all of it, it's all plain. It starts out as him and Natalie walking down hill, in the middle of the road, hand in hand.
They're just walking, talking, laughing. Acting as a in love couple.
But strangely, no one else was there, at all. There was no sign of human life in the his hometown, Boston. Though the shops and house were still stable and decent looking as they do to this day, but no life form pretence. But it didn't matter to Dan, only Natalie did.
They continued to walk and giggle and flirt for awhile, Dan not being able to hear a word they say,not even his own. After so long, they finally arrive to the station still hand in hand, smiling, laughing, in love...
Another thing Dan would notice at this time and confuse him was Natalie's clothing. All the time Dan had seen her in his real life, she been clothed in expensive designer clothes such as Channel and Gucci, always in dresses and high heels, making her look twice her age. Which didn't explain why she was only in short tan shorts, and a cotton black shirt. And it kinda shocked him of how she made it look even more beautiful.
They would stop in front of the tracks and wait. No talking or smiles. Just waiting and standing. Then faster then expected, the train comes running back with great speed and wind. And then right before the end reaches them, Dan would squeeze Natalie's hand and she would squeeze back and then they would jump. Dream Dan would close his eyes at this point and when he would open them again, He see Natalie in front of him in the back apartment of the train. The door being to his right and the love of his life in his arms. He has no idea how they did it and doesn't care to, they were together and that's all that matter.
That's would be where the dream would end and real Dan would wake up, to his inhuman and forlorn life, the one without his Natalie. Dan has woken up every day of his life with this dream for the past 5 years. Even this morning. He started coming to the train station about 3 years ago, after the vespers and Natalie's death. It gave him peace about Natalie and his dream, like being in this post was his sanctuary. He felt like Natalie was here, even though he doubt Natalie was ever here, and she was sitting next to him right now on this wooden old bench. This place gave him closure.
He wanted to stay here forever, he even thought about buying it when he was older, but right not he needed to get going, Amy would start to worry if he didn't. He turn to the empty seat next to him. "Goodbye Natalie." And he got up and left.
Deep down inside himself, Dan wanted to hear her voice say "Farewell Daniel." like she alway did before. He didn't care if it was from his slowly becoming barmy mind or for real, he just wanted to hear her again. See her. Look at her. Possibly love her...
Dan walked on home which wasn't far. He walked in and was surprise by the family in he's unplanned party. Everyone was there, the whole Holts shindig, the Starlings triples , the Wizards duo, and the single and last Kabra. Dan couldn't help but think that there should have been two.
Dan received a hug from his older sister Amy and his two legal guardians Nellie Gomez and Fiske Cahill. There was gifts, balloons, and of course, Nellie's homemade chocolate cake. They brought it to him with the big 1 and 6 number candle light up.
"Make a wish Dan." Amy smiled at him. Dan smile back and blew the candle.
I want my Natalie back, he wished as they all cheered and forced a smile.
A/N:
Thank you for reading. I didn't send this to my beta reader because I'm lazy but I hope y'all still like it. Review please.