^ Closing in ^
Author: arion2alex
Disclaimer: I don't own the characters the writer do
Rating: Pg-13 (she curses a few times)
summary: Abby has a dream and some agnst.
The light is fading slowly... Darkness engulfs
me... Deep red ribbons swirl in the water around me... I'm
falling; sinking deeper. My head is swimming around, why
can't I? I want to swim, I need to move. My body won't let
me move no matter how hard I try I can't move. My lungs
burn and I'm seeing spots of light as the dizziness sets
in. The light fades to a black then a bright white flashes
in my eyes. I can't handle it anymore. I take a deep
breath; the water fills my lungs.
"AHH" my screams fill the room as I practically jump
out of bed. "Abby, Abby what's wrong? Are you all right?"
My breath is ragged and I am desperately trying to calm my
self down. "I'm ok Luka." I say, more trying to reassure
me then him. I climb out of bed but my legs are shaking
still, dizziness is trying to control me, I sit back down.
Luka's arms wrap around my stomach. "Abby" He says
gently. "I'm ok Luka really" I say as I place his arms
back on the bed.
"What was it about"?
"Huh"
"Your dream"
"Nothing" I reply
"Where are you going" He says standing up? He walks over
to me a look of concern on his face. "Abby"
"I'm just going for a run Luka." I say dodging him and
grabbing my running shoes
"But" I can see he's reaching for words to make me
stay "It's raining outside"
"My favorite weather to run in."
"But your shoes will get all wet."
"Luka, would..."
"Abby" He says cutting me off "May, may I come with you?"
"No, Luka"
"Abby, Please" He begs looking deep into my eyes
"But your shoes will get all wet" I tease him
"I'll risk it"
"Are you sure you can keep up?" Thinking about what I
just said I look at his legs then down at my own "right,
yeah... but hurry up." He's laughing as he throws on a pair
of sweats.
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"What are you laughing about?" He says. The white t-
shirt is completely see through from the rain.
"Nothing" I lie as I watch him blow the rain from his
lips creating a fountain "just cute that's all"
"Oh" He says thoughtfully "Hey Abby"
"Yeah"
"What's cute?" The look on his face is so adorable
"You" I reply quickening my pace
"Wait, why are you speeding up, no Abby can't we turn
back home."
"I thought you could keep up?" The look on his face says
it all. He now knows why I leave and am not back for hours.
"Abby" He says grabbing my arm and pulling me under the
over hang of the buildings pulling us to a complete stop
and dragging me into a small cafe that by some strange
oddity is open at 3am.
"We are going to get sick." The small cafe we walked
into has air condition and I start to shiver. He
notices "Look you are shivering."
"It's just goose bumps, I'm fine." There's confusion on
his face
"Oh" I think, ha, he has no idea what goose bumps are. I
stretch out my arm showing him the little bumps and he
laughs.
"Hi my name is Mabel" the elderly woman says
interrupting us. "You two look like you could use a hot
cup of coffee."
As I am about to decline Luka speaks up "yes, that would be
nice, thank you"
"Luka" I protest, He ignores me following Mabel to a
small table in the back by a small space heater. "Why is
there a space heater on in the back if the air condition is
on?" I wonder. As she walks away to get our coffees I ask
Luka.
"For crazy people like you, Abby"
"Hey, You're the one who wanted to come along."
"I didn't know you were going to take us 10 miles from
the hotel."
"We are not 10 miles away; we're barely 5."
"Here you go." Mabel says cheerfully setting down two
cups of coffee. "You're welcome to stay as long as you
like."
Before he can say anything I cut in "Thanks, but I think
we'll drink these and be on our way." He gives me a cross
look and I add "how much do we owe you for these." Luka
continues to look at me in disbelief that I'm going to make
him go back outside.
"Nothing, they are on the house darling. I saw you two
running and was hoping you would stop in. Your friend
looked very exhausted like he had been pulled from sleep."
"See." He scolds me
"Don't worry honey, I used to do it to my Henry all the
time, after the first time running in the rain he never
asked to go again." She said smiling at me "served him
right for interrupting a girl's time to think."
"Thank you again" I say smiling warmly at her walking to
the door
"The dreams you will get rid of themselves dear" She
whispers into my ear "Have a nice run young man. Lucky for
you the rains stopped."
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"Now where are you going ?" He asks seeing me change
clothes and head for the door of the hotel.
"Home I have to get things for work"
"Why don't you just bring them here?"
"I, uh I don't think so." I say shaking my head
"Oh ok" I hear him reply as I close the door.
"What makes him think that I should leave my warm
apartment and stay in that damn cold hotel room." I think
as I slam the door to my apartment close. "Mabel uh who the
hell is she, how did she know I was having dreams. What the
hell is she a psychic. What kind of a crazy lunatic opens
a cafe by yourself at 3 in the morning in Chicago
anyway?"
My answering machine interrupts my thought as it
beeps for the hundredth time. Big surprise it's Luka I'm
not even home for one minute and he's bugging me. "Abby
do you want to come over again tonight? We could order
pizza."
"Pizza" I reply to the answering machine "you have room
service with over a hundred items to choose from and you
want pizza." "Eat by yourself" I bitterly say to the
answering machine" "I'd rather be at work."
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So are you coming over" he asks quietly in the lounge
making sure nobody even has a chance of hearing him.
"No, I'm going home. You can come with me if you want
to." I say heading to the ambulance bay.
"Why don't you want to come over ?" He asks louder now
that we are away from the hospital. I don't answer "Abb"
he says impatiently
"Don't worry about it Luka" I say getting onto the EL.
"Why not, I mean even when you do come over you just
take off and go running."
"It's cold in the hotel room and it has no room to
breathe."
"And it's warm outside." He questions
"It's warmer outside than it is in your hotel room." I
snap at him "besides I'd rather shiver outside than it is
in your room."
"Fine" He says softly trying to end the conversation.
"Besides I offer to go to my place and not once have you
even thought about it for a second."
"You know I can't Abby."
"Right" I say as the train finally comes to my
stop "some other day Luka." I add walking on to the
platform. "How about dinner" I offer as he follows me of
the train
"That sounds good" He smiles reaching down holding my
hand as we walk past the small diners. "Any place you like,
my treat."
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"How did I end up here?" I ask myself as I shiver in his
bed "I'll turn the air conditioning down Abby. Yeah you
sure did for a whole half hour only to turn it up more than
it was before cause it was getting 'hot' in here. God
forbid it would actually get up to 60"
I jump out of the bed and throw on a pair of his sweats
rolling them at the waist and each leg about 4 times. I'm
now searching for my shirt that he threw across the room
earlier. For how small this room is you'd think you be able
to find things, but with irony it is the exact opposite
though.
"Finally" I say as I put my shirt on. He stirs in his
sleep as I crawl back into bed with him. He loosely wraps
an arm around me as he scooting himself closer to me. How
ironic Now he wants to cuddle, not when I was shivering my
ass off but now that I finally can feel my fingers. "God" I
mumble as I realize that it is so cold in this room that I
can see my breath.
"In all honesty why can't we just stay at my apartment
just once? What is he afraid of? Better yet maybe everyone
is right maybe I am just a warm body to him. I let him use
me before maybe that's all he wants right now? Then again,
maybe that's exactly what I want to be."
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"Luka where are you taking me."
"It's a surprise Abby just sit there and look pretty."
"Fine" I say resting back into the passenger seat of my
car. The rain is hypnotic as it rolls down my window. The
pitter patter of it on the top of the roof is enough to put
me sleep. Luka seems unaffected by it. He watches the
passing traffic with caution. It's late and he's hugging
the white lines to avoid the passing cars who hug the
yellow to avoid the flooding on their side of the road. The
drone of the tires on the road lulls me to sleep.
I awake in the darkness. I feel really heavy. As my senses
come back to me I realize I am submerged in water. I try to
move. I can't. Then it hits me "Oh God, my dream." I start
to panic. I see the red in the water around me. I think of
what could be causing it but don't get to far in the
thought, my lungs are burning, screaming at me to find
air. "Shit" I think as the world starts to darken, "Move
Abby Move" I plead with myself. It's to no avail as I feel
my body giving up. Soon I feel nothing I'm numb still alive
but the burning feeling the flashes of light they are all
gone it's just black. I feel my self being pulled but I'm
not sure of the direction. Then all senses cease.
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This feeling is so surreal. My lungs are filling with
air though I'm not breathing and my chest is caving in,
then springing back to it's original position. Over and
Over this happens until I feel the need to cough.
My eyes shoot open as the water pours from my mouth. His
hand pushes me back down. His fingers run through my hair.
I try to talk, again my efforts are to no avail, this is
getting so frustrating I want to scream but like so many
things tonight, I can't. I'm laying on the grass on the
edge of a river.
I notice the blood on my leg. I go to reach for it
but Luka has me pinned to the ground telling me not to
move, that we've been in an accident. That another car hit
us and my car fell into the river and I was drowning. He
proceeds to tell me that I flew through the windshield on
impact . Him and the car were flung into the river and he
couldn't find me.
"Oh Abby I was so scared, I couldn't find you and then,
I saw you. Your body was sinking and you were bleeding." He
leans down to kiss me.
"I pulled you out and you weren't breathing, you really
scared me. I couldn't lose you Abby, but your going to be
ok now, we just have to wait for the ambulance."
"Ok" I whisper shocked that I can now talk. Amused by
the new found ability I reach my hand up to his cheek and
say "Thank you Luka." He scoops me up into his arms walking
toward the road as the wail of the ambulance approaches,
with the warmth of his body I fall asleep.
Author: arion2alex
Disclaimer: I don't own the characters the writer do
Rating: Pg-13 (she curses a few times)
summary: Abby has a dream and some agnst.
The light is fading slowly... Darkness engulfs
me... Deep red ribbons swirl in the water around me... I'm
falling; sinking deeper. My head is swimming around, why
can't I? I want to swim, I need to move. My body won't let
me move no matter how hard I try I can't move. My lungs
burn and I'm seeing spots of light as the dizziness sets
in. The light fades to a black then a bright white flashes
in my eyes. I can't handle it anymore. I take a deep
breath; the water fills my lungs.
"AHH" my screams fill the room as I practically jump
out of bed. "Abby, Abby what's wrong? Are you all right?"
My breath is ragged and I am desperately trying to calm my
self down. "I'm ok Luka." I say, more trying to reassure
me then him. I climb out of bed but my legs are shaking
still, dizziness is trying to control me, I sit back down.
Luka's arms wrap around my stomach. "Abby" He says
gently. "I'm ok Luka really" I say as I place his arms
back on the bed.
"What was it about"?
"Huh"
"Your dream"
"Nothing" I reply
"Where are you going" He says standing up? He walks over
to me a look of concern on his face. "Abby"
"I'm just going for a run Luka." I say dodging him and
grabbing my running shoes
"But" I can see he's reaching for words to make me
stay "It's raining outside"
"My favorite weather to run in."
"But your shoes will get all wet."
"Luka, would..."
"Abby" He says cutting me off "May, may I come with you?"
"No, Luka"
"Abby, Please" He begs looking deep into my eyes
"But your shoes will get all wet" I tease him
"I'll risk it"
"Are you sure you can keep up?" Thinking about what I
just said I look at his legs then down at my own "right,
yeah... but hurry up." He's laughing as he throws on a pair
of sweats.
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"What are you laughing about?" He says. The white t-
shirt is completely see through from the rain.
"Nothing" I lie as I watch him blow the rain from his
lips creating a fountain "just cute that's all"
"Oh" He says thoughtfully "Hey Abby"
"Yeah"
"What's cute?" The look on his face is so adorable
"You" I reply quickening my pace
"Wait, why are you speeding up, no Abby can't we turn
back home."
"I thought you could keep up?" The look on his face says
it all. He now knows why I leave and am not back for hours.
"Abby" He says grabbing my arm and pulling me under the
over hang of the buildings pulling us to a complete stop
and dragging me into a small cafe that by some strange
oddity is open at 3am.
"We are going to get sick." The small cafe we walked
into has air condition and I start to shiver. He
notices "Look you are shivering."
"It's just goose bumps, I'm fine." There's confusion on
his face
"Oh" I think, ha, he has no idea what goose bumps are. I
stretch out my arm showing him the little bumps and he
laughs.
"Hi my name is Mabel" the elderly woman says
interrupting us. "You two look like you could use a hot
cup of coffee."
As I am about to decline Luka speaks up "yes, that would be
nice, thank you"
"Luka" I protest, He ignores me following Mabel to a
small table in the back by a small space heater. "Why is
there a space heater on in the back if the air condition is
on?" I wonder. As she walks away to get our coffees I ask
Luka.
"For crazy people like you, Abby"
"Hey, You're the one who wanted to come along."
"I didn't know you were going to take us 10 miles from
the hotel."
"We are not 10 miles away; we're barely 5."
"Here you go." Mabel says cheerfully setting down two
cups of coffee. "You're welcome to stay as long as you
like."
Before he can say anything I cut in "Thanks, but I think
we'll drink these and be on our way." He gives me a cross
look and I add "how much do we owe you for these." Luka
continues to look at me in disbelief that I'm going to make
him go back outside.
"Nothing, they are on the house darling. I saw you two
running and was hoping you would stop in. Your friend
looked very exhausted like he had been pulled from sleep."
"See." He scolds me
"Don't worry honey, I used to do it to my Henry all the
time, after the first time running in the rain he never
asked to go again." She said smiling at me "served him
right for interrupting a girl's time to think."
"Thank you again" I say smiling warmly at her walking to
the door
"The dreams you will get rid of themselves dear" She
whispers into my ear "Have a nice run young man. Lucky for
you the rains stopped."
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"Now where are you going ?" He asks seeing me change
clothes and head for the door of the hotel.
"Home I have to get things for work"
"Why don't you just bring them here?"
"I, uh I don't think so." I say shaking my head
"Oh ok" I hear him reply as I close the door.
"What makes him think that I should leave my warm
apartment and stay in that damn cold hotel room." I think
as I slam the door to my apartment close. "Mabel uh who the
hell is she, how did she know I was having dreams. What the
hell is she a psychic. What kind of a crazy lunatic opens
a cafe by yourself at 3 in the morning in Chicago
anyway?"
My answering machine interrupts my thought as it
beeps for the hundredth time. Big surprise it's Luka I'm
not even home for one minute and he's bugging me. "Abby
do you want to come over again tonight? We could order
pizza."
"Pizza" I reply to the answering machine "you have room
service with over a hundred items to choose from and you
want pizza." "Eat by yourself" I bitterly say to the
answering machine" "I'd rather be at work."
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So are you coming over" he asks quietly in the lounge
making sure nobody even has a chance of hearing him.
"No, I'm going home. You can come with me if you want
to." I say heading to the ambulance bay.
"Why don't you want to come over ?" He asks louder now
that we are away from the hospital. I don't answer "Abb"
he says impatiently
"Don't worry about it Luka" I say getting onto the EL.
"Why not, I mean even when you do come over you just
take off and go running."
"It's cold in the hotel room and it has no room to
breathe."
"And it's warm outside." He questions
"It's warmer outside than it is in your hotel room." I
snap at him "besides I'd rather shiver outside than it is
in your room."
"Fine" He says softly trying to end the conversation.
"Besides I offer to go to my place and not once have you
even thought about it for a second."
"You know I can't Abby."
"Right" I say as the train finally comes to my
stop "some other day Luka." I add walking on to the
platform. "How about dinner" I offer as he follows me of
the train
"That sounds good" He smiles reaching down holding my
hand as we walk past the small diners. "Any place you like,
my treat."
^*^ *^* ^*^ *^* ^*^ *^* ^*^ *^*
"How did I end up here?" I ask myself as I shiver in his
bed "I'll turn the air conditioning down Abby. Yeah you
sure did for a whole half hour only to turn it up more than
it was before cause it was getting 'hot' in here. God
forbid it would actually get up to 60"
I jump out of the bed and throw on a pair of his sweats
rolling them at the waist and each leg about 4 times. I'm
now searching for my shirt that he threw across the room
earlier. For how small this room is you'd think you be able
to find things, but with irony it is the exact opposite
though.
"Finally" I say as I put my shirt on. He stirs in his
sleep as I crawl back into bed with him. He loosely wraps
an arm around me as he scooting himself closer to me. How
ironic Now he wants to cuddle, not when I was shivering my
ass off but now that I finally can feel my fingers. "God" I
mumble as I realize that it is so cold in this room that I
can see my breath.
"In all honesty why can't we just stay at my apartment
just once? What is he afraid of? Better yet maybe everyone
is right maybe I am just a warm body to him. I let him use
me before maybe that's all he wants right now? Then again,
maybe that's exactly what I want to be."
^*^ *^* ^*^ *^* ^*^ *^* ^*^ *^*
"Luka where are you taking me."
"It's a surprise Abby just sit there and look pretty."
"Fine" I say resting back into the passenger seat of my
car. The rain is hypnotic as it rolls down my window. The
pitter patter of it on the top of the roof is enough to put
me sleep. Luka seems unaffected by it. He watches the
passing traffic with caution. It's late and he's hugging
the white lines to avoid the passing cars who hug the
yellow to avoid the flooding on their side of the road. The
drone of the tires on the road lulls me to sleep.
I awake in the darkness. I feel really heavy. As my senses
come back to me I realize I am submerged in water. I try to
move. I can't. Then it hits me "Oh God, my dream." I start
to panic. I see the red in the water around me. I think of
what could be causing it but don't get to far in the
thought, my lungs are burning, screaming at me to find
air. "Shit" I think as the world starts to darken, "Move
Abby Move" I plead with myself. It's to no avail as I feel
my body giving up. Soon I feel nothing I'm numb still alive
but the burning feeling the flashes of light they are all
gone it's just black. I feel my self being pulled but I'm
not sure of the direction. Then all senses cease.
^*^ *^* ^*^ *^* ^*^ *^* ^*^ *^*
This feeling is so surreal. My lungs are filling with
air though I'm not breathing and my chest is caving in,
then springing back to it's original position. Over and
Over this happens until I feel the need to cough.
My eyes shoot open as the water pours from my mouth. His
hand pushes me back down. His fingers run through my hair.
I try to talk, again my efforts are to no avail, this is
getting so frustrating I want to scream but like so many
things tonight, I can't. I'm laying on the grass on the
edge of a river.
I notice the blood on my leg. I go to reach for it
but Luka has me pinned to the ground telling me not to
move, that we've been in an accident. That another car hit
us and my car fell into the river and I was drowning. He
proceeds to tell me that I flew through the windshield on
impact . Him and the car were flung into the river and he
couldn't find me.
"Oh Abby I was so scared, I couldn't find you and then,
I saw you. Your body was sinking and you were bleeding." He
leans down to kiss me.
"I pulled you out and you weren't breathing, you really
scared me. I couldn't lose you Abby, but your going to be
ok now, we just have to wait for the ambulance."
"Ok" I whisper shocked that I can now talk. Amused by
the new found ability I reach my hand up to his cheek and
say "Thank you Luka." He scoops me up into his arms walking
toward the road as the wail of the ambulance approaches,
with the warmth of his body I fall asleep.