I do not own nor did I create any of the original Tin Man characters, only Sophia (nick name Soph) is mine.
Chapter One: The Dreams
Present Day:
Her dreams were a swirl of faces; an older man with a knowing look, a regal woman with lavender eyes, men in long dark coats causing nameless people suffering, a man with blue eyes as clear as the sky. As Sophia slept these images would fly thought her mind. She always felt that she knew the people in her dreams.
These days she didn't get much sleep because of them. She woke and looked at the clock by her and her sister's bed. It was 5:30am, Sophia knew that she wouldn't go back to sleep and saw no point in staying in bed. She moved around the room that she sheared with her sister quietly, not wanting to wake her. Sophia looked at DG sleeping, noticing that she was tossing and turning. DG was having strange dream too.
She left the bedroom, still in her PJ's and went down the kitchen. Her mother was already wide a wake cleaning the house for the day. "Morin Mom, where's Pop's?" "Morning Soph dear, do you want some coffee?" Sophia shook her head no as she sat down at the table. "Pop is out back working. Honey, are you alright? You look like haven't slept in years."
At this Sophia laughed a little, "Sure, nothing abnormal in the least. I've just been having odd dreams. Feels awkward when I sleep, I've had them for the last few months." This made her mother stop working in the kitchen and she sat down with Sophia. "What kind of dreams honey?" "I don't know, fleshes, like memories almost. I see people's faces, I have a feeling…like I've forgotten or know something I shouldn't. Or maybe something I need to remember." Sophia just looked into space for while before continuing.
"I keep seeing a man with blue eyes, he seems sad. I've never meat him before." Mom smiled, "A man? Honey we've had this talk before, its normal for a woman to dream about men. Your twenty-five, you should date more." "Very funny mom, you know what I mean" All at once they heard running above them up stairs. "DG's late again." Mom said under her breath happy to take them off the subject of Sophia's dreams.
Sophia jumped up from the table. "What's wrong?" Mother asked as Sophia made her way out of the kitchen. "DG, I need to warn her…" She came up to the front door right as DG came running down the steps. "DG, I got to tell you…" "Soph I can't right now I'm late for work." the dark haired girl said as she ran out the door to her motorcycle. Sophia stopped trying to follow her sister as she rode off.
"What were you going to tell DG?" she turned back to in the kitchen. "I was trying to tell her not to take the main road into work. I have this feeling that the officer Gulch is just waiting for her to speed by, waiting to give her a ticket." Mom simply nodded, "Lets hope not; it would be the seventh one in two months."
Sophia kissed her mother and went back up stairs to get dressed. While she was dressing into her jeans and shirt Sophia looked at the wall with DG's drawings from their dreams. They were having similar ones, Sophia just didn't know why. 'Why is not the reason, but the question to the reason,' this thought came out of no where. "I need to stop over thinking" she sighed to herself.
She left the house and went into the back in search of her farther. She found him in the tool shed going though his numerous boxes of tools. "Hey pop, anything I can help with?" Sophia's farther looked up from his work, showing a little frustration, "Yes, my skew driver, I can't find it and I need it to fix the turn-bines today." Sophia walked to the back of the shed and opened his red tool box pulling out her father's skew driver.
"Now, how is it that you do that again? I've been out here looking for a better part of an hour, trying to find it" pop said smiling at his daughter."Like everything else, I just know sometimes." "Did DG leave for work?" "Yep, late again too, she'll be getting a ticket today on top of that. Or at least I think she will." "Promise me something Soph." Sophia looked back up to her farther, "Should you very think you know the winning lottery numbers, you'll let your mother and I know first."
"Yeah sure" Sophia said as she walked out of the shed. It was one of her few days off from work with nothing to do and she wanted to benefit from the day. She spent she day walking though the fields and even went the book store in town for a few hours.
As Sophia walked up to the house she should have know that she was coming in at a bad time, DG, their mother and farther were all on the front porch talking. It sounded like she was coming in at the end of the discussing. "Look, I love you guys but I just don't feel at home here. I don't think I ever have." She heard DG saying this as she ran off with pop following after. She knew the feeling that DG had.
Sophia's plan was to slid by unnoticed but nothing gets passed Mom. "She got the ticket. Did you know that she was thinking of leaving?" Here it comes, Sophia thought to herself. "Mom, does it matter? You know that even if DG did leave from home I would never let anything happen to her." "You were planning on leaving together?" Mom looked at Sophia with this look mixed hurt and worry. Sophia thought carefully before answering, "I didn't say that, I said I would protect my little sister."
"I'm sorry Sophia. I know that you'll always be there for you sister. I don't want you to think I'm mad at you but I just don't know where DG gets all these thoughts from. You never seemed to be in a hurry to leave." This is true she thought, "That's because mom, I know I'll leave when the time is right…I just don't know when that will be." She walked passed her mother to go inside the house thinking that maybe she should go out the back way for another walk but the wind was picking up, like a brewing storm.
Sophia headed up to her room and she saw pop was just leaving. "Talk to DG Soph, she seems to listen to you." She entered the room and saw that DG was sitting on her bed. "Let me guess, pop gave you the 'All of life's answers, can be found along the Old Road.' Talk again." Dg looked up and smiled, "Yes, I always feel guilty after that talk." Sophia would agree; she didn't like that talk any more then she did.
"Soph don't you get the feeling that there has to be more in life. I just feel…" "Stuck?" Sophia offered. "DG there is more and it's coming our way, very quickly, in fact. I just don't how or the reason." "I had that dream again last night, I was telling pop about it." Sophia sat down on the bed with her sister and asked, "The one with the woman with lavender eyes or the cave?" "Both, she said that a storm was coming."
This caused Sophia to close her eye, as she did this she saw what looked like a tornado head for the house. She jump and landed on the floor with a bang. DG could help but laugh, Soph was not the must graceful person she knew. "Nice, why don't you just kick me while I'm down here?" DG helped her off the floor; "Sorry" was all she could manage. "What did you see Soph, I know that look of yours. You have it right when you think something is going to happen."
"I'm not sure but do me a favor, sleep in the clothes you wearing now. I have this idea, feeling whatever you want to call it, that we may need to move fast tonight. Whether or not it is to be to the storm cellar…I don't have clue but just do it for my peace of mind." DG nodded that she would do as Sophia asked. It was not that often that Sophia that kind "vision" is what DG always called them but when Sophia got them she listened. If the storm was really coming they would be ready.
