I don't own any of the characters from HG or the songs I'm going to borrow (Lyrics to Cody Song and the song Private Emotion) the artists are Kenny Loggins and Ricky Martin. I'm sorry it took so long. This is the big chapter when you find out who's whom and more, I promise. I hope you like it.
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The NIGHTMARE IS indicated by this key ~
The SONG is indicated by this key*
The FLASHBACK is indicated by this * *
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He walked into his room at the hotel around eleven O'clock, and took off his coat and threw it on the bed. He went over to the little table that was in the left corner of the room and sat down. He tore off a piece paper from the hotel's stationary pad that they leave in the rooms. He picked up the pen that was lying on the table and started to write. He stopped and put the pen down and starred at what he wrote. He put his arms up in the air and stretched, as he did he notice it was two in the morning. He starred down at what he had written again, and picked up the pen to finish what he was writing.
HE: There!
He got up taking the piece of paper with him to the bathroom to get ready for bed as he did he read outloud what he had written.
HE: When you feel afraid,
When you lose your way, I'll find you,
Just try to smile, and dry your eyes,
I will bring back the moon into your skies.
And ever you will, remember my son, I'll be there to:
Say to you
I'll promise you
I'll promise to
Comfort you and say to you
son, I'll be there just for you.
There's so much to learn,
and when you want me
Then I'll show you,
And through the years,
You'll always be
The lullaby in the heart of the child in me.
Whenever you will, remember son I'll be there to
Say to you
I'll promise you
I'll promise to
Comfort you and say to you
son, I'll be there just for you.
Hold it, feel it,
Music is in your heart.
When you need it,
Just keep listening,
Let it sing, let it sing.
Though you've grown away
No matter how you'll change
I'll know you.
And when you tire of life alone,
There will always be one sure way back home
Just turn on the quiet,
and you close your eyes
and listen inside
I'll be there to sing to you,
I promise you
I promise to
Comfort you
and sing to you.
And my son , I'll be there,
Anytime, and anywhere,
Scott I'll be there just for you.
He fold up the piece of paper and took out his wallet, and placed it inside his wallet. He finished getting ready for bed, after he was done he turned off the lights and climbed under the covers. He lay there letting everything that happened today sink in, as he drifted off.
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She sat up in her bed breathing rapidly and shivering. Her eyebrows had beads of sweat above them, and tears were rolling down her frighten pale face. She pulled the covers off her and got up. She walked over to the window and starred out at the dark rainy night. She had not had a nightmare like that in a long time, and thinking back she hadn't had a nightmare in about eight months. She wondered why of all the times she would have one now, but deep down she knew why. She took a deep breath and exhaled as she wiped away the tears.
She decided to go and see her baby before she tried to go back to sleep. She walked down to the nursery and looked in the window. Her baby was right in front the window fast asleep. She put her finger up to the window, and slid it down slowly.
SHE: I'm sorry I shouldn't have, but..
She became very light head and started to lose her balance. The man who was there earlier walked by and noticed her. He put his arms out and caught her just as she fell. She looked up at him.
SHE: Thanks
He was still holding her up.
THE MAN SMILING: Hey, I like it when women just fall into my arms. Would you like help back to your room?
He already started to help her back to her room before she could say anything. He helped her get in bed, and pulled the cover up around her. He started to leave the room, but she grabbed his arm.
SHE: Can you please stay I don't want to be alone?
The Man pulled up a chair and sat down next to her and shook his head yes. She didn't understand why she would let a stranger stay in her room, but all she knew she didn't want to be alone. The man pulled a book out of his coat pocket and started to read.
SHE: Can you please turn on the radio for me?
The man reached over and turned on the radio, and turned down the volume, so that it was just whispering out the music. She lay there starring out the window trying to stay awake. Her eyelids got heavier and heavier until they closed.
~ She opened her eyes, and she was on the cliff looking down at the ocean, and there he was again starring up at her with that frighten look on his face. She could hear music playing softly around her. ~
* Every endless night has a dawning day
Every darkest sky has a shining ray
And it shines on you baby can't you see
You're the only one who can shine for me
~ He held out his hands calling to her " Shelby, please help me. I need you please." again and again she heard it.~
* It's a private emotion that fills you tonight
And a silence falls between us
As the shadows steal the light
And wherever you may find it
Wherever it may lead
Let your private emotion come to me
Come to me
~ She had tears in her eyes as she saw him reaching out for her. She ran down the cliff as fast as she could to the beach still hearing his pleas for her. She didn't want him to disappear has he did the times before leaving her heartbroken~
*When your soul is tired and your heart is weak
Do you think of love as a one way street
Well it runs both ways, open up your eyes
Can't you see me here, how can you deny
~She was on the beach, and there he was with his hand out to her
" I need you please help me," he said as he started to walk in the ocean. "Please Shelby come to me I need you." She ran up to the ocean. He was only a couple feet away from her. She reach out to him as her tears fell into the ocean.~
*Every endless night has a dawning day
Every darkest sky has a shining ray
It takes a lot to laugh as your tears go by
But you can find me here till your tears run dry
It's a private emotion that fills you tonight
~ She cried as she tried to reached for him, as he got further and further away. She could hear him calling to her "Shelby please help me I need you. Shelby come to me, please I love you." She ran further into the ocean, but she couldn't see him anymore, and it went silent.~
* And a silence falls between us
As the shadows steal the light
And wherever you may find it
Wherever it may lead
Shelby screamed "NO" as she wrapped her hand around the sheet and buried her head in the pillow, " don't leave me again please. " Scott please come back; I love you too!" The man softly shook her and felt she was shivering. Shelby lift her head from the pillow, and starred at him. Her face was flushed, and tears were falling down her cheek. She noticed the last line of the song on the radio.
*Let your private emotion come to me
Shelby got a weird expression on her face and started to bawled. The man looked around not sure what to do. She just lay there bawling. The man tried to talk to her, but she was too hysterical to hear him. He ran out into the hall to the nurse station. There was a nurse there working on the computer.
THE MAN: There's something wrong with the women in room 213.
The nurse kept on working on the computer not even aware that he was even there. He glanced over at her name tag.
THE MAN (RAISING HIS VOICE): Miss Langer, didn't you hear me? The lady in room 213 is a hysterical. She's bawling.
The nurse got up and ran to room with the man right behind her. She walked over to Shelby and put her hand on her shoulder.Shelby didn't even noticed the nurse.Shelby tried to calm herself down, but she couldn't stop from crying.
Miss LANGER (worried): She's soaking wet! Sweetie, what's wrong?
Shelby laid there unaware that someone was talking to her. The nurse lift Shelby up so she was sitting up and facing her. Shelby starred straight at the nurse with a blank look on her face. Tears rolled down her cheeks, however; she wasn't bawling anymore. Miss Langer wiped the tears from Shelby face with her thumbs, and pushed Shelby's hair back out of her face.
MISS LANGER: Sweetie, please tell me what's wrong.
SHELBY: Please don't let him go.
Shelby couldn't say anything else because if she did she would have started to bawl again. The nurse starred at Shelby, for she wasn't sure what she had met. The man stand in the corner of the room watching, because he really didn't know what to do or what she had met either.
MISS LANGER (PUZZLED): Sweetie your baby is fine. I checked on him about twenty minutes ago.
Shelby lay back down turning her back to them. She pulled her legs up so that she was lying in a fetus position. She starred out the window as the memories of that night came rushing back.
* FLASHBACK *
Shelby shut the door as she waved by to them. She decided she would stay home instead of going to the concert, for she hadn't been feeling good that day. Shelby sat down on the couched and turned on the television, and flipped through the channels until she found a movie to watch. She leaned forward, because she had gotten interested in the movie. Just has they were going to say who the killer was a special news report flashed cross the TV. Shelby was about turn the channel when she saw what it was. A reporter was stand in the street pointing to a car.
THE REPORTER: This one of the worse car accidents I have seen in along time. There been two fatalities already, and the search crew is still searching for others, for one of the cars went over the cliff.
The reporter walked up closer trying to get a better shot of the car.
The doorbell rang Shelby Jumped. She got up and walked to the front door watching the TV. She opened the door still looking over at the TV. She turned, and was faced to face with two police officers.
THE YOUNGER COP: Hello, are Mrs. Barringer?
Shelby could feel her legs go weak. She had to put her hand on the side of the door to hold herself up.
SHELBY quietly: Yes why?
Her legs started to shake she was afraid what was coming next. She closed her eyes trying not to cry.
Shelby to herself: Please don't let it be please.
The young cop pulled something out of his jacket and hand it to her. She opened her eyes and looked down, and in her hand was a wallet. She ran her other hand over the wallet. She fell to her knees, and clutched the wallet to her chest and burst into tears. She rocked back and forth crying hysterically. She looked up at the officers who were helping her up. The older cop picked her up and carried her into the family room and lay her down on the couched, and turn the television off. She laid there starring at the black screen crying.
SHELBY: Is h...he (pausing) de..dea...dead? wh..wha...what ha...happ...happen?
She managed to asked as she cried. The police officers sat down, and looked down at the floor.
THE OLDER POLICE OFFICER: We don't know the Search Crew is still looking. They haven't found him yet or the others. As for what happen (He paused and looked over at her seeing whether he should go on) a drunk driver ran head on into them making the person driving lose control of the car. The car did a 360 and ran through the railing and off the cliff into the ocean.
Shelby lay there stunned by what she just hear, and a second later she sat up trying to get more control of herself. She wiped her eyes with her hand, and cleared her throat.
SHELBY STILL CRYING BUT NOT HYSTERICALLY THOUGH: The reporter said there were to fatalities, who?
The officer glanced over at her as he moved his hand around his pocket and pulled out a couple photos. He looked at one the photos, "Such young lady. I hate this part of the job," he thought.
THE OLDER POLICE OFFICER: Do you know this lady?
The officer said as he hand the photo to her. Shelby starred down at it, and staring back up at her was Daisy.
SHELBY (TO NO ONE PARTICULAR): NO please not her, she has a three old daughter. What about her husband, and who's the other one?
Shelby looked over at the officer with tears in her eyes as she put the photo down on the table, for she couldn't look at anymore.
THE OFFICER: We aren't sure we found another body, however; we are not sure whom he is, for he didn't have ID on him.
Shelby looked frighten as she starred at the wallet on the table. She started to cry again. The officer got up and went, and sat down next to her taking her into his arms.
THE OFFICER: Oh no, no it wasn't him. We know for sure it wasn't him.
Shelby looked up at him as he hand her the other photo. She took it and glanced at it. She let the photo fall to the floor when she saw whom it was, and buried her head in officer chest.
SHELBY (MUFFLED): It's unfair, she's only three years old. She won't understand.
The doorbell rang, one of the officer got up and went and answered it. He walked back in the room with a man and a little girl. Shelby wiped away the tears and got up. She walked over and hugged him, and picked up the little girl.
SHELBY (CRYING): Ezra, have you heard?
Ezra looked at her confused he just knew he was supposed to drop off Daisy daughter here.
EZRA (worry): No, what happened?
Shelby handed Daisy's daughter to one of the officer, and took Ezra by the hand and walked him into the kitchen. They both sat down.
SHELBY (STILL CRYING): There was terrible car accident (she paused taking a deep breath, and cleared her throat), and Daisy and David are both dead. They are still searching for Scott, Auggie, and Juliet.
He sat there stunned, for he couldn't believe it. He cupped his face in his hands, and started to cry. Shelby got up and walked over to him and putted her hand on his back. He turned and faced her. His face was white, and his eyes were blood shot.
EZRA: Could they be mistaken, she can't be dead?
SHELBY: NO, They showed me photos.
He turned back around and lay his arms on the table, and buried his face in them and cried.Shelby pulled a chair closer to him. She sat down and put her arm around him. They sat there in silence. The young police officer walked in carrying the child, and the officer handed the little girl to Shelby.
THE YOUNGER OFFICER: We have to go. Are you going to be all right?
Shelby shook her head yes, kissing the girls forehead as the little girl played with Shelby's hair. Shelby got up and walked the officers out and closed the door behind them. She walked down the hall into on the bedrooms. She put the little girl down on the bed. She took out a little night gown out of a drawer. She took off the little girls close and put the night gown on. She smiled down at the little girl so she wouldn't think anything was wrong.
SHELBY: You get to sleep at auntie Shelby's house tonight. How does that sound Joise?
Josie smiled up at her and put her arms up. Shelby picked her up, and pulled the cover back with her free hand. She laid her down, and pulled the covers up and around her. She kissed her good night.
Shelby left and went to the kitchen. Ezra was laying how he was when she left before. She started to ask him a question, however; she noticed he was asleep. She softly shook him, but he didn't wake up. She left and came back with a blanket, and covered him up. Shelby left the room and checked and Josie before she went to bed herself. She lay in bed starring up at the ceiling listening to silence of the room, and she started to cry.
Shelby sat up screaming, and tears were running down her face. She sat there trying to calm down after couple second to looked over at the clock it was seven in the morning. She got up and went to bathroom and splashed her face with cold water. Shelby walked down the hall, and checked on Josie. she was still sound asleep. She walked to the front door and unlocked it, and opened the door. Shelby picked up the newspaper and shut the door. She sat down at the kitchen table and looked down at front page of the newspaper. The headline said TERRIBLE CAR ACCIDENT CLAIMS TWO LIVES AND THREE ARE STILL MISSING, AND THE Search CREW HAS STOPPED LOOKING. Shelby picked up the paper and through it across the room.
SHELBY (angrily): How Can they do that they can still be alive?
* END OF THE FLASH BACK *
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Ezra sat up in bed he grabbed his shirt from the chair and put it on. He got up put on his pants. He had a feeling that there was something wrong, and that he had to get to the hospital. He got to the hospital in twenty minutes. Ezra pushed the button to the elevator a second later the doors open, and he got in and pushed the second floor button. The doors of the elevator open, and he got out ran to Shelby room. He saw a nurse trying to talk to Shelby. He walked over to the other side of the bed and bent down, so he was face to face with Shelby. He moved the hair from her face. She was sweaty and pale. He looked up at the nurse.
EZRA: What happened?
MISS LAGNER: I don't know she was hysterical when I came in here. She wasn't making any sense at all. She said don't let him go. What is that supposed to mean?
The Man slipped out the room, so that he wasn't noticed. Ezra looked back down at Shelby, and wiped away the tears. He set her up and picked her up, and sat down in the chair with her. She didn't show any sign that he was there.
Ezra: Shelby, it's Ezra it's all right it was only a nightmare. (He looked over at the nurse) Can you get me a glass of water?
The nurse left came back a few minutes later with glass of water, and hand it to him. Ezra softly splashed a little of her face. She sat up and looked at him.
SHELBY: Ezra, he's alive he needs me.
She tried to get up, but Ezra hold on to her. She started to fight him.
SHELBY (CRYING): HE needs me Ezra, he keeps calling for me he's in trouble Ezra please let me go. I need to find him.
Ezra held her in his arms making sure she didn't hurt herself trying to get loose. He softly whispered in her ear trying to calm her down.
EZRA: SSH, It's all right it was just a nightmare. You know what the search crew said there is no way anyone could have survived that fall.
SHELBY (CRYING): But, He's alive I know he's live he calls for me. Ezra he... he needs our help. Ezra please help me find him.
EZRA: Ok I will help you find him, but I don't want you to get upset if it doesn't turn out as you want. It's not good for you.
Shelby pulled her legs up on his lap and put her arm around him. She laid her head down his shoulder and closed her eyes.
SHELBY (WHISPERED): Thank you.
Ezra lowered his head that it was lying on hers and closed his eyes. He knew now that She would never be his even hard he tried, for her love belongs to the person in her dreams.
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TBC
WHAT WILL THE Verdict BE?
Who do you thinks the man is?
Will they ever find out?
When will it be to late?
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