Chapter 4 - The Dream



William awoke the next morning. He turned over several times before standing up and making a brief attempt to walk. The sun just barely came up and over the horizon. He yawned, strecthed, then walked to the window and pulled the blinds open. It was a long way down to the lake from up there. He slid open the glass and felt the beautiful breeze come in and flood his room.

He heard the rush of several birds fly off of tree limbs and the wind rustle the branches of the trees below. He loved the summed, it was always new and fresh and maybe that's why William loved it so much. The night before didn't even strike him until her turned around and Meredith was in his room.

"Morning." He said with a grin. Meredith smiled at him. She walked, her feet making not a sound on the floor, no creaking, nothing. She came to William and seductively placed a finger to his lips. He didn't know what she was doing but very slowly she lead him into her room, as quietly as she had enterred. He smiled a little, wanting to ask her what the hell she was doing. But she brought her face closer to his and said very silently, "Shhh."

She walked through the bathroom not turning around once. He couldn't help but smile. The door to her room opened and her was lead inside by her, her darned and matted curls pinned to the back of her head with chopsticks, her eyes reflecting the very world. She left him in the middle of her room, spun around and stood on top of the desk chair in her room. He was amused by this, but humouring her obvious prank her let it slide. He laughed, trying to cover it up in spite of himself. She smiled once more at him, then pulled the light covering off the ceiling. He was about to ask her what she was doing now, as she was really freking him out when he saw it, what looked to be an eye under her light. She stepped off the chair. He looked at the eye. It followed Meredith. She approached William.

"It watches, all the time." She said. "It tells them who we are, it tells them what we are. They know my dark angel, they know who and what we are. It is time that you must be protected. I am your saviour, as you are the saviour of the Earth. I will be there when you are broken and mangled. Understand me now, they do not play games. They do not play. They are the enemy. They are who you must fear."

"Who?" William asked her. Meredith pulled him down the hall, to the landing, then past the long windows. He looked around, as they lost height the world became more and more engulfed in darkness. He tried to see Meredith but very soon she too disappearred. He turned around and tried to see something. There was nothing but black.

A light came down from what he thought was up. The light trailed over everything, dancing off the edges of the void, coming back. William avoided it. He took a step forward. The blackness became deeper. His head started to hurt. Suddenly the void was filled with a loud sound. His ears began pounding. The whole world was filled with light. He covered his eyes, and took another step. He opened them, trying to get his eyes to adjust. He saw a new vision. Doctors standing around a table, around someone on the table. They spoke in hushed voices, in dream like text. He walked to them, and looked over their shoulders. They didn't notice him. He saw the woman on the table, eyes wide open and drained of all security. Her red hiar creating for her some pillow.

It was his mother.

Her head turned with her wide eyes staring at him.

"It was all for you, so we could protect you." She said. "All for you my darling William, all for you." William was horrified.

"What was?"

"We wanted to protect you, wanted to keep you safe." She kept on going like she was delirious. He placed his hand on her forehead. But suddenly, she was gone as most of the dream.

"She and the other were subjected to it." He heard the familliar voice of Meredith from behind him. He turned around. Meredith came to him in a long gown. She stepped forward, her light small in the void of darkness. She approached him, her blond hair endowed with tiny rosebuds.

"Close your eyes." She carefully unfolded a scarf and spead it across his eyes. He couldn't be sure what was going on anymore. She tied it and stepped back. "You must break through the scarf William, you must see with clear eyes." He peeled off the scarf.

"Enough mystery Meredith." He said. Meredith shook her head.

"There will always be mystery my dark avenger. Always." She left him there. She walked away, her long gown coving the floor in rosebuds and flowering petals. He walked after her. The roses cracked and dried at his feet, leaving a trail of a dead garden.

"Merry?" He called after her. He laughed a little. This wasn't funny anymore. He was about to sit down and contemplate his awakening from the dream when he saw light. He turned around. The light radiated from a tube, glass in its structure filled with a brown liquid. He could see a face inside, perfect and still alive. He walked to it, when suddenly a hand appeared on the glass wall and two very familliar blue eyes stared out at her.

"William?" Meredith shook William. He was sweating in his sleep. He snapped awake. The second he saw Meredith's blue eys he screamed.

"William?" She said. He calmed down. He looked at her. Her hair was pinned to the back of her head with two chopsticks. He sighed. He remembered the eye on her ceiling. It had only been a dream.

"You were shivering." She said. He got up. Meredith looked at him confused. He walked through the bathroom and into Meredith's room and pulled the desk chair over. Now it was Meredith in the centre of the room. He unscrewed the lamp covering and pulled it off. There was no eye, nothing. So it had been a dream after all. He was about to pull away when he saw something fixed to the ceiling on the knob where the screw fits on. He pulled it off.

"Its a camera." He said. A look of fear came onto Meredith's face.