Hey peoples, I am real sorry that this took me a long time to upload and that it is shorter than the rest but I was having trouble making up my mind and still am. I would like you guys' opinion :) Would you guys want it to be another agent that took Charlie or would you want it to be connected to an old case of hers and Paul's? I am starting to plan out exactly what memories she will recover and what they will figure out along the way so it might take a while but I am doing my best to juggle school work and this fanfic because I love writing on it! Anyways, hope you guys like it, and please share any ideas you might have for me! I am totally open to any ideas you give me and will probably use most of them or as many as I can. :) Enjoy!
When they got back to Graceland, Charlie was already asleep. She had fallen asleep in the car and the boys were not planning to wake her up knowing she needed her rest. They were happy that she could fall asleep, but knew that soon they would have to wake her up to make sure she ate. While Briggs carried her to his room and put her onto his bed, she mumbled some but didn't wake. Mike and Johnny were obviously worried but said nothing as they looked around the empty-feeling Graceland. Briggs walked back into the kitchen where Mike and Johnny stood staring out at the ocean.
"What now" Mike asked as he looked at Briggs, Johnny saying or doing anything.
"Nothing…we wait till she wakes and then see if she remembers anything" Johhny answered. The three men decided that they would go nuts if they stayed in and waited so while Johnny and Briggs went surfing, Mike stayed at Graceland with Charlie who was still sound asleep. Just when Mike was about to go and check where Johnny and Briggs were, Charlie mumbled something about a fight.
"No….don't…fight this….stop" she murmured in her sleep. She seemed to be having a bad dream.
"Charlie wake up, Charlie it's okay, wake up, come on!" Mike said while he shook her. The harder he shook her, the more into her dream she seemed to go until suddenly she just stopped and her body relaxed in his hold. He sighed as he saw her eyes flutter open, revealing the fear he knew he was to expect."I won't let anything happen to you, your safe" he whispered to her while he watched her relive her dream once more.
"Do you remember what happened in your dream?" Mike asked Charlie considering that it probably had to do with the events of the night before Briggs found her.
"I…bits and pieces" she said far in thought. "Mikey, can you get Paul for me please?" she asked suddenly.
"Sure, you okay?" Mike asked starting worried. What would she need Paul for that she couldn't talk to him about? Mike got up from the next to Charlie and went to find Paul. He couldn't imagine what she might be needing to talk to Paul about that was such a secret, that it could not be shared with him. They all lived at Graceland, they were all friends, and yes they all had their own pasts but it couldn't be that far back, right? "Briggs" he yelled as he got to the living room. "Briggs" he yelled louder just to make sure it wasn't a matter of Paul not hearing him. 'Must still be surfing' he thought to himself. Mike went to the door and quickly went down the stairs in search for Briggs, not wanting to leave Charlie alone for too long. When he saw Paul coming his way he stopped where he was and lifted his hands. "Where were you man? Was trying to find you" he said to him. Paul wasn't even wet anymore so he wondered how long he hadn't been surfing for.
"What's up Mike? Charlie okay?" Paul asked quickly, already making his way towards Graceland. Mike followed close behind him as he told Paul about the nightmare she had.
"And she asked if I could get you" Mike finished.
"Why?" Paul asked quickly, speeding up his pace.
"I don't know" Mike sighed as they reached the steps going up to Graceland.
"Charlie is still in my room right?" He asked jogging towards the bedrooms.
"Yep" Mike said walking towards the kitchen. He was just going to hang around in there while Paul talked to Charlie. He did not want to get into anything that was private to them.
"Charlie babe, you okay?" Paul asked immediately when he entered the room seeing her on his bed curled up. Charlie looked at him as she nodded and uncurled. She patted the spot across from her quietly asking him for her to sit with him. Paul sat down across from Charlie and moved some of the hair out of her face.
"Hey beautiful" he said as he caressed her cheek with his thumb. She smiled into his hand as she closed her eyes. "Mike said you asked for me after you had a bad dream, something wrong or strange happen in it?" Paul asked after a while. Charlie's eyes immediately opened as her head shot up.
"Paul, there was no noise, at all" she said quietly, her eyes pleading for him to understand what she meant by that.
"I'm sure you were disoriented. It's natural that someone can't focus on the sounds around them in a scary situation" he said in a matter-of-fact way.
"No, Paul, I mean there was nothing. No ocean, no shuffling of shoes, no ticking of a branch on a window, nothing!" She said exasperated.
"What did you see?" Paul asked cautiously, not knowing if she wanted to tell him. "Darkness" She said simply.
"Were you on the ground or something?" He asked starting to get curious as to where the hell she could have possibly been.
"I was standing somewhere. I can't tell on what I was standing. It all sort of was there in bits and pieces, and then it was gone" she whispered. She looked so lost sitting on the bed with so many thoughts yet no proper memory of the event in her head. It was killing Paul to see her suffer through knowing something bad happened but not being able to tell exactly what happened to her. They knew that she wasn't raped, but it didn't change the fact that someone managed to get his Charlie, an FBI agent for heaven's sake. This person had to be damn good at what they were doing, or simply one of their own, an agent of some sort. The thought was quickly dismissed because he knew that if that was the case, finding the person would be basically impossible.
"You hungry?" He asked her after a thoughtful silence. He didn't want to ask her anything else, afraid that he would push her further into her own mind, too far. Charlie frowned at the mention of food but got off the bed anyways to walk to the door. Briggs followed her and they walked out together towards the kitchen. While she was walking down the stairs she suddenly stopped in deep thought, almost causing Paul to bump into her. He walked past her down the stairs so that he could see her face. Johnny had come back and taken a shower and was sitting with Mike by the bar when they saw that Charlie was out of it. They walked towards Briggs who was still in the process of figuring out what was going.
"She alright man?" Johnny asked looking at Charlie who seemed almost in a catatonic state.
"I think she remembers something" Briggs said waiting for her to come back to them. Just then, Charlie looked at Johnny and Mike, confused at why she was standing on the stairs.
"Stairs" she said slowly. "I went down stairs."