Me: Ok so here is the next chapter to Aftermath, chapter 12…I think…yeah it's chapter 12. HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Me: I do not own Fragile Dreams or any of its characters. I just do this because it's pure fun.
Author's Note: Every chapter is going to have a flashback just because I like to open my stories with a flashback. So I hope you don't mind to much. But if you do then just skip down to the rest of the story the flashback only contains content from the last paragraph or two of the previous chapter.
Enjoy ;P
Flashback:
I feel asleep having Crow holding me. Listening to the sounds of the rain and thunder. For once I felt safe, I was warm and safe. Something else I hadn't felt in a long time.
Safe.
End of Flashback
I woke with a start as a clap of thunder rattled the windows. It took me awhile to figure out where I was but when I did the memories of everything that had happened the previous night came flooding back. I shuddered as I remember the monster that attacked us. The fall from the Ferris Wheel that caused me to dislocate my shoulder. Crow looking at me as he popped it back into place. I looked up at Crow, he was staring out the window into the none ending rain storm.
"Morning." he said looking down at me and removing his arms from around me allowing me to sit up. "How's the shoulder."
I sat up and rubbed. "A little numb a little tingly but that's it. Oh and morning."
"How can it be tingly if its numb?" he asked tilting his head to the side. His smile growing.
"The parts that not numb is tingly." I replied pointing to the part of my shoulder that connects to the socket part. "It's numb here but the rest of my shoulder and a little bit down my arm is just tingly."
He shook his head and got to his feet and pulled me up with him. "Come on lets talk outside. Ren didn't fall asleep till early in the morning she was worried about you." he explained as we went outside and under the tree whose branches had grown out and over part of the entrance.
"She shouldn't worry." I said shaking my head and staring out into the rain. The lightning and thunder was far away and didn't seem to be as threatening as it was last night.
"Shouldn't she?" Crow asked leaning against the tree. "If it wasn't for you that man would still have her and she probably would've died. She owes you a lot, we all do. Plus you're our friend it's only natural that we worry about you."
"I'm not weak I just messed up." I said absentmindedly rubbing my shoulder.
"How did you mess up? If you hadn't have grabbed onto the edge you would've fallen into the cliff and died. I don't know where you messed up but you made it out so it couldn't have been that bad."
"How did you know about that?" I asked turning towards him. He looked at me and pushed himself off of the tree.
"PF told me everything that happened while you were sleeping on me." he said laughing and leaning towards me.
I blushed and turned my back towards him. "Well I'm sorry it was the pain, it caused me to pass out." which wasn't a complete lie. The pain in my shoulder after he had popped it back in was unbearable and it caused me to pass out. "You could've just put me on the floor."
"As if." he said stepping closer to me. "Seto you were hurt and if I had laid you on the floor it could've made your shoulder stiffer than what it probably already is."
"My shoulder would've been fine and it's not stiff." I lied. It was really stiff but I'm not about to go and tell him that. "And you probably didn't sleep well anyways."
"I don't need to sleep." he replied. "And someone needed to keep watch."
"Then you should've woken me up." I said turning to him. He was a lot closer and my heart skipped a beat.
"Why do not one someone to care about you." he said taking me by my shoulders. "I know you care about us. So let us care about you."
"I'm not saying that just we don't know how long this will last." I said looking down. "And Ren is safe now."
"So, you're her friend now." Crow said. "We all are, and we need each other."
"No." I said looking up at him. "That thing is after me, it wants something that I have."
"What is it?" he asked his eyes widening. "How do you know that?"
"That's just it I don't know." I said. "And I…" should I tell him a ghost told me all of this, he'll probably tell me I'm crazy but I know it's not. "Is how really important? I just know please believe me."
"I do believe you." he said pulling me into him. "No matter how you know I believe you. Don't worry that thing won't get you."
"I'm not worried about it getting me." I said tears leaking out of my eyes. "I don't want it to hurt any of you guys because it wants me."
"We can take care of ourselves." he said. "Don't be an idiot either and try to sneak away so none of us get hurt because we'll just follow you."
"Crow…" I said. "Do you think it'll ever let up?"
"What?" he whispered tightening his arms around me.
"The rain." I laughed.
"Oh." he said. "I hope not."
Me: Ok so this is like short I know. I was listening to Already There and some other sad romantic songs and it kind of flowed into this chapter. Let me know what you think before I continue this.