Dangerous Dream
Chase is gonna be evil now again. Hurray, I was getting worried there…lol, not really.
It was a dream, she knew that. At least she hoped so. This all felt too real to be a dream. She closed her eyes tightly and opened them, hoping to see her roof but still seeing her previous surroundings, just more devastating then before.
"Can you decipher between dream and reality, Maddie?" His voice, once soft and boyish, now cold and evil by her ear. "Tell me what the difference is." The scream of a dying person sifted through her head even as she tried to block it out. Someone vanished in front of her and Maddie found the air around her becoming slightly heavier. "Tell me."
"One is real…one is just your subconscious." Maddie barely managed to say.
"Really?" He asked. Maddie couldn't stop the shiver as an ice cold hand slid up her arm from her wrist to her shoulder. "How do you know?" One more person in front of her vanished, leaving behind nothing but hundred of little black spiders. Maddie was finding it harder to breath. The hand left her shoulder. "Dreams can be powerful things Maddie." She cried as something hard, cold and seemingly metal hit her skin and she looked down at the gash in her arm.
"How?" She wasn't sure what she was asking about. It just came out of her mouth. There was now only one person left in front of her.
"Who would you put first?" He asked, right next to her ear. Maddie could feel the blood running down her arm and the air thickening so badly around her she couldn't even breathe now. "The brother…or the boyfriend…" With a cry for help mixed with pain, the last remaining person was swarmed over by the spiders and very slowly sank down into nothingness. "Now…show me what you are." She was spun around, her eyes pitch black and something unknown seeming to surround her. A gasp of surprise was all that she was met with…
Once again, Maddie sat up quickly with a gasp and heavy breathing. She looked around her room, lit only by the faint signs of the rising sun. She looked at her alarm clock to see that it was barely past six. Calming down a bit, Maddie brushed her hair from her face…then froze as something caught her eye. She held her arm out to see blood on it, coming from a gash in her arm that sure as hell was not there when she fell asleep. Using her powers to turn the light on, she could see her arm had been bleeding for a while by the stain on her bed.
"Oh my god." Maddie said, flinging the tangled blankets off her legs and jumping out bed. She ran out of her room, into the hall and into her brother's room, effectively waking him up as the door banged against the wall.
"What the…Maddie…" Caleb said, just before Maddie jumped on the bed and hugged him.
"Oh thank god you're ok…I thought…I dreamt…it was bad…and…and…" She rambled on.
"Whoa, whoa, calm down." Caleb said, firmly grasping her shoulders and holding her a bit away from him. "What is it?"
"I had a dream." Maddie said, taking deep breaths. "At least I think it was a dream." She told him about having Caleb, Pogue, Reid and Tyler all in front of her and one by one they just vanished while Chase asked her about the difference between dream and reality.
"He did what?" Caleb asked, once Maddie got to the point where she had gotten cut. She held out her arm to reveal the still bleeding gash. "Goddamn it Madison!" Caleb got out of bed and left the room. Maddie followed him to the bathroom where he made he sit on the counter while he soaked a cloth and wiped off the blood. The whole thing reminded her of when they were kids.
"Hey, is everything ok?" Tyler appeared in the doorway in just his boxers, rubbing an eye. Maddie guessed the guys all spent the night then. She had fallen asleep before the three boys returned. "I heard Caleb yell and then there was blood on the floor so…shit!" He came up next to Caleb to examine the gash on Maddie's arm. "How did this happen?"
"We don't know." Caleb said.
"I got it in my dream…how the hell did it happen for real?" Maddie asked.
"I don't know. Tyler, stay with her while I get the first aid kit." Caleb said. Tyler nodded and the older boy left.
"This is so fucked." Maddie said, wincing as Tyler used a dry cloth to pat dry her arm.
"My main concern is figuring out how Chase got so powerful." Tyler said. He looked up at Maddie's face to see her looking practically terrified. "Hey, things are gonna be ok." Maddie looked doubtful. Tyler put his hand on her cheek and probably would have kissed her had she not turned her head.
"Caleb…" Maddie said.
"Knows." Tyler filled in. Maddie looked at him. "I guess it doesn't help that after you fell asleep, I fell asleep right next to you and it was quite the scene for him to walk in on."
"You're not hurt." Maddie said, tilting her head.
"He hasn't tried kicking my ass yet, Mads." Tyler said. That made Maddie start crying. "Fuck…I didn't mean he was going to. Shit, don't cry."
"No it's not that." Maddie said. "The end of my dream…I don't know if it was you or Caleb that was the last one there and Chase said something about me picking between you guys and then…everyone was gone." Tyler jumped up next to her on the counter and pulled her closer, hugging her tightly. "I can't make that choice Tyler. Not between any of you guys. And least of all between you and Caleb."
"Hey, what's with the blood?" Reid called, walking into the bathroom with the doll in his arms and staring at the ground.
"God how badly was I bleeding?" Maddie asked.
"Well there's a drop trail from your room to Caleb's then to here." Tyler said. Reid looked up at them.
"Hey Mads, why are you crying?" He asked. Maddie took the cloth off her arm to show the gash and Reid dropped the doll. Maddie's eyes went black and the doll stopped just before it hit the floor and hung there. "Shit! What did you do?"
"How about you pick up the baby, wake up Pogue, then I'll tell you guys because I don't want to go through more then I have to." Maddie said. Reid nodded, grabbed the doll from the air and disappeared from sight. Caleb returned and barely started wrapping her arm up before Reid came back with Pogue in toe. While Caleb wrapped up her arm, Maddie told about her dream, telling the whole thing now since Caleb knew about her and Tyler and she could explain the ultimatum she seemed to have been given.
"Ok we can't let mom know about this." Caleb said, finishing off his job. Maddie wrapped her arms around herself, hiding the fact that she was shaking now. She gave her brother an 'you got to be kidding' look.
"Uh…how are we gonna do that when I have my arm wrapped up, genius?" Maddie asked.
"Long sleeves." Caleb said. "The uniforms have them and it's not like mom is going to be there for swim practice."
"Yeah but she will after school." Tyler said.
"Well that's after school." Caleb said. "We can't let her know about this unless you want her going crazy mom protective."
"I can barely handle crazy you protective at the moment." Maddie said. "Well we have to clean up the mess before she wakes up and joins our little Covenant party in the bathroom."
"I'm on it." Pogue said, his eyes turning black as he left the room.
"I'll clean the mess from my room and Tyler will do yours." Caleb said.
"I can clean my own room Caleb." Maddie said.
"We're not risking you doing anything right now until we know what's going on." Caleb said. Maddie opened her mouth. "Don't argue." She closed her mouth and glared. "Look, mom's gonna be up soon, we have to get this whole thing cleared up before then." Everyone left the bathroom as Pogue successfully managed to clean up the stains…magically of course.
"Ok Reid, I'm sorry to do this." Maddie said.
"Do what?" Reid asked. Maddie's eyes flashed and the doll's eyes opened up and it started to cry. Reid glared at Maddie before going into what was known as his room. Caleb went to his, Pogue went to his, and Maddie and Tyler retreated to her room. The four doors closed simultaneously and barely a minute later, another one opened. Tyler made quick work of making the blood vanish from the room as Maddie stripped from her pajamas and put on her uniform. She was never happier that she actually had a few articles of clothing from Tyler, Reid and Pogue in her closet for cases such as this or that the uniforms were long sleeves.
The rest of the morning was easy to get through. Evelyn seemed clueless to her daughter's early morning attack and, since they were expecting a ride afterwards from the mother, Maddie and Tyler hopped along with Caleb and Reid to school, leaving the hummer at the house.
"How are we going to explain any of this to Kate?" Maddie asked. "Without giving everything away."
"We'll think of something, don't worry." Caleb said. Maddie and Tyler went off to class once they arrived and stood around outside the room, waiting for the bell.
"I'm gonna walk you to your next class alright." Tyler said.
"It's on the other side of the school from yours." Maddie said, leaning against the wall. Her backpack on her feet as she held one of the straps for no real reason. "You'll be late."
"No I won't." Tyler said. Maddie shook her head. "Look Mads, you've seen him in the school before, I'm not taking risks here."
"I meet Kali every day after this period." Maddie said. "We walk to history together all the time."
"What if she's not here today?" Tyler asked.
"Then I'll be fine in a crowded hallway." Maddie said. Tyler didn't say anything and Maddie knew that she hadn't won because of that. Sure enough, he did walk her to class afterwards, even with Kali there. The other girl asked about it but Maddie just said it was some new level of protectiveness Tyler had gained since Caleb had found out about them. That had successfully turned Kali's attention away from it as she started asking about Caleb's reaction. They spent the class talking quietly about the whole thing, half of it seemed a giant mystery to Maddie.
"Miss Danvers and Mr. Garwin…you seem to be taking very good care of your doll." The home ec teacher said. Maddie and Reid looked at each other a bit guiltily. They both knew then that the other had probably used a bit in order to stop the doll from crying. Maddie got out of swimming because of her arm which had begun bleeding again for no apparent reason that any of them could think of. She sat in the bleachers, playing with the baby, which she watched the boys. Afterwards she hung around outside the boys change room.
"Well isn't this a pretty sight." Aaron said, walking out first. Maddie rolled her eyes as she adjusted the car seat in her hands. "Madison Danvers with a baby." He leaned closer to her.
"Back off before I knock something off." Maddie warned.
"Now, now Danvers…play nice." Aaron said.
"Back off Aaron." Tyler said, coming out of the change room. Aaron stepped away from Maddie. Tyler put his arm over her shoulders and led her outside. "You ok? You're looking pale."
"Just a bit nervous about what mom's gonna show us." Maddie said. "That and I think if I keep bleeding, I'm gonna lose too much blood." They got outside just as Evelyn pulled up to the school. Tyler got in the back seat with the doll and Maddie got up front with her mother. She was glad to sit down because she had been getting pretty dizzy. Maddie hoped she would stop bleeding soon so that they wouldn't have to worry about her fainting and Evelyn finding out.
Oooh, so what is mommy dearest going to show the two of them?? Heehee, well it might be a bit obvious if you start thinking about it properly.