Interlude in the Key of J - I Dream (I'm Dancing)
This is a fic inspired by a song called I Dream (I'm Dancing) by Billie on her Honey to the B cd. It's a continuation of my Songs in the Key of M and Interlude in the Key of J series.
This time the song is a mix of both Jesse's thoughts and what she's saying to people and also what people are saying to her. I own nothing but the lamp.
The days that passed following the accident felt like individual years. Pain, then no pain, pain again. Not in my legs, mind you, no feelings there. With all the Thundershocks, pit falling and blasting off we'd done in the past six years, it was a bitter irony that all it took to bring me down was one accident.
Two Nurse Joys hovered over me, buzzing with activity, their Chansey's in the background. They were doing something to my legs, some sort of electric stimulation and I would've chuckled at that irony, but I didn't feel like it. Why bother?
Can you feel it,
I ignored their actions and thought back to when I'd first been brought here, to this secret Rocket healing location on Cinnibar. I knew it was Cinnibar, knew it instinctively. I rebelled, the pain made me a bit more irritable than usual, but it backfired on me. I think that Joy #2 might still be genuinly concerned about my welfare, but not Joy #1; I was on thin ice with her.
Tell me can you feel it?
Their voices were echoey, but I could hear them and I struggled to find the strength to shake my head no, no I can't feel your prodding. I can't feel anything. Except the overwhelming feeling that I just have to find James and Meowth.
Can you feel it,
They tried water therapy, taking me to a swimming pool and trying to stimulate some sort of feeling. When I asked if James could visit, they didn't answer.
Tell me can you feel it?
When I asked a week later, they told me that James and Meowth had been separated and reassigned to new partners. They said James had requested the news not be told to me. After that, I guess I sort of fell apart. I didn't care what happened to me.
I stopped eating. How could I eat knowing the one person I loved most in the world, didn't love me? I remembered what I'd last said to him, what he'd last said to me. It all felt like a dream, rapidly fading. What the Joy's told me, what the Grey Rocket had told me, was real to me now.
I believe it's real.Arbok, my baby. I don't know where she is now. Her Pokéball, along with Likitung's, had been taken from me upon arrival. Probably given to another Rocket, one more worthy than I.
James, my one and only, I can't believe you have a new partner. I won't.
The Joy that loomed over me, number two I think, injected a drug into my IV line and left. I turned my head to the left and stared at the empty bedside chair. I closed my eyes, letting the drug take effect.
"Jessie...Jessica.." The melodic sound a whisper in my ear.
I opened my eyes and saw James sitting in the chair. I smiled and whispered, "I knew you'd come."
He placed a red rose on my chest. I reached for it, feeling its weight and smelling its sweet perfume.
"It's time to tell you of a secret I keep
How I get with you when the world's asleep."
James stared at me, his emerald eyes full of encouragment.
"I can't wait for the long day to end
Then I can be back in your arms again."
I told him of the awful things the Grey Rocket told me. That James hated me, that I couldn't pull off a simple heist without screwing up.
"When I close my eyes..."
And I did, hating to loose sight of him even for a heartbeat.
"You are by my side
and I can picture us together.
Every night I pray there will be a way
and we can make it last forever."
I felt the air stir around me and my skin tingled, as if hundreds of Butterfrees were brushing me with their wings. When I opened my eyes again, I found myself dressed in a flowing white gown, made of a gossamer soft fabric that sparkled as if diamonds were a part of the fabric. James held me in his arms and I saw he was dressed in a black tux. We were not in any room or any place for that matter. The clouds made up the floor, the star studded sky our ceiling and the full moon our spotlight.
"Jess..." He held me tight, one hand against the small of my back, and we danced to an unheard symphony.
I tilted my head up to look at him and he smiled at me. "Oh Jessie, things will be better soon." he murmered and I closed my eyes again and let him kiss me.
I dream I'm dancing with you
And I can really move...
I dream you're kissing meSuddenly, the magic feeling left and the stiff bed was against my back and not James' hand.
And I can really feel it
I dream I'm dancing with you
And I can really move
I dream you're kissing me
And I can really feel it...
Swear I can really feel itI felt James' presence fade from in front of me.
Swear I can really feel itI opened my eyes to find James and the rose gone.
@>>--<<--<<
"How is she doing?" the voice was unconcerned. The Grey Rocket was back.
"So far her body is healing perfectly, but her mental state is healing far more slowly than expected." Joy #1. "I've been requested that your visits with the patient end as of today."
"What? Requested by who?"
My body tingled, someone was looking out for me?
"By Giovanni himself. He feels that if you haven't gotten any information out of her by now that he will interrogate her later when she has recovered."
A pause. "Fine, I can...appreciate what our Boss has to say, even if I think it's wrong."
I heard the Joy gasp, "With an attitude like that, I think it's time you left."
I heard footsteps and the sound of the door closing and I sighed. James had been right. I giggled and fell asleep.
I dreamed again, this time without any drugs. We were in a meadow this time, having a picnic. Meowth was amusing himself with a red ball of yarn and James and I were sitting on a red checked picnic blanket.
"Jessie, you have to get better soon, so we can be together."
I looked up at him and said,
"I don't mind living in a fantasy worldFor the first time, I saw him frown, small furrows between his eyebrows. Had I said something wrong? I cleared my throat and tried again,
I know how it feels to be your girl."
"And hear you say the sweetest things soft and low,He sat closer to me, holding my hands. "I'd never leave you, Jesse, always remember that."
I never want to wake up and let you go, no."
Suddenly a wave of white light swept over the meadow, a blinding glare that took away James and Meowth and the picnic. The light subsided and I found myself staring into the blue eyes of Joy #2, who was looking at me with a worried expression.
"Phew, we almost lost you." She looked down at something by her feet, "Good job, Raichu."
"Rai," I heard something say, then I saw a small dark shape dart out of my room.
"How can I get through to you, Jessica? Why won't you let us help you?" She leaned against the wall next to my bed. "Your legs have all but regained total movement, but you won't realize that. You have to."
"That's not entirely true." It was Joy #1. "Those drugs you've been administering to her every night in her IV have not been the pain blocking drugs I told you they were."
"What do you mean by that?" Joy #2.
"I mean that they have been..."
"That's what's been keeping her from fully recovering?" A pause. "How could you? A nurse...You have to stop it, she must get better."
"Have you given her the dose for tonight?"
"Yes." A whisper.
"Then there's nothing we can do for her now."
@>>--<<--<<
James...
When I close my eyes
I am flying through a darkness. There are no stars, no moon, no clouds. There is simply nothing. I am breathing, but I'm not. But it doesn't matter.
You are by my side
And I can picture us together
James is here, by my side. I smile at him and he at me. Meowth is flying next to James, a red ball of yarn in his paws. James' eyes glitter, but the only thing that has true color is the red, red rose he holds to me.
Every night I pray there will be a way
And we can make it last forever
I touch the rose, grasp it in my hands, and suddenly we are back in our ballroom.
And we were dancing...I dream I'm dancing with you
And moving...And I can really move
And kissing, a kiss so sweet and deep...We keep dancing a silent waltz to an endless song.I dream you're kissing me
I stare up at him, into his eyes so deep with emotion, and I speak to him, saying the words so I know they are true and not things I am imagining in my mind.And I can really feel it
I dream I'm dancing with you
Until we lose control
I dream you're loving me
With all your heart and soul
"Someday soon I'm gonna make this dream come true.
I can't deny that I'm so into you.
I want you so that I forget to breathe air.
The feeling grows so strong...
"I want to be with you James," I am almost crying. I never cry.
I believe
Suddenly, lightning strikes nearby and nearly hits us. It sizzles so close that my skin tingles. The deafening crack of thunder that accompanied it leaves my ears buzzing as if hundreds of Beedrills were whispering in my ears.
"They want you back, Jessie. You'll have to leave me again." James looks sad, that stray tendril of hair falls across his eyes.
"No..I'll find you James." I grasp his hands as another bolt falls nearby and for a moment, James flickers, like a bad television image. For a moment, I can't feel his hands within mine.
"Jessie...it's time..." He brushes the rose against my cheek and smiles as a blindingly white glare washes him from my sight and once again, I hear the Joys talking to me.
Can you feel it, tell me can you feel it?
Can you feel it, tell me can you feel it?
"Maybe we should have Raichu power up again?" Joy #1 sounded frustrated.
"It's real..."
"What?" Joy #1.
"She said something! We have to let Giovanni know!" This from Joy #2. I didn't open my eyes when I heard them leave, the fall of smaller, Raichu feet following them.
Then I did something I hadn't done in the "real" world for a long time.
I smiled.
I believe it's real...
Authors Note: I did take out some of the lyrics towards the end, to keep the fic from trailing out. Don't worry, the lyrics just repeated over and over again, you weren't missing out on much.
Okay, next on my agenda.
First: I have to promote this song. No the singer Billie didn't ask me. It's really a great song and you simply must get your hands on a copy of it. Go to Napster or MP3 World or buy it at a store. If you have a Best Buy nearby, get it there 'cause $13.99 beats the $18.99 that NRM, Camelot, or Waves wants.
Second thing is this: For all those who like this series, who really like it, there be one, possibly two more from Jessie and James and then a couple from Misty and Ash, but not in that particular order.
BTW, did anyone really like what I did with It Wasn't Me by Shaggy?