A/N: Hmm..lookit, it's chapter 2! I would like to thank EVERYONE who reviewed, since I was home sick the 28th, the 10+ reviews in one night really brightened my day! I hope you guys aren't disappointed, I know this one isn't nearly as good as the first... Well, I just got the digimon movie, saw it for the first time. And I have to say it is one of the stupidest, yet funniest, things I have ever seen! I was rolling all over the floor, and my dad poked his head in, and he's like "I guess that was worth 10 bucks!" But GEEZUS! Oh, and Willis is SO CUTE! AND HE LIVES IN AMERICA! hehe. Well, I have nothing else to say...the song of this chapter is "Sleepwalker" by the Wallflowers.
Contrary to popular belief, I don't own digimon. (No Leslie, you may not take my disclaimer ^.~)
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Now in another world
I could learn to forget
But 'til then I'm here
making room for new regrets
Now some flowers they never bloom
And some flowers just bloom dead
-The Wallflowers "Some Flowers Bloom Dead"
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As soon as I saw the back, I knew it was her. Choking a bit, finally the word pressed it's way out into the open.
"Mimi."
I could hear it bouncing off the walls of white, echoing over and over before fading. "Mimi...Mimi...Mimi..."
She turned around, and I could see her sweet, radiant face streaked with tears.
I reached out for her hand, but she cringed away.
A wave of fear washed over me. I reached again, and yet again she recoiled. "Mimi!?" "Mimi!?...Mimi!?...Mimi?!" the echo taunted back at me
"Matt...why didn't you save me?" "save me...save me...save me..." she forlornly cried, and faded into nothingness.
"NOO!" "NOO!...NOO!...NO!..." I darted through the white, looking looking. Finally a break in the white appeared. I raced through it, still calling her name. But as soon as I entered, the slit I had come in through sealed itself shut. I was stuck in black.
I woke up with my jaw aching from clenching my teeth, and a film of cold sweat on my forehead. It was only 5 in the morning, but I wasn't about to go back to sleep, for fear of slipping into that again. I couldn't have saved her, the shots rang out within a second of the intruder barging in. I couldn't have. But why was I having a dream NOW?
Rolling off the sofa I groaned as my cramped neck straightened itself out, cracking in ways it wasn't supposed to. I sighed a little. Mimi hated that noise, the popping noise that reminded her of things crashing, breaking. (A/N: I cannot STAND people cracking their knuckles...my friends do it just to annoy me ^^;) Has it really been 2 months? It doesn't feel like it, but it does. I miss her so much, but everything still resounds her name, Mimi, Mimi, Mimi.
I knew she wouldn't want me to be this sad, she would've told me that it was no use wasting my life because of something I couldn't change, but I couldn't help it.
After I had eaten some cereal and taken a shower, I trudged off to school. That's the nice thing about Hyouden High School, we start at 9:30 and I can never sleep that late anyway.
I slouched through another day at school. Everybody by now had gotten used to me, if they left me alone, nothing would happen. Once the guidance counsuler tried to talk to me, and I had thrown a fake fit about how people were invading my space, and she had bought it. The kids knew I could beat them down if they tried anything, so they ignored me too. I guess you could say I was kind of infamous. Nobody said anything to me all day, so I had plenty time for my mind to think up a lot of horrible things that my dream could've meant; none good. As soon as the last bell rang, I dashed out of school; it was smothering me.
I unlocked my bike from the rack and slowly pedaled to the bridge. I thought about my dream, nightmare rather, from last night. It couldn't mean anything, it didn't make sense.
Reaching my destination, I dropped my bike onto the grass, and stared into the water. Zoning out makes my brain totally empty, and it's nice to feel that way sometimes.
SWOOSH!
The water from the stream rose. It formed a swirling, twisting, massive tunnel, like a tonardo of blue. Some of it spurted into my eye, momentarily blinded me.
I was wiping my eyes away when a figure emerged from the mist. I knew that figure. Shit. Not again...
Did I tell you I hate surprises? They usually turn out bad.
The digidestined's greatest foe, worst than all the Dark Masters put together, weilding the power to delete anything in a single wave of his hand, resurrected. Walking on water towards me. How ironic.
"What do you want, Acopalymon?"
"What makes you think I want anything? After you destroyed me, I was reborn in Primary Village, but since I remembered everything I had done and seen how the Digiworld had healed itself in my abscence, I've changed. I don't want to cause anymore pain. I just want to help you."
"How could you help me?" I didn't bother keeping the sarcasm out of my voice.
"I could give you anything you want."
I turned away.
"No, you couldn't."
"Yes, I could." he quietly stated. Gesturing with an arm, he brought up a wall of water. Slowly a picture formed, and I shut my eyes trying to postpone the inevitable I knew was coming.
I could see Mimi, herding the children back, Mimi, throwing her body on top of them in an attempt to save them. Mimi, getting a bullet in the stomach. Mimi, blood flowing, spreading, staining everything around in crimson. Mimi, finally going still as people suffocated me. I shook my head.
"You can't bring her back."
"I can, and will, but I'll need something in return."
"I'd give you anything you wanted if you brought her back, but nobody can." I growled, still keeping my eyes tightly screwed up. I didn't want the digimon to see me weak. I didn't know what he was up to, but I knew it wasn't anything good. "He can't." I thought. "He can't. HE CAN'T. HECAN'T HECAN'THECAN'THECAN'T"
I was so engrossed with my mental mantra, it took a while before I heard an odd noise enamating from Apocalymon. It got louder. My concentration gone and unable to control myself, my eyelids flew open. He was laughing.
I felt myself burning up inside. Here I was, facing extreme mental berating, and this horrific thing was LAUGHING. At ME.
"WHAT'S SO FUCKING FUNNY?!?" I roared.
"Well, I guess I'm nobody." he chuckled, bypassing my last question. "Then, 'your wish is my command.'" he twirled around, mimicking a genie.
And then disappeared, doing a penknife twist straight back into the water, splashing me again.
I started shaking. Adrenaline withdrawal, I suppose. Damn Acopalymon, screwing with my head. Or is it just me? Am I going crazy?
No, I decided, feeling my wet clothing plastered to my body. No. I don't know what exactly happened, but it was real. Letting it sink in, I sat there, frozen, transfixed, until the night came, freeing me from my invisible cage so I could pedal home in silence puncuated by the squeaking of my bike. I didn't bother checking to see if my dad came home. I knew he wouldn't be there. I flung myself onto my bed, and waited for the tears to come, but they never did. My heart twisted, jump, ripped, and contorted itself, but a single droplet didn't fall from my sorry eyes. I finally gave up. I was almost asleep when my dad shook my shoulder. I guess he had come home after all.
"What."
"Matt."
I rolled over and opened my eyes to slits.
"Looks like somebody took the time to make a guest appearance." I grunted at the silhouetted figure.
"Actually, I was hoping to score a leading role, ookami-chan." (A/N: it's wolf with a chan tacked on ^^;)
Only one person called me that.
"MIMI!!!!!" I exploded out of bed, swept her up, and kissed her, on her eyelids, her ears, her neck, her cheeks, her mouth, her nose. She was really here! I could feel her soft warm skin, smell her vanilla-like scent, run my fingers through her hair. I spun her around and around, laughing like a crazy man, and she laughed with me, the tears streaming down my face mixing with hers while her hands played with my hair.
"YOU'RE HERE! BUT HOW?!?!" I gasped, after I finally set her down.
"Well, now that you've shut up," she grinned, "It's kind of strange, actually." Mimi's voice slid into a more serious tone. "After I was shot, I well, died instantly. I mean, one second, I'm trying to save the kids, and the next I'm floating above myself. But instead of going to heaven, or hell, I went to like a limbo. Somebody there told me that something had happened that wasn't supposed to, but they couldn't do anything about it. So I was stuck there, for what seemed like ETERNITY! Like half an hour ago, I just got transported here, I have NO idea how, but I am so happy to see you!"
She threw herself into my arms. "You have no idea how much I missed you!"
"Don't I?" I smiled down at her. "Just promise you won't leave me again."
"I promise." she looked up at me, and snuggled in closer.
I stroked her hair as she fell asleep. She was probably really exhausted. I quietly tucked her into bed, and sat on the chair next to her. I didn't know what Apocalymon did to make this happen, but, as I gazed at Mimi's peaceful slumbering, I knew that it was worth it.
No, this is nowhere near the end! It'd be pretty crappy, if it was, huh? Well, please R&R!
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