… I'm babysitting Princess Pollyville, as I now refer to my Polly-Pocket obsessing cousin. Thank god her favorite Digimon is still Gomamon, or else I'd have to run away screaming. Thus, while she's distracted with decorating the tree, I'm gonna write.
Biggest Dreamer
Kat had panicked and called Sarah, her only friend with a Driver's license, and she and Willis had grabbed their rollerblades, put their Digimon in their backpacks, and headed off. The plan was to meet Sarah at the park near Kat's house… Kat's mother really didn't like the older girl that well, and would have never let them into the car with her. As they raced down the steep hill, the swift wind created by going 25mph+ on rollerblades whipping their hair back, they had both decided to enjoy the brief moment between now and when they headed downtown, for one of their most dangerous assignments ever.
Sarah pulled up in her mother's old rusting gray van, just as the other two reached the park. "Now, remember," Kat said to Willis sarcastically, mocking her mother, "We have to be back by noon…"
Willis glanced at the car clock, which showed 9:30. "Not a chance. How elaborate of a scheme can you come up with to get us out of this one?"
"Not to much of one without Sarah seeing you-know-who, but… I guess we have no choice. Yo, Sarah!"
"Sarah 'Maxwell', at your service," she said hyperly, using her fake last name that she'd become obsessed with over recent months.
"Meet Imemon. She'll be helping save the world today, and I thought you'd like to meet her firsthand." Sarah stared at the little blue blob a moment as they sat at a stoplight, then smiled.
"Miscolored Ditto! It's cute!"
"I'm not a Ditto," Imemon insisted, a little annoyed.
"Yo, okay, no fights here," came the voice of the blonde boy in the backseat. "Now, Kat, pull off whatever little stunt…"
"Imemon, you remember Emily's voice?"
"Of course I do," Imemon responded in the girl's voice.
"Ok, good. I'm gonna call mom and say I ran into her down at the mall here. They shop here occasionally, and they all left for Oklahoma yesterday, so mom will never know the difference." Kat pulled out her mother's cell phone and dialed the home phone number, waiting impatiently as it rang. "Yeah, mom? Hey, we ran into Emily and Billy down here, and they wanted us to come with them… Where? Hey, Emily, where was it again? Cherry Creek Mall, that's what I thought you said. So can we go with them? We won't get home until a lot later then, but- Yeah, ok, you can talk to her," Kat grinned evilly and did a 'yes!' motion, setting the phone by Imemon.
"Hello? Oh, hi… Yeah, my mom's picking us back up in just a minute or two, she's across the street right now at the Walgreen's… I'm fine… ok, so I'll let you talk to Kat again…" she looked up at her partner and grimaced. "She wants to talk to 'my' mom as soon as she picks us up…"
"You can take care of that too, I should hope…" Kat mumbled, then uncovered the phone. "yeah… Emi told me, yeah, we'll call you then… ok, I'll be back later… we might go to a movie and dinner… mom, I've got $50! MY OWN!!" Willis glanced at her and sweatdropped at the girl's sudden outburst. "Right… ok, no, Emi and I will call you when we get done… Willis is here too, he'll hang out with Billy… got it. bye…" Kat sighed heavily and leaned against Willis's shoulder slowly. "So… complicated. I'm so… tired…" she yawned slowly, feeling the familiar enveloping sleep take her in as Willis put his arm over her back and rubbed her other arm slowly.
"You can go back home for a little while, Kat…" he whispered, and Kat smiled as she fell fully asleep, only remembering the full meaning of his words as she woke back up.
"KATIE! HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO CALL YOU?! Someone's on the phone for you…" Kat groaned and came to the realization that Willis had meant the reality she'd chosen by home. Slowly she rolled off the couch and picked up the phone.
"Yeah?"
"Hey Ly!" Kat jumped back a little ways at the perky voice on the other end. "Hey, I saw how your fic was going… How dare you still say I'm better than you!"
"This war isn't going to end for a while yet, I can tell," Kat laughed, smiling at how normal talking to someone from the opposite end of the country had gotten. She looked down at a pull on her arm.
"Key, I wanna sing pwease?" Brianne asked shyly, calling Kat by the name she had since she was little. (Katie got mispronounced as Kay-ie and eventually just Key) Kat laughed and turned the phone on, letting the 5 year old sing her rendition of Rudolph, listening to Rika's squeals of "cute" on the other end. This was how life could be everyday in her real life if she let it.
So why, as she got off the phone half an hour later, did she feel the need to just go back to sleep, go back to that world she was developing such a fondness for? None of it was real, and she knew it too… or was it? Should she have chosen that path so long ago? She blinked and looked at the picture of Willis on the movie cover. Would she have wound up there on the cover with him? Would she have met him? Would she have even lived until this point? She knew, now, that it was all based off truth, but off a truth that wasn't supposed to exist for her. So was this truth, the one she was in right then, non-existent to Willis?
"I can't accept that…" she whispered, curling up against the back of the chair, brushing the sleeping Brianne's hair with her fingers subconsiously. She stared at the phone, wondering why she'd gotten off so soon. Had those… those dreams, taken over her life to the point where they were more important than reality? "Or are they reality… oh, Bri, ya lil brat, you don't go through this… or do you? Is it a child thing that I should have left behind years ago? Or something that has only now begun, that no one mentions but everyone knows? Or am I… just way too much of an otaku?"
You're a dreamer, Kat. You're the biggest dreamer. So dream now…
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Kat stared at the address that she'd written down when she'd woken up. Willis's last words to her rang out in her mind….
"Kat, after today… I'm not sure if you, the true you, is needed in this reality anymore. So… before you go to sleep, because you might not ever truly come back… memorize this. We can be together in the other world… I'm sure the universes will qualify my wedding day as important enough for me to be taken to that reality…" Slowly he handed her a piece of paper, then leaned towards her and kissed her softly, smiling sadly and walking back to his room.
She read the set of letters and numbers over and over again that night, then put it away. The whole day had gradually spiraled up and downhill, as she'd finally learned the secret of Imemon's Digivolution (she could only evolve from the form of another Digimon), they'd crushed the control spire, narrowly avoided being on TV (Sarah had gladly started talking about yaoi on the live news camera in their absence), and then she's realized that this might be the end.
"With any luck… he still has this address…" she whispered, typing it into her buddylist. As the name appeared online afterwards, she hesitantly clicked locate, and go.
A Digimon RP… it was at least someone similar to him… if not him…
*starts laughing at "Lyra"*
What are *you* laughing about? Do I know you? _0
Can it really be him?
Your profile… it says you "belong to Willis" under marital status
So? I can in my own little world.
My name's Willis.
Mine isn't. It's Kat.
^.^ Sorry, I just feel like I've met you before…
Dream, and it will be…
Those who do not dream, can never achieve
For there is nothing in which they believe
Believe in your dreams, live them each day
Nothing will ever remain the same anyway
The sights in your dreams are all you can truly see
So there's no reason, not to try to just be…
The Biggest Dreamer
*sighs* I know it's now WELL after I started that… but I ran outta ideas, then got distracted at the same time as I started getting ideas again, and for the same reason. *nods towards Alan* distracting, you see? Not in a bad way though, and quite inspirational. So I finally finished this and now… well, life's gonna go insane. I've got too many ideas of what to do now, so watch for randomness. And Review, please!