*Chapter 11*
"Are ya gonna tell me now?" Bottle Cap asked, plopping onto the first bunk she could reach. Silver rolled her eyes, a small smile dancing across her lips.
"I'se only been tryin' for de last evah." She laughed, "It's a bit complicated, but I guess everything is right now."
"Uh, yeah. Just a smidge." Bottle Cap used her fingers to show "a smidge". "C'mon, spill."
"Okay, but I sweah, if one more poison intahrupts me, I'll soak 'em." She glanced toward the door, then lowered her voice to a whisper, "I kept havin' dese dreams. You was awways in 'em and it was so real. I would scream for ya ta come heah an' get away from it all, but ya tol' me no."
"This is...freaky." Bottle Cap studied her friend's sincere face. "So, you dreamt me up? Just like that?"
"Just like dat." She nodded. "Dat's why ya can't tell none a da othahs. Dey'd t'ink I'se a looney!" Bottle Cap burst into laughter.
"You are!" She teased. Silver made a fist but her smiling face gave away the fact she was only playing.
"So what a'e ya gonna do?" Silver asked after they had settled down, "I mean, how a'e ya gonna get back?"
"Get back?" Bottle Cap's smile was replaced with a disheartened frown. She looked down, watching her fingers trace figure eights in the cover. "I was kinda hopin' that I would never go back. You know? Kinda stay and be Bottle Cap? I never want to be Katie again, Silver. Never."
"I know, Caps." Silver stopped the incessant movement of Bottle Cap's fingers by taking her hand. "Then, let's just fahget 'bout 2002, okay?"
"Whatcha tawkin' 'bout, Silvah?" A girl appeared from the doorway, her long curly locks following. Bottle Cap looked up to meet a pair of almost black eyes and the purple ring caused Katie's blue ones to stare. "Got some soita starin' problem?"
"Huh?" Bottle Cap shook her head, "No, no. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to..."
"It's okay." She laughed, pleased that the new girl seemed frightened of her. "Da name's Hades." She spit on her palm and stuck her hand out.
"Bottle Cap." She smiled again. It seemed she couldn't stop, ever since she appeared in 1899.
"Hades lives in Brooklyn." Silver Fists explained as Specs, Dutchy, and Skittery came in, not bothering to greet the girls. "You heah ta see Mush?" Her question obviously directed to Hades.
"Yeah, he was suppos..." Hades was saying when an arm slid around her waist from behind.
"To meet ya heah." Mush finished her sentence before kissing her cheek. "Sowry I'se late but Caps heah has caused alot of confusion for Jack an' Spot...an' Spin." He said with a smile.
"Really?" Bottle Cap asked, "Who's Spin?"
"I'se Spin." Came a reply from the bunk across from them, Jake's bunk. The girl's _expression was anything but inviting. "I don't know who you a'e, but I don't want ya tawkin' 'bout me any moah. In fact, I ain't to keen on ya tawkin' to me eiddah, so watch yaself." She huffed, sending the Conlon glare at the new girl. Silver, Mush, and Hades seemed to be shocked at Spin's words. She had always been rude to newcomers, but never had she been so cold.
