***Yeah I know long between posts.. Sorry.. Hope you likes.***

Hitomi didn't leave Van's side and he wouldn't want it any other way. They mainly caught up on things that they have done. Hitomi's life was mainly about school and Van's was mainly about Fanelia's new look, "You can see it when we go back there." She smiled and nodded.

Dinner came and had gone swiftly but it was spent mainly talking about country issues sense the three most prosperous countries where in the same room. Hitomi just basked in the smell she still could smell over the food. It was Van's sent of the open fields. Soon dinner was over and slowly everyone had made their way to their rooms. Hitomi walked to her room with Van and they talked, laughed like old times.

"I'm down the hall if you need anything alright Hitomi?" Van continued down the hall but stopped and waited for her nod, as she dissapeared into her room. She wanted him to stay with her; just to talk. She almost left the room again to chase after him but didn't. Instead she blew out the three candles that lit up the room leaving her to the glow of the Mystic Moon that seeped through the slightly cracked curtains. Crawling into the fairly large guest bed sheslowly drifted to sleep.



~~~~Nightmare~~~~

Hitomi stood in darkness. No sound, site, or even smell. She embraced herself in fear as the tears had begun to well up. She started to mumble something and low toned but it gradually became louder, "Van.. Where are you." just then the ground shifted under her feet and she had begun to free fall.. To what? She didn't know. Where would it lead her, she also didn't know. Then seeing a light above her she outreached to it smiling, "Van!" The figure came closer and closer but then the figure came into view, it was Van. Yet just as he came into view, he stopped his decent to her and he once again, became too far out of reach, Hitomi watched in a mixture of shock and horror as she continued to fall, "Help me Van!"

~~~~Back in the room~~~~

She woke up again with a start but she did not scream. She clinged to the covers of her bed and looked out the window. The Mystic Moon was still fairly high in the sky; yet the slight hint of the new day was approaching. Hitomi left the darkness of the room and into the still fairly dark candle lit halls. It wasn't long before she found Van's room although she did not find it the first two times. The first room was Dutch Chid and the second was Merle's. She was pleased that she didn't wake them up yet she looked into Van's room and saw him sleeping; embers from the near fireplace illuminated the room slightly. Her dream could wait until he woke up. Yet she was too scared to leave and go back to her room to be alone.

So she walked into his room and silently closed the door behind her. Walking over to Van she thought he looked so handsome when he slept. She wanted to craw into his bed and feel his body. To feel safe like she always does yet she sat at the side of his bed close to his head. Curling into herself she drifted off back to sleep sitting upright.

***I now a cliffhanger and I am dragging but I have been having writers block. Wish me luck. TTFN***