Author Notes: DREAM SEQUENCES!!! YAY!

Chapter 17 - Restless Slumber

(DANI)

Wow, he really looked like he was in bad shape. One eye patched up, his left arm in a sling, in a back brace. He looked like he coulda used a hug, but then again it would hurt him too much physically. Anyways, it took us about 45 minutes to get home from the hospital. Holly dropped us all off at NERV headquarters so we could all pick up our cars from the parking lot.

When we got into the parking lot, I noticed that Christian's car was missing. Oh shit, someone forgot to go get his car!!! I went up to Holly in the lot, "Hey, someone needs to go and get Christian's car!"

"I'll go and get it." Danny said.

"Geez, I can't believe we forgot." Holly said. "I'll drive you over Danny, and you can drive it back. Just make sure not to crash it!"

"Duh, I'm not THAT BAD of a driver!" Danny said scornfully.

"Knowing you, just that would happen!" Bri laughed out. I decided not to rant on Danny, so I just headed inside. I went and grabbed a soda-pop out of the refrigerator and went to lie down on the couch. I really felt bad for Christian. In that hospital room, all alone, unable to really move due to the back brace. He probably felt all alone in there. Well, he'll be back home tomorrow, and I'll get to see him in the afternoon!

After a while, my skin tight uniform started to feel very uncomfortable, so I decided to go and change. I got my Harley-Davidson sweatshirt and my Pink PJ Pants, and didn't even bother wearing a bra. So I went to go sit back on the couch, and Bri and had already taken it!

"Hey! Get off my couch!" I yelled at them.

"Make me!" Bri said. I knew I wouldn't be able to, since Bri can kick my ass. I just decided to lay down in the gigantic green chair with ottoman. It was so big, it could fit 3 of me on it comfortably! And it was comfy too!

On the television was the news...again. It was about the accident today with Christian. Apparently, the news loves to trash on NERV, on both Earth and Meyo.

"That's too bad, NERV always being in the spot." Bri said. Just then Holly and Danny walked through the door, laughing about something.

"You guys have a good time, I take it." I said.

"Yeah, guess you could say that." Danny said. I was disgusted at them for laughing at a time like this.

Just then I heard the reporter on television say, "On further note, NERV put an inexperienced pilot by the name of Christian Witzel against the powerful angel, a poor move by NERV. A kid new to the planet, he is said to be very mentally disturbed, and many people question why he was allowed to even go near an Eva."

"WHAT THE HELL!" I screamed out at the top of my lungs. "THAT'S ALL A LIE!!! IT'S ALL LIES I TELL YOU!" I threw something at the TV, nothing that could break it though.

"That's how news is." Holly said. "It always tends to show the negative side of people, not the positive.

"This is bullshit." I said, and left the room. I went into my room and screamed into my pillow for who knows how long. Before I knew it I was asleep. I had the strangest dreams though, and they were about Christian...

We were out on a walk in the middle of summer, just the two of us. We mustn't have been more than a few blocks from NERV headquarters. We started talking about relationships. I started to say something along the lines of, "I really like you, Christian." But before I could get the words out, I heard a shot ring out of a gun. Christian had been hit through and through in the back. He was still up though, looking at the exit wound. He screamed in pain, and fell to the ground, looking straight up to the sky saying, "Why now God? Don't let me die now, here."

The second one was different. We were back in the training room, and Christian was out in training. It was the first day still, and Sachiel had just arrived. Christian began to fight the monster like he had been extremely experienced with handling Eva's, but he still lost. He wasn't just impaled through the eye, but his Eva was trashed. We went back down like we did today and found him in the capsule, but he was in much worse shape. He was taken to the hospital, and he...well, he didn't...he didn't make it.

The last dream was of him and me in the living room. We were talking away, like we usually would whenever we just hang out. It was good fun, just chatting away like nobody's business. We talked about just about anything you could think of, from music to past lovers. I probably felt the best in that dream, like time just stopped, and we were in that moment forever. Well, like the other dreams, this one ended bad. He just fell down on top of me, not breathing...dead in my arms. Then, I woke up.

The clock read 0700 hours, but the sun was still up. Huh? Something was wrong. Was I still dreaming?

"Dani, wake up!" Holly said. "You have to be at NERV in an hour to start training."

"Huh? What?" I said. I was extremely confused.

"You slept from about 1400 hours yesterday to right now." Holly said. "Now get up and in uniform, you guys have to get there a little early today."

"Alright." I said. So I dragged myself out of bed and got dressed. I looked down on my bed to find my pillow full of tears. It was strange. Was I crying all throughout those dreams? Who knows.

We go to NERV and went through our training. I was the first in an Eva today. It was really quite cool! I took to it like a duck to water, even though my sync rates weren't as high as Christian's. We all did fairly well. Now I get to go home and see Christian!!!