The man took a step towards a very nervous Fiona. She had no idea how he
had managed to get into the room when she was positive that she had locked
the door when Moonbay had left. "W-who are y-you?" stuttered Fiona out of
nervousness.
"I finally found you," said the man ignoring her previous question. "Please don't be afraid of me," said the man as he stopped when he saw how scared Fiona was. "I am not going to hurt you. Even if I wanted to, I couldn't," said the man with a sad look on his face.
That really confused Fiona but she wanted to find out who this man was. "Who are you? Why are you here? How did you get in here?" asked Fiona looking at the door to see that it hadn't been forced open. In fact, it didn't even look like it had been opened since Moonbay left. Fiona still had no idea why she couldn't scream out for help. It was like something inside of her was keeping her from screaming out.
"I realize that you are scared of me, but we have met before, even if you don't remember it happening," said the man as he took as few more steps so that he was right in front of Fiona. She was currently backed against a wall. "Please, I need your help," said the man quietly as he took a step away from Fiona to give her some space.
Something inside of Fiona told her that she could trust this man although she had no idea why. "Who are you?" Fiona repeated the question that she had asked a few times already.
"My name is Van Flyheight," said the man as he turned around and walked towards the window once again where he looked down onto the streets below with a sad face. He figured that she wouldn't believe him but he knew of a way to get her to believe him if it came to that.
"Van Flyheight? The traitor? That is impossible he has been dead for many years now. So there is no possible way that you can be him," said Fiona with the dread coming back because she was thinking that she was talking to a crazy man.
"Dead, yes. Traitor, no," said Van as he turned back to see that Fiona. He saw the confused look on her face as well as a look that said that she thought he was crazy. He took a few steps before he was right in front of her. "Maybe this will help prove what I mean," said Van as he put a hand up towards her face.
Fiona waited for the contact to come but it never did come. Instead, what she saw frightened her. Instead of it touching her skin, it went straight through her face. "W-what are you?" asked Fiona as she moved away from him.
"I am nothing but a ghost that is forced to stay on this planet without being able to move on. It has been like this ever since I died a death that I did not deserve," said Van with another look of sadness crossed his face.
"You were a traitor. So you must have deserved the death that you got," said Fiona finding a little bit of bravery. She couldn't help but get a strange feeling that that was the wrong thing to say.
"You have no idea on what you are talking about. You have no idea what it was like for me to die by the hands of someone that I once thought was a friend. Not only me but the woman I loved more than life itself. I died for becoming happy basically. My own friend framed me. The strange thing is that I can't even remember who it was, only that it was a friend," said Van as he turned around in anger. "That is why I need your help. I think that your memories might help me to remember my past as well," he spoke quietly.
"What makes you think that I may be able to help you? I wasn't alive back then. So I have no idea about what happened back then except for all that has been told in the history books about you," said Fiona not knowing of any way that she could help him.
"You are wrong. You were alive back then. Just not the way that you are now. You were once Fiona Alisi Lynette. You were once, my wife. Now I think it is time that you remember," said Van as he pointed a finger towards her forehead. A small light appeared, as his finger seemed to go right through her forehead into her brain.
Almost as soon as he had done this, it was over. Fiona felt weak and ended up falling down to her knees on the ground. "What did you do to me?" asked Fiona as she tried to stand up onto her feet only to fall back down to the ground.
"I tried to make you remember by basically restarting you brain to remember all that had happened in your past life. You will be weak for a while but eventually all of your memories should return to you. Please don't be scared of it. It will probably help you eventually," said Van as he once again turned around to walk towards the window.
"What if I don't want it? What if I don't want to remember?" Fiona yelled at him as she stood up. This time however she actually managed to get onto her feet. "You are just like Moonbay. You two keep trying to throw me into things that I don't want to be in. My life was just fine until you suddenly showed up," yelled Fiona as she leaned against a wall.
"I am doing this to help you Fiona. It is not over yet. He is still around here somewhere. I can feel his presence at all time," said Van in a sad tone. "I lost you once and if he is still around then I don't want to take a chance of losing you again. I have been forced to endure losing you once ever since I died," said Van as he sat down in a chair.
"I-I have to go," said Fiona as she quickly grabbed her coat and ran out of the apartment as quickly as she could while leaving Van behind. She ran down the halls to get away as fast as possible this was far too much for her to take at that moment. Plus that and she had a date to go to.
Van just remained there to his thought. 'Please Fiona. You need to help me or else the past will more than likely repeat itself. I will not allow that to happen again,' thought Van with his face in his hands.
*****
Fiona was now in a hurry. Her little run-in with Van caused her to be late for her blind date. She knew that she didn't want to do this but she had already agreed and when it comes to Moonbay, a person had better keep to their promises.
"Why do I have to have very strange days like these?"' Fiona asked herself as she ran into the restaurant that she was supposed to go to according to Moonbay. She took a quick look around before she realized that she had no idea what this guy looked like. 'I really should have asked Moonbay more about this person.
A slight tap on Fiona's shoulder made her jump slightly. She turned around to see a man with sandy blonde hair standing there. "Are you Fiona?" asked the man with a smile in his face. When he saw Fiona nod her head he brought out a pink flower and held it out to Fiona. She just seemed to stare at it for a while. "Oh, I am sorry. You are friends with Moonbay aren't you? I am the person that she set you up with. My name is Thomas," said the man with a smile on his face.
"Oh hello Thomas. It is nice to meet you," said Fiona putting a forced smile on her face. There was something about this person that she didn't trust. A gut feeling like she shouldn't be there at that moment.
"Well. Why don't we go sit down and get started with eating then? I am starving," said Thomas as he took Fiona's hand and led her to a table that was waiting for the two of them.
*****
"You know what? You remind me of my ex-girlfriend. The two of you look a lot alike and you have the same personality," said Thomas as he merely played with his food as he stared at Fiona.
"Really? What happened between the two of you?" asked Fiona as she took a bite out of her food. To tell the truth she really wasn't all that interested in all that he was saying but she felt that she should be kind to him.
"We would have been happy together but she ran off with someone that I thought was a friend. She betrayed me to go for someone that I am better than in every way," said Thomas with clenched fists.
'Sounds like Van in being betrayed by someone that he thought was a friend,' thought Fiona with a small yawn that Thomas didn't see. 'Wait a minute. Why exactly am I thinking of him?' Fiona asked herself with a sigh.
Suddenly a large headache started to form within Fiona head. Her eyes clenched shut as the pain started to overtake her. She saw something while this was happening though. She saw herself with Van. She looked different though, she seemed a little happier though than she normally was with her boring life. More scenes flashed inside of her head. She saw more pictures of her and Van. Then there were pictures of her and more of her friends such as Moonbay and Irvine. That confused her as to why they were in these pictures.
The pain stopped soon and Fiona looked around to see Thomas starring at her with worry in his eyes. "Are you feeling alright Fiona?" asked Thomas as he looked at her with worry.
"Maybe I should go. I don't think that I am feeling too good right now," said Fiona as she stood up. To tell the truth she was feeling fine but she needed to ask Van something and Thomas was actually boring her a little. Plus that and she still had a bit of a headache left from what happened a moment before.
"Well I can take you back to your place if you want," said Thomas as he stood up from the table as well. He just saw her shake her head though. "If you say so. Then I hope that I will see you again," said Thomas with a smile before Fiona just walked towards the door.
Fiona walked down the streets towards her apartment. She had memories of things that she knew never happened to her before and she was beginning to wonder if maybe Van might have actually have been telling the truth to her. All that was happening to her was very confusing but Fiona knew that she needed to have answers. 'Good thing that my apartment was close to the restaurant,' thought Fiona with a frown.
She reached her apartment quickly and then she ran up to her room. Walking in she found that Van was still there in the same position that he had been in when she had left the apartment.
Van looked up when he heard the door to the apartment open up. He saw Fiona walk into the room with a rather disturbed look on her face. He figured that he knew what had happened to her.
"What exactly happened to me?" asked Fiona looking at Van with a calm look on her face. "Why is it that I had this sudden headache and then suddenly I have these strange images in my head?" asked Fiona still calmly.
"They are your memories from your past life. They will slowly surface in your mind over the next few weeks. It may be a little painful in the beginning but eventually you will get used to them. They may seem like images to you right now but when everything has been restored then they won't be just images but true memories, natural ones. When that happens, then you will be the Fiona that I knew back when I was alive," said Van with a small smile. "You had better not make any plans for the next few weeks because the memories can come quickly, slowly, or even both. There is no telling when they will show up," said Van calmly.
"I see. Can I ask you a question?" asked Fiona as she looked at Van. "What exactly happened back then, and why is it that with some of the images that I have there are some areas that are kind of fuzzy?" asked Fiona in confusion.
"Just wait until all of your memories are back and then everything will become clear. I am sorry for bringing this onto you so suddenly but it is the only thing that I can really do to protect you and maybe clear our names while I am at it," said Van quietly. "I am going to go. Why don't you rest for right now? It will make some of what will happen to you much easier on you," said Van with a small smile.
"Ok. I guess that that might help me a little especially with these headaches," said Fiona as she walked to her room. She turned around to ask Van a question only to see that he was already gone. Shrugging it off she walked into her room to get some sleep.
*****
The next morning Fiona was woken up by the sound of the phone ringing. She groggily got out of her bed. She had finally managed to get decent amount of sleep that night without her nightmares only to be woken up by the phone at seven in the morning. Fiona reached for the phone and picked it up very sleepily. "Hello," Fiona mumbled into the phone.
"Hey Fiona," came Moonbay's voice. "I wanted to call and talk to you about the date last night," said Moonbay in a voice that sounded as tired as Fiona's. This makes Fiona wonder why Moonbay would call early in the morning when she was just as tired as Fiona.
"Yeah, about that Moonbay. I don't think that I want to go out with him again. No offense but he is kind of boring," Fiona managed to mumble into the phone. Fiona got out of her bed to go into the kitchen to get a drink of water.
"What do you mean by again? You never even went out with him in the first place," stated Moonbay in a slightly louder voice that Fiona wasn't really up to this early in the morning.
"Ok run that by me again. What do you mean by I wasn't even there?" asked Fiona confused because she was there and had a very lousy night because of it. She was curious as to what Moonbay meant.
"Exactly what I said. He said that he went to the restaurant but you never turned up there. He waited for a while but you still didn't show up," said Moonbay in a tone that said that she wanted an explanation.
"I don't know what you are talking about. I did go there and go on that date you set me up with," said Fiona a very confused tone. 'I was there so why was it that Moonbay said that I wasn't there? What is going on?' Fiona asked herself.
Suddenly Van just seemed to show up out of nowhere scaring Fiona a little although she didn't make a sound. He looked at her with questioning eyes but she just looked the other way.
"No you weren't. He is not someone that would really lie. One of you has to be lying," said Moonbay in an accusing tone but Fiona knew that it wasn't only towards her but the other person as well. "I will call you back," said Moonbay before she hung up the phone.
Fiona put down the phone with a confused look on her face as far as Van saw. "What was that about?" asked Van looking at her with the same questioning eyes that he had on while Fiona was on the phone.
"Moonbay set me up on a date yesterday and I went to it but now she is saying that I never turned up for it according to the person that she set me up with," said Fiona in a confused voice. She looked towards Van wondering if he might have some sort of explanation, but she highly doubted it since he didn't even know Moonbay or the person she was set up with.
"Who was this person? Maybe you can go talk to him to get his explanation on why he said what he did," said Van, as he was curious as to what was going on. He may not have liked that Fiona had gone out with someone else but he wanted to know what was going on.
Fiona seemed to think it over for a little while before she answered but it was a shocked answer. "I-I don't remember who it was. I don't remember any of it for some reason. The only thing I remember is not having a good time on it," said Fiona in a shocked tone.
"I finally found you," said the man ignoring her previous question. "Please don't be afraid of me," said the man as he stopped when he saw how scared Fiona was. "I am not going to hurt you. Even if I wanted to, I couldn't," said the man with a sad look on his face.
That really confused Fiona but she wanted to find out who this man was. "Who are you? Why are you here? How did you get in here?" asked Fiona looking at the door to see that it hadn't been forced open. In fact, it didn't even look like it had been opened since Moonbay left. Fiona still had no idea why she couldn't scream out for help. It was like something inside of her was keeping her from screaming out.
"I realize that you are scared of me, but we have met before, even if you don't remember it happening," said the man as he took as few more steps so that he was right in front of Fiona. She was currently backed against a wall. "Please, I need your help," said the man quietly as he took a step away from Fiona to give her some space.
Something inside of Fiona told her that she could trust this man although she had no idea why. "Who are you?" Fiona repeated the question that she had asked a few times already.
"My name is Van Flyheight," said the man as he turned around and walked towards the window once again where he looked down onto the streets below with a sad face. He figured that she wouldn't believe him but he knew of a way to get her to believe him if it came to that.
"Van Flyheight? The traitor? That is impossible he has been dead for many years now. So there is no possible way that you can be him," said Fiona with the dread coming back because she was thinking that she was talking to a crazy man.
"Dead, yes. Traitor, no," said Van as he turned back to see that Fiona. He saw the confused look on her face as well as a look that said that she thought he was crazy. He took a few steps before he was right in front of her. "Maybe this will help prove what I mean," said Van as he put a hand up towards her face.
Fiona waited for the contact to come but it never did come. Instead, what she saw frightened her. Instead of it touching her skin, it went straight through her face. "W-what are you?" asked Fiona as she moved away from him.
"I am nothing but a ghost that is forced to stay on this planet without being able to move on. It has been like this ever since I died a death that I did not deserve," said Van with another look of sadness crossed his face.
"You were a traitor. So you must have deserved the death that you got," said Fiona finding a little bit of bravery. She couldn't help but get a strange feeling that that was the wrong thing to say.
"You have no idea on what you are talking about. You have no idea what it was like for me to die by the hands of someone that I once thought was a friend. Not only me but the woman I loved more than life itself. I died for becoming happy basically. My own friend framed me. The strange thing is that I can't even remember who it was, only that it was a friend," said Van as he turned around in anger. "That is why I need your help. I think that your memories might help me to remember my past as well," he spoke quietly.
"What makes you think that I may be able to help you? I wasn't alive back then. So I have no idea about what happened back then except for all that has been told in the history books about you," said Fiona not knowing of any way that she could help him.
"You are wrong. You were alive back then. Just not the way that you are now. You were once Fiona Alisi Lynette. You were once, my wife. Now I think it is time that you remember," said Van as he pointed a finger towards her forehead. A small light appeared, as his finger seemed to go right through her forehead into her brain.
Almost as soon as he had done this, it was over. Fiona felt weak and ended up falling down to her knees on the ground. "What did you do to me?" asked Fiona as she tried to stand up onto her feet only to fall back down to the ground.
"I tried to make you remember by basically restarting you brain to remember all that had happened in your past life. You will be weak for a while but eventually all of your memories should return to you. Please don't be scared of it. It will probably help you eventually," said Van as he once again turned around to walk towards the window.
"What if I don't want it? What if I don't want to remember?" Fiona yelled at him as she stood up. This time however she actually managed to get onto her feet. "You are just like Moonbay. You two keep trying to throw me into things that I don't want to be in. My life was just fine until you suddenly showed up," yelled Fiona as she leaned against a wall.
"I am doing this to help you Fiona. It is not over yet. He is still around here somewhere. I can feel his presence at all time," said Van in a sad tone. "I lost you once and if he is still around then I don't want to take a chance of losing you again. I have been forced to endure losing you once ever since I died," said Van as he sat down in a chair.
"I-I have to go," said Fiona as she quickly grabbed her coat and ran out of the apartment as quickly as she could while leaving Van behind. She ran down the halls to get away as fast as possible this was far too much for her to take at that moment. Plus that and she had a date to go to.
Van just remained there to his thought. 'Please Fiona. You need to help me or else the past will more than likely repeat itself. I will not allow that to happen again,' thought Van with his face in his hands.
*****
Fiona was now in a hurry. Her little run-in with Van caused her to be late for her blind date. She knew that she didn't want to do this but she had already agreed and when it comes to Moonbay, a person had better keep to their promises.
"Why do I have to have very strange days like these?"' Fiona asked herself as she ran into the restaurant that she was supposed to go to according to Moonbay. She took a quick look around before she realized that she had no idea what this guy looked like. 'I really should have asked Moonbay more about this person.
A slight tap on Fiona's shoulder made her jump slightly. She turned around to see a man with sandy blonde hair standing there. "Are you Fiona?" asked the man with a smile in his face. When he saw Fiona nod her head he brought out a pink flower and held it out to Fiona. She just seemed to stare at it for a while. "Oh, I am sorry. You are friends with Moonbay aren't you? I am the person that she set you up with. My name is Thomas," said the man with a smile on his face.
"Oh hello Thomas. It is nice to meet you," said Fiona putting a forced smile on her face. There was something about this person that she didn't trust. A gut feeling like she shouldn't be there at that moment.
"Well. Why don't we go sit down and get started with eating then? I am starving," said Thomas as he took Fiona's hand and led her to a table that was waiting for the two of them.
*****
"You know what? You remind me of my ex-girlfriend. The two of you look a lot alike and you have the same personality," said Thomas as he merely played with his food as he stared at Fiona.
"Really? What happened between the two of you?" asked Fiona as she took a bite out of her food. To tell the truth she really wasn't all that interested in all that he was saying but she felt that she should be kind to him.
"We would have been happy together but she ran off with someone that I thought was a friend. She betrayed me to go for someone that I am better than in every way," said Thomas with clenched fists.
'Sounds like Van in being betrayed by someone that he thought was a friend,' thought Fiona with a small yawn that Thomas didn't see. 'Wait a minute. Why exactly am I thinking of him?' Fiona asked herself with a sigh.
Suddenly a large headache started to form within Fiona head. Her eyes clenched shut as the pain started to overtake her. She saw something while this was happening though. She saw herself with Van. She looked different though, she seemed a little happier though than she normally was with her boring life. More scenes flashed inside of her head. She saw more pictures of her and Van. Then there were pictures of her and more of her friends such as Moonbay and Irvine. That confused her as to why they were in these pictures.
The pain stopped soon and Fiona looked around to see Thomas starring at her with worry in his eyes. "Are you feeling alright Fiona?" asked Thomas as he looked at her with worry.
"Maybe I should go. I don't think that I am feeling too good right now," said Fiona as she stood up. To tell the truth she was feeling fine but she needed to ask Van something and Thomas was actually boring her a little. Plus that and she still had a bit of a headache left from what happened a moment before.
"Well I can take you back to your place if you want," said Thomas as he stood up from the table as well. He just saw her shake her head though. "If you say so. Then I hope that I will see you again," said Thomas with a smile before Fiona just walked towards the door.
Fiona walked down the streets towards her apartment. She had memories of things that she knew never happened to her before and she was beginning to wonder if maybe Van might have actually have been telling the truth to her. All that was happening to her was very confusing but Fiona knew that she needed to have answers. 'Good thing that my apartment was close to the restaurant,' thought Fiona with a frown.
She reached her apartment quickly and then she ran up to her room. Walking in she found that Van was still there in the same position that he had been in when she had left the apartment.
Van looked up when he heard the door to the apartment open up. He saw Fiona walk into the room with a rather disturbed look on her face. He figured that he knew what had happened to her.
"What exactly happened to me?" asked Fiona looking at Van with a calm look on her face. "Why is it that I had this sudden headache and then suddenly I have these strange images in my head?" asked Fiona still calmly.
"They are your memories from your past life. They will slowly surface in your mind over the next few weeks. It may be a little painful in the beginning but eventually you will get used to them. They may seem like images to you right now but when everything has been restored then they won't be just images but true memories, natural ones. When that happens, then you will be the Fiona that I knew back when I was alive," said Van with a small smile. "You had better not make any plans for the next few weeks because the memories can come quickly, slowly, or even both. There is no telling when they will show up," said Van calmly.
"I see. Can I ask you a question?" asked Fiona as she looked at Van. "What exactly happened back then, and why is it that with some of the images that I have there are some areas that are kind of fuzzy?" asked Fiona in confusion.
"Just wait until all of your memories are back and then everything will become clear. I am sorry for bringing this onto you so suddenly but it is the only thing that I can really do to protect you and maybe clear our names while I am at it," said Van quietly. "I am going to go. Why don't you rest for right now? It will make some of what will happen to you much easier on you," said Van with a small smile.
"Ok. I guess that that might help me a little especially with these headaches," said Fiona as she walked to her room. She turned around to ask Van a question only to see that he was already gone. Shrugging it off she walked into her room to get some sleep.
*****
The next morning Fiona was woken up by the sound of the phone ringing. She groggily got out of her bed. She had finally managed to get decent amount of sleep that night without her nightmares only to be woken up by the phone at seven in the morning. Fiona reached for the phone and picked it up very sleepily. "Hello," Fiona mumbled into the phone.
"Hey Fiona," came Moonbay's voice. "I wanted to call and talk to you about the date last night," said Moonbay in a voice that sounded as tired as Fiona's. This makes Fiona wonder why Moonbay would call early in the morning when she was just as tired as Fiona.
"Yeah, about that Moonbay. I don't think that I want to go out with him again. No offense but he is kind of boring," Fiona managed to mumble into the phone. Fiona got out of her bed to go into the kitchen to get a drink of water.
"What do you mean by again? You never even went out with him in the first place," stated Moonbay in a slightly louder voice that Fiona wasn't really up to this early in the morning.
"Ok run that by me again. What do you mean by I wasn't even there?" asked Fiona confused because she was there and had a very lousy night because of it. She was curious as to what Moonbay meant.
"Exactly what I said. He said that he went to the restaurant but you never turned up there. He waited for a while but you still didn't show up," said Moonbay in a tone that said that she wanted an explanation.
"I don't know what you are talking about. I did go there and go on that date you set me up with," said Fiona a very confused tone. 'I was there so why was it that Moonbay said that I wasn't there? What is going on?' Fiona asked herself.
Suddenly Van just seemed to show up out of nowhere scaring Fiona a little although she didn't make a sound. He looked at her with questioning eyes but she just looked the other way.
"No you weren't. He is not someone that would really lie. One of you has to be lying," said Moonbay in an accusing tone but Fiona knew that it wasn't only towards her but the other person as well. "I will call you back," said Moonbay before she hung up the phone.
Fiona put down the phone with a confused look on her face as far as Van saw. "What was that about?" asked Van looking at her with the same questioning eyes that he had on while Fiona was on the phone.
"Moonbay set me up on a date yesterday and I went to it but now she is saying that I never turned up for it according to the person that she set me up with," said Fiona in a confused voice. She looked towards Van wondering if he might have some sort of explanation, but she highly doubted it since he didn't even know Moonbay or the person she was set up with.
"Who was this person? Maybe you can go talk to him to get his explanation on why he said what he did," said Van, as he was curious as to what was going on. He may not have liked that Fiona had gone out with someone else but he wanted to know what was going on.
Fiona seemed to think it over for a little while before she answered but it was a shocked answer. "I-I don't remember who it was. I don't remember any of it for some reason. The only thing I remember is not having a good time on it," said Fiona in a shocked tone.