Whoopsies! Heh, I kinda forgot you guys don't have the same knowledge about this story that I do. Steph kindly pointed out to me that there's no logical connection between chapters 10 and 11, so I'm posting 12 right now, because it holds the link between the two, trust me ^_^. Sorry if any of you were confused out of your minds!
12. No Longer Safe~
Kinou awoke with tears running down her face, her throat so tight she could barely breathe. Her whole body ached; it felt bruised from all of the hits she had endured wile trying to struggle against Yami Marik's force. All was quiet and dark in her room; she could only see things about a foot away from her face. At the slightest noise, she would draw the covers over her head. She could not go to sleep anymore, not with dreams that became increasingly vivid and painful. It was only a dream, but everything felt so real, especially the…… She couldn't bring herself to think it, it was too horrible to think about. She felt unclean, no matter how hard she tried to tell herself it was just a dream.
Just the feeling, God damnit; I hate it! I've never had a dream like that… I could feel everything. There's no way my mind could have done that. What if I check everything just to prove it didn't really happen? That's a good start… don't know how the hell it will help, though.
She sat up, still clutching her blankets to her chest, wrapped around her, and winced: the area between her legs was extremely sore. Ok, don't panic, you probably just strained something when you were running away from that hallway earlier. Ok, now what do I check? I don't think anything changed in that dream. I need to talk to someone…badly… and Emily won't help at all this time; she only can help when I need to bitch about someone I hate. Wait! Lonu! She told me to come to her if I needed to talk; oh thank God.
Kinou stood up and pulled her pants on over her shorts; only then did she let the blankets fall off of her shoulders. She shivered: the sweat on her body was evaporating quickly in the cold night air, so she felt around on the floor for the shawl. When she had found it, she grabbed Emily from her pillow and started towards her door, wrapping it around her shoulders tightly. About halfway to the door, she stepped on something sharp and gasped in pain, hopping off of it. She couldn't see what it was, so she got down on her knees and felt around on the floor until her hand reached it and she held it up to see it better. It was the butterfly that Kaiba had placed in her hair—and it was smashed to bits. Kinou reached up and frantically felt around her ponytail for it, hoping that it wasn't the same one that Yami Marik had broken in her dream. When she could not find any trace of the butterfly in her hair, she dropped the broken one and dashed out of her room.
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There! It was a dream! Or was it? *evil chuckle* You'll just have to keep reading to find out!!!!