All right, everyone here is the next chapter. Sorry it took so long for me to update. I was having writers block. We all have it. But anyway, on with the show.

Chapter ten

Alex walked through an abandoned field. The trees stood ablaze, while small remembrances lay charred and destroyed upon the ground. She knew her presence here was due to a reason of an unknown origin, but she still didn't know why.

Alone and confused she continued to wander amongst the field. Everything seemed so real. It couldn't have been, she was resently sleeping in the hotel bed. Yet her clothes stuck to her every limb from sweating profusely from the heat, while her face turned black from the soot. The smoke curled into tunnels before towering into the night sky, making it even more dark than it was.

Alex's steps were cut short when a series of screams erupted the still night. Even the fire stilled to listen. Footsteps thundered throughout the field. Using her hand to place above her brows, she tried to get a better look. Nothing appeared.

A few moments later, a herd of people came running from the woods. They screamed and ran like no tomorrow. Men helped carry the little children who couldn't run as fast. Once again Alex didn't know what was going on. She would've ran like the others, but what were they running from?Unfortunately her feet were stuck where they were. She wasn't meant to move.

The group got closer and yet no sign of danger. Then, marching from the woods came a band of soldiers. The one's so similar to the one's capturing them now. In front of the group, walked the leader. It didn't stand that tall, but an air of authority around it made it possible for one to get scared.

A strike from the shoulder sent Alex pummeling to the ground. The frightened people ran around her. Each giving her a saddened look before continuing on and not helping her.

Again she tried to get up. She could move her body, but her feet still stood where they were. Never moving. The group of soldiers neared and stopped feet from her presence. Alex kept her head bowed, not wanting to meet the men that had tortured her, by killing her parents and kidnapping her brother.

A pair of black vans stopped short, showing just below Alex's hanged head. Slowly her head rose to meet the owner of the vans. Exactly who of authority would wear vans? Alex had no idea.

Alex finally rose to look into the eyes of the stranger belonging to the shoes. What her eyes saw made her gasp.

"Hello Alex."

"Who are you?"whispered Alex. The person had been cloaked when she looked up. Her hood was pulled over her head, but her eyes and mouth were visible. Slowly a smile crept upon the strangers face. Raising her arms she began to remove her cloak. And again it made Alex gasp and fall to her knees.

Slowly the person bowed down to become eye level with Alex. With Alex's head bowed and hands gripping the grass the astranged person answered.

"Don't you know? I'm you."

Alex shot up from her bed. Her body was sweating profusely, just like in her dream, while her breathing came out in short sharp gasps that hurt her chest. The quilts lay in a crumbled heap upon the floor. She found that her body was shaking constantly, without break. Her dreams had waken Gambit.

"Alex, are you okay?!"Gambit shouted at Alex. He had been sleeping soundly when the sound of screaming woke him. He rose from his bed to find that Alex had thrashed so much in her bed, her blankets lay on the floor, and she continued to move side to side, trying to bloke out the events of her dream. Now, he sat on the bed watching Alex. He had shook her to wake her up, which seemed to work because she did, but now she sat silently staring out into the brillant light of night.

"No"whispered Alex, as she continued to stare."Yes". "No" repeated Alex. She shook her head trying to remove the voice in her head, her voice. "Yes, you did."

"Alex, what are you talking about?"questioned Gambit. Now, she was starting to scare him. Sure she wouldn't even talk to him a second ago, now she was talking to herself.

Alex didn't even seem fazed from Gambit's voice. She didn't even hear it."You know you did. You killed them." Alex sucked in a breath, while silent tears rolled down her cheeks. "No, I didn't. I'm human."

"You killed your parents." "No!" screamed Alex. She placed her hands over her ears. She began to mutter, "Get out of my head", over and over again. "And brother." Alex began to sob. She could never do that to her family.

"They didn't believe in your ideas. Humans aren't meant to rule! Do what they did to us." mocked the inner voice. "No" whispered Alex through gritted teeth.

"Choose your side. This one's better. Darker. More Alone. You know you like that." Again Alex continued to shake her head."I will never choose your side!" shouted Alex over the voice. And just as fast as it happened, the voice was gone.

"Alex, are you okay?!" shouted Gambit. He's hands were on her shoulders shaking her softly trying to get her come back. Alex didn't answer and instead rose from her bed.

"We have to go." answered Alex. She walked slowly, as if she were in a trance, towards the table. She began to roughly stuff her items inside her backpack. Her raging anger was taking hold of her, and she was taking it out on her backpack.

"Alex!Alex!" shouted Gambit over and over again. This constant yelling and noise was going to wake people, and frankly he wasn't helping either. "What's going on with you?"

"We need to go!" snapped Alex, as she turned to face Gambit. Normally this would've made Alex upset. He was just shouting her name to get her attention. Had he not heard what she had told him to do?

Gambit didn't answer her, but instead stared at her. Her punt-up anger slowly lessened and was being replaced with the sorrow she had been holding in for so long. Gambit crept forward and slowly wrapped his arms around her shoulders, hugging her tightly against his body.

"Shh, it's going to be okay chere." soothed Gambit. She continued to sob into his chest until her body became so weak she sank to her knees. Again Gambit held on to her, ever so often brushing a loose strand of her hair away from her face while rubbing her back.

This went on for a numerous amount of time, before Alex became exhausted and fell asleep in Gambit's arms. Slowly Gambit stood up with the sleeping Alex in his arms. He walked over to his bed, thinking maybe Alex wouldn't want to sleep in her own bed again. Placing her on the bed, he slowly lay down beside and wrapped his his arm around her, while he pulled the blanket up with his other.

The two sleeped soundly for a few more hours. Alex occasionally moving closer to the warmth of Gambit's body, causing him to smirk which Alex didn't even see with her head buried in his chest.

They were finally able to wake up late in the morning to get ready to leave. It ended up being an interesting morning, what with Gambit getting frustrated looking for something he had dropped sometime yesterday while Alex questioned him about his cajun accent. He had explained that he had spent the last two years prefecting his english because it started to annoy someone he wouldn't mention, but eventually when he got frustrated he would ramble on and on in his accent. At this moment he was mumbling something Alex guessed to be swearing in his foreign tongue. She thought it was quite funny.

Over an hour later when Gambit finally found his lost obsession they set out on their trip once agian. Little did Alex know that Gambit had a little something up his sleeve, suspicously the thing he had lost this morning. Something that would make this journey easier.

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