RNW: hey everyone! This story is a pretty good one, at least I think so. It's Co-authored with my Best Friend, XME.

Note: This is a Hotstreak Basher... Even though that kills me inside, since I LOVE Hotstreak... Anyway! On with the show!... err... Story!

Disclaimer:We don't own Static Shock.

Unpeaceful Dreamers

Chapter One: The Crash


Jade Tailor sat in front passenger side of her mother's Jeep, her feet propped up against the dash board, while the her body was twisted around, so she could talk to her best friend, Ayanna, who was sitting directly behind her in the back seat.

Ayanna was leaning forward, and listened intently to Jade's current rant… Which was about Hotstreak from her current favorite show, Static Shock.

"Everyone thinks he's just a bully! But he has a soft side too! You should have seen the look on his face when he told Static about when he was little, and had lived in the hospital for TWO YEARS! It was so sad!" Jade exclaimed, loudly, gesturing wildly with her hands, "He was sssooo adorable looking! Like a little kid that fell and got cut, and you just want to hug them and make it better, but you can't!"

Ayanna smiled back at her. Jade was just TOO cute, especially at the moment, talking about her crushes, and holding a plushy of another. "I'm sure he was, Jay-san. You'll have to record that episode the next time it's on and let me see for myself, ne?"

Before Jade could respond, the car jolted, slamming their heads together. Jade clutched at the back of her seat, and Ayanna braced herself between the back of Jade's seat and the wall, as the car began to swerve out of control.

"Mom!" Jade shouted. She caught a glimpse of her mother passed out against the steering wheel, before the side of the car slammed into the hill beside them. The wall of the car crashed inwards, hitting both sixteen year olds.

The car slid to a stop, after pulling away from the hill…

Jade opened her eyes, which had shut as she braced herself for impact. Having been knocked in the head, she couldn't remember what had just happened, her mind was swimming, and all she could hear at the moment was the ringing in her ears, and the thoughts running through her head, were on what she had been talking about with Ayanna.

"Are you okay?" She heard a voice whisper. She quickly pinpointed it as Ayanna, who was clutching her head. Jade guessed that she had been knocked on the head as well.

Jade nodded her head, and pulled herself away from the car's wall, and looked over at Ayanna, making sure she was okay. Then, Jade remembered her mother. Looking over, her mother was still out. "Mom…"

Jade crawled through the wrecked vehicle, and over to her mother, she shook her mother, and found that she just wouldn't wake up. Panic attacked her, and she froze, thinking of what she should do.

She heard a quiet beeping sound, and turned to look for the source. Ayanna was holding Jade's mother's cell phone, dialing a number. She held it up to her ear, and waited for a moment. "Hello? 911? We were in a car crash… The driver's unconscious and we can't get her to wake up." Ayanna said into the phone.

Jade didn't want to shake her mother, for fear of hurting her more, but the overwhelming urge to do so was slowly getting to her. "Mom, please wake up! Mommy- please!" She said, tears streaming down her face, as she rested her hands on her mother's back.

The woman was pale, and had blood coming from a cut on her forehead…. Jade's entire body shook uncontrollably, as she sobbed.

She wasn't breathing, her mother wasn't breathing! But she couldn't move her! What if something happened, and she made it worse? They had saved her father once, right? They could do the same for her mother. "Please…. Wake up mommy…" Jade whimpered, covering her face with her hands, in an attempt to hide her tears.

Ayanna informed the 911 operator of their location, and hung up the phone. Jade could just barely hear theblonde girl through the ringing in her ears, and the pounding in her head.

Ayanna leaned forward and wrapped her arms around Jade. "I'm sure she'll be fine…" She comforted, leaning her head on Jade's shoulder. "An ambulance will be here soon, and they'll make sure she's okay."

Jade turned into Ayanna's arms, and wrapped her arms around the other girls neck, not quite thinking of how awkward this would look, but rather just of the comfort that Ayanna's warmth was giving her…

By the time the ambulance got there, Jade had calmed down, and was no longer hanging onto Ayanna like she would die if she let go.

The paramedics got her mother out of the car first, and then helped Ayanna and Jade out. While the ambulance rushed to the hospital, the two girls were checked, and the strangely, the worst they had were a couple bruises, and Jade had a couple of ribs bruised, and a long cut on her right arm.

At the hospital, while Jade's mother was taken to the hospital room, Jade got her arm bandaged, and Ayanna called her own mother to let her know what happened…

It turned out that Jade's mother's sugar had crashed, and she had passed out before the girls could notice it…. Though both Jade and Ayanna made through almost unscarred, Mrs. Tailor, Jade's mother, had not made it through the crash….

After the funeral, things were pretty quiet in the Tailor household. Jade spent her time in her room, or at Ayanna's house, while her father got caught up in his work.

With her father working so hard, it didn't come as a surprise when Mr. Tailor got a raise. He, of course, accepted. There was a down point to the job, though- Mr. Tailor would have to move to Dakota City. He was reluctant to drag Jade away from her friends and most of her family, but they needed the money, and he couldn't leave her in Pennsylvania without anyone to take care of her.

Naturally, Jade put up a fight. First, there was the hunger strike, which lasted about three hours, then there was barricading herself in her room, which didn't work cause she had to use the bathroom… Finally, she got down on her knees, and begged. "PLEASE! I can live with Ayanna!"

"Do you really want to live with the Corrins?" He asked, not looking up from his paper work.

Jade paused, as much as she loved the Corrin family, she'd have to kill Charlie and Rachel, and Emma would drive her insane… and Jason creeped her out… "What about Mom-mom? Or Uncle Ray?"

"No." Came a stern reply.

"Why not!" Jade shouted, losing the temper that she normally had complete control of.

"Jade, I have to work, and you need to pack." He stated, ignoring her question.

Jade glared at him, and headed to the stairs. At the foot of the steps, she turned around and said, "I'm never speaking to you again!" with that, she stooped up the stairs, down the hall, into her room, and slammed the door; before turning on the loudest CD she could find, and letting it blast, while she put her head phones on with a different CD.

Jade didn't speak to her father throughout the time of packing, and she avoided him at all costs. But that was easy compared to what she was going to have to do now. She was leaving tomorrow, and she had yet to get the guts up to tell Ayanna.

She knew that Ayanna would probably cry when she told her. After all, Ayanna sometimes cried when Jade left for just a few days, as she tended to suffer from 'homesickness', as she put it. Ayanna had told her more than once that she would probably commit suicide if she went away for good… Obviously, Jade's nervousness was well based on fact.

Jade paced on the front porch of Ayanna's house, while she waited for her friend to come out. 'How am I supposed to put this?' She thought to herself, "I can't very well just say, 'Hey Neko-chan! How are you today? Good? Great… Guess what! I'm moving to Dakota City half way across the country!'" Jade tried, she shook her head, "No…. that wouldn't work…" She stated to herself, as she fiddled with her gloves.

She was currently wearing a pair of black baggy pants, a pair of black hightops, a short sleeved black shirt with red marks on it- looking like something had clawed through the front of it, and a pair of long fingerless gloves.

The front door opened, and Ayanna stepped out. Her face was tearstained, and she looked miserable, but when she saw Jade she smiled a little and pulled her into a hug. "How about we hide you in my closet so you don't have to go?" She whispered. Obviously, she knew that Jade was leaving.

Jade shook her head, and pulled away, "Can't… As much as I don't want to go, I can't leave my dad alone…. But maybe you can hide in my backpack." Jade joked half-heartedly.

"Yeah… Or maybe you suddenly discovered that you can't POSSIBLY go on the plane without a huge carry-on bag that I happen to be hiding in?" Ayanna joked. "Seriously, though, I wonder if there's some way I could go with you." She said, looking down at the ground as she tugged on a lock of her blond hair.

Jade shook her head again, "I can't think of anything… I'd stay, but I can't… And you would be missed here…" She looked up at the roof, "But we'll still be able to E-mail each other and stuff, right?" She smiled weakly.

The sound of a car horn started behind them, and Jade looked back at her father, who was sitting in his old worn red convertible. She knew he didn't mean to be, well, mean, but they had to hurry and finish packing.

Jade looked back Ayanna, and chewed on her bottom lip for a moment, "We'll live through this. No big, right?" She asked.

Ayanna looked at her for a moment. "Jay, I want you to promise me, that whatever happens, you- well, for no better way to put it, you'll stay alive." She told her seriously. "Don't die, okay?"

Jade nodded, "I hate my dad right now, but the last thing he needs is for me to die on him, so don't worry about it. I won't die… I promise." She let out a sigh, "Promise you won't steal money from someone and runaway to Dakota, okay?" She asked, knowingly. She knew the way Ayanna's mind worked, and knew that eventually Ayanna would come up with that idea. "I don't want you to get hurt… Promise?"

"I promise I won't steal from someone and runaway." Ayanna said. Mr. Tailor beeped the horn again, and Jade moved to leave. Before she could, Ayanna pulled her into another hug. "And I'll try not to get hurt." She told her, and then she pulled away.

Jade gave her a slightly confused look, but pushed that aside. She was about to go join her father, when she remembered something. Jade pulled a silver compass out of her pocket, it had been her grandfather's, and was a very special thing, and who better to give it to, than her best friend, right? That is, if you ignore the completely cliché-ness of it…. "Here, take this. Keep it safe for me. It was my grandfather's and I think you should have it now. To remember me, m'kay?"

"Okay." Ayanna whispered. "Not that I would forget you anyway." She pulled a piece of folded up paper out of the pocket of her jeans, and handed it to her, fiddling with the sleeve of her long-sleeved black shirt. "This isn't nearly as special as yours, but it's a forget-me-not thing too… You can open it on the plane, 'kay?" Ayanna told her, half smiling. "Bye, fare thee well, E-mail me when you get there, and all of those things. I'll miss you… Alot-alot." She backed up to the door, then opened it.

Jade nodded, "Yeah…. Miss you too…. And all that…cheesy jazzy junk." She looked over at the car and back to Ayanna, "Sayonara, Neko-chan…" Jade turned and started to walk off the porch and over to her dads car. Her fingers fiddled with the piece of paper that 'Neko-chan' had given her.

"Miss ya, love ya, all that junk." Ayanna said under her breath, turning and walking into the house, shutting the door behind her. As soon as she was out of sight of Jade, she leaned back against the door, then slumped down to the ground as her knees gave out. She clutched the compass tightly as she cried.

On the ride home, Jade stared out at the landscapes flashing by, ignoring her father completely, as she clutched the paper, and her Sesshoumaru-sama plushy to her chest.

Mr. Tailor looked at his daughter; she had kept her word, and hadn't spoken to him since their little fight. He knew this wasn't fair to her. She just lost her mother, now she was losing her only two friends, one of which she wasn't going to get to say goodbye too, and she was losing all her family too…. But it was for the best… "This is for the best, you know?" He stated.

Jade's fingers tightened their grip on her toy and paper, but she refused to speak. She sat there, now glaring out the window, biting back the tears she felt threatening to cry. '"How could this be for the best? You're destroying my LIFE!" Jade thought to herself.

"We'll have more money, and you'll be able to make new friends…" He tried.

"I don't want NEW friends, I like the friends I have, few as they are.'" Jade reached into her bag and pulled her walkman and headphones on. She turned her music on as loud as it would go to block him out….

She wouldn't give in and start talking. Not now, not ever. She would never speak to him again for this.

Never.

End Chapter One


XME: No worries; the Static Shock characters will be in chapter two.

RNW

And

XME

Signing off!