Part 7:
That night Jenny had a dream. She could tell that it was just that by the way the world flashed by so quickly. It was nothing but him and her… she had never dreamed of him before… but then again she had only just met him. She was seeing something, almost like short clips of the past.
The first was a picture of her and Julian standing in a house she had never seen before… The words from the dream that she had previously forgotten echoed through her head. "I fell in love with you Jenny, I didn't do it on purpose…" A hungry look flashed through his eyes.
She felt something ripple through her before she fell into the next picture. Julian's fingers were in her hair, and she was leaning in to kiss him… She wanted to kiss him desperately, but she pulled back.
The next flash was of her standing in a room with a clock. Tom and everyone else was there with her. She was standing near Julian, and strangely familiar words came from her mouth. "All I refuse and thee I choose." She kissed him and the memory went dark, picking up on a scene of her and Julian in a closet… the paint hat flashed through her eyes as she left him there… everything inside of her screaming for her to go back to him.
The next thing she saw was a swirling blue vortex. She and Julian stood beside it, him holding her upright. In the next moment, she pushed Julian in and ran.
Now she was in Joy Land park, walking through… it faded to a cave scene… Julian was looking at her with lost and confused eyes… and she was kissing him.
Suddenly she was in a tunnel rushing through dirty water to get to him. "I care about you!" This vision faded also, finally coming to the last.
Julian visibly staggered as the deformed monsters cut the long piece of wood. A silvery liquid spilled out, and Julian fell. He was pulled into the hallway, and she was crying… He looked so brave.
"Nothing ever dies as long as it's not forgotten…" His blue eyes were closing and his breath was coming slower and slower… Finally a whispered word… "Your ring."
Blue energy and he disappeared.
All of the images faded, and she was standing on a plane of nothingness. Julian stood before her, looking strangely innocent.
"Nothing dies as long as it's not forgotten." A hurt look appeared in his eyes. "Jenny, you forgot me."
"I-I… didn't forget you." Even as she said it, she couldn't remember what it was that she had forgotten. She looked at his clenched fist, and watched as a gold ring dropped to the floor at his feet. She looked back up just in time to watch him disappear. His words echoed around…
"Jenny, you forgot me."
"No!" She screamed, jerking out of the dream. She was sweat soaked… she didn't even know what the dream had meant!
What did it mean? She laid back down, and four soft words escaped from her lips…
"I didn't forget Julian…" She didn't even realize that she had said them as she disappeared into darkness… into sleep.
Julian had watched the whole process, seeing the dream play out before him as she woke. He panicked for a moment, just knowing that she would remember, and his masquerade would be up. However, he watched as she laid back down and went to sleep. He heard the soft words escape her lips, and semi grimaced. However, warmth spread through his body as he heard his name spill from her lips.
He didn't know what to do about this, except hope that she forgot by morning…
He looked back and saw her now tossing restlessly in a nightmare. The nightmare… the one that she had had to face in the game.
He knew what he could do about this. He disappeared from his place of watching to her room, coming up beside her bed. "Jenny… shhh…" he murmured softly to her, and she reach out to him. It took all of his control to not take those hands. He remembered the promise of sweet dreams that she had made as he died… He would show her what sweet dreams were. He quickly closed his eyes, changing her dream to one of a light blue sky… she would never be able to describe its color. Someone walked beside her in the sunshine, and he couldn't make himself decide who it was… that was for her.
He quickly pulled out of the dream, not wanting to see her and Tommyboy walking along hand in hand…
However, if he had stayed just a moment longer, he would have watched that shadowed face that form… he would have seen a pair of blue eyes flashing in happiness as they walked along.
If he had waited just a few more moment before disappearing without looking back, he would have heard these words spill from her lips…
"I love you, Julian.