Part 10:
Julian couldn't help but look at Jenny after Dee left. It had taken nearly an hour to explain to Dee exactly what had happened, then another hour of Jenny getting assurance that Dee wasn't going to tell Tom. She was going to tell him, but she just had to figure out how to do it.
Julian was still completely willing to kill him, but whenever he mentioned it… he got a rather strange look from Dee. More than once during their conversation, Dee seemed to be looking into something from the past. He didn't know exactly what was going on, but he didn't like the suspicious look that kept creeping into her dark eyes.
Dee was on the verge of remembering something very important, and she wasn't sure exactly what it was. She knew that it was about Julian, and that it involved their group… but she couldn't place her finger on exactly what it was. She kept on receiving flashes of things… moments that she couldn't possibly have known. When Julian had told her his last name was Shadow… trills of fear rippled through her body. That was completely ridiculous, of course. There was no reason for her to be suspicious of him. The only that that he had ever done, apparently, was care about Jenny. She didn't want to remember anything… Ice and Shadows…
The memory once again passed as if she had never seen it. It was all so confusing. She knew he wasn't going to hurt Jenny, but the warning signals wouldn't quit flashing every time that she saw him.
She gave a resolute sigh as she left. She was going to figure Julian Shadow out if it was the last thing she did.
Julian left soon after Dee.
Jenny felt so strange. She had gone to lie down, and tried to sort through exactly what was going on. She loved Julian, she knew that now… but she kept receiving odd feelings from him, something that she couldn't understand.
Things he said, things he did… it brought back memories of times that Jenny had never spent with him. For instance, after yet another offer to kill Tom, Dee had asked if he had ever committed murder before. Julian's lashes had dropped, and he had murmured, 'That would be telling'. A scene came to her mind instantly. She was in a dark hallway…
'Was it you up there on the ship?' she had asked him. She didn't even know what ship they were talking about… but Julian looked inhuman… amazingly bright in the darkness of the hall.
His lashes drooped. 'That would be telling.'
The flash ended, and she thrust it away happily. She didn't understand it, and she didn't want to. The closer she got to Julian, the more rapid these flashes appeared. She didn't like it.