DREAMING OF MEMORIES PAST

A/N: Heyo folks, how's everyone doing? A shout out to my Aussie readers, good to see some Australian's on. Go us! Hiya to everyone else, wherever you're from, give yourselves a pat on the back. Now that we're feeling all warm and fuzzy like, let's get on with the story. So for this chapter, I decided to bring back the…Flashbacks! Yay!

After a three-hour flight sitting next to Tony, Kate was willing to quit and go back home. The flight had consisted of hours of Tony's high school tales and by the end of it; Kate was so tempted to smother his face with a pillow. Luckily, her years of secret service training had taught her how to maintain some self-control. So she wouldn't kill him. Yet.

"Come on Kate!" Tony yelled from outside the bathroom. "We have to get a move on if you don't want to be late!"

Kate groaned as she re-did her make up for the one-hundredth time. She quietly cursed the fact that she had booked such a small room. It was hard enough getting ready without DiNozzo yelling at her. Kate quickly ran to the door to get her curlers, when she slipped. She hit her head on the tiles and everything went black.

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"Katie!" Her mother called up the stairs, "You're friends are here, should I invite them in for some cookies?"

It was too late for Katie to answer. She heard Jo's high-pitched laugh and her friends talking. Katie took a deep breath, glanced at the mirror one more time and went down stairs. She got to the top of the staircase and her friends started whistling.

Katie was wearing a light pink dress that went down to her ankles, with a beaded bodice and straps that crossed over at the back.

"Katie! Looking sexy!" Derek cried, wolf whistling.

"Oh my god, Katie! Look how skinny you are!" Jo cried.

It was true; Katie had lost a lot of weight. She gave a small twirl when she reached the bottom. Then her mother moved out of the shadows with a camera.

"Mum, please!" She protested.

"Just one picture, sweetie, that's all I'm asking for," her mother pleaded.

The group gathered together and one hundred photos' later, they were in the limo.

"I don't think I'll ever be able to see properly again," Matt muttered, rubbing his eyes.

They laughed and chatted as they drove to the prom. They entered the ballroom and gasped.

The room was all sparkly and magical, like a giant marshmallow, covered in glitter.

"Oh my god!" Hayley cried.

"It looks like someone sneezed glitter everywhere!" Matt said, laughing.

"As bad as it looks, lets just try to have fun," Jo said, dragging Katie onto the dance floor.

'Turn the beat Around' started and Katie and her friends started dancing.

"Nice moves, Katie," Cindy, Mindy and Lindy giggled, as they danced by her with their partners.

"Ugh, the wicked witches of Miami are here!" Derek said loudly.

"Typical, Cindy going with Travis!" Katie stated, looking away.

"Are you still hung up over Travis 'no brain' Van Zant?" Jo asked. "You can do so much better, look at you, you're a hottie!"

"I can't help the way I feel about him," Katie sighed "and he still doesn't know I exist!"

"It's prom, for crying out loud! No one's going to say no to anyone tonight, why don't you go ask him to dance. This is the nineties after all!" Jo cried, pushing her into Travis' direction.

Unfortunately for Katie, Jo pushed her straight into the arms of Eugene.

"So, Katie, how about a dance?" He asked.

"Gee, Eugene, um…" Katie paused, thinking quickly "next song, okay?"

Eugene nodded.

"Sure, that would be great…Kate." His sly grin returned.

Katie groaned inwardly and made her way towards Travis. He was standing by the refreshment table by himself. This gave Katie the perfect opportunity.

"Hey, Travis," Katie stuttered.

"Katie, right?" Travis asked, grinning. Katie nearly fell over.

"Yeah, we've got English and homeroom together. Anyway, I was wondering, seeing as though it's prom and all, if you'd wanna dance?" Katie replied nervously.

Across the room, Cindy, Mindy and Lindy were watching Katie's every move.

"What the hell is that geek doing?" Mindy asked, flipping her hair over her shoulders.

"Looks like she's making a move on Cindy's man," Lindy said, applying her lip-gloss and laughing.

Cindy laughed evilly.

"Oh, I don't think so!"

Cindy walked over to Travis, bumping into Katie. Hard. Katie fell into the refreshment table, food and punch going everywhere. Mainly on her.

There was a moment of stunned silence.

"Once a pig, always a pig," Cindy said, laughing cruelly.

The entire ballroom burst into laughter. Katie tried to stand up, her legs wobbly. Jo ran forward to help her. All she could hear were the people around her chanting Pig, Pig, Pig. She could hear Jo talking to her, but she wasn't listening. Katie ran out the door, as fast as she could.

"Kate! Katie!"

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"Katie! Katie, wake up!"

Kate opened her eyes slowly. Tony was kneeling over her, squeezing her hand tightly, a concerned expression on his face.

"Kate, are you alright?" He asked urgently.

"Ow," she said, rubbing her head. "Yeah, I think I just tripped over."

Kate couldn't help but notice that Tony was still holding her hand.

"Kate, you're crying,"

Kate blinked quickly, before Tony reached forward and wiped a tear from her cheek.

"Was it that bad?" He whispered.

Kate nodded.

"Don't worry," Tony said quietly, kissing her forehead gently "I'll look after you."

And for the first time ever, she believed in her heart that he meant every word.

A/N: Hee hee, how'd you like that? Now review! Or Kap0w might beat me, and we don't want that, do we? I'll give you candy!