DISCLAIMER: See last chapter.

Dedication: My socks.

Read. This is just a brief bridge between the previous chapter and the next.

Haha.

At this rate...three chappys in one day...w00t...

Oh, and sorry this is so centralized around Enaren. It needs to be for the chapters to come to make sense.

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"Swift as a Shadow, Short as any Dream..."

-from A Midsummer Night's Dream

Enaren realized it before he woke up. His concious awoke with a start in his dream, leaving his mind to wander. It wasn't his fault...He had been graced by Aphrodite. Graced was hardly the word. Madly insane with this new sensation, perhaps. Not graced though.

The dream was filled with compulsions, and things he had never felt in his life. He had never known to love, and never learned to hate. But now he hated himself for loving another.

It had to be her. It just had to be.

Rubbing his injured arm, he sighed and leaned back, falling onto the bed. Sighing quietly, he pulled out a small photograph from one of the drawers next to his bed. It was one of his more precious posessions. Memories that would never really come true, dreams that were actually nightmares, they haunted him. Slowly pulling his knees up to his chest, the hybrid sat on the bed, gazing out at the stars.

Do stars have dreams, too? he wondered childishly. After all, he was only 19. He was allowed to be childish occasionally.

Maybe they do...but even then, I'm still older than her...why couldn't I see this coming? Why did this happen to me of all people? Does Lady Fate just hate me, then? But...her smile...I'd do anything to keep her smiling, keep her alive...

He drifted off in thought, still looking out at the stars, and wondering about love as the ship went to warp, the stars becoming blurs against a black canvas backdrop.

Maybe they do...

He woke up with a start as someone called his name.

"Tapel Enaren, for the last time, if you don't wake up..." came a voice, most definitely female.

"Huh? Who...now...wait, what?" he asked, not fully awake.

"Well it looks like someone was having a—erm—good dream," Chalmed deBoer remarked, looking pointedly at the wetness on certain areas of his uniform.

Hastening to cover it up, Enaren snarled at her.

"And why the hell are you in here, again?"

"Commander's orders. You hadn't reported in, she sent me to check on you. So who's the girl you were dreaming about?"

He sighed, not wanting to reveal it, and at the same time desperately needing to tell someone. The feelings in his mind were only going to get worse, he figured. And peering into deBoer's mind revealed only sympathy and a desire to help.

"Well..." he began, and trailed off.

"Well...?"

"Jay," he purred with more than a little contentment in the name.

"Ah...it could work, you know," she grinned, looking at him. "She's definitely a dynamic and active person, perfect to fit your lifestyle. It could work." Simply purring contentedly, Enaren looked like a cat, deBoer decided. "It's times like these when we all can tell that you're just dyingto be a Caitian," she finished, amused. Crinkling her eyes, she whispered something to him, and with that, he decided where this would be going.

"Alright, deBoer. But...when...and how?" he asked her, confused. "You've loved before. You have more experience," he protested.

"I'm around all the time, Enaren, it's not like I'm going anywhere, kitty," she smiled at the nickname she had just given him.

"Don't call me kitty, Chalmed, please?"

"Whatever you say, lover boy..."

Later on he would wonder why he had let her waltz out of the room with that nickname hanging in the air.

Hee. It's short. Not even 2 full pages. But who really gives a crap? I've written two chapters today, and will post the next one momentarily. REVIEW! You now owe me...well..I won't charge for this chapter...but I need 20 reviews. That could be done by two people, folks. TWO PEOPLE! Heh...not Never Saw the Sun chapters for a while, then..until I get to 30 reviews total...no more chaps...good for me, bad for you...XD.

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And besides, I already know the characters like the back of my hand. And if you don't review, I'll send one of my personalities after you. Sometimes being MPD and still annoying is fun.

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-Anij Jinn