Just one thing to point out here with the Jean/Tanya thing. When Tanya feels bad she starts referring to herself as 'Jean' When she starts to feel better (And when in the dream world) she is reffered to as 'Tanya'. This also applies to Paulo/Reiko exept the rules are a bit more relaxed.
Anyways ive chatter too much. Enjoy!
Jean got up from the ground after a few minutes and washed her face, ice cold water splashing over the tear stains. She sighed. That dream had haunted her ever since Rieko was taken away from her without even a grave to kneel by. Each time it played though her every night, some days more prominent than others. Suddenly the phone began to ring, Jean ran over to the phone, breathless and still partly choking from crying.
'Hello' She coughed, she instantly recognised the voice on the other end
'Hey its Paula' Jean instantly smiled and tried to look natural. She looked at herself in the mirror. She didn't look natural. Paula's voice instantly brought her back to reality. 'You don't sound too good' Jean coughed and headed over to pour herself a drink of water. 'What happened?' Jean remembered about the man she had met in town.
'Oh I just went for home, that's all. I met this guy as well' Jean mentally cursed herself; she knew Paula would be in hysterics.
'You met a guy?'
'It was only a quick meet, I threw his number in the bin'
'Threw in the bin?' Paula sounded obscene 'Come on Jean! You have to get a hold on your life! You cant let your past boyfriend Paulo haunt you for the rest of your life' Jean thought, Paulo… Why couldn't I just call him Reiko? She answered herself almost immediately. Because that would be suicide
'I know Paula but…' Paula cut her short
'No Jean! I order you to call him back! It's easy you know…' Jean kept silent. Paula seemed to sigh on the other end of the phone in exasperation. 'Look… Im sorry if I sounded rude'
'You did' Jean spoke up 'You did sound pretty rude'
'Im sorry' the phone cut off. Jean slowly put down the phone and looked towards the bin, walked over and looked down in it. The singular note lay there by itself with Stryker's name and number on it in thin black lettering. The next thing she knew she was calling up his number. The phone rang on the other end and was picked up by Stryker 'Hey this is Stryker speaking'
'Hey its Jean, the girl from the corner'
'Ohhh, How are you?'
'Im okay' Tanya lied 'you? Stryker seemed to laugh merrily.
'Im good too, Hey why don't we meet up some time?' Tanya seemed shock and mumbled.
'Okay then' Stryker had seemed to take that as a yes 'Ill see you at the Hudson café tomorrow then, ciao' Jean put down the phone. She thought to herself 'What am I doing? She took a gulp of water. 'I can't go with him, not while I still cant get over Reiko'
Jean headed out to the nearest Jobseeker. She needed a job. The hoard of money she stole from the dragon king only would last for so long, besides, she needed some sort of outlet for all her worries. She opened the door and started to head over to the main desk when her heart sank, Agent Sonya Blade stood in the corner sorting out job applications, throwing many of them directly into either a bin or a shredder. It seemed only the best got into where she was. Jean knew she had to act discreet.
'Hello, how may I help you' the receptionist smiled.
'Umm yes, im looking for a job' Sonya had turned to look at her, Jean sat down worried.
'Ok then, have you brought your job listings with you?' Jean handed her listing, most of it was forged and pasted into files thanks to Paulo.
A few minutes later she was near the door, all ready to leave when she tripped, her leaflets spilling out all across the floor. Sonya ran over to help, they both started to pick up the leaflets. Jean got up and met eyes with Sonya. An awkward moment passes where neither of them said a word.
'Here' Sonya passed over the leaflets. Jean walked out of the door, scared as hell. Suddenly the fright turned into joy. She had just been eye to eye with Sonya Blade and she hadn't recognised her at all.
Jean got into bed, awaiting the next dream to take place.
Tanya saw herself on the beach again, the beach she had come to call the beach of dreams. Incorporating both nightmares and reality in a horrifying mix. The beach looked pure, as did the sea and the cloudless sky. The sun blocked only by a passing seagull. She knew what was coming; she felt a tap on her shoulder. Tanya span round to hug Reiko but he didn't look like he used to, he looked pale and serious, and for once, for once in her dream, he began to speak.
'Tanya' He voice seemed god-like 'I know you still want me, still want to keep the faith in me' Tanya nodded crying 'But I cant be there for you anymore… Life was taken from me'
'I know!' Tanya screamed 'its not fair!'
'Nothing is ever fair in this world Tanya, you should know that, but you have to let me go, this is unfair, however you can make it fair' Tanya started to run away from Reiko, This wasn't her dream, this was the truth calling her, deep down she knew it was true' Reiko stopped her, holding her close.
'You must get over me, get over…' The sounds of bullets echoed across the beach and Jean woke up.
