A/N: another short chapter, sorry. I'm trying to figure out where to go with Reid's whole problem, and i'm hitting a wall. So, be patient. Enjoy...
Inner Struggles
Chapter 6
They were all sitting around the book, looking to any answer to Reid's problems. "Do you remember any dreams on the nights that this happened?" Caleb asked, hoping he'd found something. Reid shook his head.
"Not that I remember," he added. "But when I woke up, I felt like you feel when you wake up after a nightmare. You know, the feeling that something is about to happen." Reid rubbed his eyes. The coffee wasn't working very well.
"Okay," Caleb said, looking for something else. They named every thing in the book that might have anything to do with subconscious using. They kept going back to the first idea. It was the only thing that had any plausibility.
Reid started to fall asleep, so he stood up and started pacing, trying to get the blood pumping. It was hard, because he had this feeling that using was the only way to get over this. "Reid, I have an idea. You're going to go to sleep, and concentrate really hard on remembering what you're dreaming about," Caleb said. They all headed up the stairs.
"Let's go into the guest room," Reid said, really looking forward to some approved sleep. It was a little creepy that his friends were all going to be watching him sleep. He went and hopped on the bed, slowly letting sleep take him, which didn't take long.
Barely ten minutes later, Reid found himself being shaken awake. "What was the dream about?" Caleb asked.
"I don't know," Reid answered, disappointed that this wasn't going to be as easy as he'd hoped. "I'll try again." He drifted into sleep again. This time, he got more minutes of sleep till the last time, but that just made the affects of using more powerful.
Caleb shook him awake again. Reid just shook his head, and tried again. This went on for about ten times. Caleb, Pogue, and Tyler had taken turns waking him up. The twelfth time he tried, Tyler woke him up. Caleb and Pogue were in the other room. "Do you remember the dream?" he asked. This time felt different. He had this overpowering haunting feeling that something was wrong. He thought for a couple of seconds, but then he lost the connection with the dream.
"I'll try again," Reid said, closing his eyes once again. Tyler waited several minutes, till things started to move again. He barely had to touch Reid before he jerked awake. "Emma!" he shouted. "She's in danger. Someone's going to hurt her." Caleb and Pogue heard the shouts, and came running back in, followed by Kate and Sarah, who'd been chatting with Mrs. Danvers.
"Reid, tell us more. What kind of danger?" Pogue asked. Reid sat there, eyes closed trying to relive the dream before he lost it.
"I don't know. It's bad though. She's yelling for help, but no one is coming. She can't get away from the danger, and tries to fight it off. It doesn't work, and eventually she gives in," Reid started to slow down. "She's gone," he said, in barely more than a whisper. "We have to do something," he pleaded.
"It's just a dream, nothing's going to happen to Emma," Caleb tried to reassure his defeated friend.
"Don't lie to me!" Reid snarled. "You know that something could very well be wrong, and that this isn't just a random dream." He stood up and walked out the door. Every one else sat in silence, knowing that Reid just had to burn off his anger.
"What do we do?" Tyler asked the question everyone was thinking. Caleb shook his head. He got up and walked out to where the girls were all talking.
"Did you figure something out?" Sarah asked, standing up when he saw the look on Caleb's face.
"We know what's wrong, I just don't know how to fix it. And if Reid keeps storming off, we won't get anywhere. Pogue went to find where Reid had gone too. This wasn't a good state for Reid to be alone in. He wasn't the most stable person right now.
The first place he checked was out the front door. Reid was standing out in the middle of the yard. He was focusing really hard on something. Just then, the lights in the house flickered, and then went off. "Reid!" Pogue ran up to his friend. With out thinking, Reid shoved his friend away with all the strength he could muster. Pogue got up quickly, and threw his body weight into Reid's figure, which was just a shadow in the dark light.
Reid snapped out of it, and the lights turned back on. "Crap," he said. Pogue helped his friend up, and they walked back into the house. "What now?" Reid asked, pretending that what just happened didn't .
"I don't know. I'm still trying to figure it out," Caleb answered. "We have all of today until classes start tomorrow. Don't give up, we'll figure this out." He tried to reassure Reid, who was completely out of it.
"Well, Sarah and I are going to go, since you don't really need us here," she leaned over to Pogue. "And so we can get some sleep," she whispered so Reid couldn't hear. Pogue nodded and kissed her good bye. By this time, it was like five in the morning. After they left, Mrs. Danvers retired to bed.
Caleb, Pogue, Reid and Tyler went back into the kitchen. Reid sat down at the table, and Tyler made another pot of coffee. "You really care about Emma, don't you," Pogue broke the silence. "That's why you're so worried about her."
"I guess," Reid said, rubbing his eyes. "You don't use while you're sleeping, and you care about Kate, right?"
"Yeah," Pogue said. There was something more to this than just caring about someone.