Mako's Message: So, I hit a small snag called "we didn't pay the cable bill" so I'm posting this from a library computer. Otherwise it would have been up last night. So sorry about that. It kind of tripped up my Chapter Blitz, but it couldn't be helped.

This is(was supposed to be) the third and semi-final part of said Chapter Blitz. After this update you probably wont hear from me until…Thursday, I guess, since I can't make it to the library before it closes tomorrow or Sunday, and it doesn't open on Monday or Friday (Weird, huh?)

So, uh. Yeah… oh hey look, fanservice!


So, I just had this dream.

I'm in a dark place, with just a bit of light shining down on me, and I'm completely surrounded. I'm fighting off wave after wave of attackers. I can't even tell who they are. Everyone once and awhile though, I can make out face. A mobster, a teacher, some junkie, a kid from school, Red Mist, Katie, Frank D'Amico…Marcus. And off in the shadows, just at the edge of what I can see, there's a shadow. It never comes to attack me, it just paces around the circle. Watching me.

I don't think it want's to hurt me…it's just there…and there's someone else with him. I can't see who it is, but they're both just there. Shadows. Haunting me…

Past those two shadows… there's something else. Some monster in the darkness. I can't see it, or hear it, I just know it's out there. Waiting to sink it's claws into me.

And I just keep fighting. There's nothing I can do except keep fighting. I can't let them get me. I can't let them destroy me.

But I have help. There's someone at my back, fighting with me.

I can't tell who it is, but I can hear him, I catch occasional glimpses of green, and I'm never attacked from behind. Then finally I have to back away, and bump into him. We're literally fighting back to back, and I hear him say, I hear Dave say, "Don't worry, I'm here, we'll get through this."

Together we hold them off. Just knowing he's there makes me feel like I can fight forever.

Dave has other ideas.

He picks me up in his arms and takes me away. We leave it all behind and are just us.

The sun is setting behind us as I take off my wig and mask. He takes his off as well and smiles at me before reaching his hand out and brushing his fingers across my cheek. I close my eyes and push against his hand. His fingers cup my chin and tilt my face up. I open my eyes and he's right there, looking deep into my eyes.

I start to slowly lift up, reaching for him, and then he leans in and kisses me.

His hands on me are the only thing keeping me on my feet.

His fingers run through my hair as I press into him. I wrap my arms around his neck, curling his hair around my fingers, holding him tightly to me. His fingers run down my sides and I gasp as he reaches under my jacket and touches my skin. Without stopping the kiss, he reaches up and pulls the zipper down and pulls the jacket off. I'm not wearing my Kevlar and his fingers reach under my shirt, across my sides and up my back.

His lips leave mine and he trails light, ghostly, kisses across my chin, jaw and down my neck.

I'm holding myself up on his neck as he kisses along my shoulder. I'm sweating and panting and I'm trying to kiss him back but I can't reach him.

He lifts his hands up and pulls my shirt off me without any resistance, and without him holding me up I fall backwards on to the bed. He leans over me and kisses me again, roughly, catching me off guard. I reach for him but he pulls away.

Standing over me, he pulls his suit off, revealing his toned, rippling muscles. His skin is flushed and shining with sweat. I want to touch. I want to feel his skin, his muscles, his heat.

He puts one knee on the bed and leans over me. I push back and lift my face up to kiss him as he climbs on top of me. He kisses and bites at my lips then moves down my neck and kisses across my collar bone. I grab him by the hair, twisting his curls between my fingers and pulling him back up to my lips.

I take one hand and start running it up and down his strong back. Then across his chest and down his abs.

His breathe hitches as I smile against his lips and start to move my hand down between his legs but he catches my hand and brings it back up to his face as I feel him pressing against me.

Feeling him so close to me makes me whimper. My legs wrap around his waist and my arms around his head, pulling him against me. His starts kissing and biting at my neck again and I'm just ready to explode. I'm rubbing against him, I'm beyond words.

And then his fingers run down my chest, across my stomach and then, just as they slip past my waist band…

I wake up.

I'm sweating and I can't catch my breath. I don't think I'll be able to sleep again tonight.

I have no idea where that came from…but I liked it.