1996…Hospital
"Isn't she beautiful?" Mrs. Pennington cooed at the baby in the pink blanket she was holding.
Mr. Pennington nodded in agreement. "Yes dear, our little Allison Pennington."
"Like Arthur Pendragon?" Mrs. Pennington chuckled weakly and her husband smiled sheepishly.
"You need your rest, dear." He said and the woman nodded and handed their daughter over to the man and when she laid down, the man walked over to the window with the baby tucked securely in his arms.
"Say hello to the world, Allie." He said and the baby snuggled further into his arms. The man looked out at the moonlit sky and the stars shining above them.
15 years later
"Wow, you look terrible."
Allie glanced over at Jen, the dark circles under her eyes more pronounced than before. "I haven't been able to have a good night sleep in three days; every time I close my eyes…" she trailed off and was reluctant to continue speaking.
"Maybe you just need a change of scenery." Jen pointed out and smiled at her.
Allie twitched in her seat at the lunch table, where Jen had taken her away from the boys to have 'girl talk' as she called it. That wasn't the only awkward thing about this though; no, it was whenever Jen smiled at her Allie would feel something in her gut that she could only attribute to the fact this girl was the reincarnation of Arthur's wife, and by extension, hers.
"What did you have in mind?" Allie questioned; she was so tired she'd try anything right now.
"How 'bout a sleepover?" Jen suggested tentatively. "Our boyfriends are best friends, and …I'd like to get to know you better. That is it you want." She said nervously.
Allie began to wonder whether or not Jen was also starting to remember who she had been. "Sure, I'd like that." She said absently.
Jen smiled again and once more Allie felt her stomach tighten.
But it took a moment for her sleep-addled brain to fully comprehend what had just happened as Jen gave her the address of her house and to ask her parents.
She was having a sleep over with her former wife; this wouldn't be awkward at all.
Try as she might have, it was impossible for her to stay awake in History, and the darkened room where the movie played only added to the effect and soon she was sleeping at her desk, head resting on folded arms and she found herself thinking about Jen. She didn't know what brought it on, but if she was going to be maybe spending the night at her house then she should try to get these thoughts out of the way now to dial down the awkward.
"These feelings don't mean anything, I have a boyfriend, she has a boyfriend; this is completely unfounded." She whispered to herself.
"But your feelings do mean something, she was your wife after all. And she ruined you, let's not forget that." The voice from her nightmares said mockingly.
"This is a daydream, how…?" Allie looked around in confusion, only to find herself in the cafeteria when the vision of her and her court had happened. Only she wasn't standing with them now. Out of all of them, Jen looked up and smiled at her, Allie feeling strange once again while no one else even seemed to notice she was there.
Jen rose out of her seat, no one noticing again as she walked over to Allie, holding the skirt up as she did so before curtsying in front of Allie and held her arms out and brought the blonde into an embrace.
Allie tensed up, but her muscles relaxed and she hugged back, feeling her eyes close in contentment, though the grip on her tightens before a sharp pain in her back erupts and Allie glanced over her shoulder to see the hilt of a dagger in Jen's hand that was sticking out of her back. Allie felt her breath hitch and she started to shake.
"The only worse thing your precious Guinevere could have done back then was put the knife in herself; well that's all fixed now."
Allie felt her legs fall out from under her, but as she tried to clutch onto Jen's arms, the redhead brushed her hands off and let Allie fall.
The blonde hit the floor of her classroom with a loud crash and felt her head smack against the floor and felt disoriented but her eyes were wide open and she didn't feel the pain in her back anyone.
Brushing off the concern she was getting, Allie told the teacher she'd walk to the nurse's office herself, and tried to shake off the lightmare she'd just had.
'It was just a dream, it was just a dream!' Allie thought viciously, but deep down she felt her heart clench in fear.
