Jeff's Grace, Dawn's Past
Disclaimer : I do not own the Hardy Boys, Matt or Jeff, they belong to themselves and the WWE, any OC's are mine and only I can torment them
AN - Sorry for not updating sooner but the real world came pounding at my door, hope you enjoy! On with the story!
Chapter 5
She snapped her eyes open and sat up quickly, in the process effectively head butting Jeff in the process. He groaned as he fell off to the side and Dawn made a hasty scramble to the corner furthest from him and curled up in a ball. She was looking around wildly, trying to remember the last day, few days. She heard the groan of a male and snapped her head towards his direction.
She saw the door and before she could make a run for it he spoke.
"Damnit Dawn, stay put. I'm here to help. Moondog is coming." Her eyes widened and watch as his muscular arm came up onto the bed where she just was and raised himself up.
"Skittles." She whispered. "I really wish you would stop calling me that." He groaned as he made it to his knees on the other side of the bed. She turned her eyes down to the coloured carpet beneath her, her eyes darting back and forth.
"Jeff." She corrected herself in another whisper. "Glad you could remember my name." He spoke softly as he rubbed his head, brushing some of his braids out of the way of his vision.
"Moondog?"
"She coming, she's gone to get our bikes with my brother." Jeff spoke calmly to her. Dawn shivered as she reached and yanked the blanket off of the bed and covered her huddled form in the corner. She brought her knees up to her chest under the blanket and put her forehead down, she tried to breath deep to calm down, but her ribs screamed in protest. She blinked back the tears of pain, when she felt Jeff slide down the wall beside her and put his arm around her. She stiffened in his embrace.
"Relax. Moondog is coming." He whispered. She sighed deep and relaxed a bit, another wave of pain hit her from head to toe and she blacked out once again, huddled under her blanket leaning against him. Jeff held her close as he felt himself yawn, he tried to keep his eyes open but drifted into a light doze beside her.
Dawn's Dream
She sat high up on her bike, a small smile crept up on her face as the wind toyed with her freshly dyed blue and purple hair. She turned around and grinned when she saw her best friends riding up the hill.
Gabriel, Mikey and John, she's known them for what seems forever. She turned back to the peaceful scene again; she was free here, sitting on her bike, up on a hill that looked over a valley that leads to Lake Superior. She could hear their boots crunch in the gravel as they came up behind her. It was supposed to be a peaceful day, one where they went riding to the beach, had a barbeque, and slept out under the stars.
Suddenly she felt one of their hands on her back. 'No...Not today.'
"Dawn" came Mikey's voice.
"One more time." Came John's voice.
"Then we'll be free." Came the final voice of Gabriel.
I went to turn towards one of them, and then Gabriel's hand latched onto my choker collar. He pulled it tight and whispered, "Follow us to hell." And then I watched myself snap into a trance. I nodded and started my bike. I watched myself follow them on my bike, knowing exactly where we were going.
I tried to scream out to myself to stop, but I knew when they got me in this trance, I was hell on wheels. We soon ended up at a warehouse that had seen better days. I tried furiously to stop it. Next the image flashed to where I was standing in a pit of some kind, in my motor cross pants and boots and muscle shirt. Then blood started to seep out of my skin, I was fighting for my life against another man. I tried to turn away but I couldn't, I could hear the audience roar, I was the high flyer, the woman who could not die. And then I heard it.
"Twilight…finish it." I was stunned it was Gabriel who said those words; I never knew it was him. I watched myself practically run up the wall and do a back flip and land on my victim where I dug my knives in deep as they would go and as I pulled away from him I ripped him wide open letting the rivers of blood flow from his body. I screamed so loud at myself and then she turned to me and mouthed the words, 'Kill me, and make it stop.'
end of dream
Jeff's POV
I was woken up with a start not realizing I had drifted off, I watched as Dawn thrashed around screaming and then she was dead calm. She slowly pushed herself up the wall, and stood on her own feet.
'That's not possible, that ankle can't hold her'
She looked around slowly and her eyes stopped at me. She snarled as she lunged at me, I barely escaped as I felt her nails dig into my calf muscle hard. Then before I could look up she delivered a blow to my head, and I have never felt that much power come from a woman. Maybe an opponent in the ring, but not a woman.
Normal POV
Jeff clutched his head and moaned in pain as Dawn slowly made her way out of the room in a trance. Her eyes devoid of any emotion, she had one intent, to stop what she does when someone whispers those words. She made her way into the kitchen, in the distance she could hear dogs barking, and a vehicle coming closer. She bared her teeth and she reached the kitchen finally and found sitting out on the counter a chef's knife. She quickly picked it up and started to watch the blade glint in the sunlight.
'NO! I don't want to do this! I want to break the spell not kill myself'
Dawn stood in the middle of the huge kitchen and then held her opposing arm out. She slid the blunt side of the knife up her arm towards her elbow just as Jeff came stumbling in and froze at what he saw. Dawn twisted the knife around in her hand and brought the razor sharp edge against her soft skin.
Matt and Casey chose this time to enter through the patio door which next to the kitchen and they froze. Dawn turned towards them and then glanced back to Jeff. Jeff on one side, Matt and Casey on another. All of them watched as Dawn watched them waiting for any movement. They saw the intent in her eyes, the distance, and the rage.
Casey took one step forward and everything flew into action. Dawn sliced down her arm hard causing the blood to immediately start running down her arm, Jeff jumped next to her and grabbed the knife away before she could do anymore damage and Matt had her pinned face down on the ceramic floor of the kitchen.
Casey leaned on close to a snarling Dawn, who was intent on thrashing around. Jeff held the bleeding arm away from her, while trying to apply pressure to stop the bleeding. Casey leaned in close looking into Dawn's eyes and gasped. Dawn tried to lunge at her nearly knocking both Matt and Jeff off of her body but Matt held her firmly down.
"Twilight," Casey whispered as she slowly reached around to under the back of her head. Casey grabbed her choker and firmed held it taunt. Both Matt and Jeff gasped as Dawn went stock still while listening to her growling and snarling at Casey.
"Matt get off of her and Jeff let her go." Casey's voice was one they had not heard before. Cold, hard and commanding. Both men scrambled out of the way as Dawn brought herself up slowly on her knees in front of Casey. She had her head hanging down low and she held he cut arm out in front of her watching the blood slowly ooze down her arm and onto the floor.
Casey yanked the chain again and Dawn's head snapped up to look at her. "I am the Moondog, you are the Twilight and your ride to hell is over!" Casey sudden let her drop to the floor where she fell over and screamed in pain.
Casey stood up and sighed deep. 'Someone didn't release her last time they used her. Dammit.' She watched as Dawn curled up into herself and clutched her arm. Jeff was the first one down beside her trying to help. Dawn flinched visibly and tried to scramble away when Jeff tried to touch her.
"Jeff don't," came Casey's soft voice. "She's traumatized, wait till she passes out and then we will move her."
The trio watched in agony as they saw the young woman thrash around on the floor, blood streaking everywhere on the floor from her arm, every emotion coming out in one giant tornado. Dawn sobbed, growled and laughed all at once, she snarled at them when they stepped closer.
Jeff hit the floor on his knees and tried to reach out to her, Matt watched as his younger brother tried to picture what was going through her head. "Jeff don't, I don't think you want to know what's she's seen or done." Matt said softly to his brother as he kneeled down to him. To Matt, Jeff always had this ability to visualize what was going on inside someone's head, trying to put himself in there instead of them.
Before they knew it Dawn was on her knees in front of Jeff stock still, watching him with her tear filled eyes. Suddenly she snarled at him and locked her eyes with his.
"You want to know what I feel Dream Catcher, I will let you!" She roared. Before Matt could pull him away and before Casey could stop Dawn she grabbed Jeff's right hand and brought it hard to her forehead, both of her hands over his so not to break the contact. She snarled again and let her painful aura bleed into his.
Jeff's body suddenly went still, he started to sweat, pants of his breathing could be heard, he was locked into her pain, her mind, her feelings, and it was overwhelming. She let loose the image of her first kill, a messy situation, and it brought Jeff to tears, he could feel each blow she took, each blow she gave, and the raw intense emotions. He started to cough up blood, he could feel the rage, the outside control, the desire to be free and the flicker of fading hope that it would end quickly.
Before the next image came Dawn broke the contact as she curled into a ball on her side, she breathed heavily as she watched the blood ooze slowly down her arm. She turned her eyes to Jeff who was being brought to his knees by his brother.
"Now you know a taste of my life, my pains, my existence Dream Catcher, now stay away from me and you'll be safe." Dawn hoarsely whispered.
Jeff watched her as he spit the last of the blood out of his mouth. He wondered how such a woman could hold such intense, raw emotions and not implode. He saw Casey go to her side and speak in a language that he couldn't understand, and then Dawn started to shake and roll onto her back. He thought she was dying when her eyes rolled into the back of her head and she lost consciousness.
"Jeff I told you to stay away from her." Casey whispered as she began to wrap Dawn's arm. "Now you are a familiar to her, she named you, now you have power over her, and you better not use it otherwise you very well may unleash hell on us all." Jeff looked at her totally shocked and then his eyes traveled to Dawn.
"Dream Catcher…huh?"