Yay, fast update :D! I have time before going to a party so I decided to write up the chapter :)
WARNING: There is a scene in here that isn't for everyone. It starts at "flashback within a flash back" and ends at "End of dream/flashback/explanation". It's the nightmare and it's kind of scary, I have an awesome imagination with that, I even scare myself sometimes :/, and I felt slightly uncomfortable writing the beginning of it :/, anyways read it if you like, it might not even be that scary but you are warned. I wrote it out before and I found it way too timid a nightmare for a nightmare so I up-ed it up a few notches :). You can skip that part but you MUST read the rest of the chapter, it's important. :)
I bold the beginning and end so you know when to stop and start again for those of you who don't want to read it.
DISCLAIMER! I –clearly- do not own Pokémon.
Enjoy! :D
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Chapter Eleven: Nightmare(s)?
Ash was sitting down at the table with his coffee mug in front of him. He looked at the time that was on the stove; 8am. Day of the week, Sunday; a day for rest, of course he was doing just the opposite. Dawn was still sleeping, he let her sleep, she had a really rough night last night; she kept having nightmares. At one point she refused to fall asleep in fear that they would reoccur. Ash first realised there was something wrong when he heard a scream, more specifically Dawn's scream. It wasn't an "I'm going to wake up the entire neighbourhood scream", but it was loud enough to wake him up.
Ash was frantic when he heard it, something was happening, he didn't know what, it bothered him. He walked with haste to Dawn's room. When he got to her room her opened the door, "Dawn? Are you okay?"
She had her hands to her eyes and she shook her head. He walked into her room and closed the door; he then sat down next to her on the bed. "Dawn, what's wrong? What happened?"
"It was so scary." She took her hands out of in front of her face and put one of her hands through her hair to take out all the hair that was in her face.
"What was?"
"That nightmare."
"It's okay Dawn, you're fine now. Just go back to sleep, it'll be fine."
"I'm not going back to sleep again, it happened twice already. I don't want to go through that again!"
"You won't Dawn, it's unlikely."
She turned her head to face him, "it happened already."
Ash sighed, what's with girls and their stubbornness. "Alright Dawn how about this, I'll stay here and lay down next to you till you fall asleep again?"
Dawn thought about this. "Dawn?" Maybe a bit too long.
Dawn put her hand to her forehead, then she let her hand drop back on the bed, "fine."
Dawn shuffled over to make room for Ash. "Thanks," she whispered to him.
"What's going on Dawn? What are these nightmares about?"
She thought about it. "They're more like memories gone horribly wrong." She turned to her side to face Ash. "Like the first time I slept over at Kenny's house. The memory was that I was sleeping with him but facing opposite of him, at one point I woke up and didn't feel his arm around me so I got up and realized it was morning and Kenny just came in the room and gave me a good morning kiss and brought me breakfast in bed. It was one of my best memories with him." She spaced out, Ash noticed.
"Dawn?"
Back to earth. "Yeah, sorry. Anyways, the nightmare, it was terrifying. The beginning started the same, but when I woke up it wasn't morning, it was still pitch black outside. And Kenny wasn't next to me; he was on a chair in his room, staring at me...
-Flashback within a flashback, Dawn is explaining it to Ash at the same time :)-
"Kenny? Is that you?" My eyes were still unfocused.
That thing just nodded.
"Kenny?" I sat up feeling alert, something was definitely wrong. I turned the light on his night table on and I looked back at the figure. That thing was definitely not Kenny. I mean, it was, but he looked dead. His eyes, they were black; completely black. He didn't blink, not once. And his mouth was only partially open, but it looked like there was blood in it. It was so scary. His head was to the side and it looked as if he was looking down but of course he had no pupils so I wouldn't know.
All of a sudden, what looked like black tears were coming from his eyes, but thicker, so they were moving slowly; it was truly horrifying. I stood up on his bed, "Kenny? What's wrong?" I pressed myself against the wall, definitely feeling threatened. "Kenny?" My last attempt to get him to snap out of it was lost. And then the tears finally fell off his face, they looked like blood once they fell to the ground.
I got off of his bed and stuck very close to the wall, moving slowly closer and closer to the door. He didn't look up; he was just there, immobile. At this point I was nervous. I just wanted to get out of his house. As soon as I touched the doorknob he lifted his head to face me, slowly though, as if he was being controlled, I was very afraid, tears flooded my eyes.
"Hi baby," he said to me, of course not without blood trickling down his mouth, very gruesome. He tilted his head, "Why you leaving so soon?"
I couldn't speak, terrified didn't even come close at this point. Crap. Then he smiled, like one of those creepy clown smiles. I put my body in front of the knob. I tried to open the door. His smile disappeared, it turned into a frown, "Why you trying to leave, bitch?"
His eyes, he was… uh, "tearing" more. I put my hand over my mouth. He turned the chair to face me. He put his smile back on, "Why don't you come over here babe." I shook my head.
"Don't you love me?" He was still smiling, remaining very calm. I was still unable to speak. I just stared at him in horror. The blood, there was so much. The blackness, his eyes, everything about him was not normal; can horror movies even portray this shit?
Still I tried to get out, I turned the nob and I freed myself. I ran down the hall and looked back; he was still sitting there, looking at me, with that stupid creepy smile! So I just ran till what seemed like forever then ran to his front door and got outside. I took an extremely brief breather but it was too much because I got a knife in my back; stabbed. Someone threw it at me, so I fell to the ground, dead. Then I had like an out-of-body part where I saw him before his doorway and still smiling. It was the scariest thing, but that's when I woke up.
-End of dream/flashback/explanation-
She held on to Ash's shirt. "It was the scariest thing."
Ash held her tightly. "Don't worry Dawn, it was all just a dream, you're going to be fine." He looked down at her and gave her a reassuring smile. She managed to give a slight smile back.
Ash felt sorry for the girl, she doesn't need these nightmares, not now after all she's been through. Dawn was still holding on to Ash's shirt, she liked the protection she felt.
She started moving her head weirdly on the pillow. "What the heck are you doing?"
"Huh? Sorry, I had an itch." She could barely see him with all the hair in front of her face; she tried to blow it away with no success, which made Ash chuckle. Just as she was about to clear her face of her hair, Ash decided to do it for her.
For some reason, Ash felt something, something he couldn't really explain, or more, like to admit, so when he cleared her face of her hair he leaned himself in and kissed her. It was a sweet kiss, but unfortunately for him, it meant something.
He pulled away realizing what he was doing and stared at her in shock, she the same.
What did I do? What did I do! Fuck. With that thought he got up and left, that was so embarrassing. Sleep was definitely not on his mind when he got back in his bed.
He looked down at his coffee mug. Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck! He stirred the coffee. I'm a cheater now. At that thought, Dawn walked into the kitchen, "is there any coffee left for me?" she asked with a smile.
Good thing she broke the ice, Ash knew he wouldn't be able to. "Uh, sorry Dawn, I didn't think you'd be up any time soon." Dawn giggled and walked over to the coffee machine.
"I cannot believe I cheated on Misty."
Dawn turned around and looked at him with a confused look, "what?"
"I cheated on Misty."
"Oh~, dude, she's going to be pissed."
"Yeah, tell me about it."
Dawn turned on the coffee machine and walked over to the table, "wait a second, you were with me. How the hell were you cheating on her without me knowing about it?"
Ash paused and gave her the weirdest look. "Without you kn-knowing. Dawn! It was with you!"
Dawn shifted her eyes from side to side and then laughed awkwardly. "Ash, listen, I have no idea what you're talking about."
"What do you mean no idea? Dawn, you were having nightmares all night last night so I went to go lie down with you and you were telling me about one of them, and afterwards there was some sort of – I don't know, it was like I felt some sort of a connection with you," he used the word very carefully, "and then I kissed you, I was so embarrassed I went back to my bed."
Dawn sat down, "Let me get this straight, you started in your bed, and then came to where I was sleeping because of my nightmares, I was telling you about them, and you somehow felt some sort of connection through that so you kissed me, felt embarrassed then left to go back in your bed?"
"Yes! Don't you remember?"
Dawn laughed awkwardly again. "Uh Ash, I think it was you who had the nightmare."
"No! Dawn, I know it happened!"
The coffee machine beeped to announce that the coffee was done so Dawn got up to prepare it. "Ash did you even listen to me? You fell asleep and woke up in your bed, you felt a connection with me through nightmares, and you cheated on Misty," she took her mug and sat back down next to Ash, "Nothing happened between us Ash. I didn't even have a nightmare last night."
Ash looked from at her, "but Dawn, it felt so real!"
"There is a word for those kinds of dreams Ash, they're called false awakenings. Don't worry yourself Ash, nothing happened."
Ash thought hard about it. He sighed, and then smiled, "I guess nothing did happen."
Dawn smiled. "Oh, by the way, thanks for allowing me to stay another night, I really appreciate it."
"Not a problem."
"Well I'm going to go watch some TV, you coming?"
"Soon." Dawn smiled and walked off.
Ash was relieved that he didn't cheat on Misty. Unfortunately, I think it was a sign, he sighed, that maybe Misty isn't the one for me. He sighed again and took a sip from his coffee before following Dawn's footsteps into the living room.
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Was it mind fucking? LOL thought so :P.
And how about you people who read the nightmare. How was it? I wanted to keep in at T-rated, hopefully I didn't go overboard, I tried to tame it down so I wouldn't have to change the rating, but please tell me what you thought :)
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