Chapter Ten

She sat frozen on the floor of the enormous hotel suite. 'It was just a dream' Victoria repeated in her mind, but somehow that wasn't calming her down. That wasn't anything like any dream she had ever had before. Usually in a dream your senses are different, like touching something, you felt it but not in the same way, however that, that was like she was wide awake, only...

She was this Sabine. Where was that name familiar from? She shook her head. Then there was him…. Jack. However, Victoria didn't know him as Jack, if someone had put a gun to her head she would still say it was none other than Pogue Perry. A wave of nausea rolled over Victoria.

Suddenly she heard it. The shower on. Oh god Reid. She had woken up in such a panic she hadn't even noticed he wasn't in bed with her. Thank god. She couldn't imagine explaining her reaction to waking up. 'Sorry hun, I just had the most intimate dream about one of your best friends, no big deal let me just freshen up'.

Again Victoria's heart started to race. She shook her head, just a dream, no big deal. But the thought of Reid getting out of the shower and coming out made her feel slightly uncomfortable as flashes of Pogue's or Jack's, or whoever he was, body kept flashing in her head. It was like she could feel him touching her, even worse feel the reaction her body had to him touching her.

She needed air.

Victoria got up and ran back to the bedroom. There were two overnight bags Reid had packed for them with the help of Victoria's roommate sitting at the foot of the bed. The sight of Reid's thoughtfulness made Victoria hate herself, like she had cheated on him or something, when he worked so hard for them to have a perfect night. She shook her head, she felt ridiculous. It was just a dream. But it had just been so real.

She dug through the bag and pulled out her Levi's and an old favourite black t-shirt with the ironic words 'Welcome to the Witching Hour' on the front. She threw on her clothes and started to put her hair up in a pony when the bathroom door opened making her jump.

"Morning..." Reid looked from the bed to her, fully dressed as he stood in the door way in just a towel, his blonde hair dripping onto his shoulder, "What, you gonna sneak out on me?" He teased raising an eyebrow.

"No," Victoria shook her head, sounding frantic even to her own ears, "No, I just..." She glanced around the room, "I needed Starbucks," She smiled at him and Reid raised an eyebrow.

"Are you sure? You look all squirrelly. Are you ok?"

"I'm fine," victoria said too quickly not able to hold his gaze for too long without images of Pogue or Jack or whoever flashing in her mind. She looked at Reid's chest and inevitably his would flash in her mind. She swallowed against the lump of rising anxiety in her throat.

Reid crossed the room to stand in front of her, "You sure? Cause a lot of shit went down last night. Like a lot, so if you wanna just chill in the room for a while, we can do that. Do you wanna have like a bath or something?"

Victoria took a deep breath, arranged her features in what she hoped was a relaxed normal smile, "I said I was fine, I just need a Venti White Chocolate Mocha ASAP, and I could use the walk, you're right. Pent up energy, I guess. So I am gonna go grab a coffee and by the time I get back we can have brunch with everyone." She smiled up at him praying he would buy it, he was watching her but his expression was unreadable, "Do you want me to grab you a Caramel Macchiato?"

Eventually, his features relaxed into a smile, he shrugged, "Yeah sure." VIctoria nodded, grabbed her wallet and made a b-line for the door. "Hey Vic?"

She stopped and turned back to face Reid, "Yeah?"

"Headache today?"

Victoria opened her mouth to say yes, because she always woke up with a headache now when she realized... Victoria looked back at Reid, "No, actually,"

Reid smiled, "Good," He nodded at her, "Ascention looks good on you." He said in his usual cocky way and it was such a Reid thing to say, it just struck Victoria.

In a minute she was back across the bedroom to stand in front of him and ignoring his still damp chest she leaned up and kissed him, just quickly to avoid the resurfacing images of the dream from becoming to over powering, before pulling back to look at him, "I love you,"

He looked at her slightly confused, "I love you too."

Victoria nodded and took off out of the room.