Chapter Thirteen
She was Caleb's sister. She was Reid's girlfriend. She is your friend. Like a sister.
These had become the words of Pogue's mind, a constant nagging circle in his mind for the past five months.
Ascending had been everything he had thought it would be and more. He felt the world open up before him as his power became him and vice versa.
Then he went to sleep.
He could still remember the first dream. It hadn't been in the 1600's (by Pogue's estimation) like last nights, it hadn't been Sabine and Jack. No, his first dream had been before that in England before the families had left. A time of knights and ladies in waiting. It had been just as intense, just as shocking to his system, when the girl in his dream, Lady Ann Danvers, looked exactly like Caleb's little sister Victoria. An older Victoria than he had ever seen, but he knew it as soon as he saw her in his dream he knew it was her.
He had woken in his dorm, flop sweat drenching him, gasping for air. He couldn't help but yell when Caleb asked him if everything was ok? He had been so disoriented, trying to separate himself from the person he had been only moments before, the Right Honourable, Sir Henry Perry. Pogue was just happy his first hadn't been quite as intense as Victoria's first.
Pogue leaned into the corner turn and felt Victoria's arms tighten around his chest as they drove back to Ipswich. Pogue felt his heart race and his mouth go dry as she held on to him, an electricity raced through his body. It was so unnerving, being touch by her.
He swallowed. She is Caleb's sister. She is Reid's girlfriend.
He thought about last night's dream. It wasn't the first time he had had it. It always begins with him in the living room of their cabin. A home he had spent months building along side his best friends, Edmund Danvers, Sabine's older brother, George Simms and Alfred Garwin. A home for his new bride. Sabine. He had had the most dreams of Sabine and Jack. Just snippets of their life. Somethings quite mundane, a day in church followed by an evening meeting of the Covenant families, just before the witch hunts. Some were more emotional. So much so in fact that Pogue thought he couldn't survive at first, like the birth of their first child Elizabeth. Because it was never just going through it, like a stranger dropped in a different life, it was like he was them. When he watched that baby enter the world it was like he was seeing the birth of his child. Not some figment of his imagination, it wasn't like anything he could describe.
He thought at first he was just crushing on her but that didn't make much sense since Victoria had been gone for nearly two years and before she had gone to London it was just normal between them. Like a little sister, maybe even a friend? So he figured he would just ignore it. Besides the dreams were never about Victoria, just random women who looked like her. A lot like her.
But then she had showed up on the front steps of Spencer four months ago, and seeing her was like getting a punch in the gut. He had just had the first dream about Sabine and Jack and they were about seventeen in the dream and Victoria was identical, except for the length of her hair. It was the spitting image. And seeing her in person was even more surreal.
He forced it down, tried to ignore it but having her around seemed to make the dreams worse. At first he had only had one once a week or so. But as soon as she arrived it was like being bombarded.
Pogue could remember the night he found Victoria at Nicky's with Reid her first night home. He had been pissed. Pissed that she was there, let alone with Reid. But he didn't want to admit it. He tried to tell himself that it was because Reid had a terrible track record with girls. Or the fact that Caleb would have been pissed that Victoria was at Nicky's in the first place. But deep down when he saw Reid put his arm around Victoria's neck he wanted to pummel his best friend's teeth in. That night was the first time Pogue dreamed about Sabine and Jack's wedding night. That did not help any.
Then last night on the way to Prom he saw Reid's SUV practically explode with Victoria in it. Then he watched her ascend. Just like Sabine had... another dream. And he couldn't believe she was with Reid, it was driving him mad. So then when he got home and passed out and was greeted by that dream, he thought...
What if?
He was driving to the hotel before he had even completely made up his mind. And as soon as he saw her, he knew. He knew she had dreamt it to.