Author Note: Thanks goes to Ortongirl1993, Tracy-Robinson47, and skipsshogun for becoming followers of this story. Thanks goes to Leasha Orton, THE Kid Hardy, and DeeMarie426 for reviewing. This chapter is going to mostly Seth based. I figured he needed some more character development and it will also feature something that's called a 'Lucid Dream'. I hope you all enjoy it as much as I enjoyed writing it for all of you.

"Hush now, don't you cry

Wipe away the teardrop from your eye

You're lying safe in bed

It was all a bad dream

Spinning in your head

Your mind tricked you to feel the pain

Of someone close to you leaving the game of life

So here it is, another chance

Wide awake you face the day

Your dream is over...or has it just begun?"

'Silent Lucidity' by: Queensryche

Chapter 15: Lucidity

Rydia wasn't in mood to deal with the creepy Bray Wyatt. Skye was also annoyed with the present situation; but she knew Rydia well enough to know that she always wanted to do things on her own. Her eyes narrowed just waiting for something to happened. "Bray you need to just walk away. You're never going to have me and neither is Nick. You can tell him I said that. I know you've giving him information about all of us anyway." Rydia stated before taking hold of Skye's arm and pulling her along with her down the hall.

"Be careful what you say little girl. Bad things may come your way." Bray whispered to himself before turning in the opposite direction.

Mia walked in stride next to Dean as they helped Seth back to the trainer's room. After being put through a table during the tapping, he complained that his knee was hurting. Mia just shrugged it off as just something minor until she saw him lift his pant leg up to reveal the swollen skin around the kneecap. "Seth that looks awful." She commented covering her mouth in concern.

"That's the last thing we need. You being injured is not good at all." Dean stated taking hold of Mia's hand.

"Don't you think I know this already. You don't need to remind me." Seth snapped.

Mia let out a sigh of frustration. She understood his pain. Feeling left out always brought out the worst sides in humanity. Seth was no different. Now that his friends were occupied with their own personal relationships, he was becoming distant from the group. She wanted him to know that both she and Rydia cared about him like a brother.

She released Dean's hand and stepped closer toward the struggling man sitting on the table. The trainer took a closer look at Seth's knee. Mia reached out and took hold of both his hand. Both blonde and black strains of hair fell into his chocolate eyes. Her touch caught him off guard. "You know Rydia and I care about you like a brother, right?"

"I know..." Seth whispered not really believing his own words.

"Do you? Because it doesn't seem like it. Pushing us away isn't going to ease your pain. I know you are feeling left out and maybe this whole thing with Nick is getting to you; but we need you"

Seth shifted his gaze away from Mia. The pain in his knee intensified when the trainer started to press on the tender flesh. She watching him cringe, holding back a groan of pain. "Could you guys leave me alone for a while." Seth barked out harshly.

Dean raised his hands up and turned away; but Mia remained hesitant. Seth's eyes burned with an intense fury of emotions. She had never seen such emotions swirling in his irises. Locks of her hair fell into her ocean eyes before she turned away following Dean out the door. She didn't want to leave him alone. The fear of the possibility of him walking away from all of them burned in her heart.

"Mia..." Dean spoke softly while wrapping his arms around her.

"This is all so wrong. He has to know that we care about him. What the hell is going on inside his head that preventing him from opening up to us?" She babbled muffled by her face buried in his chest.

"There was a woman that he completely fell for a year or so ago. He's just never recovered from it."

Rydia turned down the long hallway with Skye next to her. It had been over six months since she saw her last and she was overjoyed to see her; but something was definitely different about her. People just don't show up without a reason and she was curious as to what Stephanie's reason for having her come out of her way to be there.

Mia and Dean were standing outside the trainer's room when they turned the corner. Something seemed off with them as well and she also noticed Skye's hesitance in approaching them. Dean's eyes came in contact and the rage was obvious. "What the hell are you doing here?" He snapped moving Mia away from him.

"Nice to see you to Dean." Skye replied.

"Skye is that you?" Mia asked.

"You guys know each other?"

Skye smiled and crossed her arms over her chest. Rydia knew there was history and from the looks of things it wasn't good history. Dean's harsh tone of voice suggested something happened between them or between someone he cared about. Then it hit her. The connection was Seth. "Skye has been friends with Rydia for years. It's nice to see a friendly face around here that isn't out out get us." Mia replied.

"Speak for yourself. So Skye, why are you here anyway?" Dean asked keeping his voice tone level.

"I completely understand your hostility towards me. I actually deserve it; but I'm here to make amends. Where is he anyway?" Skye asked.

"Nowhere where you can hurt him." Dean snapped.

Skye let out another sigh in disappointment. She didn't think it would be this hard to come back and make things right with someone she cared so deeply for. It really didn't surprise her to see Dean's hostility. He had always been the one that didn't like her right from the very beginning. Being related to Stephanie McMahon didn't help matters either.

"Lighten up, let her say what she has to say." Mia said with a smile.

"Not in a million years. She ripped his heart out and he's never recovered since then. Now he's pushing all of us away and I have her to blame for that."

Mia quieted up and didn't speak another word on the subject, because now she knew who the woman was that had cause Seth to turn on them. It was Skye Atherton, the woman who brought music to Rydia's life. She thought on how ironic it was. It really was a small world and the connections wove in deeper between all of them.

"I'll let it go tonight; but I do want to speak to him eventually." Skye said softly before walking away from the group.

The moment Skye was out of sight, the trainer's door opened and Seth walked out limping with a heavily wrapped knee. Rydia gasped at the sight and immediately was concerned about him. Their eyes connected for a split second before he looked away from her. "Seth, are you alright?" Rydia asked taking a hesitant step closer to him.

"I have to go for an MRI tomorrow morning, so no I'm not okay." He replied in a harsh voice that made her flinch.

The thought of Seth turning on all of them felt like a knife just stabbed her in the chest. Tears stung the corners of her eyes. Seth couldn't bear the sight of her crying so he turned his back to her and began to walk gingerly away from them. He hated being harsh to all of them; but he just needed some time alone and if he simply asked they would never give it to him.

The Hotel, Seth's Room

Seth lay staring at the ceiling in total darkness. Flashes of the match between him, Dean and Mia against Luke Harper, Erick Rowan and AJ Lee replayed inside his chaotic mind over and over again. His knee was throbbing in pain against the propped up pillow underneath. The mistake he made would never go away. He now had to pay the consequences.

"I'm such an idiot." He shouted at himself slamming his fist into the pillow next to him.

His phone beeped with a text message. He debated on ignoring it altogether; but it there was always that emergency with Rydia that he didn't want to miss. Grabbing his phone from the floor, he swiped his thumb over the screen to see a name he hadn't seen in a year. Skye. "I'm in town and I want to talk. Can we meet somewhere tomorrow? SKYE" It read.

"I have an MRI in the morning. Maybe after; depends on what you want to talk about."

His heart was beating so rapidly he thought it would surely explode from happiness to hear from her once again; but there was doubt in the back of his mind. She had walked away from him a year ago to pursue a musical career and he never tried to make it work. He continuously beat himself up for not trying to see if it could work. The beep of a reply jerked him out of his inner thoughts.

"Please just talk to me. I don't want to do this texting. It's not right. I need to do this face to face."

"Fine...my MRI is at 7am. Meet me outside the hospital at 8:30."

"Thank you and I'll be there."

He didn't bother to respond. All he could do was think about her and the memories he had with her. His eyes closed and before he knew he was dragged into a dream that seemed more real than fantasy. His never seemed to remember his dreams upon waking; but he knew lots of people that could remember almost every dream they had while asleep.

Seth opened his eyes and found himself in front of Skye. Her soft blue eyes sparkled in the sunshine for they were standing in the very spot she had walked away from him. The ocean waves continued to washed up against their bare feet. "I want to continue with my music and I hope you understand." She spoke; but her words were muffled to his ears; but he knew exactly what she was saying.

"I do understand and I want you to be happy wherever you go." He replied on instinct because that was what he had said to her that day.

She reached out to him and took his hand into her own, brushing her thumb along the roughness of his skin. He thought about the what if's and the scene changed to his will; but even seeing things he wanted to see there was a price to pay for wanting things the way he wanted them to be. Seth reached out to her; but her hands were ice cold. Skye was laying in a pool of her own blood. The light from her eyes were gone and there was nothing left but an empty shell.

"Skye...Skye..." He repeated over and over again hoping they would bring her back to life.

"Seth..." Her voice whispered before fading away.

He closed his eyes and tried to will a different outcome; but nothing would come to him. His brain had a mind of its own and one that wasn't going to let him enjoy the dream that was presently playing inside it. He screamed in frustration and anger. He screamed for Skye and he screamed to anyone that would hear him.

"Seth, wake up!" Roman's voice demanded.

Seth shot up from the dream he was engulfed in and was held steady by a familiar face. Roman looked at his friend with concern. His eyes were wet from obvious tears spent during the night's duration. "What are you doing here?" He asked moving his sore body to a sitting position.

"Dude, you were screaming in your sleep. I had to come wake you up before someone called the cops or something."

"Thanks I guess...I got to leave for my MRI."

"I know. I'm driving you there. You can't drive with your leg the way it is."

Seth stood up weakly and took a few steps before the pain resurfaced full force. He began to limp to the bathroom to change. Roman took note of his odd behavior and put it together with what Rydia had told him about what he acted like at the arena. Seth was clearly trying to push them all away and it seemed it was all because of recent events.

"You know you can always talk to us about anything, right?" Roman asked loud enough so he could hear through the door.

When he got no response to his question, he took it upon himself to guess that he was not welcome there at all. Roman turned to leave when the bathroom door opened. "I just need some time alone to sort some things out. You guys don't really need me right now anyway." He replied pulling his hair into a low ponytail.

"Alright; but Rydia does need you. You sort the stuff you have to with Skye and get your ass back in gear."

"I don't need you telling me what to do."

"Do you want to abandon her and your friends then?"

"I'm not abandoning anyone!"

Roman made an annoyed sound and turned his back on him. Seth instantly regretting acting that way; but he couldn't take it back now that Roman already had left the room. All he could do now was do what he needed to do and hope that they would all forgive him when the time came to ask for it.

Seth made his way down to the lobby and out to the parking garage. He reached into his pocket for the keys to his rental. There were endless things racing through his mind that overwhelmed him to the point of clenching his hands around the steering wheel until his skin turned pure white. The release of anger didn't help ease his mind from the dream of Skye.

The Hospital

The specialists took great care not to put him in too much pain while moving his knee around to get the images they needed for a detailed report of the injury. The swelling had gone down significantly since the injury happened, which was a good sign that there was nothing seriously wrong. The wait for the results was the hard part. It was hard to stop his head from thinking about the worst case scenarios.

"Seth..." The nurse called.

"Yes..."

"The results are in, please come back with me to discuss them."

The tone of voice she presented instantly alarmed him. He limped back to the conference room. The doctor sat behind a large oak desk looking at the MRI photos. Seth was no doctor; but looking at the photo's he could see some things were not right about it. "Please sit down." The Doctor offered with a simple hand gesture.

"So what's wrong?" Seth asked.

"It looks like you have a torn ACL. You will definitely need surgery to repair it if you want to continue wrestling."

"When can we do that?"

"How about tomorrow morning?"

"That's fine..."

He slowly stood up to shake the doctor's hand. The nurse came in with a pair of crutches. Seth eyed them closely dreading the thought of using them for a long period of time. He also dreaded the thought of being out of action for a few months. The nurse adjusted them for his height before sending him on his way.

Outside the hospital, Skye waiting for Seth to arrive. She wore a pair of black ripped leggins with a boots over top of them of silver. Her shirt was a silver tank top with a scoop neck line. A long silver chain hung around her neck that held the large platinum tigerlilly pendant Seth had given her for a her birthday over a year ago.

The wait was killing her. She wanted to see him again and apologize for making the wrong choice. It wasn't entirely wrong, she loved music; but she gave him up to do something she could have done with him. Seeing Rydia again only confirmed that anything can happen if you want it bad enough.

"Skye..." His voice called.

She swiftly turned around to see him slowing walking towards her with crutches. Skye instantly knew that the MRI results must have been bad for him to be on crutches. Seth couldn't believe that she was actually right in front of him. He had thought about that moment hundreds of times over. She took a small step closer to him, choking on her words that she had planed on saying to him the moment she laid eyes on him.

"How are you?" He asked breaking the silence first.

"I've been better. How about you?" She replied with her own question.

Seth really didn't know how to answer her question. He was pretty sure that she knew about Rydia's dilemma and the things surrounding her; but he didn't know if she knew about the part he played in it. "I've been busy more than usual..." He finally told her.

"The Nick thing I'm guessing. I'm glad you're helping her out. Rydia deserves so much more than having him stalk her. Unfortunately, I'm kind of to blame for that."

"What do you mean?"

"Almost six years ago, I caught wind of Rydia's voice and placed her with a band that was in need of another singer. They warmed up to her pretty fast and before I knew it their popularity skyrocketed within the Dallas area. Nick was sketchy even then and I had second thoughts about putting her with them. I should have listened to my second thoughts."

"How could you possibly know what would happen? That isn't your fault and I highly doubt Ry blames you for it either."

Skye looked up from her hands at the sound of Rydia's nickname coming out of his mouth. She smiled at him understanding that he was close enough to her to be able to call her by that name. "You're pretty close to her aren't you?" She asked praying that it didn't sound like jealousy was infused with her voice.

"She's been a great friend same with Mia."

Relief washed over her in more ways than one and her smile only brightened, allowing her feelings for him entwine with her smile. Seth gazed at her, remembering that smile when it was meant for him. He wanted to know exactly why she asked to see him. It wasn't about small chit-chat about a friend they had in common.

"So why did you really ask to see me? It wasn't to talk about Rydia was it?"

"No, I wanted to see you because I wanted to apologize."

"Apologize for what?"

Again, the memories of what they had flowed into his head. Skye took hold of his hand that hung loosely over the left crutch. The feel of her touch sent spark up his arm and down his spine. The feeling was still same after all this time. "For walking away from you. It was clearly a mistake and I regret it." She admitted hoping that his reaction would be a positive one.

"What do you want me to say?" He asked.

"I was hoping for something good to come from this. I missed you Seth."

As much as he wanted to hear those words come from her mouth, he wasn't ready to accept them just yet. He still doubted her intentions. How was he to know that she wouldn't just take off again like she did the last time they got close? He pulled his hand away from her grasp and closed his eyes in both physical and emotional pain.

"I missed you to; but I'm can't just let you back into my heart. You may have walked away; but I didn't exactly give chase either. I haven't forgiven myself for that. I'm sorry that I wasted your time."

He began to walk away towards his parked car. Skye felt like everything was repeating all over again and she refused to let that happen a second time. She had to prove to him that her feelings were still there and very real. "Seth, I will prove you that I'm not going anywhere this time." She yelled but he never looked back.

End Note: I'm curious to know who your favorite character is and your favorite couple or potential couple. I hope your enjoyed this new installment.