FABIAN'S POV
I can't even imagine what Patricia must be going through. As I watch the limp Eddie fidget and toss and turn in his bed, I try to comprehend what he looked like the way Patricia described he had when he first slipped into this state. She must be terrified.
After what Joy told me Victor said, I began to worry. Something evil was stirring, something worse than an evil Frobisher or Victor or Rufus or even Senkhara.
A knock sounds at the door. Without turning my head away from Eddie, I say to come in.
"Hey, how's it going?" KT asks. She sits down next to me on my bed and curls her hands around my clenched fists. This makes feel calm and I release the tension in my fists.
"Have you ever wanted something so bad, wanted badly to make someone feel better, but it was just too out of reach, like you knew you just couldn't make it better?" I ask.
"Yes," she replies gently. "I have. I want to make you feel better and make you happy right now, but I know what I say isn't going to help. And I have to accept that what I do may not help at all. I care about you, but I see that this is too important to you. Eddie is one of your closest friends, and you're worried. I'll try my best, but I know you'll only feel better when you're ready."
Her words stir something inside me. I feel as if she's changed my perspective on everything in life. It's so true, what she says.
I rest my head on her shoulder. "When do you think this will end? Why do you think this happened?"
"I don't know Fabian," she whispers. "But we'll get through it. I promise."
At the sound of those words, something in me jumps. I feel changed. Everything around me changes.
"KT…" I say, then cut myself off. Instead, I swiftly lean forward and kiss her. I can feel she's shocked at first, but then she kisses back and throws her arms around my neck.
We stay locked on each other's lips until we hear coughing.
"Eddie," we say in unison.
"Eddie? Can you hear me?" KT says. "Eddie?"
"GAH!" Eddie jolts and flies upwards. He coughs and coughs until he can breathe properly again.
"Fab - Fabian?"
"Oh my God." KT falls against me in relief.
"Eddie, what happened?" I ask, hoping he's conscious enough to provide the details.
"Had a weird dream. Very weird. Bad feeling." His upper body is twitching.
"Can you remember it?"
Eddie suddenly shouts and thrusts himself forward, crying into his sheets. "I don't want to lose her! It's all gone!"
KT looks at me nervously. "What's wrong with him?" she whispers.
"I don't know," I say, wrapping my arms around her shoulders protectively.
Eddie sniffs and sits up. He shakes his head. "Fabian? What happened? What's going on? Is Patricia ok?"
I can't help but smile. Eddie choked and foamed and fidgeted and almost died, he woke up delirious and confused, and the first thing he's worried about is his girlfriend.
"Patricia's fine," I say reassuringly. "Now, I don't know if you have any memory of this, but just a moment ago, you mentioned a dream and some 'her' that you didn't name-"
"NO!" Eddie shouts. "No, no."
"Eddie, do you remember the dream?"
He bites his lip. "Yes."
"Can you - can you tell us?
Eddie shivers, but begrudgingly begins to explain.
"In the dream, I kept hearing this voice. It was a woman who was trying to, I don't know, seduce me or persuade me or something. She would whisper in my ear, but I could never see her. She would say things to me, horrible things, like 'I'd lose her' or 'I'd lose everything.'
"The next thing I know, I'm trapped inside this glass prism. I try to escape and break the glass with my powers, but I feel like I'm being drained of all the energy I have left. I try to break free, but the woman's tantalizing voice keeps laughing like she's… mocking me. She's always watching me.
"The dream shifts again, and I'm walking along the walkways outside of the school at night when I'm alone. I hear the whisper of the woman's voice again, and I follow it, stupidly. I'm guided to an open clearing of grass. Five tall trees surround me at equal distances, and for some reason, they remind me of everything horrible in the world. A shriek sounds, but I can't move. In the center, close to where I'm standing, is a golden bed engulfed in flames, but it isn't burning. There's a figure lying on the bed, but I'm stuck to the ground and can't move closer to see who it is. My feet feel like they're almost melting into the ground.
"When the woman's voice returns, she laughs again, but evilly. She no longer sounds like the sweet, innocent voice I heard before. I know she wants me dead.
"Fiery flames shoot out from the 5 treetops overhead. They connect to other trunks and form a shape. I glance up, and I see that they've made a flaming star symbol.
"I feel like everything is spinning, and suddenly, I'm on top of the figure on the bed. I glance down, and I see her, drenched in blood, and I know she's dying."
I stare. "Who was it Eddie? The woman?"
Tears well in Eddie's eyes.
"No. It was Patricia."