"Ash, can you come down here for a minute?" Charles called Ash from downstairs in their home, and with a sigh Ash stood up from her bed and slowly made her way down stairs, with her head hung low, and upon entering the living room she saw Ish sitting there on the couch.

"Hey Ash, thought you could use some company." Ish said with a big smile as Ash took a seat on the couch next to him.

"I don't know Ish, I'd almost rather be alone." Ash said sadly, and that earned a frown from Ash.

"Ash what's going on?" Ish asked in a concerned tone as Charles left the room to start working on dinner with Ash's step-mom.

"I don't want to talk about it ." Ash said in a low pain filled whisper, that Ish heard clearly.

"Ash, you can trust me, I want to help you." Ish said with a smile as he put a hand on her shoulder, and that made Ash raise her head and look at him, and a small smile emerged on her formally depressed face.

"Thanks Ish." Ash said simply.

"Should we go somewhere more private?" Ish asked his best friend, and with a sigh, Ash and Ish stood up and waled up to he room, making sure to leave the door open a crack.

"Ish, I haven't felt right since I've been poisoned, I've been having... dreams." Ash said in slow tone.

"What kind of dreams have you ben having?" Ish asked in a concerned tone.

"They almost seem prophetic," Ash began with a sigh, "I'm seeing things I can't un-see." Ash said with a sad sigh.

"Ash," Ish said slowly as he put a hand on her shoulder, "what have you seen?" he asked his best friend.

Ash hesitated for a few seconds, but she trusted Ish, he had trusted her when no one else had, she had deep rooted feelings for him, if she could trust anyone with this secret, it would be Ish.

"Ish, I had a dream where... I killed everyone." Ash said in a pained tone, and that earned a confused look from Ish.

"What do you mean you killed everyone?" Ish asked her.

"I killed everyone on the team, I slaughtered them like cattle." Ash said as a tear escaped from her green eyes, and that earned a brief shocked look from Ish, but it was almost instantly gone and replaced with a concerned look.

"You killed everyone in your dream-." Ish began before Ash interrupted.

"Ish, in the dream you begged for mercy, but I didn't care, I felt this hatred for you, and I...I snapped your neck and killed you." Ash said as she finally broke down and began to cry, letting Ish see all the raw emotional pain she was going through, and it almost broke his heart.

"Ash, I'm so sorry, no one should go what you've gone through." Ish said as he took a risk and wrapped her up in his arms, giving her a soft hug, while it did help, the comforting feeling did not last long.

"Ish, I keep seeing horrible visions every time I fall asleep, I cant take it much longer." Ash said as she kept crying, and that made Ish ponder for a moment.

"Ash, I thought RZ gave you medicine for that?" Ish asked his best friend.

"He did," Ash began as she composed herself for a minute, "I fell asleep on accident earlier, and I had another horrible nightmare, I saw myself killing the team again, but this time I was aware of what I was doing, I didn't want to, but I couldn't stop it." Ash said in a pain filled whisper, leaving out the voice that she had heard in the dream, as she didn't want to alarm her best friend.

"Ash, I've known you for a long time, and I know you would never willingly do this." Ish said as he tried to comfort the red haired Guardian.

"Ish, you don't understand, I saw you die, I felt your neck break as I snapped it, I literally thought I had gone to far to stop." Ash said as she could no longer compose herself and she broke down again, and Ish wrapped her up in a hug again, but this time she hugged him back, which surprised Ish, but then again, with what state she was in, he wasn't really surprised, as unknown to Ash, Ish had unknowingly kept his communication app on, and RZ, as well as the other Guardians had overheard every word.

"OK, I am officially freaked out." Marty said as he sat on his bed at the HOK.

"Guardians, I ask you not to judge Ash, she has been poisoned after all, and we don't know what this poison is doing to her, her dreams are not the real Ash." RZ said wisely.

"I agree with RZ," Joseph began as he paused to take a breath, "I've only known Ash a few months, but I can tell you, what she's seeing in her dreams is not going to happen, it just can't, it's not who she is." Joseph comforted his fellow Guardians, and his words calmed them down, be it very slightly.

I'm sorry it's short, but next chapter has a fight, a very good fight.