Revamped!

[By the end of this chapter, you will be happy. Especially all you Sigyn/Xavier shippers].


Chapter 67: Her Request

Xavier is in the middle of the best dream he has ever had.

He started as a pre-teen. He was riding his bike around the block of his childhood neighbourhood and everything was bliss except for the fact that he can't see. Or was that the part that makes this bike ride great? Sitting on his bicycle's handlebars was a girl. Her golden hair flew back, blocking his sight and tickling his face.

"Xavier, I have to get home," she told him.

"I'm taking you home." He replied. She glared at him. "We're just taking the scenic route."

And when they fell off his bike and she started laughing, that was the moment when Xavier realized that he had a crush on that girl.

A year or two passed and she disappeared for some odd reason. The rumours around school that circulated were false despite nobody proving that they were wrong. People always thought the worse and knowing how crazy she was, it was easier to believe.

But then she came back.

The rumours were untrue and he knew that as he looked right into her bright eyes for the first time since she came back. They were speechless as they stared at each other and he kept that going as he pulled her close and -

Another year or two passed and he knew that they were in love with each other.

She's the only one standing on the streets of New York, facing him with a bright and contagious smile. Suddenly she laughs so hard that she has to bend over and wrap one arm around her cramping sides, the other arm is used to point her laughter at him.

She then stands up straight and starts to run away from him.

"Try to catch me!" She screams.

He tries to run after her but he can't keep up. He just keeps on watching her run further and further away until the streets he knew became an unfamiliar dark grey forest. There's fog looming and all the plants around are dead. He's unsure of where he is but suddenly, someone zips by him. He quickly turns around and sees that the person has their back to him and that they stopped running. When they turn around, it hits him.

It's her.

It's her but at the same time, it's not.

It's the young girl he fell in love with but it's also her seven years later.

It's Britney Braun but it's also Sigyn Lokisdottir.

She's sad. She's hurting. She's scared.

She looks right at him and suddenly he feels uneasy to see her.

"You have to save him," she begs.

Those words nearly skip his ears because he's too busy looking at her. She still has thick, golden-blonde hair, and the fine almost translucent complexion that goes with it. She has always been beautiful but not in any regular or classic way. The way he sees her now shows that her beauty is deeper and much more complex than it ever was - as if it was just beginning to discover all its possibilities.

That's what causes him to wake up.

-o-

Xavier's Apartment - Manhattan - 3:08 AM

He wakes up shivering and sweating. Xavier immediately gets up and sits on the edge of his bed, holding his head in his hands and closing his eyes again. It takes him a while to process what he just dreamt since, never in the seven years, did he or any of his friends have a dream with Britney in it that intense. Never. Not even a dream with Apollo. Everything they've dreamt were memories. They were all truly kept in the dark about how Apollo and Britney were for the past seven years.

That's why he's shivering. Why did a dream with her happen? What was everything after he left New York? Why now?

Xavier stands up off his bed and leaves the room. He enters one of the spare rooms that he turned into a home gym of sorts with a few machines, weights, and a punching bag. Xavier stretches as a warm-up before wrapping up his hands and facing the punching bag.

He can't go back to sleep. Not after that dream. He needs to tire himself down to the point where he just blacks out and sleeps.

Something about that dream was haunting and he can't figure out which part. Was it the memories that started the dream or that eerie ending?

So he starts punching - punching away that dream, his locked up feelings, his memories, everything - the bag stops moving.

Xavier puts his hands flat on the punching bag and gives it a light push only to see that something must be blocking it from behind. Xavier puts his hands on the sides and feels two cold hands clasp on top of his.

Then he finds himself holding a dead tree in the middle of the dark forest from his dream instead of his punching bag. The hands are still there and Xavier doesn't move them because he only knows one person who would wear over ten rings on one hand alone. Xavier peeks around the tree, keeping his hands where they are and sees Sigyn standing on the other side. Her head is kept down and against the tree in which her hair is falling over the sides of her face.

"You have to save him," she begs again.

It feels as if he's still dreaming.

She lifts her head and looks right into his eyes. Her hypnotizing green eyes stand out in her pale face which is being framed by her golden blonde hair.

"You have to save him," she begs for a third time.

Sigyn lets go of him. She instantly turns around and starts running deeper into the forest.

Xavier watches her run until he blinks and sees himself back in his apartment. He shakes his head, leaving that room. Xavier paces back and forth around his apartment, her words echoing in his head. For a moment, he's thinking to ignore it and just accept the fact that the encounter with Thor spooked him.

Apollo and Britney supposedly left Asgard and have been gone for a while. Maybe they went to that forest? Maybe they separated after they left and she went to that forest?

But still, why have the dream now and not in the past seven years when he's been missing Britney Braun with all his heart? Why did this happen right after Thor said that she and Apollo might not be okay? Why only have a dream with Britney in it? Why have a dream that consisted of memories and whatever that last part in the forest was? Why did a continuation of the forest dream happen when he was awake? And most important: why did Britney say the same phrase to him three times?

He knows the answer to his questions - because it wasn't a dream but reality. She was telling him or begging him to do something and was just communicating it through a dream.

Xavier knows what to do to get his answers. He'll save him, just like Britney wanted. Xavier knows exactly who she's talking about so he starts packing to go find him. The only problem is that he doesn't know where to start looking.


[Aha, yay, Sigyn is here! Most of those dream snippets were from Sigyn's story].

If you're new to this series or you just forgot, Britney Braun and Sigyn Lokisdottir are the same person.

Stay Tuned - He's finally coming back but it won't be a happy friendship reunion…