Sweet Dreams - Page 11 - The Black Parade

Julia · 09-30-2008, 01:33 AM

Omgzzzzz!

:O

*Is in shock*

**Angila** · 09-30-2008, 12:01 PM

Thank-you all for the comments! I love you. <33

**Angila** · 10-03-2008, 12:47 AM

Ok, first things first, I want to thank you all who voted for me! Ash, Nicki, Amelia, RachelS, Patricia, Randi, and Moonshyne--THANK-YOU! And thank-you to everyone who continues to read any story I write...I love you all, truly. You are the reason I keep writing at all. <33333333333333
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My eyes were squeezed tightly shut; I could feel someone’s hot breath on my ear. “Whoa, that was intense,” He whispered. I opened my eyes to see Frank’s face mere centimeters from my own.

“You…you saw Sarah?”

“Yes,” He nodded. “Sarah Gillen, right?”

His mother still sat across from us, her eyes wide as she regarded us both. “Do you suppose this is…real?” She asked, putting her hand over her heart.

“Yes,” Frank told her with absolutely no hesitation. “Sarah needs our help. Come on, Nicki.” With no warning he pulled on my wrist, yanking me to my feet.

“No Frank, wait!” His mother chased after us as he pulled me through the house toward the door. “You can’t go on some wild goose chase. Besides, you saw what happened at the end…”

“Yeah, I got shot.” He sounded wholly unconcerned at the prospect.

“Don’t take it so lightly,” She whispered, looking very near tears.

He stopped and turned, his hand still grasping my wrist. “Don’t worry Mom, my girlfriend will protect me.” He greatly exaggerated the word ‘girlfriend’ as he rolled his eyes and shot me a grin. He continued to drag me to the door, but she didn’t give up.

“Nicki, dear, please don’t let him to anything stupid!”

I could do nothing but shrug as the door shut behind us. “Where are we going?”

“I don’t know, really.” He stopped at the top of the subway entrance, glancing down the steps. “Your place?”

“I guess so…”

We hurried down the steps, as if getting to my place quicker would somehow help little Sarah. Frank lurched out of the way of an older man, just avoiding a collision. I stopped and took a second glance at the man as Frank unknowingly continued on without me.

I must have looked like an idiot, staring at that old man, because Frank called back in an exasperated voice. “Nicki! What the hell are you doing?”

I was snapped from my reverie and smiled sheepishly. “Sorry, I just feel like I’ve seen that guy somewhere before.”

“Maybe he’s your Grandpa?”

I couldn’t help but roll my eyes. “Duh.”

“Hell, I don’t know, Nicki. Just come on.” He pulled me toward the approaching car, but I couldn’t stop myself from sneaking another glance at the old man.

Everything began to fall into place at once. The nearby trashcan, the woman in the purple coat walking by…”Frank, it’s him!” I jerked from Frank’s grasp just as the man began clutching at his chest. “Sir, are you okay?” He fell to one knee, looking up at me in desperation.

“My…”

“Someone call 911!” I screamed, as the man began gurgling and fell face-first on the cold cement.

I glanced over my shoulder and noticed that Frank was already on it, his cell phone in his hand. “Help is on the way, sir,” I told him, trying to keep my expression hopeful.

“My…” He said once again, pawing at his coat.

“I’m sorry, I can’t understand you. Your what?” I bent to him, but he only mumbled in response. “What do you need? Your what?”

Frank knelt next to me and threw open the man’s coat. He reached into the man’s pocket, and I batted his hand away. “What the fuck are you doing?! Robbing him?”

“Jesus Christ, Nicki, no! The man needs his fucking pills!” He brandished a small prescription bottle and shook it in my face for effect. “See?” Quickly he popped the top and fished a tiny white pill out. “Here, sir. I do believe this is what you were after.” The man’s head lay back, and his face looked gray. “Sir? Come on, I have your pill right here! Take it!” The man was completely unconscious. Frank pried open his mouth, grimaced, and pushed the pill under his tongue. “I think that’s where it’s supposed to go. I guess I don’t know for sure, though.”

I was shaking uncontrollably. Even though we’d done all we could do, he looked dead. “This man…I’ve been having dreams about him. I knew him from my dreams.” Frank opened his mouth, then closed it again. Neither of us spoke again until the paramedics arrived.

**Angila** · 10-03-2008, 12:52 AM

He was hauled up the stairs to a waiting ambulance, but I didn’t hold out much hope that he would survive. With heavy hearts we continued our trip to my apartment. Leading him up the stairs, I finally spoke to him when my key hit the lock. “Thank-you, for that. If you hadn’t been there I wouldn’t have known what to do.”

“I don’t know if it’s going to help anyway,” He mumbled, following me into my darkened living room.

“Maybe not, but at least his chances are slightly better now.” I flipped the lights on and noticed Frank glancing around.

“Nice place.”

“Not really. You don’t have to lie.”

He grinned as he threw himself back on my couch. “Okay, fine I won’t. Looks like you need a better job.”

“Well, what do you do for a living?”

He laughed slightly, pulling a throw pillow from beneath him and resting his head on it. “Nothing better than you do, believe me.”

We talked through out the night, neither of us ready to believe that the man’s presence in my real life cemented what was happening to us. Believing we were both fucked in the head was easier to swallow than this. Now we had to face the reality of it all. The man existed, my firefighter probably existed, the woman Frank saw pushed, little Sarah…everyone. “I think,” He began hesitantly, “That we should call the hospital and check on our old friend.”

A nervous feeling spread throughout the pit of my stomach, but I nodded none-the-less. “You know which hospital they took him to?”

“Yeah,” He responded, already dialing. “Yes, I’m calling about a heart-attack victim brought in about 3 hours ago. Yeah, from the subway.” He listened for a moment, and when his face dropped I already knew. He hung up without saying another word.

“He died,” I stated flatly.

He nodded, throwing his phone back down on my coffee table. “This fucking sucks, Nicki. What’s the use of knowing the shit’s gonna happen if we’re powerless to stop it?”

I sat up suddenly, Frank’s last statement sparking a new idea within me. “Well…think about it. I didn’t really know he was going to be there tonight. What if…what if we set ourselves up to be in the right place at the right time?”

“Okay, I understand what you’re saying, but sometimes it’s not that easy. Do you have any idea where we were when we found Sarah? Did you recognize the surroundings?”

“No…” I shook my head sadly. “But maybe we could look for clues, and figure it out.”

He screwed up his face in a doubtful expression. “I don’t know, Nicki…we aren’t fuckin’ super-heroes. You saw the end of that…vision or whatever the fuck you want to call it. I got my ass shot. No thank-you. My ass if far too precious to have a bullet lodged in it.”

I snorted loudly. “You don’t want to help Sarah? You want to let her die?”

“Of course not! I’m just saying…I don’t want us to get hurt over this, ya know? I’m willing to help, to try. But if it comes down to us or them, we have to choose us. It may sound selfish, but I don’t care. Tell me you can understand this.”

“I do. I don’t want us to get hurt either.”

“Okay. So tomorrow, we’ll start poring over newspapers and stuff, watch the news, things like that. We’ll see if we can find out anything about Sarah, or any of the other dreams. You can even look for your loser fireman if you want.”

“What?! Why the hell did you call him that?”

He yawned, laid back and threw an arm across his eyes. “I don’t know. He just sounds like a dipshit to me. But you can put all your eggs in that basket if you want. I’m sure he’ll be your knight in shining armor.”

He didn’t say any more, so I kicked out the recliner on my chair and got comfortable. I hadn’t even realized we’d both fallen asleep until I began to have fitful dreams…

“Nicki. Nicki, wake up.” I opened one eye to find Frank nose to nose with me.

“What the hell do you want?” I rolled over, attempting to go back to sleep.

“Do you care if I take a shower? I don’t have time to get home and take one there before I have to be at work.”

“Yeah, I don’t care.” I pulled the blanket I’d somehow miraculously acquired over my head and instantly fell back asleep.

What could only have been a few minutes later there was a knock on my door. “Who is it?” I called angrily, pissed off that no one wanted to let me sleep this morning.

“It’s Julia! I just wanted to check on you…Can I come in?”

“Yeah, one sec Jools.” Begrudgingly I got up and made my way to the door.

“Whoa, hard night?” She asked upon inspecting my disheveled appearance.

“You could say that.” I opened the door wide enough for her to enter and stood there rubbing my eyes.

“So did you go see the doctor?”

“Yeah.”
She stared at me expectantly, waiting for more. Somehow, I didn’t pick up on this. “So, what did she say?”

“Uh…I don’t know. Nothing really. Want some coffee?” I made my way to the kitchen to start making it when a masculine voice filled the room.

“Hey Nicki? Do you happen to have a t-shirt I can borrow? I can’t wear the same shirt to work two days in a row-“ He stopped suddenly when he noticed Julia standing there. “Shit, sorry. Didn’t know you had company.” Julia’s neck could have snapped, she looked at me so quickly. Of course, he was shirtless and had wet hair from his shower. I’d forgotten he was even still here. This did not look good.

“Uh…yeah, no problem. Just go into my bedroom, second drawer of my dresser. Pick which ever one you want.”

“Okay, thanks.”

He disappeared, and Julia looked ready to explode. “So, that's what you were doing all night?! Who the hell is that? Was it good?”

“No, Jools it’s not like that! He’s just a friend.”

“Bullshit! Friends don’t come out of your bathroom half naked!”

“I swear to God, Julia! There’s nothing going on!”

She looked about ready to retort again, but Frank reappeared. “Thanks, Nicki. I’ve got to get going now, but will I see you tonight then? We can do, ya know, what we talked about.” I nodded quickly, forcing myself not to look in Julia’s direction.

“Yeah, we can do that.”

He smiled and opened the door. He glanced from Julia’s shocked expression to me, then grinned wildly. “I had a really nice time last night, Nicki. I mean, it was AH-MAZING.” The fucker. He knew what she was thinking, and had just made things all that much worse for me.

“Yeah, yeah. Bye Frank.”

He laughed again as he shut the door behind him. “Bye Nicki!”

Julia whirled to me, but I waved my hands in her face. “Don’t even start with me. He an ass and was just playing it up for you.” I marched to my bedroom to ready myself for work, but she was on my tail.

“Oh yeah? So what ‘thing’ are you going to do tonight? Some new position I’ve never heard of, or what?”

“Oh God, shut up!” I yelled, throwing my dirty shirt as hard as I could at her.

She leaned into the doorframe and crossed her arms over her chest. “Here I was, all worried about you. But looks like you can take care of yourself just fine. Why haven’t I heard about this guy yet?”

“Because I just met him yesterday.”

Her eyebrows shot up and she clucked her tongue. “Jesus, Nicki! That’s not your usual style, but hey, who am I to judge?”

“For fuck’s sake, I am not going to tell you again. I am not sleeping with that guy!”

“Okay, let’s say I believe you. Why the hell AREN’T you sleeping with him? He’s cute, he spent the night here, and he was naked in your bathroom. You must be an idiot.”

I laughed and tossed my hairbrush at her as well. “Get the hell out of here. I’ll tell you all about it at work, okay?”

“I’ll go, only if you promise to give me every juicy detail when you get there. I’m sure Mikey would love to hear it as well.”

“Just, go, Julia!” I yelled, laughing at her.

She finally scooted out, and I had to admit that I welcomed this bit of comic relief. It helped keep my mind off everything else, including the man I’d let die last night.

**Lokeriel** · 10-03-2008, 01:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Angila

Ok, first things first, I want to thank you all who voted for me! Ash, Nicki, Amelia, RachelS, Patricia, Randi, and Moonshyne--THANK-YOU! And thank-you to everyone who continues to read any story I write...I love you all, truly. You are the reason I keep writing at all. <33333333333333

you totally deserved it, love!
(and personally, I think you should've won sooner)
I'm loving this story like, SO much!
It's totally weird, and I can't wait to see what happens next (and I hope the old dude is ok!!!)

EDIT: eep! you posted more when i was commenting! *goes to read the rest* xD

Sazor · 10-03-2008, 01:04 AM

wooo! all cleared uo now! and it was AH-MAZING tehe!

**TheNickiOfDoom** · 10-03-2008, 02:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Angila

“Okay, let’s say I believe you. Why the hell AREN’T you sleeping with him? He’s cute, he spent the night here, and he was naked in your bathroom. You must be an idiot.”

I agree with that so hard. xD!

Amazing update my love.
Can't wait for more.

Moonshyne · 10-03-2008, 03:35 AM

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Originally Posted by Angila

Ok, first things first, I want to thank you all who voted for me! Ash, Nicki, Amelia, RachelS, Patricia, Randi, and Moonshyne--THANK-YOU! And thank-you to everyone who continues to read any story I write...I love you all, truly. You are the reason I keep writing at all. <33333333333333

You really deserved this. I wanted to vote for Linger a couple of times but real life go in my way and I forgot.

But I remembered this time and made sure that I voted for you. Congrats!!!

Now for the story.

I thought it might be a vision or a memory or something like that. I hope they get to save her in time, without Frankie getting shot. I feel bad that they couldn't save the man. But it just makes it more human in them wondering can they really help, I loved that aspect of it.

I loved the whole exchange between Julia, Nicki, and Frankie it was really funny and cute. And Julia was right why isn't she sleeping with him. LOL!!!

Great update and looking forward to more.

And again congrats!!!

RachelS · 10-03-2008, 04:23 AM

Congrats Angila! You so deserve this

I really liked that chapter, with the whole bit at the end. It cracked me up xD. I agree with Moonshyne about how the fact that they didn't save him made them seem more real.

I'm looking forward to more :]

**Angila** · 10-03-2008, 11:59 AM

Thank-you, girls! <333
xoxo