InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ It's Not Over Yet... ❯ Dream Trio ( Chapter 20 )

I do not own Inuyasha & Co.

 

Yes! The hiatus is over! Well, I already know what this chapter will be about. This chapter will contain some dream sequences. Though the significance will not come `til much later, I will be bringing the story along and skipping some time frames. So sit back and enjoy this interesting chapter.

 

 

Chapter 20: Dream Trio

 

 

 

My father and I are walking somewhere. It's in the city, on a crowded store side sidewalk.

 

“Are Mom and Tabby meeting us there?”

 

“Yeah, they'll be there in a bit.”

 

“Okay, we're just about there.” I sighed.

 

I was not looking forward to this, but what was it I was doing? Why am I here? This street looks familiar, but yet it doesn't. Where am I? Only my dad is with me and he looks somber. Why is he sad? I've never seen him like this. Where is Brian? Why isn't he with us?

 

We come to this storefront and walk in. The store in nothing but a front desk, one guy standing at the desk and no cash register. The walls were covered with nothing but what looked to be file cabinets. Is this some sort of filing company?

 

“Welcome, ma'am. What number?” The clerk asked.

 

“719” I said suddenly.

 

The clerk walks up to the wall on the right side and up to the door marked 719. He unlocks it and pulls it forward. What came out were not files, but a long silver bullet like piece of material. I walk up to it. It's not what I think it is. I look on the end of it; I see a face…Its…Brian's face!

 

~*~

 

Katie sat up suddenly in her bed, breathing heavily. “I can't believe what I saw! I saw Brian's casket! He was dead! That was why he wasn't with us.” Katie sat there and began to cry. She and Brian have become close since Prom and they had seen each other every weekend since her graduation.

 

Brian had gotten involved with this camp involved in his district. He was three towns north of his hometown, and he was only free during the weekends and Wednesday evenings. Brian was an Eagle Scout, and he and his friend, Ted, both decided to fulfill their Eagle Scout duties and help out the camp. Brian was the manager of the general store, while Ted was in charge of activities. Brian was able to call Katie during his off hours, but she missed seeing Brian.

 

What had caused her to dream about his death was beyond her. Yes, she missed him, but he wasn't in any immediate danger. It was hard for them to be away from each other for even one day after they got back together. Katie's parents allowed her to go up on Wednesday nights to see him.

 

The Wednesday after the dream, she went to go see him to tell him about her dream and see how he was doing. That night, they were having what they called `Fun' night. The girl and boy scouts in charge were going to play games in the forest. One of the games was Capture the Flag. It seemed as if no matter what Katie did; Brian was all caught up in what was going on with the other camp leaders. She took him off to his cabin to tell him about the dream she had, but they didn't really get to chat much due to everyone going in and out of his cabin the whole time.

 

Obviously, Brian and Ted were having a great time. They had what was called the `fun' cabin because they had the video game systems hooked up along with a TV in their cabin. Katie found out very quickly that she was nothing more than a distraction while she was there. Brian couldn't focus on her while she was there that night. He took her to the clubhouse after they realized they couldn't get any privacy in his cabin.

 

They found the clubhouse empty and sat down at a picnic table. Brian asked her why she had come all the way out there when he told her he was busy that night. Katie finally told him about her dream and how shaken up she was about it.

 

“Katie, it's just a dream. I'm okay see? I'm not dead and I don't think anything terrible is gonna happen to me while I'm here.” He assured her as he held her hands.

 

“I know, I just was a bit shaken and I couldn't go another day without seeing you.” Katie said as she looked into his eyes longingly.

 

“I'm sorry I'm so busy, honey. But do ya think we can get together this weekend? That would be much easier.” Brian mentioned.

 

“Why not tonight? You are free to do whatever ya want, as long as it's here, right?” Katie asked.

 

“Yeah, but they need me for the games they're playing tonight. Plus, we won't really get much privacy here, if ya know what I mean. They're all over the place tonight.”

 

Brian wasn't much for showing affections towards Katie while others were around. He was very shy about that in public. While no one was around, it was another story.

 

“They know you have a girlfriend, right?” Katie pressed.

 

“Yeah.” Brian shrugged.

 

“Well tell them you need them to leave you alone for tonight. They have to understand, you need time alone too, right?” Katie begged.

 

“I've tried that. Please, this will not be easy for us tonight. How about I spend a little more time with ya tonight and then we can get together all we want on the weekend?” Brian asked.

 

Katie pouted and said, “How about I wait in your cabin `til you're done. You're just gonna play a game, right?”

 

“Yeah, but you'll be all by yourself.” Brian pointed out as some of the camp leaders started to file in. Brian introduced Katie to them as they stepped in, noticing a new face. They were all young like Brian, and they were very kind. Katie did feel a bit out of place, but she would sit through anything to be with Brian at that point.

 

They all finally found their way into the Club House. They all gathered together and decided to start placing teams for Capture the Flag. The leaders were so nice they asked Katie to play with them so she could be with Brian. It seemed as if what Brian was talking about was true, and it looked bleak for any attention from him the rest of the night. Katie withdrew from the bunch and told Brian she'd be napping in his cabin.

 

As Katie left, rain began to fall hard. She ran to the cabin. As she stepped onto the front step of his cabin, she slipped off the step and fell into the mud. She hurt her ankle and scraped her knee. Once the pain hit, she began to cry. She crawled into the cabin and sat down on his bed, wet as a dog.

 

“If he's gonna choose to play a game over seeing his girlfriend, he can sleep on a wet bed tonight!” She screamed as she turned on the light and looked at the damage. She had twisted her left ankle, and it swelled. Only a couple of months earlier did she sprain that same ankle, her left ankle, the first time.

 

{Flashback}

 

Katie was dressed and ready for gym class. It was the week before Spring Break in March of her senior year. The seniors were having an assembly the next class to determine their classes during the week of Art Symposium. Katie was excited! She knew which classes she wanted to take. She wanted to take an acting workshop, a choir workshop, and the creative writing workshop. She was hoping those classes would not be too filled up by the time she got the chance to sign for them.

 

She took her place at the badminton net and met up with her partner, Lee. He was a tall and cute guy in her class. They hung around the whole semester. He also was a fellow student assistant in the library. That was how she met him. He was into martial arts, and anime. He was also a bit of an artist, and had quite the personality. No matter what came out of his mouth, she wound up laughing. He often got in trouble during the second class they had together, astronomy.

 

The game had started and Lee and Katie were having a good time. They were quite the team. Until disaster struck. The opposing team hit the birdie her way. Katie watched the birdie as it flew high above her head. She stepped backwards, ready to hit it. At the same time, a girl from another gym class ran to chase a volleyball.

 

Katie kept her eyes trained on the birdie when she suddenly bumped into someone, and she lost her balance. Katie then stepped on her left foot at such an angle that her foot caved in sideways. Katie hit the ground and the girl she bumped into just grabbed the volleyball and stood there staring at Katie as she rolled onto her side and grabbed her ankle, crying.

 

Lee saw what happened and ran to her side. He saw her ankle swell like a balloon. “I'm gonna go get the teacher. I'll be right back.”

 

Katie opened her eyes and looked at her classmates. They all just stood there and asked her if she was okay. She told them her ankle was sprained and she asked for help. No one moved. It was as if she was a leper or something. She could tell they were upset by the scene. None of them tried to reassure her that she'd be okay, or even helped to take her obstructing shoe off.

 

The girl she bumped into apologized and ran. Katie wanted so badly to hit her for being so stupid, but she was in too much pain. The teacher from the other gym class came by and took a look at her ankle to see what happened. She punished the girl who bumped into her and helped get Katie's shoe off. All the while, Lee was missing in action. Katie's teacher had sent him to the nurses' office to get a wheel chair.

 

Katie's teacher ran to her side and assessed the situation. That was when Lee returned with the nurse. He helped Katie to get up the stairs and helped her into the wheel chair outside the field house. Lee then went back to class since he couldn't get off to help her any longer. The nurse wheeled Katie to the office to get a closer look of her ankle and to notify her mother of the situation.

 

“Will I still be able to go to the assembly?” Katie asked as the bell rang, for the class to be over.

 

“No, we don't have wheel chair access to the auditorium from here, and you need to go to the doctor to have your ankle looked at.” The nurse explained.

 

“But please! I'm not gonna be able to sign up for the workshops I need to take! Please just wheel me down there.” Katie begged as she began to cry. Not because of the pain, but due to missing the assembly she had been looking forward to the whole week.

 

“No, I'm sorry, but you're just gonna have to miss it, Hun.” The nurse answered as tears began to fall from Katie's eyes. The very day she was looking forward to the most was turning out to be the worst day. Who knew what workshops she'd end up with, if only it weren't for that stupid girl. And all she did was grab her ball, say, `sorry' and ran off…'Bitch.' Katie thought to herself as the nurse handed Katie the phone for her to call her mom.

 

After about 20 minutes, Katie's mom arrived and they were off to the nearest clinic. It turned out Katie had definitely sprained her left ankle and it was a bad one. Not only would she be laid up at home with her foot propped up the rest of the day, but she would also be dealing with that pain throughout the trip her parents and her were going on down to Branson, Missouri. They were planning on going for the week of Spring Break, and a long week that was. She spent it on crutches. All because of a volleyball.

 

{End of flashback}

 

Katie lay on Brian's bed and dabbed the blood from her knee. It was storming outside now. She felt horrible, and she was all alone. She waited `til the blood on her knee stopped and her ankle felt a little better. She wrote him a note and decided to just go home. She didn't want anyone to see her like that. She was having a bad night and Brian wasn't helping an inch. Once the rain let up a bit, she left the cabin and walked as best as she could to her car and got in. She started the engine and drove off.

 

When she arrived home, her parents saw the mess she was in and they tended to her wounds and gave her some painkillers for her ankle. She crawled into bed and fell asleep.

 

~*~

 

She and her family were on their way to the school. It was night time out. Brian had asked them all to come and help him. He was itching to escape, and they were his ticket. Katie's father worked on planes in the air force during the Vietnam War. He knew how they worked and knew how to fix them. He would use her father to help create a diversion so he could slip away and be freed of war.

 

Brian had been drafted to fight in the third world war. Their high school had been turned into a war zone. There were planes sitting in the fields around the school. The school became the head quarters for the air force. Brian had said he didn't want to be involved in wars. He tried to avoid the military. When he was drafted, Katie cried, thinking she'd never see him again.

 

When Katie and her parents arrived, Brian met up with them right away and took them on a tour through the complex. When they showed the airplanes to Katie's dad, he right away went to work and created a diversion. One of the engines on the plane blew up.

 

Brian took Katie's hand and took off running down the street. They didn't get away without notice like they had hoped. A few of his colleagues caught him fleeing. In the military, they call those who flee traitors. Three of them took off after Brian and Katie. They reached the fleers and they cornered them in the middle of an intersection lit by streetlights. Brian held Katie to him as they circled the two.

 

“Where ya goin', Brian?”

 

“You're not fleeing, are ya?”

 

“You are not allowed to run, you're stuck. Only death awaits you if you flee. You know too much.”

 

Brian began to fear what he had done, but stood his ground. “Stay close to me Katie. I wouldn't want them to get their hands on you.”

 

“I won't leave your side.” Katie reassured as she watched the lunatics circle them like flies on meat.

 

“Nice woman ya got there, Brian. You fuck her yet? Is she good?”

 

“None of your business, asshole.” Brian seethed.

 

“Heh…When we're through with you, she's ours for the night.”

 

“You bastards! You won't lay a finger on her!” Brian shouted.

 

One of the guys got a hold of Katie's shirt and pulled her from him. Brian twirled around to late to grab a hold. The guy pulled Katie to the other side of the street. She screamed for him and fought as hard as she could to get away. She watched as the other two fought with Brian. He did his best to fight them off and dodge bullets. Katie got scared. She finally over powered the guy holding her and she hit him right between the eyes as hard as she could and knocked him out.

 

As she ran to Brian, a shot rang out and he stilled in his spot. He looked at her as he fell to the street.

 

“NOOOO!!!!!” Katie screamed as she ran to Brian's side. She cradled his head in her lap. He had been shot from behind, but the bullet went through his stomach. She saw blood seep from his mouth as he said her name. The guys they fought ran from the scene and left them be as he died in her arms in the middle of that lit intersection that night.

 

Katie sat up and screamed. Another dream of his death. After that, she cried for over an hour. That dream had seemed so real. She looked out the window. It had stopped raining. She looked at the manual alarm clock and saw that it was 6:00 am. She laid there in her bed as tears fell one by one.

 

She heard her fathers' voice in the living room. He was talking about generators. She looked up to her ceiling and noticed her fan was off. She got up to turn it back on. When she flipped the switch, nothing happened.

 

“Oh no, the power's out.” Katie groaned. That meant there was no way she could sleep. She couldn't sleep in complete silence, so she stepped out into the hallway looking for her parents. Neither of them was there, and her dad's work truck was still in the driveway.

 

“What the…why isn't dad at work?”

 

After about an hour, Katie's mother came home and told her the news. The neighborhood had been flooded due to the hard rains from the night before. It had rained hard for 12 hours straight and all the sewers and retention ponds had overflowed. They had been out helping the neighbors whose homes were flooded. Overall, not much excitement, other than it being the night of a hundred year flood in Aurora.

 

They found out the street her sister and brother in law's house was on was actually a river over a hundred years ago. Many residents in the Aurora area found out they lived on flood plains and insurance basically screwed a lot of them. Many people were rendered homeless and many people wound up losing vehicles due to the high waters.

 

Her sister and brother in law wound up moving back into their parent's house due to the flooding their house endured. They needed to refurbish the house due to all the water. The Lindens were lucky. They only had maybe an inch of water come up from the toilet in the basement. No harm done, whereas the house across the street from them wound up with six feet of water in their basement.

 

Brian called that night to ask if she was okay. He told her that that night after they all had gone to bed, lightning had struck this dead tree right next to Brian's cabin. He said that if the branch that broke off had fallen just a few feet the other way, it would have landed on their cabin. Katie really was shaken up over that news, but she was relieved that they all made it through then night safely.

 

Most of the rest of the month of July, things were busy with the family, since they were spending all free time to help refurbish Katie's sister's house. Brian came down on the weekends and on Wednesday nights. He decided not to repeat what had happened earlier that month with Katie. He felt bad she hurt herself while she was there and he was beginning to miss her more than anything.

 

Finally, August came around, and Brian was free of camp. They had a whole month to themselves. They saw each other every day and had a good time, least `til Brian started school. He still had his senior year left as Katie started college. Katie was having fun. She had been taking voice lessons and was working in the library all summer at the community college where she applied.

 

She started her classes full time and she also devised a schedule to keep working in the library during the semester. She was getting good grades and doing well. She had many things she was involved in and her teachers were great. She met many new people and made new friends. College was proving to be just as fun if not better than high school. Even with her busy schedule, she was able to plan to show up for Brian's special events with the choirs as well.

 

After one hard evening at the library in October, she came home and started her homework. Once she was finished, she was so tired, she decided to head to bed early. She said goodnight to her parents and her sister and brother in law and then closed her door. She changed into her nightclothes, turned of the lights and snuggled under her covers.

 

~*~

{First person POV}

 

 

“Did you pack everything?” I asked Brian next to me in the bus seat.

 

“Yeah, I think so.” Brian answered as he looked through his backpack for his walkman.

 

I looked around me, and noticed we were on a bus filled with other kids. We were on a field trip. For what reason, I don't know. We were going through this town, which looked vaguely familiar, but I couldn't make out where. All I could think about was Brian and I being in our own hotel room by ourselves. I couldn't wait to make it to the pool and swim with him.

 

We arrive at this little tiny motel out in the middle of the town. It was no Holiday Inn that was for sure. When we got all our stuff off the bus, we were led to our rooms. Only it didn't look like we were going to be alone after all. The rooms seemed to only be separated by cloth hanging from the ceilings.

 

“Odd.” I stated as I looked around at our `supposed' motel room.

 

“Yeah, I guess we're sharing?” Brian asked as he set down his bags.

 

I walked up to the sheet hanging at the end of our room and pushed it aside. I saw this family of four sitting in front of a TV. They looked at me like I had ants all over me.

 

“Hi!” I said as I raised my hand and smiled sheepishly.

 

“Hi…” They drawled out and turned their attentions back to the TV.

 

I let the sheet fall and just stood there for a second as I thought about how their room looked. They had no personality and they looked like they were living in the 70's. I shrugged and turned to the bed where Brian sat and our luggage was stacked around him. He was rummaging through his suitcase and his backpack.

 

“Damn!” He shouted.

 

“What's wrong?” I asked as I stepped up beside him.

 

“I forgot my swimming trunks!”

 

I know where they are! They're at my house. Ya want me to go get them? Or do ya want to go and buy a pair?” I asked.

 

“I'll go look to see if I can buy a pair, but I'm not sure we'll be able to find any since its not swimming season. Ya wanna go see if ya can go get `em from home?” He asked.

 

“Sure, I'll call mom's cell phone.” I mentioned as I picked up the room phone and dialed the number.

 

It turned out she was in the area with the suburban. She swung by and picked me up and we went back to the house. I drove the suburban on the way back to the motel. I was just coming up to the bridge before town when mom's cell phone started to ring. She picked up the phone and said it was Brian. I pulled over and answered the phone.

 

“Hey honey, what's up?” I asked.

 

“Hey. I'm on the street corner by the general store. I couldn't find any pairs of trunks. Did you find mine at your mom's?”

 

I looked forward and I saw him standing at the phone booth. “Yeah, we found them. I'm just at the other end of the bridge, can you see us?” I asked as he looked up and waved. I waved back.

 

Suddenly, a car lost control and rammed into the building where Brian was standing at the phone. The car crushed him between the hood and the brick building. I screamed as I heard his grunting from the impact. I screamed his name in the phone over and over. His body slumped over to hood of the car and the phone lost connection. I saw it happen. I saw his death.

 

{End of first person POV}

 

“AAAAHHHH…Ha ha hahahaaaaa….” Katie sat up crying once again. Her heart fell as the images of that gruesome accident went through her mind. At first, she thought the other dreams she had of his death were due to him being far away at camp, but he's only five minutes away at school. She really began to worry if something wasn't right. Three very different dreams, very different scenarios and he died every time. She wondered if these dreams were trying to tell her something.

 

~*~

 

“Hey John!” Katie called out as she stepped into the stacks at the library, seeing John shelving a book.

 

“Hey, Katie. What's up?” He responded, turning towards the cart next to him for another book.

 

“I got something really odd to tell you.” She said as she walked up to the cart and grabbed a book as well.

 

“What's that?” He asked as he stuck the book back into its rightful spot.

 

“Well, I know I didn't tell you about this earlier, but something's bothering me. Brian and I have been dating since March, and you know how I told you he spent the summer at camp?”

 

“Yeah.”

 

“Well, I had three dreams since June. In those three dreams he was either already dead, or he was killed right before my eyes. What do you think that means?” Katie asked.

 

“Whoa…Hmm…I really don't know. Maybe we should check the section that has books on dreams. We might be able to find something.” He mentioned. Katie followed him to the section all the way in the front. They found a book that held meanings of dreams and the like. Katie stood there and thumbed through it.

 

“If ya find anything, let me know. Maybe you should check it out and we can sit together at lunch tomorrow and talk about it. I'm interested in what you find.” John said as he walked back to his cart of books.

 

Katie continued to thumb through the book as she walked back to the circulation desk and checked the book out. John was one of Katie's new friends. She met him her first night at college. They had math class together. They hit it off after just a few minutes. They had been talking almost constantly after that. She had introduced John and Brian soon after they met. Brian and John had also become friends. John was a very sweet guy. He was her age and he lived the next town south of her in Oswego.

 

Since their math class was in the evenings, they would leave after it had already fallen dark. Katie ended up parking in the overflow parking lot, which was quite a walk from the building where their math class was held. John was afraid for Katie, and walked her to her car every evening they had class. If it rained, he would drive her to her car.

 

That night, she looked through the book, and tried to get some info on it, but she came up trumps. No matter how many books she later went through for explanations, she found nothing of use. All they could give her were possibilities and theories. After a bit, she decided to let it go and consider it just coincidence and move on.

 

~*~

 

Freaky chapter, ne? These dreams have no relevance just yet, but they will be of great importance much later. From here on out, there will be jumps in the timeline. It's important that I skip time not only due to holes in my memory, but also due to things happening in those periods of time that have absolutely no relevance to the story. I'd like to get the ball rolling to keep you all entertained. I try to focus on the important parts that add up to where the story twists and turns later on, and I'm talking about twists…(Author twists her body like a pretzel just thinking about it.)

 

*crack* Ah...That felt good *sigh* I needed that…'Til next time, Ja ne!