[FIC] dancing and dreams (G.I. 6)
Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2004 12:16 am
Part 6
It was way past bedtime but neither of the girls was going to say anything. Loki had long since passed out on the floor. Both girls had wet nails and face masks on. They were quite a sight sitting in their p.j.’s with the bowls of food all around them. By this time they were more than slaphappy.
“…So then he blows up the shoe lockers!” Kaname howled. Natasha was rolling on the floor with laughter. They had been trading boy stories and some of the Sousoke ones were just too much. Either that or they had had too much soda.
“That is better than the flash bang. You really got your hands full. Too bad that you are going to end up marring the poor sap.” Natasha had tears in her eyes from laughing so hard.
“Yeah about that whole aura deal. Were you just trying to get him off the hook or are you being serious?” Kaname was pretty sure this was some kind of joke. But the tone of Natasha’s voice didn’t give any hint to it.
“No it’s true. Here I can show you my aura.” Natasha closed her eyes and concentrated. Her outline went a little blurry. Then slowly almost as if it wasn’t real colors began to glow around her body. It was interesting to see that it wasn’t just one color, but rather a multitude of them. Some were really bright and others seemed to be darker than black. There were even a few colors that Kaname did know the names of, most likely because they did not exist out in the real world. Kaname was more than shocked, especial when it didn’t go away after Natasha had opened her eyes. “Funny thing, I was born blind, well blind by most standards. My eyes wouldn’t open, but I could still see thing in some respects. I don’t have a great memory of that time. But when I was four my parents took me to a doctor and got me fixed. Well it turned out that what I had been seeing was using a part of my brain that not most people used. The doctors did a bunch of test but couldn’t come up with a reason for why I would have active brain cells in that part. Well I know why so that’s all that really matters.” Natasha smiled, she waved her hand and the color was gone.
Kaname was a little dumfounded. She didn’t really know what to say. She just started at Natasha for a while. “It’s okay.” Natasha said. “My family and all the other people that know gave me the same look. Speaking of look, look at the time!”
The girls head to bed. But first they had to wash off their facemasks and some of the other body creams they had on. Once in the bed both girls were out like lights. They had school tomorrow and a dance. Things would be interesting.
It was only too bad that the person watching them wasn’t even thinking of sleeping.
*
Natasha’s dream hurt. She could feel pain and she knew it was really. The hands that she saw were not her own. Inside Natasha wanted to help the body she was trapped in, but that was impossible. The dream was a reminder of why she had come. Why they had sent her. She needed to stay on task.
Suddenly the body was gone. She was now in the boy’s apartment. She could tell that they did not know her mind was present. But there was something here that she needed to see. Why else would her mind show it to her?
“So do I need to crack your shell tomorrow? Or should I just take Natasha to the dance and save both you the trouble?” Nico was sitting next to Darres. Darres had a far off look as if he wished he were some one else. Nico threw a bag of chips at him to get his attention. “Look stupid, get a grip. I don’t want you being spacey tomorrow and ruining the best thing you got going for you.” Nico was being really serious.
“I promise to be on my best behavior. But really I don’t know what it is that you want me to do.” Darres had opened the bag and consumed half of it in two mouthfuls. Nico took the bag back and stared Darres in the eyes.
“Look, I know how you are. You only remove that stupid shell of your in front of me and Loki. Sure the first day Natasha was here you let it down a little more than normal, so now you feel exposed. You think that Angelo or some other punk will figure out that you have a heart and find a way to ripe it from you like that one did when you were little. Things change Darres, you need to open up to people a little more, most of all a pretty girl who is taking an interest in you.” Nico threw the bag back at some of the other boys in the room; they devoured it just as quickly. But Darres had a sour look on his face.
“Why do you have to do this? I have told you before, this is how I am. I can’t change that. Except that I am not going to open myself to people as fast as you would like. You should know better than any one else that I have my reasons. I don’t need to go through that again.” Darres eyes glazed with water but he bit his teeth down really hard so that the tears didn’t run. Natasha in her ghost form went over to Darres. She sat in front of him on the table and placed her hand on his check, well sort of. Natasha knew that neither of the boys could see her, but Natasha had a feeling that Darres might be able to FEEL her. Darres lifted his head, the far off look in his eyes. Natasha knew that he could feel some kind of presence trying to comfort him.
I made more sense to Natasha now. Darres was trying to prevent pain. He had lost some one, maybe more than once and he wasn’t about to let that happen again. Natasha smiled as she realized that she took had the same kind of shell. She pretended to be happy when she really hurt all the time. Darres pretended to be confident when he was always worried.
“It’s weird how much you can learn from dreams.” Kaname said. The two girls were now together in a nowhere that both knew very well.
Natasha sat strait up in bed. Kaname did the same.
“You’re a Whispered, too?” They both said.
*
Darres stayed in the shadows of the gym. He did not need to draw attention. Kit and Chris, the twins, were going to be in charge of most of the music for the dance. They had made quite a fuss that morning with their talking; they had not been able to agree which music to bring.
“Hey, darling. Going to see tonight?” Kit said flirting with one of the girls helping set up for the dance. Natasha stabbed him in the ribs on her way past. Kit and Chris had taken up to being constant pesters to Natasha. They were getting their punishment ten times over and then some.
About then Sousoke walked in the door. He made some pleasantries with Kaname that ended in a beating. He waved weakly at Natasha when she said hi on her way to hanging some more streamers. He head to the shadows that Darres was hanging in.
“We have confirmation, she is a whispered. Kaname has said that she also knew about it before hand. The captain has asked that tomorrow we all take a trip to visit her. There will be a discussion about Natasha’s safety there.” Sousoke then turned around and headed to a different exit than the one he had entered. Darres was uneasy about this new update. Over the past month and a half that Natasha had been here he had been given daily updates. But this one set off all kinds of alarms. So she had that black technology in her mind and then some. Unless he was mistaken she had been with him last night, he had seen her in his dream.
Darres was just about to go back outside to sit under one of the trees when a girl approached him. Darres rolled his eyes. Why did life torment him? She only did this because she liked to see Angelo squirm and watch Darres sweat.
“Afternoon, Darres.” She said as she struck a pose in front of him.
“What do you want Renee? Angelo is not around so there is not need to be bothering me.” Darres shifted his weight so that he was ready to bolt at any sign of danger.
“Oh, I want many things.” Renee winked at Darres. Normally Darres would have gotten all uncomfortable, but not today. He had no reason to worry about Angelo’s girlfriend bothering him that much. “But most of all I want you to be my date.” She smiled trying to look as pretty as possible, it was impossible. She didn’t even hold a candle to Natasha’s beauty.
“Sorry, already got one.” With that Darres made a bolt to go help Kit and Chris with their equipment. But something caught his eye on the way there, Angelo. He was heading for the ladder that Natasha was on top of. Darres also saw the look in Angelo’s eyes that told him that Natasha might not be on that ladder for much longer. It was like one of those slow motion shot in the movies, only Darres was moving five times fast than everyone else.
When the dust cleared Darres was holding Natasha. He had made it just in time so he was on one knee. Natasha looked a little fluster. Some of the other girls came running to her aid. Darres took advantage of the confusion to slip away. He would apologize to Natasha later for not staying to see how she was. He had business with a rat.
Darres found Angelo waiting for him outside the gym. Angelo was smoking while he spun his pocketknife. Angelo smiled when he saw Darres.
“So how is your little slut?” Angelo smirked.
“You call her that again and you will not live to see tomorrow.” Darres looked truly angry and he was. Angelo was way past due one of his beatings.
“Good to know.” Angelo threw his knife in the air caught it and stabbed it into the wall. He lunged at Darres with a left punch. Darres dogged and snapped Angelo over the neck as he was passing. Then second time he came at him Darres dropped to the floor and swung his leg under Angelo bring him to the ground on his face. Sitting up Angelo had at rather interesting bruise and gash on his left cheek.
“As stated before, you are to leave her alone.” Darres walked off as Renee came running. Darres didn’t understand those two. Angelo cheated on her on a daily basis and she flirted with every one. But ever time Darres beat the crap out of Angelo she came running. Angelo just wouldn’t give up. It had been his goal for the past two years to beat Darres in a fight, he wasn’t getting any better. Darres barely glanced at Nico as he headed back to the shadows in the corner of the gym. But there was a glitter in his eyes that told Darres something was up. He would think about it later.
*
Darres looked at Nico with a questioning face. Darres was wearing a pair of dress pants that Nico had bought for him, a dress shirt that Darres thought made him look fruity and a blazer that was not the same color as the pants. Nico was laughing, the little punk. Darres removed Nico’s feet from under him and took off the blazer. Now about that dang tie, Darres would bring it along and see if someone could get it to work right.
Nico was also dressed up, but not as much. Nico didn’t have a date and would most likely end up making sure that Loki did not try to do anything stupid during the dance. Kit and Chris had left the apartment hours ago to make sure that they were ready when people started arriving.
All they had to do now was go get Natasha and they along with Kaname and Sousoke would head to the dance. Many of the other boys were not going. Most of the boys either couldn’t dance or thought the idea were stupid. But a select few were not allowed to go at all because of the trouble they made at school. They all made a lot of noise to see Darres all dressed up. “Getting in the mood tonight Darres?” “Going to kiss that guy friend of yours Darres?” “Looking sexy!” Darres just flicked them off and left. Nico was laughing even more now. To him the fact that Darres had flicked off the other boys showed that he did have a sense of humor. And that was some how funny. This was a mystery to Darres.
*
Natasha had run to Kaname’s house after to school to get first dibs on the shower. Kaname had just barely caught up with her. Both girls had taken good long showers washing everything and making sure that they were completely soft. They had then spent over an hour with hair, makeup and nails. They had just finished putting on their dresses when the doorbell rang.
“Loki! Can you get that please!” Natasha yelled doing a last minute run down and putting on her shoes. Natasha could hear Loki talking happily which meant that it was her date that had shown up first or at least he was the one Loki was talking to. Kaname gave Natasha a wink as she went out into the living room.
*
Darres had gotten to the apartment only moments before Sousoke. Sousoke looked more dressed up and was carrying flowers. Darres thought that he might now look like even more of an idiot than before with the jacket.
“It’s okay solider, this is your first time. I have had training and researched this long before I went on my first one. I am sure that Natasha will not punish you, I think that is some thing that only Kaname does.” Sousoke smiled and rang the doorbell.
Loki had answered. When the boys asked why Loki said that they girls had spent a lot of time in the bedroom and wouldn’t even let him see them. He said it must be some kind of surprise. They sat down on the chairs in the living room. Then Natasha came out.
Darres mouth hit the floor and then some. She looked completely different and yet the same. Natasha was wearing a two-piece purple gown; the skirt sweeping the floor had a top layer of purple gauss. The tank top had semi thick straps and there seemed to be a ruffle of material that hung down just so. Her normally stick strait hair was in ringlets that hung around her face and down her back. The usual amount of black eyeliner was gone; all that was on her eyes was a purple glaze the same color as the dress. The air around her smelled of lilacs. Darres gulped hard. He was in more trouble than he had thought.
It was way past bedtime but neither of the girls was going to say anything. Loki had long since passed out on the floor. Both girls had wet nails and face masks on. They were quite a sight sitting in their p.j.’s with the bowls of food all around them. By this time they were more than slaphappy.
“…So then he blows up the shoe lockers!” Kaname howled. Natasha was rolling on the floor with laughter. They had been trading boy stories and some of the Sousoke ones were just too much. Either that or they had had too much soda.
“That is better than the flash bang. You really got your hands full. Too bad that you are going to end up marring the poor sap.” Natasha had tears in her eyes from laughing so hard.
“Yeah about that whole aura deal. Were you just trying to get him off the hook or are you being serious?” Kaname was pretty sure this was some kind of joke. But the tone of Natasha’s voice didn’t give any hint to it.
“No it’s true. Here I can show you my aura.” Natasha closed her eyes and concentrated. Her outline went a little blurry. Then slowly almost as if it wasn’t real colors began to glow around her body. It was interesting to see that it wasn’t just one color, but rather a multitude of them. Some were really bright and others seemed to be darker than black. There were even a few colors that Kaname did know the names of, most likely because they did not exist out in the real world. Kaname was more than shocked, especial when it didn’t go away after Natasha had opened her eyes. “Funny thing, I was born blind, well blind by most standards. My eyes wouldn’t open, but I could still see thing in some respects. I don’t have a great memory of that time. But when I was four my parents took me to a doctor and got me fixed. Well it turned out that what I had been seeing was using a part of my brain that not most people used. The doctors did a bunch of test but couldn’t come up with a reason for why I would have active brain cells in that part. Well I know why so that’s all that really matters.” Natasha smiled, she waved her hand and the color was gone.
Kaname was a little dumfounded. She didn’t really know what to say. She just started at Natasha for a while. “It’s okay.” Natasha said. “My family and all the other people that know gave me the same look. Speaking of look, look at the time!”
The girls head to bed. But first they had to wash off their facemasks and some of the other body creams they had on. Once in the bed both girls were out like lights. They had school tomorrow and a dance. Things would be interesting.
It was only too bad that the person watching them wasn’t even thinking of sleeping.
*
Natasha’s dream hurt. She could feel pain and she knew it was really. The hands that she saw were not her own. Inside Natasha wanted to help the body she was trapped in, but that was impossible. The dream was a reminder of why she had come. Why they had sent her. She needed to stay on task.
Suddenly the body was gone. She was now in the boy’s apartment. She could tell that they did not know her mind was present. But there was something here that she needed to see. Why else would her mind show it to her?
“So do I need to crack your shell tomorrow? Or should I just take Natasha to the dance and save both you the trouble?” Nico was sitting next to Darres. Darres had a far off look as if he wished he were some one else. Nico threw a bag of chips at him to get his attention. “Look stupid, get a grip. I don’t want you being spacey tomorrow and ruining the best thing you got going for you.” Nico was being really serious.
“I promise to be on my best behavior. But really I don’t know what it is that you want me to do.” Darres had opened the bag and consumed half of it in two mouthfuls. Nico took the bag back and stared Darres in the eyes.
“Look, I know how you are. You only remove that stupid shell of your in front of me and Loki. Sure the first day Natasha was here you let it down a little more than normal, so now you feel exposed. You think that Angelo or some other punk will figure out that you have a heart and find a way to ripe it from you like that one did when you were little. Things change Darres, you need to open up to people a little more, most of all a pretty girl who is taking an interest in you.” Nico threw the bag back at some of the other boys in the room; they devoured it just as quickly. But Darres had a sour look on his face.
“Why do you have to do this? I have told you before, this is how I am. I can’t change that. Except that I am not going to open myself to people as fast as you would like. You should know better than any one else that I have my reasons. I don’t need to go through that again.” Darres eyes glazed with water but he bit his teeth down really hard so that the tears didn’t run. Natasha in her ghost form went over to Darres. She sat in front of him on the table and placed her hand on his check, well sort of. Natasha knew that neither of the boys could see her, but Natasha had a feeling that Darres might be able to FEEL her. Darres lifted his head, the far off look in his eyes. Natasha knew that he could feel some kind of presence trying to comfort him.
I made more sense to Natasha now. Darres was trying to prevent pain. He had lost some one, maybe more than once and he wasn’t about to let that happen again. Natasha smiled as she realized that she took had the same kind of shell. She pretended to be happy when she really hurt all the time. Darres pretended to be confident when he was always worried.
“It’s weird how much you can learn from dreams.” Kaname said. The two girls were now together in a nowhere that both knew very well.
Natasha sat strait up in bed. Kaname did the same.
“You’re a Whispered, too?” They both said.
*
Darres stayed in the shadows of the gym. He did not need to draw attention. Kit and Chris, the twins, were going to be in charge of most of the music for the dance. They had made quite a fuss that morning with their talking; they had not been able to agree which music to bring.
“Hey, darling. Going to see tonight?” Kit said flirting with one of the girls helping set up for the dance. Natasha stabbed him in the ribs on her way past. Kit and Chris had taken up to being constant pesters to Natasha. They were getting their punishment ten times over and then some.
About then Sousoke walked in the door. He made some pleasantries with Kaname that ended in a beating. He waved weakly at Natasha when she said hi on her way to hanging some more streamers. He head to the shadows that Darres was hanging in.
“We have confirmation, she is a whispered. Kaname has said that she also knew about it before hand. The captain has asked that tomorrow we all take a trip to visit her. There will be a discussion about Natasha’s safety there.” Sousoke then turned around and headed to a different exit than the one he had entered. Darres was uneasy about this new update. Over the past month and a half that Natasha had been here he had been given daily updates. But this one set off all kinds of alarms. So she had that black technology in her mind and then some. Unless he was mistaken she had been with him last night, he had seen her in his dream.
Darres was just about to go back outside to sit under one of the trees when a girl approached him. Darres rolled his eyes. Why did life torment him? She only did this because she liked to see Angelo squirm and watch Darres sweat.
“Afternoon, Darres.” She said as she struck a pose in front of him.
“What do you want Renee? Angelo is not around so there is not need to be bothering me.” Darres shifted his weight so that he was ready to bolt at any sign of danger.
“Oh, I want many things.” Renee winked at Darres. Normally Darres would have gotten all uncomfortable, but not today. He had no reason to worry about Angelo’s girlfriend bothering him that much. “But most of all I want you to be my date.” She smiled trying to look as pretty as possible, it was impossible. She didn’t even hold a candle to Natasha’s beauty.
“Sorry, already got one.” With that Darres made a bolt to go help Kit and Chris with their equipment. But something caught his eye on the way there, Angelo. He was heading for the ladder that Natasha was on top of. Darres also saw the look in Angelo’s eyes that told him that Natasha might not be on that ladder for much longer. It was like one of those slow motion shot in the movies, only Darres was moving five times fast than everyone else.
When the dust cleared Darres was holding Natasha. He had made it just in time so he was on one knee. Natasha looked a little fluster. Some of the other girls came running to her aid. Darres took advantage of the confusion to slip away. He would apologize to Natasha later for not staying to see how she was. He had business with a rat.
Darres found Angelo waiting for him outside the gym. Angelo was smoking while he spun his pocketknife. Angelo smiled when he saw Darres.
“So how is your little slut?” Angelo smirked.
“You call her that again and you will not live to see tomorrow.” Darres looked truly angry and he was. Angelo was way past due one of his beatings.
“Good to know.” Angelo threw his knife in the air caught it and stabbed it into the wall. He lunged at Darres with a left punch. Darres dogged and snapped Angelo over the neck as he was passing. Then second time he came at him Darres dropped to the floor and swung his leg under Angelo bring him to the ground on his face. Sitting up Angelo had at rather interesting bruise and gash on his left cheek.
“As stated before, you are to leave her alone.” Darres walked off as Renee came running. Darres didn’t understand those two. Angelo cheated on her on a daily basis and she flirted with every one. But ever time Darres beat the crap out of Angelo she came running. Angelo just wouldn’t give up. It had been his goal for the past two years to beat Darres in a fight, he wasn’t getting any better. Darres barely glanced at Nico as he headed back to the shadows in the corner of the gym. But there was a glitter in his eyes that told Darres something was up. He would think about it later.
*
Darres looked at Nico with a questioning face. Darres was wearing a pair of dress pants that Nico had bought for him, a dress shirt that Darres thought made him look fruity and a blazer that was not the same color as the pants. Nico was laughing, the little punk. Darres removed Nico’s feet from under him and took off the blazer. Now about that dang tie, Darres would bring it along and see if someone could get it to work right.
Nico was also dressed up, but not as much. Nico didn’t have a date and would most likely end up making sure that Loki did not try to do anything stupid during the dance. Kit and Chris had left the apartment hours ago to make sure that they were ready when people started arriving.
All they had to do now was go get Natasha and they along with Kaname and Sousoke would head to the dance. Many of the other boys were not going. Most of the boys either couldn’t dance or thought the idea were stupid. But a select few were not allowed to go at all because of the trouble they made at school. They all made a lot of noise to see Darres all dressed up. “Getting in the mood tonight Darres?” “Going to kiss that guy friend of yours Darres?” “Looking sexy!” Darres just flicked them off and left. Nico was laughing even more now. To him the fact that Darres had flicked off the other boys showed that he did have a sense of humor. And that was some how funny. This was a mystery to Darres.
*
Natasha had run to Kaname’s house after to school to get first dibs on the shower. Kaname had just barely caught up with her. Both girls had taken good long showers washing everything and making sure that they were completely soft. They had then spent over an hour with hair, makeup and nails. They had just finished putting on their dresses when the doorbell rang.
“Loki! Can you get that please!” Natasha yelled doing a last minute run down and putting on her shoes. Natasha could hear Loki talking happily which meant that it was her date that had shown up first or at least he was the one Loki was talking to. Kaname gave Natasha a wink as she went out into the living room.
*
Darres had gotten to the apartment only moments before Sousoke. Sousoke looked more dressed up and was carrying flowers. Darres thought that he might now look like even more of an idiot than before with the jacket.
“It’s okay solider, this is your first time. I have had training and researched this long before I went on my first one. I am sure that Natasha will not punish you, I think that is some thing that only Kaname does.” Sousoke smiled and rang the doorbell.
Loki had answered. When the boys asked why Loki said that they girls had spent a lot of time in the bedroom and wouldn’t even let him see them. He said it must be some kind of surprise. They sat down on the chairs in the living room. Then Natasha came out.
Darres mouth hit the floor and then some. She looked completely different and yet the same. Natasha was wearing a two-piece purple gown; the skirt sweeping the floor had a top layer of purple gauss. The tank top had semi thick straps and there seemed to be a ruffle of material that hung down just so. Her normally stick strait hair was in ringlets that hung around her face and down her back. The usual amount of black eyeliner was gone; all that was on her eyes was a purple glaze the same color as the dress. The air around her smelled of lilacs. Darres gulped hard. He was in more trouble than he had thought.
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