The Alliance Archive

Dreams hurt....

Heyy! Hope you guys liked the last few chapters and here's the next! Enjoy!

After a long night of goofing off, Syd and I decided to crash in the same room. In total, there were four rooms in our cabin. Three of them had a King sized bed, while the one we were staying in had two twins. (A/N: I giggled at this, cuz I know a pair of twins. . . . ) As we flopped down, Syd sighed and turned her heard towards me, eyes wide.

"What is it?" I asked, instantly concerned. "Syd?" Her face was blank. "Syd?!?!" I hopped from my bed to her's. "SYD! WAKE THE HELL UP!" I screamed. She gasped and tried to sit up, but I held her down. "Syd, what the Hell?" I asked bringing my voice down. She shook her head.

"I have no idea. I had another dream, but I wasn't sleeping and usually I can stop the dream whenever I want, but now, It wouldn't let me. It was forcing me to watch. We were at a hotel in London, the Waverly hotel. You were screaming into a pillow and I was messing with an old Toshiba laptop. We were being followed. . . After you woke up, the scene shifted and you were in the bathroom, holding a black box. You pulled a IPhone out of the box.Then I woke up." I sighed and jumped back to my bed. 

"Do you think it has something to do with the boy?" I asked in a whisper. "I mean, every other dream we've had has something to do with him."

"I do. Maybe he took our memory!" She laughed. I couldn't help but laugh at the ridiculous idea. "Like, he probed our brains with giant tools! Ha! We could write a story about what goes on in our minds, I bet we would get published!" By now, my eyes were watering with laughter and I fell off of my bed with a loud thunk. We both froze, waiting to see if I was hurt. I was fine, so I started laughing again.

After a few more minutes of hysterical laughing, I pulled myself back on my bed, wiping my eyes. "Hey, Syd? Do you wanna skip tomorrow?" I asked. Syd looked at me with a 'Are you kidding me?' look on her face. "Okay! We're skipping! There should be some food from the last time me and the Fam were here." Syd laughed at my odd choice of words and I smiled back. "I haven't had a day off since. . . Last year? Gosh I don't even remember!" Syd rolled her eyes and sighed, pulling the blankets over herself.

"Crap." She mumbled. "The lights are still on." I smiled and clapped my hands. "Clap on!" She laughed. I rolled my eyes in the dark and pulled my own blankets over myself. I closed my eyes and was sleeping in a second.

   I was laying on a steel table, someone at my side.  Someone walked through a door in front of us. 

      "Birch, play dead, like we learned. Don't let them do anything to you." I whispered. She nodded. We both took deep breaths and laid there. He looked dead but if you felt our pulse, you would barley feel it. In one more minute, you wouldn't be able to feel a thing.

     Someone put two fingers on my neck and swore. Same with Birch.

     "Boss! We got a problem! I think they dead! They ain't movin and they ain't breathin. What should we do?" A gruff voice asked.

      "What do you mean?! They can't be dead!" A shrill voice screamed. "What did you do to them?"  I felt someone try to find my pulse again. The 'boss' put a hand under my chin and moved my face. She must be checking for any sign that I'm alive. I stayed still. Boss shrieked and the hand disappeared.

     "Get them out of here! I don't want dead bodies stinking up my lab!" Boss yelled. I felt myself being unstrapped from the table. I was being lifted lifted and carried. Perfect, my plan was working. The person who was carrying me took a deep breath and threw me into a dumpster. I tensed for Birch. She hit me with a thud. A door closed and silence took over.

     "Is it over?" Birch whispered. I opened my eyes and Birch picked herself off of me. I nodded and she grinned.

     "We need to get out of here. If this 'boss' is smart, she has cameras. They might be heading back." I told her. We climbed out and looked around. We where in an alley. As we started running for the street, the back door burst open. We ran faster, but not fast enough.

     I felt a dart pierce my shoulder and I fell to the ground, Birch following. "Birch." I said. "It's not over." With that, I fell to unconsciousness.

I sat up and gasped, grabbing my shoulder. Nothing. It was just a dream. "Syd?" I asked. It was morning now. I glanced at the clock. It was nine in the morning. I looked over to Syd to see her sitting up as well, staring at me. "I just had the creepiest dream ever." I told her.

"Not creepy-er then mine." I rolled my eyes. "I'll go first." She told me. I nodded, crossing my legs in the 'Criss-cross-Apple-Sauce' fashion. I listened as she explained her odd dream, and when she was finished, I was utterly confused. "Liz, it's your turn." She said. I nodded numbly, not knowing what to say.

"Syd. . . I had the exact same dream, but in my point of view. . . I'm freaking out! And who is Birch and Stella?" I asked. Syd looked in deep thought.

"Liz, I think I've figured it out. In the dreams, you're Stella and I'm Birch. I have no idea who anyone else is or why, but I think it's time we got down to the bottom of this."