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Danny And Elise Ch 06

Danny And Elise Ch 06

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After sleep finally found her, Elise had a wonderful, but unsettling dream that night.

She and Danny were walking across a shallow stream, surrounded by mostly pine forests in all directions. She got the impression they were miles from civilization. She heard splashing and laughter. Two young boys appeared, playing with reckless abandon in the water, when she turned her head.

One boy looked to be about 6 and the other 8. They both had dark brown hair, as if a cross between she and Danny's hair genes. The younger boy especially reminded Elise of herself with the dark reddish tones in his hair that were only noticeable if the sun gleaned upon his head just right. Although the older boy had peculiarly similar eyes to her own. Green eyes were rare, or so she had learned about in biology class, and it felt as if she were looking into a mirror when he briefly locked eyes with her.

The realization sunk in before they even spoke the word.

"Come on, mom. Come play with us," the younger boy pleaded.

"Yah, come on, mom. It feels good after walking so far."

Mom? Were these what her future children would look and sound like? Or was it just her subconscious making shit up? More importantly...Would she marry and have kids with Danny? The two boys certainly looked like the perfect cross between the two of them. The dream was overwhelming her, knowing it was such, but wondering if there was any truth to it, like dejavu. As much as it freaked her out, she wanted to stay there as long as possible.

Elise bent down and splashed the younger boy with water, both of them laughing, not a care in the world. She suddenly felt cold droplets pelting her right arm, the older boy joining in and laughing. She briefly glanced at Danny, not noticeably older than she knew him now in the waking world, but with more gray in his beard, standing next to the creek on the other side. He watched with that same easy, happy, amused look she had loved about him from the beginning.

Wait. The beginning? As much as she wanted to enjoy it longer, her brain was fighting itself. Elise couldn't simply enjoy the dream because she knew it wasn't real...But wasn't it? It certainly felt real. Or she wanted it to, at least. And their boys looked so much like them.

Their boys.

Her subconscious thrashed out and made the pleasant dream take an ugly turn. A wall of water came rushing out of nowhere down the creek. She screamed out Danny and her children's names just as it collided over her...

Elise woke up gasping for air, tears streaming down her face. She had never had such a realistic dream in her life. She was half-tempted to text Danny, but didn't want him to think she was the crazy person that she felt like or, at the very least, wake him up. As she swiped away the wetness from her eyes, she rolled over towards her alarm clock.

3:28am.

She really needed to get some sleep. Her parents would be there in roughly 7 hours. And although her place wasn't messy by any means, she still wanted to get thing ready for them before they arrived in the morning.

Elise took a deep breath and rolled over again...

Being an only child, Elise usually loved having her parents visit, especially for her birthday, but this year felt different. It wasn't that she didn't want them there, but she couldn't shake the nagging feeling that she was supposed to be somewhere else. She felt like Alice in Wonderland, her favorite childhood movie, lost. In a haze, she went through the motions of spending her birthday afternoon and evening together with her beloved parents. Elise hated feeling this way, this disconnect from her family, especially since it had been several months since she had seen them. She tried to act normal, but evidently, at least in some way, this feeling was noticeable to her mother.

"What's troubling you, sweetheart?" her mom asked, concern furrowing her brow the instant her father had retired to her kitchen to make some decaf coffee, his and her mother's evening ritual for years.

"I don't know," Elise sighed heavily and shrugged quickly. "It's the guy I told you about earlier, I guess, that I went on a date with last night."

"Oh? You seemed like you were quite smitten with him."

Elise couldn't help but smile from her mom's choice of words.

"I am," she agreed. "It's just..." she trailed off. "I had this really weird dream about him last night," she spoke in a hushed tone so her father couldn't hear her from the other room.

"What was it about?"

Just then Elise's phone buzzed, a text message.

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"Happy birthday! I hope you had a great day with your parents."

Danny. Tears sprung to her eyes instantly and she immediately felt even crazier. There was no hiding her reaction with her mother sitting directly across from her on the couch.

"In God's name, Elise! What is it?"

"It's him," she held up the phone for her mom to read, fighting back tears. She waited as her mom quickly read the message.

"Why is that making you upset?" her mother asked quietly.

"I don't know," Elise choked back a sob. "None of it makes any sense. I just met him, Danny, 2 weeks ago when I started this job. But I feel...Tied to him, somehow," her words hung in the air, but her mother made no move to speak.

"You promise not to think I'm crazy?" Elise asked with hope in her voice.

"I would never think you're crazy," her mom replied automatically. Elise wasn't sure whether she believed her any more when she said that.

"I had this dream last night. With Danny. We were out in the middle of the woods," she started.

"That does sound like you," her mom smiled.

"We were at a stream and I started splashing these two boys. Our boys," she whispered, still trying valiantly to hold her tears back.

"It felt so real, mom."

"What happened next?" she had her mom's full attention.

"A wall of water came and swept us all away," Elise buried her head in her hands, letting the sobs take over. It felt almost as real explaining it as it did dreaming it.

"What do you think that means?" she finally looked up at her mother, red-eyed.

"I don't know, sweetheart," she spoke quietly, but truthfully. "Either you have an over-active imagination or it's a sign," she shrugged the same resigned way Elise did when she was just completely baffled.

"Regardless, I wouldn't think about it too much," her mom continued. "It's only going to cause you grief," her mom looked at her seriously. "New relationships are supposed to be a fun time. Don't let it get to you," she leaned in and hugged Elise. "I know it can be scary, but have fun," she insisted, leaning away from her and parting her shoulders. "Don't let one little nightmare get in the way of that."

But Elise did let the dream bother her, more than she should have. Sunday night, after her parents left, she had another nightmare.

It was as if she were on the outside looking in, not an active participant, as Danny crossed a desert with unfamiliar men in the middle of the night. They wore fatigues, as if in the military, she could see that clearly. Everything was silent for a while, the men, crouched down, stealthily running across the sand, until all hell broke loose.

Gunfire erupted from somewhere to the right. So hard to tell in the darkness. A claymore went off to the left, sending one of the men flying into the air. Elise felt nothing but terror of what was to come, as if she already knew in some small corner or her soul.

Danny and the other men skittered across the sand faster, firing shots off in the general direction they had heard the original ones come from. More men flew into the air. A grenade. Another claymore. Then it happened.

Danny's body went limp as a rag doll as he went sailing through the night air. A landmine.

Elise looked over his slack body as he lay on the cold desert sand, nothing she could do. She woke up sobbing, rolled over and buried her face in the pillow.

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Instead of feeling relief when she found Danny alive and well at work Monday morning, Elise only felt continued unease.

Another thing she had always been told for as long as she could remember was that she "wore her heart on her sleeve." She always kind of knew it was true, but wasn't aware of how blatantly so until Tuesday when Danny approached her.

"Hey, Elise," she hadn't noticed the softer, slightly hurt tone he used when he spoke to her that morning.

"Hey," she said to him passively without looking away from her computer screen.

"Is everything alright?"

"Yah, why?" she replied, still not giving him her full attention.

"Well, let's see," he began. "I probably sound like a total girl here, no offense, but you never replied to my text this weekend. Then you completely blew me off yesterday and you're blowing me off again now," Elise finally looked up to see the pained expression on his face. She wanted to cry and probably would if he didn't go away soon.

"I know I don't know you well, but you don't strike me as the type to be a good liar. So I don't think you lied about having a good time Friday," he paused. "So what is it? What gives?"

Elise could feel her face contorting as she held back tears. She was still an emotional wreck from the weekend. Thinking about her dreams was bad enough, but she couldn't take Danny talking to her like this with that look on his face. She didn't know how to deal with the nightmares that had plagued her weekend. That's why she had been avoiding him at work.

She shook her head. "I'm sorry," her voice came out as a whisper. She wasn't sure what else to say, her mind was a blank. "I did have a good time. It's not you."

"Then what is it? You're not, like, dying or something, are you?" he was only half-joking.

"No," Elise shook her head as she looked down, the first tear trailing down her cheek. "I don't want to talk about it right now. Not here." The only other person currently in the office was Mary, but people would be coming and going as they came in for their shifts and left again on their work assignments for the day. She hated having unnecessary attention drawn to her more than almost anything else on the face of the planet.

"Then lunch? We can go out for lunch. I'll come pick you up," Danny looked at her expectantly. She nodded her head in agreement without looking up.

"Alright," he sighed, resigning himself for now. "I'll see you later," he spoke quietly and walked off to clock in.

Elise waited until he had left the building for good and excused herself to the bathroom. Knowing there was no risk of anyone needing to use the women's restroom since she and Mary were the only two females in the building, she let herself go. She bawled a good 10 minutes before she was able to calm down at all. At one point, she was afraid she might hyperventilate she was crying so hard she couldn't catch her breath.

What the hell is wrong with me?! They were just nightmares. Not real. But she just couldn't shake the weird feelings they gave her. Elise didn't know what the hell she was going to say to Danny at lunch, let alone face him when every time she even thought about him she became upset.

"Sorry, Mary," she apologized as she passed by her desk before returning to her own.

"Is everything ok?"

"Yes," Elise sniffled.

"I know it's not my place, but if you're having a problem with Danny, you need to report it."

"No, God, no," she couldn't help but laugh. "It's nothing like that. I'm just...I don't know what I am," she sighed, suddenly tired.

"Oh, well, sorry," Mary had the decency to look slightly embarrassed. "I shouldn't have been nosy."

"It's ok, really. I think I'm just going crazy," she rubbed her eyes.

"You're too young to be going crazy," Mary chuckled. "But if you want someone to talk to, I'm a good listener," she smiled.

"Thanks, Mary," she said sincerely before quickly getting lost in thought.

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