Waking Nightmare; Not True

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"Jason? Jason...? Wake up sweety... there's someone at the door." Michella's sleepy voice whispered out as she turned her slumbering form over to her husbands back facing her. She opened her eye's just barely to see his hair and him laying beside her and she smiled, wrapping her arm around his stomach. He grasped her hands and held it close to his body.

"Don't worry honey... They'll go away... Just try to get back to sleep okay?" He mumbled sleepily and kept his grasp on her hand, letting himself slumber again. Michella quietly agree's letting her eye's close yet again hearing the knocking had ceased. She nuzzled Jason's back with her face, feeling the warmth and saftey.

"Your right...." She said with a bit of a humorous tone. The silence fell upon the house again. The couple slept in their bed in their bedroom while on the other side of the house their children, Eric and Erin, slept just a peacefully. Almost as quickly as the knocking had ceased, there came a huge crash and people's voice filled the house. Michella and Jason, startled from their sleep, jumped out of bed and their hearts raced.

GO GET THE KIDS... PARENTS ARE IN THAT ROOM OVER THERE. BECAREFUL OF THE MAN... WATCH THE WOMAN.

As soon as Jason's feet hit the floor, he reached for the door only to get knocked back as the door flew open. Before his form hit the floor, he was no longer was the human, but a tiger with bearing teeth and a growl to match his anger. He starred at the intruders in his house and immediatly looked at Michella who was being cornered by a skinny man holding a gun.

(Get the Kids Michella... QUICKLY... GET THE OUT OF HERE.) Michella nodded to her husbands demands and thought the same as the skinny guy went for the trigger, her body disappeared from site. Across the house, Michella appeared suddenly right in front of Erin's door and running in seeing nothing. Looking at her bed, she ran over throwing off the sheets to reveal nothign but an empty bed. She disappeared instantly as she appeared inside of Erics room and instantly came face to face with her kids being held agaisnt two men with guns. "LET THEM GO! JASON! JASONNNNNN!" Her voice screamed at them as she started to head in their direction, hoping that jason would come up behind her to protect their children, the man let the crack come from his weapon.

Michella shot up in bed, sweat beads formed on her face as she gasped for a sudden breath. She instantly looked over to her husband sleeping soundly beside her. "It was just a dream... thank god... Eric? Erin?... I need to check on them..." She said, knowing that it was just a dream, but still afraid just in case. She touched her husbands shoulder just to know that he was real and really sleeping beside her. She reached for her robe and gently got out of bed, wrapping the baby blue robe around her petite form. She covered her mouth as a yawn escaped and she left the room.

She passed the living room heading for her daughters room, expecting to see her sleeping in her bed. The butterflies would be hanging above her bed, and the comforter thrown carelessly on the ground. SHe smiled as her hand reached the door knob and as the door opened she almost wanted to scream seeing the bed was empty. There wasn't no sign of Erin in her bed and she instantly let the room, letting the door slam behind her and quickly opened Erics bedroom door, her heart racing to the thought of her dream coming true. "Eric?" Her voice barely called out in hopes he was still there. Her eye's watched the door open and instantly fell upon two children sleeping in the bed. Michella's heart rate was finally able to return to normal after seeing that her children was just fine. She leaned agaisnt the door frame, letting her head be supported by the wooden wall. A mental breath releived a mothers worse fear.

[Tiff'blz]

"That monkey stole my underwear..." He muttered, waving a hand out in midair, trying to catch something in his dreams. A hand touched his shoulder, catching his attention. "Huh?" He turned over and felt a sudden breeze hit his back as his covers were pulled away. He shivered and turned around. "Wha-?" He asked somewhat as he rubbed his sleepy eyes. "Missy? Honey what's wrong?" He asked right as she walked out the door. His head dropped and he ran a hand over his weary face. "What time is it?" He asked the empty room as he grabbed a small clock with glowing red digital numbers. "Four?..Ugh.." He said, slapping the clock back down on the table and running a hand through his sleep-mussed hair. "Bed head.." He said with a smile. Even tired he can still joke..

He pulled the covers back, setting his feet on the chilled floor gently. He leaned down, trying to get some blood circulating to his head. "Missy?" He said softly as he stood up. He pulled on a pair of jeans near the bed and started out the door. He padded his way through the diningroom to Eric's room, where Missy stood in the doorway. He put his arms around her waist, and placed his head on her shoulder, looking into the room.

Erin had snuck into her brother's room and was sleeping right next to him. They looked so alike.. Funny though that they acted nothing alike..for the most part. Jason kissed Michella's cheek. "You okay?"

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Michella jumped slightly to the hands around her waist, still a bit jumpy from the startling dream and Erin's mysterious disappearance. She closed her eye's and gave a small noise the kiss on her cheek. She felt so much better seeing her husband and her kids were saftely sleeping in the bed. Everything seemed to be okay at that moment. Michella leaned her head back on her husbands chest and took in a huge breath. "Yeah, i'm fine now. Just a nightmare... I just had to check on the kids." She said as she moved out of her husbands grasp and walked over to her kids, smiling at the site. She pulled up the sheet on Erins legs and moved her hair slightly as she kissed her cheek and rubbed a finger on Eric's cheek as if to physically know that they were really there as she had to do the same with Jason. She turned away from the kids smiling at her husband as Erin stirred from her sleep.

"Mommy?" Her voice was very raspy just waking up and she looked to her parents in her doorway. Michella turned around and walked back to Erin. "It's okay honey.. go back to sleep. Mommy didn't mean to wake you up!" With another kiss, Erin flopped her head back on the pillow, sharing it with Eric who moved slightly. Michella moved away from the bed and reached for Jason's hand and closed the kids door. "Lets go back to bed... It's really late I know... I didn't mean to wake you up!" She said leading back to the bedroom.

[Tiff'blz]

Jason watched Missy with the kids, amazed at how much he loved all three of them. Emotion seemed to want to take him over as Erin woke up and flopped her head back on the pillow immediately after Missy reassured her. He shook his head with a smile. "Its alright sweetheart..I understand why you did it.." He kissed her forehead. "Yes..back to sleep.. I need sleep.." He growled out the last part and grinned.


Eric snuggled under the covers more, comforted by the familiar touch of his mother. "Hmm.." He muttered, throwing a hand over his face. "Momma?" He asked quietly, not even getting up like his sister had, not knowing that Erin had snuck in there while he was asleep. He flipped over, feeling that he was not alone. "Eep!" He said squeakily as he jumped back. As he did so, he belatedly realized that there was nothing under him after he did. If he had a sign like Wiley E. Coyote, he would have used it then. He hit the floor with a thud. "Ow...Erin!" He whined, rubbing his head. "What are you doing?"

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Erin looked up suddenly, letting out a gasp as she heard her brother yell out. She watched suddenly as her brothers form disappeared underneath the side of the bed and instantly took on a smile after realizing what had happened. "Eric?" She asked and rolled over to teh side of the bed that he fell off of. "What are you doing down there? I thought you were suppose to be ON the bed?" She asked watching him and smiling. She reached a hand down to her brother to help him up on the bed again. "I had a bad dream.... so I came in here... I like your bedroom... it's safer than mine!" She said recalling the dream of a dog running after her in her room. She pulled out her lower lip at her brother hoping he wouldn't be mad at her.

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Michella held onto her husbands hand and led him back to the room, not hearing the commotion going on in the kids rooms just after they left. She kept seeing the images in her head of the goverment officials taking over their houses. The fear she saw that Erins bed was empty, kept wanting to pull her heart. Reaching the bedroom, she took her robe off and got into bed, covering up. She waited for her husbands entrance into the bed. "I dreampt of the goverment again.... this time they came here.... came into the house and ... tried to take the kids... it was horrible, Jason.. just horrible!" SHe said feeling like she wanted to cry, but held against it. Her eye's searched Jason's reaction.

[Tiff'blz]

Eric frowned. "Well..next time..let me know. You scared me.." He muttered, accepting the help back up to bed. He paused. "This bed is too small.." He said simply. He shrugged. "Turn into something..you will take up less space." He said as he flopped over onto the bed, throwing his covers back onto him. He realized that he had given her permission to do this everytime she got scared, and tried to be angry. But he couldnt be angry at Erin, as much as he wanted to. He loved his twin sister more than anyone, except his parents, and wouldnt admit it, but was comforted by her presence as much as she was by his. He muttered something unintelligable and fell back asleep.


Jason padded behind his wife back to the bed. He stretched and decided it was best to leave his pants on, and just jumped into bed. "I have to get up in a few hours anyway to go get some food.. " He whispered as he explained his actions. He listened to Michella describe her nightmare and pulled her close. "Its okay...Its okay.." He repeated over and over again. "I promise nothing will harm them..you know they are tough little kids.." He said softly as he kissed the top of her head.

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Michella felt the comfort of Jason holding her close, just as he did throughout the years. She welcomed this action from him, knowing that he would always be there to take care of her through anything. She looked up at him, after he kissed her head and leaned into him, as she laid back down and snuggled up next to him, taking his hand to wrap it around her waist. "I know their tough kids... but that's all they are... kids... They don't have experience as we did. They don't know how to fight. They don't know what this world is like. THey don't know fear like we experience so long ago... in the midst of the world..." SHe said admitting her feeling to him. Looking over at the clock seeing that it was four in the morning, she let the words settle, knowing that it was just her motherly fears setting in again.

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Erin gave a pitiful laugh as a yawn paused her words to him. " Yeah, you need a bigger bed!" She told him and watched as he settled himself in his bed again. "I hope your not mad at me?" She wondered from her brothers point of view, waking up and falling out of bed. Something so bad of a wake up call. "What do you want me to be huh? You'll squish me... Hello... five inch animals? I might end up biting your toes in the middle of the night!" She immediatly broke out in a laugh thinking about turning into a tiger cub and nibbling on his toes. Hearing him mutter something and go back to sleep, she took his advise and her human form became no more, now a white kitten just small enough to hold in one hand. She walked up on Erics pillow and curled up above his head, letting her snowwhite tail move about before becoming still, meaning her sleeping.