Chapter 24

David

Two nights later, David felt the hair on the back of his neck stand up. He was laying on the bed watching a zombie movie and munching on human popcorn. He put his bowl to the side and opened his arms to catch her.

She appeared in his arms, dressed in his tee-shirt a few seconds later. The minute she saw him she threw her arms around his neck and buried her face against his shoulder.

“Hey, Sweetheart,” David said as he sniffed her skin and hair. “I’m so glad you are here.”

She kissed the end of his nose. She reached up and drew a heart on his chest than covered it with her palm. She bit her lip seductively before he settled herself against him.

As David held her in his arms he couldn’t help but wonder about his lack of dreams over the past few days, except for the one which plagued him. He realized that he was beginning to grow her trust and wondered if she would be more apt to answer his questions now that they were building a real relationship.

“I haven’t been able to see you in my dreams. Did training go okay?” David asked her trying to sound casual.

Stormy did the head wobble that he understood to be yes and no. She detangled herself from his body, and walked into the middle of the floor away from all furniture. She put her hands in front of herself like she was praying and began to focus. A crystal bubble formed around her that looked a lot like the snow globe bubble from his dream.

As soon as she has surrounded herself what he guessed was a force field. She pointed to him and then back to herself and to put her hand up to her ear. She dropped the bubble and crawled back into bed with him.

“The force field breaks the dream bond.” He said and she nodded her head empathically. Next, she made the motions to tell him she had missed him. She bit her lip as she watched him.

“At least I know it was training getting in the way, and that you weren't hurt, or in trouble.” David said with a sigh of relief. “I know you can handle yourself but I still worry.”

She nodded and pointed to herself. She made the sign for being in trouble with Angie and finally she made a miniature force field in the palm of her hand that she made shatter repeatedly. She bit her lip in frustration

“Are you trying to tell me that you are in trouble with Angie because you are having trouble with the force field.” David asked as he kissed her temple.

Stormy nodded and made the shame finger at herself and huffed in frustration. She held up her hands and shrugged. David understood that she wasn’t sure why she was having such a hard time with mastering this magic either. She bit her lip and her little eyebrows furrowed.

David decided to change the subject and see what she could tell him that would unravel the dream he had of her speaking with the ethereal queen. “Sweetheart, have you always been this quiet, or was there a time when you spoke more?” David asked as he wrapped his arms around her. Stormy shrugged.

She held up six fingers, and made the sign before, then the symbol for understand. She chewed her lip and waited to see if he understood.

“Are you saying you don’t remember anything before six months ago?” David said in alarm. “Is that when the magic came?”

Stormy nodded her head. She made the sign for understand, wiggled her fingers and pointed to her wrist to say time.

“Have you said much since the magic came?” David asked. He was beginning to think that what he saw wasn’t really a dream at all but instead it was a memory. He had a feeling it was her part of her lost memory or more accurately the reason she lost it.

Stormy shook her head. She made her hand look like it was a talking mouth and pointed back and forth from his head to hers. “Are you saying you only talk to me?” David said in amazement. “You don’t talk to Angie or anyone else that you train with?”

Stormy shook her head again and drew a heart on his chest and covered with her hand. He was touched. He laid his hand on top of her and pulled it up to kiss each of her fingers gently.

“I like talking to you.” He told her. She clapped her hands and bounced up and down.

“Sweetheart, when you go to train. Do you know where Angie takes you?” David asked as he tried to unravel the mystery.

Stormy bit her lip and looked like she was considering things carefully. She finally nodded her head and cupped her right hand and placed the fingers of her left onto the hand cup. She made an exaggerated movement of pulling her fingers out of the cup. She repeated it a few times as she waited for David to understand. She chewed on her bottom lip and gave a small huff. Finally she made the gesture that the umpire made when he called a human baseball player out.

“Out! Sorry, My Sweet, I should have caught that sooner.” He smacked his forehead and shook his head. “She takes you out where?’

Stormy made the sign for out and then the motion for time. She made the sign for before but instead did it backwards. “Sweetheart, How do you say the future?”

She clap your hands and bounced. She put her hand flat out in front of her vertically and made a downward motion. David repeated it. “This means future.” She clap your hands and bounced again

“Do you train in the future, like out of our time?” David asked her with a raised eyebrow. He didn’t know why or how he knew that but he was sure it was true.

Stormy put her fingers to her lips indicating it was a secret. She nodded her head and bit he lip. David reached up and cupped her face. “You came through time to find me, didn’t you.” David remarked.

Stormy nodded her head and put her forehead against his. She pointed to the mating mark and then drew the heart on his chest again.

The look on her face told him she had said what she was ready too about the subject, so he dropped it. He hoped in time he would be given more clues that would help him unravel some of the mystery that surrounded her past.

Instead, David snuggled close to her and handed Stormy the popcorn bowl that he laid to the side earlier He kissed her cheek and restarted the zombie movie so they could watch it together.