L&TOHJ~Hope: Weird Dream

I landed at the door of my house, not bothering to see if anyone saw me. I clicked my bracelet and ran back inside. I ran up to my room and slammed the door. I flopped on my bed and cried like a baby.

Candy came in and gently closed the door. She said, "Haley. What happened?" I felt her sit beside me and rub my back. My voice was muffled under the pillows. "Candy. Candy, its Devlin." She paused for a second and then resumed. "What about Devlin?"

I sat a little on the edge of my bed. I showed her the watch in my hand. She took it and I said, "He. He betrayed us. He was the guy I told you about, the one who could absorb the energies of those monsters." Her eyes widened with disbelief.

I told her everything. His offer, how he taunted me, our fight. When I was done, She hugged me and we both started crying.

"I can't do this. I can't do this anymore, Candy." She said, "I know. I know." We sat there for a while. When we both settled down a little. I heard a small voice. "Haley?" I looked at Butch, who was halfway in my doorway. He had a worried look on his young little face.

I said, "Uh, Butch. How much did you hear?" He said, "I just, uh, came in. But I can hear your crying from my room." His room was on the other side of the house.

I felt my face burn and I hung my head. He said, "I couldn't understand what you were saying, if that means anything." It didn't right now.

He stepped closer, then he walked up and climbed on my bed between me and Candy. He wrapped his arms around me the best he could and tried to give me a hug. I hugged him back and Candy wrapped her arms around both of us. We sat there for a while.

Eventually we broke and I saw how late it was. I got Butch to take his bath and go to bed without a fuss this time. I thanked Candy and she went home.

As I laid in bed that night so many things were going through my head. I dreamed that I was in an arena. I was in my superhero uniform, and I was chained to the ground. I was before a trial, with Devlin as the judge, with his white hair and everything. There was a jury a few feet away. Thomas stood up from the back somewhere and said every little thing I did wrong. I saw that Every face in the arena was growing more and more hateful.

I also saw that my friends and family were sitting in the jury. Even the old Devlin and the electrically charged Brandon Keith. When Thomas finished with, "...And I just plain hate her.", Devlin slammed his gavel. All the while saying, "I declare her guilty! Feed her to the monsters!"

Then the judge and jury dissappeared, and so did my chains. I turned around to see the gates open and I saw Brenda, Brandon, Rex, the Blurr, and every other superhuman I stopped and/or worked with. Even Trinity and Doublecross. They attacked me and I woke up with some tears in my eyes again.