freaky future AU continued

[holli]

Chrissie's been running on less sleep than usual, the past few days, and she's afraid it's going to get her killed. She's not as alert as she should be, not as sharp, and she's caught Jamie shooting worried glances her way. But the dreams aren't something she can stop- she has them every night, and there's no way to sleep after she's been thrown into waking by one of them.

She thinks she had the first one the night of her birthday, though it was muddled, not nearly as vivid as the ones that followed. She can't be sure if it was the same kind of dream as the others. The details aren't as fresh in her mind. She remembers a candlelit cavern, a monster, a pool. She remembers drowning, dying, but she dreams worse than that most nights. Sometimes she doesn't die in her dreams, and that's much worse, because that means whoever she dreamed lived to keep killing demons.

She supposes it's evidence of some deep-buried neurosis, that she dreams about killing her own kind, and cast herself as the righteous, virginal human girl-warrior. Chrissie's pretty self-aware for her age. It doesn't occur to her that her dreams might be about something more than her own self-hatred, because Chrissie thinks she knows everything there is to know about the supernatural. And it doesn't occur to her that her dreams might make her a person of interest to people in the know.

The dreams have made her slow, sleepy where she should be sharp and alert. So she doesn't notice that she's being followed until it's too late for her to slip away into the night fog. Instead, she has to run. Whoever's following her isn't as fast, but he's definitely smarter, because Chrissie's too blinded by fear to notice that she's being steered in a certain direction. And she doesn't realize that she's being followed by two people, not just the one, until it's too late.