Welcome to Gaia! ::

The room is fairly small, decorated in elaborate silks and items that Suika has collected during her travels. Different pictures hang on the walls, some from ancient Japan, some from the beginnings of the chinese dynasties, whose numbers were too numerous for any one scholar to keep up with. The bed itself is a raised futon mat on a large black box of some kind, white kanji scribbled all over it like a spell. The silks that lay across it range from purple to pink and then to red, but that is mostly it. A few pillows anoint the top and maybe even a few old french dolls, but that is mostly it. There are no mirrors in the room, no vanity for her looks to be checked in. Her clothes are few, seeing as the style changes from one part of her life to another, but all have long sleeves or stockings to help hide the pallor of her skin. A few plaster masks hang on the wall as well, some from ancient festivals long past, and some just from last years Mardi Gras. Not a single thing that matched, save for the theme of collection and the shades and hues.

He walked over and set her on her bed. after standing back up he looked around the room taking in the various ancient artifacts. He looked at a particularly interesting mask and inspected it " awesome whats this from?"

He took it off the wall and walked it over to her with his arm out stretched almost offering it to her. " Naw it wouldn't look right on me, lets see it on you. You probably know how to wear it."

He sat next to her, taking up most of her sleeping area inadvertently. " naw i think you look really good in it!"

He looked back at her blushing in kind. He responded with a bit of a deep voice that sounded as if he had something very large caught in his throat. " Yea..?"

Alan flushed an deep scarlet now his brow furrowed and he began to stumble over his words. " I I I uhh I umm I ga ga gue guess I I ca ca could..." He awkwardly puckered his lips and leaned forward with his eyes closed tight.

Alan relaxed as the kiss progressed and wraped his arms around her and held her gently...

:: a few hours later::
Their evening attire was strewn around the room.
The two of them lay in their night clothing asleep next to each other on the floor wrapped in her bedding. Al began to stir eventually tossing and turning, and beginning to mutter in his sleep obviously having a bad dream. " n no, Carson..." was barely comprehensible amongst his words... he woke Suika with his movements and noise.

She crept into his dream ns seeing the full scope of it. This is what she saw...

Alan walked into the Computer lab and sat next to Angi. He they talked for a short while, he explained that he had a paper to do, he was hoping this would impress her, he knew she like guys who were serious in their schooling. though he did not appear to see it she seemed disdainful of him, as if she did not know how to let him down easily. He turned from her and attempted to boot of the PC he was sitting at after a time he went to press the keyboard as she and newly instructed him ( he knew little about technology) and proceeded to loose control of his strength, with a firm thrust of his index finger he cracked the input device in two. No no no he was being a klutz again, Angi hated it when he was clumsy... before she noticed the damage he quickly tried to discard the evidence by throwing it in the opposite direction, however in his quick thrust his hand accidentally caught the monitor as well and with his amplified strength he sent the entire rig colliding downward into all the other devices in the row crating something akin to a row of dominoes. shocked at his display she left quickly wishing to avoid him further. Carson and Michale came over, Michale was always trying to bust him and get him kicked out of school... but Carson saved him he paid for his mistake in exchange for Al's help at his laboratory at a later date. Carson was good friend, always there for him.

it seems like days later and Alan is walking into the school hospital. Leo his room mate and Angi got into a fight and Angi kicked his butt hard. Carson was there too visiting Leo. and so was Angi... she was given community service at the ward because she hurt Leo... this was the chance Al had been hoping for. All his friends were finally in one spot again, one of the first times since the desert. He needed to talk to them all about what happened there, when they found out they were special...

" Guys this is a gift from Above! it was a miracle!" Alan said with enthusiasm's to the other three.

Carson resonded with" oh come on im sure there is a much simpler scientific explination what we though happend couldnt have, its impossable!"

Angi spoke quietly "As much as i hate to say it i think Carson is right."

" Come on, we are blessed what else could it be!"

Leo chimed in with " Well as Mrs. Bundy over here agrees, it might very well have been a mass hallucination or some sort of dream."

Alan's brow furrowed in thought. then he relied with " how could we have had the same dream then?"

Carson piped in " Well Alan it is pretty rare but not unheard of, and stranger things have happened..."

Before he could finish Leo interjected with " Besides its not like you can ever really sure you were not or are not dreaming. In fact you might very well might be dreaming right now."

Alan look at Leo for a moment the concept seeming absurd but still he was intruded " you mean I might not actually be here talking to you guys right now?"

" yea, go ahead pinch your self find out!" Leo prompted sarcastically. Alan looked down at his arm and pinched and miraculously felt no pain. ( what he did not know was that he simply did not pinch hard enough). He looked around now convinced that he was in fact in a dream state and that the room around him was unreal.

" so anything i do here I can't get in trouble for and is not bad because it doesn't exist?" he thought to him self surprisingly reaching the conclusion on his own. Leo who was always attempting to have a bit of fun with his weaker minded roomy nodded and watched eagerly at the foolishness that was about to ensue. Al looked around the room and his eyes fell on Angi the love of his life, and an idea occurred to him... he quickly rose walked over to where she was standing and kissed her passionately like he had wanted to oh so many times before. All the while unbeknown st to him Carson and Leo while shocked were not to shocked to not instinctively grab for their camera phones and take as many pictures as passable.

Alan now ignoring them then swept Angi off her feet and carried her out of the buildign towards his dorm room for a passonate night. however about half way there the shock of what was happening wore off and she came to her sences and began to fight him after a short distance of struggle, Alan relized that even in a dream ( or so he thought) if she was not willing he should not take her... so he let her go. She Immedatly bolted away as quickly as possable, while he slupmed up to his room to catch some sleep.

The next day was the day he was to work for Carson. He awoke fleeing well and thinking how odd and vivid a dream he had had. He entered Carson's laboratory looking around he saw many attempts at making various robotics and other such devices. Carson ushered him in, before he set him to the grunt work tasks he was to assign he decided to comment on the night before's activities
" so i bet you an Angi got real friendly last night eh?" he snickered

Alan sighed " no we dint i she didn't want to... wait a second tha... that was all a dream right?"

Carson laughed" nope it wasn't! I got the pictures to prove it to!" he ushered Alan to his computer and loaded the pictures he had taken vividly showing Alan kissing and toating Angi out of the hospital. Al was in shock his body became numb, and realization came over him, he had completely stopped any and all chances with Angi... the love of his life would forever hate him and it was all his fault. Rage filled him, it blinded him made him incapable of rational thought. All he knew was to destroy. With out realizing what he was doing he backhanded Carson so hard he was put into the wall, Alan proceeds to tear apart the laboratory and anything in it chemicals mixed and burned, sparks flew papers scattered furniture splintered, fires caught. As his rampage subsided grief struck him. Alan Sunk to his knees and began to weep covering his face as he balled uncontrollably amidst the wreckage that was becoming steadily more unsafe.

He did not know how long he cried. it seemed like eternaty to him he was only ever dully awar of the ever rising sensation of heat that seemed to envelop him. But then he herd a voice that he both needed and dreaded, it was Angi's " CARSON!? CARSON!?" she found them both amidst the high flames. Part of Alans face was being burned and melted by the acidic flames of the labritory. she she took carson with her and helped drag Alan out as well all the time he mumbling incoherntly aobut being sorry... before they made it out his vision blackend and his breathing slowed. Alan was no longer with them.

This nightmare of his last days in him home world seemed to repeat over agianand again tormenting him in his dreams.