Nick stood there listening to everything Julia was saying. This was weird,
everything she was saying was true and had happened. But HOW can she be
back? How did Julia come back and why is she back? Ahh! this was too much. "I
feel something..."
<< Julia gently disengaged herself from Derek's hold. This was something she
had to do and she had to do it with and for Nick.. even for herself in a way.
"Nick.." she spoke his name again, tentively reaching up to touch his cheek
but stopping at his pained expression. Her voice was low, an almost whisper
but he could hear her, could hear the natural huskiness in it as she tried to
prove it to him "It is me.... I.. I love the coffee you call mud. I.. my
favorite flavor ice cream is chocolate chocolate chip... you bought it for me
the day I sprained my wrist mountain climbing because I missed a competition
because of it......" her blue eyes begged him to remember and believe as she
went on to the next outrageous but true tale "We work for the Legacy, meeting
evil, ghost, goblins, ghouls, demons... and I freaked out on you.. in the
house.. and you picked on me for months because it took a rat to make me jump
on your back and freak... I wouldn't even let you kill it once you finally
caught it and you had to throw it out the back door...!"
She tried raising her hands again and just let them stay there, looking into
that tortured gaze of his. She couldn't stop the silent tears that fell. He
couldn't have forgotten, he just couldn't have -- she had found her old stuff
in their usual place -- his eyes now... she chewed her bottom lip and there
was an equally silent plead in her voice "I'm the one that gave you the bad
habit of sitting on a table while we researched things.... because the
chairs.. they bugged me... Nick it's me.. can't you feel it?" >>
