She tossed and turned in her sleep, her brow coated in sweat.  She
cried out in fright and sat up in her bed.  Breathing hard, she jerked
away from the comforting arm about her shoulders.  She shuddered until
the calming words penetrated her fog of fear and she relaxed...  A
hand ran through her short hair and she heard the voice of the woman
ask her what was wrong.

"It was horrible!  A nightmare!  There were these dark people and
these, strange, I don't know how to describe them...  There was
fighting andchaos and... and.. i had no control at all!  These other
people.. they used me and had me do things for them!  I was so scared!"

She buries her face into the young woman's shoulder and she pats the
frightened teen in a comforting way and shushes away her fears...

"It's okay...  You're safe...  It was just a bad dream.  Tomorrow,
you'll see that it was nothing more than a bad dream...  You have
school in the morning.  don't worry, we'll keep an eye on things,
Profit..."

Nabiki(pulls away): "Profit?"  Wait...  you're not Kasumi....

The young woman looks back at her in the dark.  she pulles out a zippo
lighter and flicks it's wheel.  the small flame illuminates
reddish-brown eyes and a quiet smirk that rival's Nabiki's own
patented smirk.  She inhales deeply on her cigarette and closes the
lid on the lighter.

"Well, I never claimed that I was Kasumi, Miss Tendo...  tomorrow is
another day... Hehehehehe..."

Nabiki(pulls her covers to her chest and shakes her head back and
forth slowly in shock): Oh, God...  not you!

Nabiki's scream rattles the windows and the cigarette flicks a bit in
the makeshift ash tray.

Jody: Geez, she acts like she's not happy to see us.... ^^ Be seeing
you soon....

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"I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT!  If it was a woman, I'd marry it and call it Suzy!" - Golden Boy 6

"In the end, the world really didn't need a 'Superman,' just a brave one." -Superman

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