From: Myriss Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 20:14:17 -0800 (PST) Subject: Jump by Myriss Source: direct TITLE: Jump AUTHOR: Myriss EMAIL ADDRESS: myriss1013@yahoo.com DISTRIBUTION: Gossamer and Ephemeral Okay. Others: Okay but please let me know. And keep my name and header attached. RATINGS WARNING: G CLASSIFICATION: PWP (A plot? What's that? KEYWORDS: 3POV, AU maybe SPOILERS: Nothing really. SUMMARY: Jump, he says, I will catch you. So I did. THE DISCLAIMER: Any character you recognized from the TV. series belongs to 1013 and Fox. I am just borrowing them. FEEDBACK: Please. Send to myriss1013@yahoo.com AUTHOR NOTES* - This is a little different, I think THANKS to Carole for beta-ing Jump by Myriss (myriss1013@yahoo.com) ***** I have the same dream every night. I am walking along. The wind is blowing. I look up at the sky. It's so blue. So intensely blue that tears spring into my eyes for the beauty of it. I am at peace. I am at calm. Then, I come to the edge of a cliff. I am a little afraid so I move carefully closer to take a peek. Below me is the shiny ribbon of water, moving so slowly that it seems to be sheets of blue green glass. I can see the sun dancing off the surface. The play of light draws me... Oh, it draws me deep.... I jerk back, suddenly afraid... And this is how the dream usually ends... But this time... This time is different... "Are you scared?" a voice asks from behind me. I swing my head around. There is a man sitting on the ground, his arms loop around his knees. His dark hair is tousled by the wind. He looks very relaxed, as if he has been there for alway... "It's so deep," I say in a small voice. He nods sagely. "Very deep," he agrees. I step back, shaking my head, trembling with fear. "I--I can't..." His hazel eyes dance at me. They remind me of the sun dancing on the water My eyes are irresistibly drawn back over the cliff to the water below. "Tell me," he says. "If you jump, will you make a ripple or a splash?" "I--I don't know," I stammer. "A splash, I guess." "You will never know until you do." My eyes meet his...they were deep, deep unfathomable pools.... "Jump," he says quietly. "I will catch you." ...so I did... ...down.... ........down.... ....................the water rushing over me... ...the pain... the roar of silence... ....plunge deep... .thoughts swirling... i am dying... ....i am dying.... my lungs crushed by the darkness... sinking deeper...and deeper... then suddenly.... like a whoosh... ....I am propelled upwards... warm hands pulling... pulling me from the darkness...into the light... light swirling around me, blinding me.... silence is replaced by cacophony of sound... the air forced into my lungs... All I can do is lie there and whimper... I feel something soft enveloping me... a voice from above... I blink sleepily at it.... it was *his* voice... ...it was *his* eyes staring down at me... ...his arms holding me... He smiles down at me, his hazel eyes so very tender. He reaches down and kisses me... a gentle soft kiss.... and whispers, "I love you, my baby girl." Jump, he says. I will catch you. So I did. And he did. I close my eyes. I am content. THE END