"...I am so a wicked witch. Rain doesn't make me melt, but it does harm me..." Tzal yawned, then flitted over to help the others with Josh.

Lawrence placed a hand on Josh's face and attempted to rejoin their thoughts, to reach him in his dream. ~Josh? It's me...you're having a nightmare; please wake up.~

Suddenly Lawrence was in the dream, he could see what was happening. Josh lay there trying to fight free from the people that held him.
“your worthless, no one can love you.” The voice was cold, unloving, and harsh. Out of nowhere a violin bow snapped down and struck josh a crossed his face. He yelped in pain then went still.
“Iam sorry.” His voice sounded small young.
“look what you did.” the bow, now cracked and near broken flicked in front of josh’s face, he flinched trying to avoid the hit that he know would come. “now I cant play tonight.” A hand came out of the dark and slap josh hard a crossed his face.
“Iamsorry, Iamsorry, Iamsorry.” Tears were falling down his face as josh stood there. His body trembling.

“this does not look good, I have never seen anyone get this deep into a dream.” A crossed Josh’s face a red line appeared then disappeared. “What is he dreaming about Lawrence?” William noticed as he asked that Lawrence seemed to be in a trance. “ah… well I hope you can reach him in there we will take care of him out here.” William was now worried, josh had stopped fighting and was just laying there.

Lawrence growled, then closed his eyes. Immediately, light in the form of Roman Gladiators burst out from him and began to assault Josh's attackers.

Tzal scooted closer to William, watching Josh carefully.

Slowly the phantoms faded as the light came closer. Josh lay there panting his eyes shut. “Iamsorry, Iamsorry…….” He kept repeating his body shaking with fear.

Wrapping his arm around Tzal William gently stoked josh’s hair. “ its going to be ok josh, they cannot hurt you. You’re going to be ok, Lawrence is there to help you.” His voice was soothing, he was worried, ~I don’t like what I am getting from him, Tzal. I don’t like it at all.~ he could feel Josh’s fear and he know that it had to do with some one that should have loved him.

Lawrence slowly knelt down next to him, keeping a constant light around him. He gingerly lifted Josh up into his arms and held him, rubbing his back. "Calm down...calm down, it's okay...I'm here, now...you don't have to worry about them any longer. There's nothing to be sorry about...just calm down..."

"Let's just try to keep him calm. Since our genius of a teacher is being a stubborn ass and won't come back to help, we're on our own." Tzal sounded scathing, annoyed. He wanted to go back to his room.

slowly opening his eyes josh, cringed away till he realized who it was that was holding him. then he just latched onto him as he shook with sobs. “it was bad really bad, dad was……” his voice trailed off as he realized that it was truly Lawrence not just some dream creation. “how are you in my dream?”

~I don’t think Angelo knew about this. I think that he was not expecting a problem like this.~ an idea came to William and he stood up slowly. Lawrence seemed to have gotten to josh but for how long he did not know. ~would you mind if we all slept in the same bed Tzal? I think it would be best for right now.~

Lawrence held him, smiling. "I don't know...I just...came in, somehow..."

Tzal grumbled. ~He should be checking up on us, then. And I don't mind that, as long as no one gropes at me. Other than you.~

“thanks… for coming in.” his voice faded as they both came out of his dream.

William walked over and pushed the two beds together so that there would be room for everyone. “there now we can create a puppy pile and every one can feel safe.”

Lawrence blinked as he returned to the real world. "...Ehh?? What are you guys doing?" he asked, pointing at Tzal and William.

"If we all stick together, we should be able to chase nightmares away from each other. So, let's just get some sleep," Tzal explained, curling up once more. "Aah...so tired..."

Curling up close to Lawrence josh sighed. “Thanks guys.” It was nice to know that he had friends that would do whatever they though to drive away the nightmares. William curled up between josh and tzal so that Lawrence could wrap his arms around josh.

“whatever it was that cause you to have these dreams this should chase them away for the night. In the morning I think maybe we all should try together to get Angelo’s attention.” With that William wrapped his arms around Tzal. ~my little dark angel, thank you for being understanding.~

Lawrence yawned, softly, and wrapped his arms around Josh. "Night, everyone..." he mumbled sleepily.

Tzal buried his face in William's chest. "Agreed..." He closed his eyes. ~You are welcome.~

The rest of the night went smoothly, josh did not dream of nightmares. The morning dawned Bright, Very bright. William hissed at it then pulled Tzal under the bed to hide from the light. It had burned him a little not like they say sunlight hurts regular vampires, but still it burned.

Josh woke to the hissing and then rolled over to snuggle into Lawrence’s chest.

Tzal grumbled at being woken up again. "Mm...what's going on?" he asked, blearily. He looked like he could use some more sleep.

Lawrence was still asleep. When Josh snuggled against him, Lawrence stirred, but remained asleep. "Mm..."

Pulling Tzal close in the grass William kissed his neck. ~nothing dark one, just getting us out of the sun.~ his fingers ran along Tzal’s side under his shirt, then quickly William took the shirt off and nuzzled his chest. ~even without a shower you smell good.~ his tongue flicked out and barely touched tzal’s skin. ~now they can’t see us and the sun wont bug us.~

Mentally josh reached out and pulled Lawrence into his dram. They were sitting on a picnic blanket in the middle of a rolling field of flowers. “it will be summer again soon. Wonder what the dean plans on doing with me. Think we have caused enough trouble this year to get kick out?” his fingers entwined with Lawrence’s.

Tzal's breath hitched, then he wrapped his arms around him, kissing at his neck in response to the kissing at his chest. ~Mm...good...are we going to try and contact Angelo today? You know, I just thought of something...do you think Josh has my power? The power to steal, or copy, other powers? He does seem to have a lot...~

Lawrence smiled, squeezing his hand. "No, not really. We've behaved..."

~you are correct that he dose seem to have a lot. But it could be that he is just getting stuff of the bound we now share. So he could just be borrowing from you.~ looking up at Tzal William caught his mouth and gave it a good strong kiss. ~this bound has never been done by on mage and three gifted before.~ pulling him closer he wrapped his legs around Tzal’s legs.

“oh I think we have caused our share of mischief. What with me almost torching my math class and you having that dream that knocked down two of the late deans pictures.” Josh leaned over and kissed Lawrence.

Tzal kissed him back, contently. ~Perhaps. And perhaps not. We shall see in the future, I suppose.~ He snuggled in closer to William, closing his eyes.

Lawrence went a little pink, then stared at the ground shyly. "I guess so..."

~sleep my little dark angel, sleep and wake rested.~ William wrapped himself around Tzal. It felt slightly strange to have such a small person with him but he was growing to love the feel of Tzal near him. he sighed and pulled of his shirt so that their bear skin was touching.

Getting up josh ran down to some flowers and brought them back to Lawrence. “here you go a gift for my love.”

Tzal hummed softly, curling up in William's grasp. He seemed to like having their bare skin touching...

Lawrence smiled, then took them. "Thank you very much..."

As the sun grew higher in the sky. A sound came into their dreams, at frist it was a low hum then it built till it was shouting words that they could not understand. Then all was quite again, but the sun was not shining on them.
William and Tzal were again laying in a bed, the blanket slowly folded over them.

Tzal was nearly asleep. He felt like curling up and sleeping for ten more hours. He rested his head on William's chest, lovingly.

Lawrence pulled the blankets up over his head, disorientated. For some reason, he didn't feel so well.

Gently William woke up and looked around. ~um love. We might want to go down and get something to eat before the kitchen closes for the morning.~ he would have loved to lay there and cuddle but this was not going to work. They were going to have to talk to angelo about what he did and how to fix what had happened. As the blankets brushed against his skin he hissed. He was red from a sun burn.

Pulling the blankets back down so they were not covering his head josh tried to get back to his dream. It had been a nice dream, a wonderful dream. Lawrence had been there and they had been discussing what they were going to do for summer break. Something about going to Lawrence’s house for the first half of it.

Tzal grumbled. ~Not hungry...too tired...~ He notice William's skin. ~I think you should give up breakfast and take a cold bath instead. ...Actually...I can make us sandwiches with what little I have here. Go on and take your bath.~

Lawrence tried to bury himself in his pillow, completely unwilling to get up. He also wanted to get back to the dream.

“I was planning on that my dark one, but I wanted to make sure we had something to eat too. I can not live off you alone and you can go survive to feed me and not eat.” Leaning down he kissed him, “but if you would like you could join me.”

Finding that sleep would not come back to him josh flopped on his back away from Lawrence and growled. Then he noticed that there was a roof over their head, and a poster… one of his posters. ~looks like we are in our room now.~ he reached out and touched Lawrence.

Tzalmon was scowling, but by the time he finished, he looked curious, and eager. "Of course I would like to join you. We can eat afterward." He seemed excited.

Lawrence stirred, grumbling. "Five...more minutes..."