Sitting alone in her room again, she wishes there was some way to explain things to Tholin.  Sitting there thinking about it she started feeling a little angry about the way he reacted.  Locking the dream again she steps into the black mirror and makes his way through the tunnels to Aerik’s portal she steps into the black room and looks through the portal to her surprise his pc must still be on for she can see into his room.  She sees him sitting in front of her slouched in his chair.  She gets the feeling what she is looking through his is monitor.   Still angry about his reaction and the way he left without letting her explain she takes a deep breath and steps through the portal.

 A shimmering light appears in the room next to the computer table and out steps the beautiful gray elf with long golden hair wearing a soft flowing gown that seems to move in an unfelt breeze. She smiles softly at Aerik as he stares dumbfounded at the vision before him.  Her eye as green as the finest Emerald.  Her beauty is beyond what he had imagined her has in Fantasy Realm.

 Aerik thinking that he is he thankful he thought of taking Rinhanon to his moms and Kal was away for the weekend.  “Em?” Aerik finally manages to get out as he stares at her.

 Emerald nods slowly reaching out touching his warm cheek with her soft delicate hand. Pulling back slightly not sure what is going on in front of him wondering if Kal had laced his coffee with something or he was asleep and hallucination this visitation.

 “I had to see you,” Emerald says her voice is as beautiful as her appears.  “I don’t think you should be here. Why are you here,” Aerik says?

“I don’t understand your reaction to me being here.” Emerald says.

 Looking up at her with irritation, Aerik says, “you’re invading my privacy that is why I’m reacting this way.”

Sighing softly again she reaches out to touch him again, he grabs her hand.  As she says, “I didn’t react this why when you entered my bathroom when I was in the bath or when you entered my bedroom.  I greeted you with open arms and was glad to see you,” Emerald says softly.

Continuing to hold her small soft hand Aerik responds, “I didn’t invade your reality.”

 “Didn’t you?” Emerald asks.  “My Dream is my reality.  Zephyr and I talked about it and we think we figured out why I can’t use F commands.  I am real in both worlds.”  She explains what she knows; “I don’t know how exactly, but I woke up in a black room with a bright light that appeared to be a portal. Out of curiosity I stepped into it and found myself falling into Fantasy Realm.

 Zephyr was the first person I met there and she showed me around told me about Dreams and the basic rules of Fantasy Realm.  I didn’t think I could make a Dream since I didn’t have access to a Dream editor.  So when I saw, you summon your Dream.   I got to wonder if I could by just using my mind to conjure it up.  The first Dream was an Ancient English castle I saw on a concert tour I had in England.  The second is my grandmother’s farm.  I wanted someplace that felt safe after that ordeal with Rogue Black.”

 As she relates her story to Aerik, he doesn’t know what to think it is too much for him to comprehend.  The stunned man just sit and looks amazed at the little elf before him.  Over and over in his head he keeps thinking this isn’t happening, this is a hallucination.

 Emerald continues and tells him about the Server tunnels and how it is laid out like the spokes of a bicycle wheel.

 As if a light has been turned on Aerik stares at the beautiful Gray elf, “the cyber experiment,” Aerik asks.

She tells him she doesn’t know why this is happening but that it is and she has to make the best of it for now.  Her experiment was to see if she existed in both worlds. By being able to leave the trays behind proved she did indeed exist in both worlds.

 Looks down into her brilliant green-eyes he sighs, taking her into his arms. “I’m sorry, I should have let you explain before I got bent out of shape.”

 Stroking her soft golden locks, thinking it had been a long time that he held women like this.  Sitting her back looking at her, she is so perfect.   She leans forward and kisses him lightly.   He returns the kiss; her lips seem so soft.  He feels a need for her, but fighting back the eager to take her.

 “You forgive me for entering your space?” Emerald asks softly.

  Aerik nods, “yeah, I can’t  quite understand what is going on, but whatever it is you are only discovering your limits.  I can’t be any angrier at you than at amaii for testing the limits of her world.”  Smiling warmly Emerald gives him a tight hug.

 She feels so good in his arms to him, he decides he has to find the real her and find out what he can about her. Holding her closely running his hand down her back felling her soft wings folded down her back and her silky hair.  They look into each other’s eye.  Aerik looks at the bright gem green eyes she has and wonders what her real self-looks like.  Emerald smiles into his soft puppy dog brown eye, as he stands her up and they move to the bed.

 Sitting on the edge of the bed. They both feel like two teenagers exploring each other for the first time.  Emerald moves her hand slowly to his shirt and slides her hand down his sides to the bottom of his shirt gazing back up into his eye, she slowly slips his shirt up over his head.  She lets it fall to the floor, then gentle caresses his chest and abdomen with her eyes and hands.

 As she removes his shirt, Aerik lightly slides his hands over her shoulders and down her back feeling a couple buttons along the neck and back of her dress above her wings. Kissing her cheek lightly he undoes the buttons and lets the dress fall down the front of her body exposing her perfect breast.  She returns the kiss with a soft one on his moist lips, she starts to breathing deeper accentuates her breasts. She stands and lets the dress cascade softly to the floor at her feet.

 Letting his gaze move down her flawless form, never seeing any woman so beautiful before, her skin alabaster white, reminds him of a Japanese porcelain doll.   Allowing his hands drifting along her slender body.  His one hand migrates to her back, feeling her soft wings they feel like silk to his touch. He pulls her to him and gently embraces her presenting with a long lingering kiss, on her soft pink rosebud lips.  She returns the kiss with great interest, moving her body seductively in response to the embrace.

 Laying her down on his bed, he can’t believe how much he wants to make love to this alien being.  Studying her figures he runs a finger lovingly outlining her pointed eats then sliding a hand down as he begins to kiss her neck tenderly, directing his kisses down her body.  Caressing his face, neck the shoulders with the back of her hand she can feel her body responding to his touches.

 Aerik removes his pants and together they link their desires into a conflagration of passion.  The friction of there two bodies, producing an inferno, of pleasure.  As they are engulfed in flames of a combination of lust and deep love, they are immersed in the flood of emotion.  Emerald’s eyes widen as she moves closer to nirvana. They’re moans harmonizing into their song of ecstasy.  The two lovers crumple into each other’s arms breathing deeply.

  Nuzzling Emerald’s neck her lover kisses her deeply gentle stroking her hair out of her face.  Smiling back Emerald returns the kiss and brushes his hair back, from his eyes.  Continuing to hold her he rolls, so the delicate little elf is now on top, resting her face against his chest.  Lightly he caresses the little creatures back continuing to be amazed at how soft her wings are.

“Where is the real you Em?” Aerik ask softly.

“My non cyber form is somewhere in the Mid-American University.  In the medical department I think,” Emerald answers sighing contently at the feel of warmth blanketing over her.  Kissing the top of her head, thinking how he wills manger to get into the University.  He was becoming obsessed with finding this angel.

 Closing his eyes, he drifts off to sleep.  Silently Emerald gets up and taking her clothes and the tray she leaves the room as if she had never been there, except for the faint scent of honeysuckle and the red rose.  Stepping back into the portal, the shimmering light grows bright then vanishes from the room.
 

  Stepping back into the portal room, she turns and glances at the sleeping human on the bed.  Smiling softly happy, he has forgiven her for her intrusion on his privacy this morning.  She moves her way out of the portal room, into the white tube beyond.  Emerald makes her way up to the Servers hub and goes down the tube that leads to Michael’s terminal.  Stepping into his portal room, she is surprised that the portal on the other side is gone.  Perplexed at this change she steps outside to look to make sure she stepped into the right portal.  His name is on the portal, the pretty gray elf sighs and shrugs thinking he must have turned his terminal off when he left.

 Looking down the corridor she heads back to the Server hub and heads up to the University spoke. Stopping at the portal to her father’s office, she steps in.  Peering beyond the portal she sees her father sitting at his desk and Martha pointing something out to him in a folder that lay on his disk.  Leaning forward he looks a then look up at Martha and waves his had in a dismissing whatever she was pointing out.  She was very adamant about whatever it ever it was she was telling him.  Getting up shaking his head, he heads for the office door.  The pretty assistant following close behind, still talking.  Stopping at the door Dr. Morose looks at his assistant and frowns saying something.  Emerald wishing she could hear what they are saying.

 After they leave the room and close the door behind them Emerald sees her chance to peek at the folder that Martha was so adamant about.  Stepping through the shimmering light into the room.  Quickly going over to the desk she sees the folder, but before she can get a look at it she hears her fathers voice coming back down the hall, “damn, after all that I for got the file.”

 Emerald hears the click of the doorknob thinking to herself that this can’t be happening she has to see that file.  She dashes back to the light disappearing back into the computer leaving only the honeysuckle scent behind. Stomping her foot has she enters the portal room.  She turns and sees he father picking up the folder. Under her breath she says, “damn almost had it.”

 Watching her father leave she sighs and heads back to her black room.  Carrying the tray in she looks into the portal and watches her mortal self-lying on the bed.  Emerald thinks how small she looks in that bed.  She wishes she knew what her condition was.  Deciding to take the risk she sets the tray on the bed and looks through the portal, looking to see if there is a chart on the foot of the bed like must hospital beds would have.  To her delight there was one on, all she needs to do was to get in take a peek then get out before someone comes in.

 Looking around as well as she could, she looks to see if the room is empty.  It appeared to be so she quickly steps through.  Moves gracefully over to the bed and keeping one eye on the door using her sensitive elf ears to listen for any noise in the hall she glances down at the chart. Flipping through the pages, she sees that she is being kept alive by respirators and feeding tubes.  In shock she drops the chart and stares at herself in the bed.  “Oh god, I’m died,” she whispers to herself.  Behind her she hears her fathers voice, “you’re not died.”  Turning quickly she sees her father and Martha standing in the doorway.   Her heart racing she dashes back into the shimmering light vanishing out of the room leaving the scent behind.

 Bending forward holding her stomach gasping for air from the adrenaline of being caught.  She thinks, why didn’t she hear them?  It was stupid of her to go into that room.  How could she be so stupid?  She slowly turns and sees Martha and her father looking around the area where the light portal had been, talking excitedly to one another.

 Shaking she picks up the tray and goes back into her Dream bedroom.  Heart still racing she takes the tray back to the kitchen trying to think what will happen now they know about her.  Setting the tray on the counter, she looks around wondering what to do.

 The thought suddenly coming to her, she races back upstairs and into the bedroom through the mirror running through the black room to the Server tunnel tripping she falls and slides down the tube into the Server hub. Gathering herself up, she pulls up her skirt and looks at her knee she bruised it badly when she it the Server hub platform.

  Hobbling down the Tube as fast as she can, she gets to Aerik’s IP and steps in their still laying on the bed as she left him.  Looking so peaceful as he sleeps hating to wake him but not knowing what else to do. She steps back into the room through the portal.  Looking around nervously, her knee throbbing, she lightly sits on the edge of the bed.

 Aerik stirs and smiles as he looks up at the vision.   Then notices her nervousness he asks, “Em, what is wrong?”

Wringing her hand, she looks over at him.  “I went into my hospital room.  I had to see,” not finishing her statement she hugs Aerik tightly.

Sitting up he puts her arms around her he asks, “Em what did you see?”

Thinking the way Emerald was acting that she must be in very rough shape. This made him more determined to find her before it was too late.  Sliding his hand down her body and along her leg he inadvertently presses on her knee.  Wincing she pulls her leg away.   Slipping her skirt up over her knee he looks at it, it has started to swell.  “Em, you have to go back to Fantasy Realm I can’t help your knee here.”

 Emerald looks down at her black and bruised swollen knee, closing her eyes to the pain. “Emm . . . Please I will meet you there I can fix it there I can’t here,” he implores her. Nodding she stands up giving him a soft kiss as she moves back to the shimmering portal.

 Moving painfully back too through the portals and tunnels, she slowly makes her way back to her room.  She limps to the vanity and unlocks the dream.  Within a few minutes Tholin walks into the bedroom moving her so she is sitting up on the bed he raises her skirt.  The knee is swollen twice-normal size and is severely discolored.  Looking at Emerald Tholin says, “what did you do it your knee? I think it is broken.”

 Shivering from the pain Emerald tells him, “I panicked I went into my hospital room and my father and his assistant saw me. I ran out of the room and sledded down the tunnel hitting my knee into the Server hub.”

 Trying not to hurt her any more than he has to, he straightens her leg out, then talking his flute out he plays a few notes over the injured knee.  Biting her lower lip she feels heat then ice penetrate into the bone she grips the covers and tries not to scream from the intense pain.

 The pain subsides as the swelling goes down and skin returns to its normal coloration.  Relaxing the grip on the covers, Emerald slowly bends her knee. Placing his hands on either side of her ankle slowly Tholin slides his hands up her leg lightly rubbing her knee.  “Does it feel any better?” he asks.  Nodding she touches his hands lightly, “it feels a lot better, thank you.”  Leaning forward he kisses her softly.

 “Ok, tell me again what happened that up set you so,” Tholin inquires.  Shuddering she tells Tholin, “ I went into the hospital room where my RL form is and I was laying there with tubes and monitors.”  Biting her lower lip remembering the sight. Swallowing hard she continues, “ I must have said my thought ‘I’m dying’, out loud because, I was surprised to hear my dad say no you’re not.  I turned and there was my dad and his assistant standing in the doorway of the room. I panicked and ran for the portal, I didn’t know what to do so I thought I would go to you and find see if you had any suggestions.”

 Hugging her tightly rubbing her back Tholin says, “I will see what I can do.  Em I have to find you.  I truly love you and I want to know the “real” you.”

 Not knowing wether to be happy or to cry she looks up at him worried, “I think my “real” form is dieing.”  Holding her tightly Thonlin closing his eyes knowing the feeling of losing someone you love dearly.  “I have to know”.   Kisses him softly, “ I wonder what will happen to me if she I mean I do die?” Emerald thinks out loud.

 Sitting back thinking then looks into her beautiful green eyes Tholin sighs, “I wish I knew, most likely nothing, your part of the program now.  As long as the net is up you will remain for how long I don’t know.”
 

 Lays back on into the pillows behind her.  Emerald continues, “I have so many questions I don’t know where to start to find the answers.”  Touches her nose lightly with his then gives her a brief kiss to the lips.  “Listen I am here for you whenever you need me,” Tholin says reassuringly.

 Brightly Tholin looks at his lovely little angel.  “I have some calls to make so I’m going to go off-line.  If I don’t I’m afraid you would be to distracting”, Tholin says with a big smile.

  A knowing twinkle in her eye she nods, “I think I’m going to take a nap anyway, this day has been so exhausting.”  Giving her a parting kiss Tholin summons the @Gate. His parting words, as he leaves are “sweet dreams lover.”

 With a slight smile on her face she closes her eyes.  Drifting into a deep sleep.