Ruby Redfort: try not to scream

"Ruby?" came a voice as Ruby's eyes started to open again. "Ruby?"
She hadn't fainted. Only zoned out. Gone into a trance because of pure terror. The villain of her nightmares had returned.

She opened her eyes to see Hitch and Blacker, holding onto her shoulders.
"Are you ok, Redfort?" came the husky voice of LB from her desk. She had not gotten up. In fact she barely seemed to care at all. Ruby's head snapped round to face her. LB looked surprised at the aggression on Ruby's face.
"Am I ok?" said Ruby, very quietly. There was power behind her voice no matter how softly she said anything.
"Am I ok? No. No I'm not ok. This is The Count we're talking about,"
"I understand your concern..." said LB although she was interrupted by a still angry Ruby.
"Do you? Do you really? Because last time I checked you've never come into contact with that psycho," Ruby's hands were running through her hair as she paced about the room.
"Kid, it's not LB's fault. We never confirmed him as dead so..." said Hitch, standing in front of LB's desk. How could Ruby have expected any of them to understand. After all, only her and Hitch had ever met Victor Von Leyden and let's just say that Hitch's experience was brief.
"Ruby, we are going to do all we can to track his movement," said Kekoa. Somehow the sound of her soft voice calmed Ruby's brain. She was often very still and an all round good guy. Kekoa was the one agent Ruby would go to if she ever needed to just de-stress.
"Yeah Redfort," said Sam Colt. "We are going to do all we can while still trying to prevent panic spreading through Spectrum. Only very few will be aware of his return but we thought you should know considering, well, you know," Ruby did know. The Count was a man, if you could even class him as human, who relished in causing others pain and sorrow. He had no motive for the evil doings he carried out, other than the pure need to be a full on crazy person. Being a Junior Agent, Ruby would never have been told something this important unless it had anything to do with her potential murder.
"I just... I already knew," whispered Ruby, almost inaudible to those in the room.
"What do you mean, you already knew?" said Hitch, walking towards her. Ruby felt like an insect under a microscope. Everyone in the room was staring at her. But that wasn't the most worrying part. Froghorn hadn't spoken a word since she had entered the room. Usually he would jump at the chance to make a sarcastic comment or interrogate Ruby, but not today. He simply stared at her like everyone else.
"Recently, I've felt like someone was watching me. Wherever I am there is someone there, I can feel it. And then there was the dream,"
"What dream, Ruby?" asked Blacker.

A week before this, Ruby Redfort had been sleeping soundly in her bed in her house on Cedarwood drive. Her mind wandered and she started to dream. She saw her watch, placed where it always was on her right wrist. The date was June 2nd and the time was 1.27 pm. She was sitting in her homeroom classroom with Mrs Drisco droning on about rules and some other pointless blah that Ruby had tuned out. It was up until several Spectrum 8 agents burst through the door that the dream seemed like just an normal school day. The door burst open to reveal All the agents that were in the room with Ruby as she was explaining this illusion. Well, all of them minus Colt and Kekoa.
Hitch screamed inaudible words. The things the agents were shouting could not be understood. Suddenly, Ruby was jolted backwards, as if the scene she had just witnessed was a film. Soon she was in a dark room, standing still in front of the one man she feared more than death. Count Von Viscount. He too whispered inaudible words until Ruby looked down and found a knife lodged into her side. Red, sticky blood seeping from the wound. She was going to die. She turned to face the window and saw her friends. Hitch, LB, Blacker, Froghorn, Clancy and a boy she didn't recognise. They were here for her, to find her. But it was too late. She fell to the floor and saw only black. And the dream was over. Ruby woke.

She finished explaining and sat down in a chair in front of the desk. The room was silent. Could Ruby really have seen a glimpse into the future? The day in question, June 2nd hadn't arrived yet. It was still May 14th and The Count had only just been confirmed alive. He hadn't actually done anything yet. Or at least nothing that Spectrum knew of.

"Calm down, kid," said Hitch, trying to reduce the tension. "It was just a dream, Ruby. You're not gonna die. You can count on me to make sure of that," Ruby smiled slightly. She knew that Hitch would never intentionally put her in danger but that didn't mean it wasn't possible.

There was a brief conversation about keeping Spectrum safe and "keeping it zipped" between the agents and then they were all dismissed.

Hope you liked this part. I had a lot of fun writing it. Please leave me some feedback in the comments. Thanks for reading xxx