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psychoshenanigans2016-02-14 08:38 pm
birdsbirdsbirds) wrote in psychoshenanigans2016-02-14 08:38 pm
Drift Fleet // Canon
[
the first thing he sees is the metal ceiling. the bolts, the seams. the sound of the engine churning somewhere beneath them sounds like the crooning of the dead from wherever they were buried, and he thinks he's back for just long enough to struggle upright in a half-blind, rising panic.
his heart is pounding so hard he has to blink past it, realize he's seeing his locker and the shelf above it. he picks out the shapes of that stupid bird sculpture, and the stuffed dog, and a couple of other silly things he's collected during his time on the Bloodsport.
on the Bloodsport, not in the Dragons' Underground. he clutches his chest, shivering with relief.
it's fine. it was just a dream. he's not going back. it's fine...]
robin, oh robin...
won't you... come home...
the snow is so cold...
and we're chilled to... the bone...
the trees have all died,
the children, they cry...
oh where has... our dear robin... gone.
the first thing he sees is the metal ceiling. the bolts, the seams. the sound of the engine churning somewhere beneath them sounds like the crooning of the dead from wherever they were buried, and he thinks he's back for just long enough to struggle upright in a half-blind, rising panic.
his heart is pounding so hard he has to blink past it, realize he's seeing his locker and the shelf above it. he picks out the shapes of that stupid bird sculpture, and the stuffed dog, and a couple of other silly things he's collected during his time on the Bloodsport.
on the Bloodsport, not in the Dragons' Underground. he clutches his chest, shivering with relief.
it's fine. it was just a dream. he's not going back. it's fine...]
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something is wrong, his instinctual brain tells him, so he's turning to face it with the sound of a threat rumbling up in his throat.]
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but then he hisses quietly through his teeth, almost in the shape of a particularly draconian swear. it's just Tek, his Tek, and the idiot shouldn't have startled him like that. he grabs one of the (admittedly many) pillows and shoves it slowly towards Tek's face.]
Go back to sleep...
[ignore that he's sitting up and... tense, and irritable.]
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You go back to sleep.
[because he's still hoping that whatever it is will rectify itself before he wakes up all the way.]
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[not... asleep, obviously, but in the process of getting there. he's still wired up, twitchy, and the heavy sounds of his dream are still clinging to the edges of everything, but he forces himself to lay back down. he faces away from Tek, dragging another pillow over to replace the one he shoved towards his bedmate.]
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but it's like trying to snuggle up to an overcharged storm cloud, and that has never been one of Tek's favorite things.
if Robin doesn't manage to relax in twenty seconds of silence, he's getting sighed at again.]
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but being sighed at finally gets him to sink into the bed a little, even if it's more out of begrudging guilt than anything. he's sorry, but he doesn't want to apologize.]
It's just a dream. It'll go away.
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[which might seem like either a flat or a pointed question, but it could just as easily be genuine. Tek only knows the rudimentary facts about how dreams work, anyway.
if anything, it's a neutral question asked out in the dark, while Robin is facing away from him like that. he'll just be a voice in the black, for now, taking over for silence.]
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Dark places.
[it's not a lie, though it hardly covers the whole of it. the dreams that come to him even while he's in the safety of another person's company are usually so... distorted and multi-faceted. those dreams have long fingers and reach into every bad spot at the same time, pulling and twisting through years and feelings... how do you describe a cacophonous symphony to someone who's barely heard music?
but the details start slipping away from him anyway, as the moments pass, and his body loosens up the less he's gripped by his own memory of the nightmare.] Mostly just a voice from the ground, like... There's a dead man who's bled into everything, and the sound just kind of...
[he raises one of his hands a little, sounding foggier by the second.] ...Follows? Like it's always there, and it wants me down there too...
[...he drops his hand back down on the pillow.] I dunno, it was scarier before I woke up.
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whatever else might be behind it, the gesture is at least meant to be reassuring; whether or not he was pretending to follow, he was listening.]
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it's very sweet. for them, anyway.
so he makes a soft little noise and scoots backwards, getting comfortable next to his bedmate again. now, if anything, he's got to pretend he's not instantly charmed.]
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so, he scoops him close and keeps him.]
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he falls asleep after that. probably wakes up with limbs sticking out, one leg partly hanging off the edge of the bed. he yawns through his early-morning haze (or... it could be lunchtime, or evening, or the dead of night, since it all looks about the same in space) and looks over to see if his bedmate is still snoozing...]