It happens to everyone - sometimes, you have nights where you just can't fall asleep, no matter what you do. It could be for a number of reasons, or no reason at all. And this is what's happened now: you've been laying in bed for what feels like hours, just tossing and turning, and nothing seems to help. So what's left to do? Get out of bed and go wake someone else up, of course. If you're not getting any sleep, then why should they?
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o p t i o n s 01 • FEAR. Maybe you're hearing strange, indeterminable noises; maybe there's a severe storm happening outside; maybe you watched a scary movie before bed? Whatever the reason, you're terrified and it's keeping you awake. You just want to wake someone else up so they can protect you from the monster in your closet.
02 • HUNGER. Your stomach is growling and it just won't stop. Or perhaps your throat is so dry you could cough up a tumbleweed? Well, you've gone to the kitchen to remedy this and hey, that was a pan that just dropped on the floor. It was loud enough to wake the dead! Oops.
03 • PAIN. Your body is completely worn out, be it from exercise, battle, sickness, or what have you. Either way you're in enough pain to keep you from sleeping, so maybe someone else has a home remedy or something, or can at least help you take your mind off of it.
04 • SOLITUDE. For some reason, your bed just feels so empty at the moment. You're feeling terribly lonely and really just want someone to keep you company for a while. Maybe it'd be easier to fall asleep if you're with them...
05 • DISCOMFORT. Your room is an oven. Either that or a freezer. Or maybe this bed is just really uncomfortable? Who knows why you can't get to sleep, it feels like it could be anything. Why even bother trying? Maybe someone else can preoccupy you until you feel tired enough to ignore your discomfort.
06 • PENSIVE. Something's on your mind, and no matter how hard you try to focus elsewhere, it's just not going to work. Your body may be tired, but your mind is incredibly busy and it's virtually impossible to get to sleep. Surely, talking it out with someone else will help?
07 • SADNESS. Something terrible has happened that day, perhaps; or you could just be severely depressed. Either way you're trying your hardest not to cry yourself to sleep, and it's not working at all. Better find a way to get it out of your system somehow; you need a shoulder to cry on.
08 • ANGER. You are just... fuming. Who knows why - that annoying dog is barking again, or maybe the people next door are getting busy and keeping you awake. Whatever the reason for your ire is, you'd better put an end to it so you can get some damn rest already! Go wake up a friend so you can complain to them.
09 • RESTLESS. You're far too energetic to sleep right now. Maybe you're just trying to do so out of necessity - you have to be up early tomorrow! But you just don't think you'll be able to fall asleep for a while now, so why waste the time trying to sleep when you could be doing something else? Namely bothering someone else - you're totally jealous because they're getting more sleep than you.
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despairfolk2013-10-26 02:19 am
red (AU) | pokemon
rocket red also available if you want something possibly more angsty idk. ]
zombieverse bc i hate/love you +3
compared to the sleeping bag-padded rocks they're occupying now, he'd go back to those days in a heartbeat. there's an ache in his back where he'd been forced against a tree earlier, only partial to the half-scabbed skin across his knuckles that he'd gained in a poor attempt to defend himself.
green rolls over with a groan, not bothering to keep the obvious flinch in check as he does so. red is probably asleep by now anyway, so whatever. ]
die
silence, once more, in contrast to the erratic thumps inside his chest, and the throbbing inside his head. thinking hurts, moving hurts, and the ache never quite stops. if he speaks, he knows green will hear it, so red offers silence and the shallow sounds of his own breathing, synchronous with the (ex)-scientist's.
how long? ]
you first
green supposes its sort of odd to phrase it that way, because they are always together, but he likes it better when they aren't fighting for their lives or fighting each other, whether it's for a good reason or just for the sake of noise.
he reaches out his sore hand to find one of red's, suddenly finding he needs more to hold onto than just his common sense tonight, and manages to find a soft, tentative voice to speak with. ]
"Sorry if I woke you."
that's how its going down in canon.
but by then, will it be too late?
he doesn't like thinking about that, so instead he resettles his fingers between the other's hands. a small smile creeps on to his face in the dark. he shakes his head, the shuffling of the bags as substitute for his voice. ]
don't remind me
his chest hollows with the release of a sigh, because he hates how things are changing and that there's nothing he can do but stand in the midst of it all. something tells him that red has changed again, the mold of a perfect soldier crumbling away to something more vulnerable, but green doesn't know whether to think that it's good or bad at this point.
if he didn't know better, he could pretend that they're just camping out like they did when they were kids, running around Kanto when grass was still green, when gunpowder and smoke didn't infiltrate the air. the memory of back then is bittersweet, and a pang in green's chest reminds him that there's someone missing from the picture.
suddenly: ]
"I miss Blue."
haha dies
red remembers blue, remembers the third missing member to their pallet trio. he remembers clearer, though, the days underneath an everlasting sun and blue's screams as her hair was pulled, or when green had put a caterpie inside it. that day was hot, red could feel it on his skin.
good to know that the radiation hasn't affected his memory.
he misses her too, and gives green's hand a squeeze, wincing slightly when he exerts a little too much pressure. it's okay, though, he reminds himself. it's okay to have these moments when they're still alive, when he can still feel green's warmth- and the question pummels him again.
how long, how long, how long?
it's the only thing he can think about now. red lets go of green's hand and turns until his face faces green's back, then finally reaches out to lace his hands with green's once more. he wants to listen to green talk for just a little longer before he falls asleep, before they inevitably have to move camp again. ]