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Nov. 9th, 2009 09:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
acts_of_gordGordon got used to bad sleep long, long ago. It's better than it used to be- five hours at a stretch before the nightmares kick in, sometimes more than that- but it's still a very strange thing for him to wake up without some sort of interruption or disturbance.
This night, alas, is a strange thing of an entirely different sort. When his breath catches and his eyes flick open, he lies very still while the world stops blurring and spinning, the way it always does when he's wrenched straight to wakefulness from REM; then he rolls onto his back to stare up at the ceiling for a while, just to be sure it's there and he's here.
This night, alas, is a strange thing of an entirely different sort. When his breath catches and his eyes flick open, he lies very still while the world stops blurring and spinning, the way it always does when he's wrenched straight to wakefulness from REM; then he rolls onto his back to stare up at the ceiling for a while, just to be sure it's there and he's here.
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Date: 2009-11-09 08:30 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-11-09 09:08 pm (UTC)It's been twenty years--more than that, now. But the image of her mother's broken body is still burned into her memory, as clear as if it happened moments ago.
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Date: 2009-11-09 09:15 pm (UTC)He's only got the memory from a glimpse in a dream, but it's enough to give him the idea.
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Date: 2009-11-10 12:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-10 12:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-10 01:23 am (UTC)"'Should' and 'did' are two different things, Gordon."
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Date: 2009-11-10 01:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-10 01:42 am (UTC)"Me too."
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Date: 2009-11-10 03:46 am (UTC)"Regardless, it's over now."
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Date: 2009-11-10 04:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-10 04:26 am (UTC)He didn't mean to say that out loud, but he'll roll with it.
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Date: 2009-11-10 04:34 am (UTC)"Always."