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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bakerstreet2016-07-07 05:55 pm
5 - did someone say shipping.
She hates it. She can't get comfortable to save her life.
They've only been married a few weeks and maybe she was just overwhelmed by the sudden changes that she didn't have time to notice before or they weren't really doing a lot of sleeping in their bed (if you know what i mean winkwinkwink) but life is beginning to fall into a pattern again. And the queen hasn't been able to get a decent night's sleep in going on five days and it's starting to show. She almost dozed off in the middle of a council meeting today, which then set off rumors that she was expecting. Gwen wishes that was the case because then she'd have a reason to be so damn uncomfortable.
Sorry Arthur if you wanted to get some sleep tonight because your wife is tossing and turning and finally settling on her back with a loud huff.]
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but guinevere's tossed and turned all night for going on a week now, and he hadn't expected this night to be any different. he'd hoped, but that'd just been a combination of blind optimism and pure exhaustion. merlin's discovered him sleeping on his paperwork more than once.
arthur sighs when she turns onto her back with that huff, dropping a hand over his eyes. it's too early (or late?) for there to be any light in the room, but he pushes down on his face before reaching out to take her hand.]
I remember a bedtime story like this. Something about determining that a princess really was one by her sensitivity to bedding. Except you're a queen, not a princess, and I'm fairly certain there aren't any vegetables hidden under our mattress. Not unless Merlin's standards have fallen even further than I'd thought.
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Gwen frowns. As much as she wants to be petty and make him be awake if she is, she doesn't really because he's the king and he's got the weight of the kingdom on his shoulders and he does so much all day long that he deserves his rest on his wonderful, soft bed. Not be awake because of his common born wife who can't enjoy nice things.]
Well, that's ridiculous because you seem to have no problem sleeping anywhere and you were actually born into royalty.
[She's seen him sleep on the ground more than once. He even passed out on her bed that one time and she knows from many, many years on it that it was not comfortable.]
I'm sorry to have woken you. Go back to sleep. I'll be fine.
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[sir leon's too nice, thankfully, and too discreet to ever mention how poorly arthur had taken sleeping on forest floors the first few times.
he turns onto his side, propping up his head with a hand so he can smile at her. maybe he is king, and maybe he has got a lot to do all day, every day, but if guinevere's awake, then he will be too. any moment spent with her is infinitely more important than anything else he could be doing with his time, even sleep.
(and if he is more snappish than usual or complains tomorrow, no one outside of merlin has got to know.)]
Nonsense. How can I sleep, knowing that something's disturbing my queen? [speaking of:] Is anything not to your comfort?
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No. [Sigh.] Yes. Maybe-- I don't know.
[Guinevere is having a very hard time looking him in the eye. Hard to do when it's nearly completely dark in their room but his chin is just so fascinating.]
It's too... nice.
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Too nice?
[he's not judging, just confused]
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Yes, Arthur. It's too soft. You've slept in my bed--[Gwen stops herself right there, because of how it sounds even though they both know the truth and there's no one else around. And Arthur didn't have any trouble sleeping there either.]
I simply need to get used to it.