the kind that keeps me up all night

[memeorabilia]

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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? i n s t r u c t i o n s • Post with your character (note the name and fandom in the subject). • Other people reply to you by generating a number from 1 to 10. • Have fun! 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. 10 • WILDCARD. Choose one of the options above, or make up your own scenario.

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[motherofresistance]

"I know you're not," Leia assured him gently, pulling him a little closer and tilting her head to touch her forehead to his. "I've always known. You're so much more than he could ever be. You're Ben. You're my son. You've always been that, and as far as I'm concerned, that's all you need to be."

Leia couldn't speak for the opinions of others. But though she couldn't ignore the things that had happened, deep down, he would always be her little boy. Just having him back was a minor miracle, and nothing could truly tarnish that for her.

[greyorder]

He wrapped an arm around her, forgetting for a moment the alarming thinness of his arms, the boniness of his fingers. "That's not what you say in my dreams. It's not what anyone says, they always..." Ben tried to pull himself together. "Even when I was a little kid, I had this dream."

Even then, he'd known what he was to other people. The fear of being that to all people had become enough that eventually, he'd accepted it as inevitable, tried to make it into his calling. Now, even he thought he might just be Vader with a few tweaks.

[motherofresistance]

The thinness of Ben's arms was alarming yes, but Leia had been expecting it, so it was no more so than the rest of her son's physical state. The important thing was that he was reaching out to her and that she was there to reach back. And so she did; he might be too big to completely wrap up in her arms any more, but he would never be too big for her to wrap him up in her love. She offered it to him through the Force, a soothing balm against the harshness of his dreams.

"The woman who says those things in your dreams isn't me," she said gently. "She and the others are just echos, things you fear given form, but fear like that builds on itself and twists your perceptions until sometimes the echos are all you can hear. I know what that kind of fear is like, and how hard it is to shake, even when logically you know it's all just a dream."

"But I'm not a dream," she said. "I'm real. You're real. This is real. Real is the two of us, here and now, together, safe and warm. And the real me would never say things like that." She didn't know what exactly the phantoms that haunted Ben's dreams said, but she could make some educated guesses based on what he'd confessed to her. "I love you, Ben. And I don't plan to give you any cause to doubt that ever again."