THE INSOMNIA MEME BEGINS

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the i n s o m n i a meme

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.

Comments

post-S7 of Buffy, pre-S5 of Angel sound about right?

[retrieverchef]

Why am I not surprised you would have heard of them? I'll tell him to get his ass here next time we talk. Maybe you can talk him out of his current obsession with your ex.

[He chuckles at her wording. It might not make much sense, but it's rather cute.]

Sounds perfect to me

[whattingawhat]

Because Giles has books about everything weird and wacky? [She wrinkles her nose.] We'll have a night with ice cream and discussing what a bad boyfriend Angel is.

[Yeah, she kind of thinks Lindsey is in love with Angel now.]

[retrieverchef]

I was thinking Faith and Angel would have mentioned them.

[He flips the first batch of pancakes.]

Not that kind of obsession. That would probably be less dangerous. He's obsessed with killing him now. Started off about it as soon as he heard Angel was working for Wolfram and Hart.

[whattingawhat]

Faith and Angel and I were never big on the talky thing once he left and she...okay she and I were never big on the talky thing.

[She's going to turn over the bacon before it gets really crunchy.]

Oh so he and I will have to have the 'nobody gets to kill Angel but me' discussion. Got it.

[retrieverchef]

In other words, you and Faith didn't get along.

[He opens a cabinet and pulls out a plate.]

Lindsey never would say much about his work but from the little he has said, it sounds like he and Angel... Well, they fought. Over Lindsey's work. Linds actually quit because of him. And now Angel's their CEO. I think Lindsey feels betrayed.

[whattingawhat]

Not exactly. I mean, she tried to sleep with Angel and kill me then she tried to kill Angel and oh the whole evil thing. To be fair, I tried to kill her once. It's a whole...not getting along thing with us.

[Okay she can deal with Angel being the CEO of an evil law firm later, like when she calls him and asks what the hell.]

Oh. Well...we'll deal with it when he gets here.

[retrieverchef]

You Slayers don't do anything by halves, do you?

[He smiles wryly as he shakes his head, flipping the first pancakes onto a plate.]

Thanks, Buffy.

[whattingawhat]

Go big or go home? I'm not really sure what that means, but it sounds good?

[She pops the bacon onto a plate with some paper towels so that it can drain then gets the syrup out of the cabinet.]

No problem. You do lots of stuff for us here, like the cooking thing. I figured I could do something for you too.

[retrieverchef]

It sounds about accurate.

This, with Linds... It's a lot bigger than just cooking a few meals. It's... It's his life, possibly. It means a lot.

[whattingawhat]

[She smiles a little at him and nods.] I know. And you're welcome.

[She puts a couple of pieces of bacon on one plate.] He is still totally taking dish duty.

[retrieverchef]

Oh, he can handle dish duty. Just don't ask him to cook. He burns water.

[whattingawhat]

We'll leave that to you. Oooh I should get you an apron. Not kiss the cook. I know a couple of girls who would take it literally and then all of the sudden we're that house.

[retrieverchef]

Definitely not a kiss the cook apron. The girls are crazy enough already. Unless Lindsey's gonna wear it. That would be funny.

[whattingawhat]

Unless he took them seriously and then we'd have so many problems on our hands. Not that I"m saying your brother is a creeper. Just...commenting. Some of the girls are, you know, eighteen.

[retrieverchef]

Him taking them seriously would be the funny part. He would throw a fit.

Seriously, though, you don't have to worry about that with him. He seems to go for older women. And he has a girlfriend. From what I can gather, she the whole country seem young. Even if she looks like she's your age. At least she seems mostly human this time.

[whattingawhat]

[Buffy smiles at that. Her eyes go wide and she nods as she picks a piece of bacon up off a plate.]

Oh. Vampire? And is she coming with? It's...totally okay. Just asking.

[retrieverchef]

[He grabs a piece of bacon himself and shakes his head.]

Not a vampire this time. I think she's a human with some kind of immortality spell. I don't think she'd want to come here. Her employers would probably frown on it.

[whattingawhat]

Oh. That's different. I'm guessing she works for the evil law firm too?

[retrieverchef]

I'm pretty sure she does. [He chuckles wryly.] Lindsey seems to know how to pick them. First a formerly dead vampire who only cares about him as a free meal ticket and now a several thousand year old human who's more bound to her job than he ever was.

[whattingawhat]

[Buffy listens to Eliot talk about his brother with a slight smile. She purses her lips, wiggling them back and forth a second.]

And what about you? Girlfriends that you knew how to pick? Or girlfriend that you're still...you know.

[She doesn't know much about Eliot, despite the fact that he lives here.]

[retrieverchef]

One girlfriend and then a lot of dates. We thought it would go somewhere but... [He shrugs.] Life happened.

[whattingawhat]

It always kind of seems to get in the way. [She knows exactly what he means.] It could be worse though, right? At least there were a lot of dates.

[retrieverchef]

[His smile is bittersweet.]

Yeah, could be worse. I take it youve been there, too?

[whattingawhat]

Yeah, I didn't really do the lot of dates thing 'cause...slaying, not conducive to dating but I had a few boyfriends. It didn't work out so well. [She pauses a moment, going for honesty there.] For me or them. It's not easy being my boyfriend, I don't think.

[retrieverchef]

It's generally not so easy bein' my girlfriend. [There's no way that's not an admission. It's too sad not to be.] I ain't around enough of the time and if a job goes wrong... [He shakes his head as if chasing away bad memories.] I never know if I'll make it back home. Most of the time, there's no safe way for me to call home and say the job's takin' longer than it was supposed to.