mylawn: (hhraaghrngh)
Soldier: 76 ([personal profile] mylawn) wrote in [community profile] bakerstreet 2016-11-14 03:35 pm (UTC)

I’m up early.

[That’s the difference. He’s been an early riser all his life (farm stuff, then army stuff), but he knows that this is too early even for that. Angela has spoken to him about it on numerous occasions over the course of his long and storied career, and he’s sure she’s identified the specific problems somewhere along the line—insomnia, anxiety, post-traumatic stress—but being an awful sleeper is something about himself that he’s long-since come to terms with, diagnoses or not. She’s offered him solutions, but 76 doesn’t think anything will get him to stop dreaming of Omnics, of Switzerland, of Reaper, so he pushes it all aside, buries it down, and shows up in the training gym at three in the morning to beat the crap out of a punching bag, instead.

Coping.
]

How else am I supposed to get some peace and quiet?

[Peace and quiet that has now been INTERRUPTED, thanks Hana.]

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