it's only a bad dream

[fourhearts]

wake up, wake up, it's only a bad dream meme

bad dreams are ordeals, sometimes seemingly endless. when you wake up, your heart pounds, your head hurts, and you end up drenched in sweat. even if you know none of it was real, it takes a while to orient yourself. it is pretty nice to have someone there to wake you up or to soothe you out of it and remind you that... it's only a dream. ••• the usual rules apply. post with your character and preferences and then tag around, have your characters comfort others.

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Re: bucky barnes | mcu

[theobverse]

(ota? i feel like grantaire and bucky would get eachother.)

[metallical]

[ota if you don't mind gen! it's been years since i read les mis. he based on the brick or movie?]

[theobverse]

[I don't mind gen! He's based on the brick AND the movie, if that makes sense? Basically, the book for characterization and history/chronology but with one or two little timeline changes to make the movie timeline make sense.]

[metallical]

[makes complete sense (and thanks google for what i don't remember). i'm good with either era, 1820s for buck or modern au for grantaire.]

[theobverse]

[ooh. barricade AU okay for bucky? right at 'drink with me' in the musical there's a spot where enjolras tells them all to get some rest, this could follow that? otherwise i'm happy to change setting.]

[metallical]

[i'm willing to give it a try! buck can be a former american soldier living in paris or somesuch.]

[theobverse]

[just to confirm - bucky would be the nightmare-haver?]

[metallical]

[ he'd be the likeliest culprit, unless you want gran to have one. ]

[theobverse]

[i'm good either way, but it seems likelier in the barricade setting that grantaire has less to have nightmares about. okay! let me try a start, haha.]

Enjolras had told them to get some rest, but Grantaire sits morosely under the shadow of the barricades, watching his friends drink or curl up as they will, sleeping like cats ready to jump up at the first sign of trouble. If their information is correct, it may be a long night. To what purpose? He has no faith -- as Enjolras has complained so often -- that tomorrow will not bring their deaths, or their arrests, that all of this won't just be forgotten and swept from the streets.

A soft cry stirs him, more like a strangled swear. The American, an expatriate or perhaps just a rover, he realizes: he knows very little of his background except that he'd lost an arm in some battle and he speaks of his captain with the same sort of intense loyalty and slight sarcastic irritation with which Grantaire regards their own leader. He'd fallen in with the Amis easily, disparaging of monarchy and of tyrants in general. "Barnes," he says, furrowing his brow. Something has caught him, in his sleep, and he hops down from the ledge where he sits to draw nearer. "Bucky, wake up."