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.
10 • WILDCARD. Choose one of the options above, or make up your own scenario.
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bakerstreet2020-10-01 04:32 pm
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There’s a lot of things still running through her mind, making her question and wonder. When she’s so keen on taking chances, why is it that she’s suddenly hesitant? She knows the answer; she knows it far too well and both doesn’t want to acknowledge or admit it.
Maria’s words still sting in just how much truth is behind them, along with the... revelation that her girlfriend had tried to take her own life before. And now she's leaving the room, which is something that Ashe absolutely does not want. Even if it might be for the best that they have a little bit of time to themselves. Just the way Maria looks… She doesn’t want to leave her to her own thoughts. So, she gets up, crossing the room to her and wrapping her arms tightly around her waist as she buries her face into her back. ]
I'm sorry. [ She sighs and tightens her hold on her a little more. ] ... Don't go. We don't have to talk anymore.
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In fact, it sticks out in her mind when Ashe had been upset and she'd called her back to hold her instead of letting her isolate herself to overthink how upset the documentary had made her.
The difference, of course, being that Maria is not nearly so physical as her girlfriend, nor so easily appeased by simple cuddling. She likes isolation at times, far away from people. Some of her best years were when she wasn't interacting with anyone she didn't want to, when she lived in the small towns and countryside of England and Ireland.
But Ashe doesn't operate on that same principle, and more than that, Maria knows she's doing what she knows best to try to comfort them both. So she stops, and takes a moment to try to breathe and center herself, and stop the spinning of the world beneath her feet.
She lets the silence linger for just about long enough, it might even start to feel like she's about to say no. In truth, she has to swallow down a knot in her throat, after she's done trying not to lose her balance and stay focused on the task at hand.
Ugh, the warmth and comfort of her - their - bed sounds too good to deny at the moment. The only reason she'd want to leave is because of the tension between them.
She's getting too used to this. She squeezes her eyes shut, and then takes a half-step back, trying not to kick Ashe in the process.] Alright. Come on.
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Slowly, she starts loosening her hold on her and then she feels her move back before she speaks. Okay. Alright. That's... that's good. That's fine. She tries not to look as relieved as she feels as she releases the hunter, and walks back over to their bed, climbing back onto it and waiting for her to join.
She feels... like and idiot. In every sense of the word, but she can work it out later. ]
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She slides back under the covers, and then...
Rolls a bit onto her back. Not for nothing, but she doesn't invite Ashe over with her. Not at the moment.
Maybe when she's had some time to stare at the ceiling ]
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She slips her arm underneath her pillow, lying down on her side and staring at the space between them. After a while, she does move her other hand over to Maria's, resting it against her wrist as she finally closes her eyes. ]
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Instead, she closes her own eyes. Ashe needs tactile feedback, she needs tactile comfort, Maria has come to learn. Even though Maria's not really in the mood to give any, that little bit... it should be alright.
And maybe, just maybe, that little contact is assuring in its own way to her, as well. It's assurance there's still someone there.
The next thing she knows, it's morning, and there is the scent of breakfast cooking on the air. So maybe she was going to fall asleep again. Even if it was only for a little while.]
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By the time Maria wakes up, Ashe is long gone, having decided to busy herself with something at the hideout to clear her head. It leaves poor B.O.B. to puzzle over the glass and strange blood on the floor and silently wonder if they'd had a bad fight last night.
Whatever the case, breakfast will be ready as soon as Maria decides to come down, and the mess will be cleaned up as though it never happened. Ashe won't be back until dinner and, aside from asking Maria if she's feeling any better, won't even bring up what happened earlier that morning.
They can... discuss it another time. ]