WHO: Chuuya Nakahara & Irina Romanov. WHAT: Talking about things. WHEN: Last night, after this. WHERE: Irina's place. WARNINGS: Language, references to sex, talk of death, murder, torture. Chuuya's memories aren't happy ones. STATUS: Closed/Incomplete.
Chuuya wasn't really the type to dwell on the past. He always moved on and kept going. Except now the dome decided to give him a lot of old and some new memories overnight. Since he couldn't dream, he immediately knew what they were. He also knew he would be fine. He'd dealt with this once before and he turned out okay in the end. But now it felt like he was relieving those memories for the first time over again. The new memories weren't helping either. So he had to deal with it.
He had originally wanted to sleep. One good thing about not being able to dream was no nightmares. There was nothing and he could not think for eight or so hours. But sleep wasn't happening tonight. Luckily for him, Irina had invited him over again. She might be annoying, but she was good at getting his mind off of things. And tonight it did work, but not quite as well as it usually did.
After a few rounds of sex, he decided to take a little break. Putting on his pants, he left Irina in bed and headed out into the living room. He sat by an open window and lit a cigarette before pulling out the other gift he'd gotten from the dome - a photograph of himself at five years old. Or it might not be him. He never found out and probably never would.