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Nathan Harris (questionofwhen) wrote in marinanova,
@ 2016-05-08 02:16:00

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damon salvatore, nathan harris, sarah williams, spencer reid

Day 374 - Open Dream
[Your eyes are open, but there's nothing to see. The darkness is absolute. Your other senses strain to make up for the lack of visual information. More nothing.

The silence builds until it's a palpable pressure, and all you can hear is your heartbeat (is it speeding up?) and the blood rushing through your veins and arteries (did you know that had a sound?). Panic builds in the back of your throat. You need to run or scream or do something to escape the sensory vacuum, but your legs refuse to listen and you can't make a sound. Why should you keep trying? There's no one to hear you. There's nowhere to run.

Your heartbeat is the only thing in the universe. It's too loud. You're too aware of it, and that increased awareness makes you realize how fragile hearts are. It's just a muscle—a fist-sized, fluttering thing in your chest.

Blood roars in your ears. Your heartbeat falters, and you wonder if you're dying.

Something touches your arm and it's like surfacing after being held underwater. Sounds—indistinct shuffling and scraping, but sounds nonetheless—return and you can see just well enough to determine that there's someone next to you.]

It's okay. [It's Nathan. He doesn't sound as if he believes himself.] Are you okay?

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	questionofwhen 2016-05-09 11:22 pm UTC (link)
	[Nathan scrambles in the opposite direction. He wasn't expecting that reaction.] Sarah...? Are you real? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	labyrinthrunner 2016-05-10 04:06 am UTC (link)
	[Her heart still hammers in her chest, but she does recognize Nathan's voice. Sarah nods, though he probably can't see that.] Real. Yes. I'm real. Nathan? ... Where are we? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	questionofwhen 2016-05-10 08:56 pm UTC (link)
	Oh... good. [He moves closer again, reaching out in the dark to find her.] I don't know. I thought it was inside my head, but then there wouldn't be anyone else here. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	labyrinthrunner 2016-05-11 03:35 am UTC (link)
	[Now that she knows he's not a monster, she's searching too. When his hand connects with hers, she grabs it.] In your head? Why would your head be all dark? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	questionofwhen 2016-05-11 06:23 am UTC (link)
	[He holds on tightly. Any connection is good.] It's always like that... when I sleep, when I'm not paying attention and just thinking about stuff. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	labyrinthrunner 2016-05-12 07:08 pm UTC (link)
	That's... [Weird? Sad? Odd?] I wonder what my head looks like. [Probably extremely colorful. And confusing.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	questionofwhen 2016-05-13 10:14 pm UTC (link)
	Not like this. I wouldn't go in your head. [Is this a weird conversation? It makes a lot of sense right now.] I'd ruin everything. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	labyrinthrunner 2016-05-14 12:12 am UTC (link)
	Well, I don't know that either of us would have a choice. I didn't mean to come here, but I just showed up. Besides... you'd probably be surprised at the dark corners you could find a home in. [She's glad it is dark so he can't see her face.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	questionofwhen 2016-05-14 01:03 am UTC (link)
	[He doesn't reply immediately.] ...You don't seem like someone who'd have dark places. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	labyrinthrunner 2016-05-14 01:52 am UTC (link)
	Yeah... Before. Things change I guess. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	questionofwhen 2016-05-14 02:06 am UTC (link)
	Before you were here, or even before that? [Because the prison would change a person.]</small> (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	labyrinthrunner 2016-05-14 02:10 am UTC (link)
	I mean... before I died I don't think I had any. Or at least not many. Now though... [Now she feels like she's drowning.] At least your head doesn't have waterlogged corpses calling you back to the deep. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	questionofwhen 2016-05-14 02:26 am UTC (link)
	[This is probably a time for sympathy, but he's tried to kill himself twice. He's constantly struggling to keep his impulse to hurt and destroy others in check.] You can't see bodies in the dark. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	labyrinthrunner 2016-05-14 02:33 am UTC (link)
	[Sarah takes some time to respond to that.] Maybe... maybe I could make a spot in my head nothing like this and relegate all the bad things there. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	questionofwhen 2016-05-14 02:38 am UTC (link)
	You'd try to lock them up? [It's his turn to think about that.] You could. Dr. Reid would probably help you. He knows a lot about how people work. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	labyrinthrunner 2016-05-14 02:39 am UTC (link)
	If it would help me sleep at night? Yes, I'd lock them up and throw away the key. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	questionofwhen 2016-05-14 02:45 am UTC (link)
	You should do it. If there're enough good places inside your head to stay in, then you should hide the dark parts. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	labyrinthrunner 2016-05-14 02:47 am UTC (link)
	Thank you. I think I will. Still, I'm sorry your head is so full of nothing. Unless you prefer it this way... (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	questionofwhen 2016-05-14 02:59 am UTC (link)
	A lot of it isn't like this. Sometimes I don't even know if this scares me or if I want to stay. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	labyrinthrunner 2016-05-15 08:49 pm UTC (link)
	Is the rest of your head scarier than this or not? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	questionofwhen 2016-05-15 09:14 pm UTC (link)
	It's worse. I don't want anyone else to see it. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	labyrinthrunner 2016-05-17 03:17 pm UTC (link)
	Then we'll stay here. For... however long we're stuck here... (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	questionofwhen 2016-05-17 04:51 pm UTC (link)
	Thanks, Sarah. I don't think it'll be that long, and it's better, having someone else here. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	labyrinthrunner 2016-05-17 06:36 pm UTC (link)
	[She moves closer so she's sitting next to him, their shoulders touching.] Want to play a game or something while we wait? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	questionofwhen 2016-05-17 07:34 pm UTC (link)
	[Yes, good. It's easier to know that there's company in the dark when there's contact.] A game? What kind of game? [It's subtle, but their surroundings lighten somewhat even though there's nothing much to see.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)