Ender Şahin ₪ Delsin Rowe (smoketasticman) wrote in thereincarnates, @ 2015-10-31 14:21:00 |
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Entry tags: | !halloween, !plot week, ender şahin, melissa hancock |
Who: Ender and Melissa
What: Where’s that annoying dripping sound coming from?
Where: Melissa’s apartment in NYC
When: Saturday, October 31st; 2:03am
Warnings: Animal death, general terror and trauma
The sounds of the city didn’t bother Ender while he slept. Even when he’d first started spending the night with Melissa, sometimes, they hadn’t kept him awake. Now, it was just soothing background. Almost like white noise. He and Melissa had gone to bed before midnight, for once, bedroom door cracked open so that Lady could get in and out as she pleased. With just the two of them there in the apartment, there was no reason not to leave it open for the night. Mostly, Lady stayed with them, but sometimes she decided to get up and roam in the middle of the night, and Ender wasn’t going to try to make a dire wolf stay on a human schedule. He was just going to let Lady do Lady, and if that meant her knocking the door open even wider in the middle of the night while she wandered, that was just fine.
Ender had never had a dog, growing up, so getting used to sleeping through Lady wandering around had been way harder than getting used to sleeping with the sounds of the city. It had kept him awake, at first, laying there staring at the ceiling with Melissa’s head on his shoulder, her hair tickling his cheek, his arm curled around her waist under the covers. It could have been annoying, but it was mostly just nice. Really nice. He’d never done the long term relationship thing before, either, not the kind that meant sleeping over on a regular basis. That, he’d taken to pretty fast.
Eventually, the sounds of the dog wandering, and the heat of another body under the covers next to his, they’d become part of Ender’s normal night. Signs that everything was well in Ender’s world. He’d gone from falling asleep in spite of them, to not being able to fall asleep without them. None of that was what had woken him up at… he flailed out with the arm that wasn’t wrapped around Melissa, grabbed his cell phone off of the nightstand on his side and pressed a button to light up the screen, squinting at the suddenly bright display. It was a few minutes after two in the morning, and he had no idea what had woken him up.
At least, he had no idea until it happened again, a faint dripping sound coming from… somewhere. Somewhere outside their bedroom. He groaned, wiggling the phone free from the charging cable and pulling his arm out from under Melissa as carefully as he could. He didn’t know if he could avoid waking her up, too, but he was going to try. He’d known that something was wrong with the kitchen sink. If he had to, he’d just shut the valves under the sink off for the night and deal with them in the morning.