Dani Moonstar's a survivor (ms_moonstar) wrote in valarlogs, @ 2012-07-09 03:56:00 |
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Entry tags: | !complete, dani moonstar (mirage), rahne sinclair (wolfsbane) |
... I don't want to wake up alone
Who: Dani, Rahne
What: Dani wakes up, man these drugs are good.
When: Sunday afternoon
Where: A hospital somewhere
Ratings/Warnings: PG-13, normal 'being in a hospital' trigger warnings.
Status: Complete!
For people in Dani's situation, the first thought upon waking up might have been something like, 'Where am I?', or 'Thank the Spirit I'm alive', or even possibly, 'Wow these drugs I'm on are great'. For Dani, however, the very first thought she remembered after seeing Rahne's face was, "Doom?"
Rahne still wasn't sure how to feel. On the one hand, Dani had been way over the legal lemit and hit by a car. On the other hand...something had clearly happened after the car hit her. The cut on Dani's hand was too clean to have come from the crash. It was a defensive wound; Rahne had seen more of those than she was exactly comfortable with, and Dani having one worried her.
When Dani's first word was about her squirrel, Rahne sighed. "He's fine. Chattered at us when we got to ye..."
"Oh...that's good..."
She was very glad that Doom was alright, but now that THAT was out of the way, there was the fact that Rahne was right there next to her. She vaguely recalled something about text messages that made her sound like a drunken idiot. It made her grimace a bit. This was all kinds of awkward.
"...glad it was you," she added. That was still true. Despite the awkward.
Despite the text message conversation about Doug's death--and-the weird dreams about inappropriately dating Dani's ward in the dream world--Rahne was glad she'd been the one to respond, too. "Aye," she said softly, "so am I. How're you feeling?"
"Really... really... fuzzy," Dani replied. She closed her eyes a bit and tried to get her bearings. She was obviously in a hospital, but she could move most of her stuff, so it couldn't be that bad, "Do I get to go home soon?"
"They're keepin' ye for observation a bit longer, to make sure things are fine with your head." Rahne ran a hand through her hair. "Do ye...remember anythin'? About the accident?"
More than she probably wanted to. Dani frowned, "Did your team find a note on me?"
There had been a note, she remembered. Everything was fuzzy, it'd been fuzzy at the time, but she remembered there was a woman, and a knife, and some kind of note had been dropped on her, "I was just walking, Ho'nene stole the car keys... she hit me with her car. ...I'm pretty sure it was a she."
"The police have that now, aye. They'll be by tae talk to you soon, I should think." It was...strange, and scary. And Rahne really did not like the idea of strange scary things happening to Dani.
Dani couldn't say she was relishing that thought. Whatever they were giving her was making it impossible for her to keep from floating on a fluffy cloud of 'not a care in the world', though, and she found herself reaching out for Rahne's hand. She wanted to hold it.
"I was going to be so stupid, you know. I couldn't get that other world out of my head, then this... car... stabbing. Sorry I texted you that..."
Rahne took Dani's hand and squeezed it gently. "You were hurting. You needed to talk about it," she said. She didn't really know what else to say. Things were...so complicated, when it came to the two worlds.
"Well next time I try..." she giggled a bit at the contact, because honestly, Rahne's hand felt amazing, "I'll do it when I'm sober."
There'd be a lot more of being sober after this, maybe. Or at least she was making a mental note not to drink that much because obviously when she did people hit her with cars. Getting hit by a car again was high on her list of things to avoid.
Rahne smiled and scooted closer. "Sober texting would probably be better, aye." She paused for a moment. "If you want to talk about it again, later, when you're feeling better, I'd...I'd be up for that."
"... do you dream them in order? I don't think I'm dreaming them in order," Dani caressed a bit at Rahne's hand. The contact was comforting and made her feel safe, even though it hadn't quite dawned on her that she had a reason to be afraid yet.
"I don't dream them in order. There was...a dream before Doug's death about...something that happened when he was already gone. Things are...jumbled." The touch was nice. Calming. Rahne needed that, even if most of her worry was about Dani.
Dani nodded her head, "I kept having a dream that I felt haunted and wanted to die, but I swear that must have happened before he taught me to control my powers," she mumbled. Now that she was certain she wanted to live, it was easier to talk about.
"I...in my dreams, I'm still working out how I feel abaout being able to change into a wolf. Sometimes I feel it's the most wonderful thing...and sometimes I see it as a curse." Dealing with that on top of puberty in the dreams was...a head trip.
"I still think wolf powers are awesome," Dani smirked a bit, and squeezed Rahne's hand. It was the one she'd used to defend herself, and the squeezing belatedly reminded her that she'd used it to ward off a knife.
She squinted, "That doesn't make any sense... why stab someone that you've already hit with a car..."
Rahne frowned. "I don't know...twisted person, that's all I know. Because ye'd have tae be twisted tae do something like that."
Dani nodded and let out a bit of a sigh, "I wish I remembered more ... well I wish this had never happened, really."
She hadn't let go of Rahne's hand, and caressed at it a bit more. Something about her dreams with Rahne in them - especially the one about Doug - told her that Rahne was more than just some random EMT friend to her. She wasn't sure how much more, or what the other girl had dreamed of.
"I wish I remembered more, too," Rahne said. She did know, that in the dreams they were very, very close. But she didn't know yet how they started...or what happened if she ever actually managed to break up with Dani's very persistent young ward.
"I think... the dreams need to stay dreams, in a lot of ways..." Dani mumbled, a bit sleepily. It was probably going to be time for another nap soon. She didn't want to wake up alone if she did, and wasn't sure how to ask Rahne to stay, "... but I think... we were at least good friends there... should get to know eachother better. When I'm not ... like this."
Rahne smiled again. "I'd like that. I'd like it a lot, really." She could tell Dani was getting tired again, unsurprisingly. "Rest. I can stick around, if you'd like. Hospitals aren't much fun to wake up alone in."
"... I don't want to wake up alone," Dani's voice had a note of fear in it, and she squeezed Rahne's hand one last time before finally letting go of it. She was relieved that Rahne had offered to stay, "Thank you."
"Aye, I'll be here when ye wake up." Rahne patted Dani's hand gently. "I promise."
It was a promise that had the sort of tone that implied that Rahne would never break any promise she made, ever. That made Dani feel even more safe than she had before, and she let herself drift off soon after.