Who: Anatoly and Svetlana, plus NPC!Christina What: Recreating their first meeting in the dreams unintentionally When: 19 April 2015, late morning/early afternoon Where: Chess tables at a park Warnings: Low, mentions of death Status: Thread | Complete
The latest dream had been enough to startle Svetlana out of sleep and break her heart. She'd already lost one brother in the real world, and now to lose on in the dreams? She hadn't known how to react because calling Dmitri to check on him would alert her ever astute if extremely annoying brother that something was wrong. Which meant cleaning at an ungodly hour, rearranging things and then cooking breakfast for herself and Christina as she was looking after the girl for Helena while she was on a dig. And still she couldn't sit still.
Which was how the two ended up at the park. Christina had wanted to read outside and Svetlana needed the soothing motions of chess to clear her mind. She wasn't even thinking about the fact that Anatoly featured in her dreams, prominently. That was something else entirely. It made sense of his initial comment on the network, when she had teased him that he really needed to learn how to better interact with people but that he was improving. She hadn't expected marriage though. Or the tumultuous courtship. What it all had meant. And she didn't know what to think about any of it.
Sighing, the blonde made sure that Christina was in her line of vision even while she played a solitary game against herself. She needed to calm down. She felt jittery and on edge. There was too much going on. She'd already been worried about Duncan and now she could understand how he had felt, and she hadn't seen Dmitri die repeatedly, just prolonged. She was already worry about Helena because of the phone conversation they'd had when she'd been asked to look after Christina. How the British woman was going to send her daughter back to England once it was summer because she didn't trust herself. And now her worry for Dmitri. Her exhaustion from waking up and doing everything she had because she was afraid to close her eyes.
The trick was staying focused while keeping an eye on Christina. Though that was something she seemed to have picked up from the dreams. A deeper awareness of what was going on around her, having always been on guard for the KGB, always observing, always ready.