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Nightmares and insomnia (open)
May. 1st, 2012 11:48 pmApril 22
1:15 am
Newt didn't scream when she had nightmares. She had to keep quiet for so long she subconsciously held on to that. She jerked upright with a gasp and dropped Sharla to have both hands run over her face. It was that one again. Ripley hadn't come and the egg opened, the face hugger leaping at her.
She tossed off the blanket Mr. County must have draped over her and picked her doll back up. Quietly she padded from Mr. County's sitting room on bare feet. Clinging to the doll she padded to the nearest rec room. She wore a grown up sized tee that fell to her knees as a nightgown.
She heard the vid screen running before she got to the room. Looking inside she was surprised to find the rec room empty and dark but for the flickering light of the vid. The program immediately switched when she entered the room and ordered the lights on. It seemed to do that some times. Like it was playing something she wasn't supposed to see. Momma would have been angry at the waste of power leaving a vid on would have been.
She went to the couch in front of the vid and pulled her knees up to her chin under the tee, toes hanging over the cushion edge, Sharla, her rag doll, clutched at her elbow. She usually left it either in Mr. County's or her own rooms, but she needed to cling tonight.
"Um... cartoons, human, english." She crossed her fingers and was actually rewarded by a cartoon cat chasing a mouse around. They didn't talk, but that was alright. She just wanted something mindless in a bright room.
1:15 am
Newt didn't scream when she had nightmares. She had to keep quiet for so long she subconsciously held on to that. She jerked upright with a gasp and dropped Sharla to have both hands run over her face. It was that one again. Ripley hadn't come and the egg opened, the face hugger leaping at her.
She tossed off the blanket Mr. County must have draped over her and picked her doll back up. Quietly she padded from Mr. County's sitting room on bare feet. Clinging to the doll she padded to the nearest rec room. She wore a grown up sized tee that fell to her knees as a nightgown.
She heard the vid screen running before she got to the room. Looking inside she was surprised to find the rec room empty and dark but for the flickering light of the vid. The program immediately switched when she entered the room and ordered the lights on. It seemed to do that some times. Like it was playing something she wasn't supposed to see. Momma would have been angry at the waste of power leaving a vid on would have been.
She went to the couch in front of the vid and pulled her knees up to her chin under the tee, toes hanging over the cushion edge, Sharla, her rag doll, clutched at her elbow. She usually left it either in Mr. County's or her own rooms, but she needed to cling tonight.
"Um... cartoons, human, english." She crossed her fingers and was actually rewarded by a cartoon cat chasing a mouse around. They didn't talk, but that was alright. She just wanted something mindless in a bright room.
