For Yuna! (Whereishe). Continued Cuteness
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Title:Continued Cuteness
Who:Yuna and Alex Mercer
What:Cuteness in an evolving friendship
Open/Closed:Closed
Additional Details:Originally based on a meme, set in the Explorers setting.
Who:Yuna and Alex Mercer
What:Cuteness in an evolving friendship
Open/Closed:Closed
Additional Details:Originally based on a meme, set in the Explorers setting.
Nightmares
Date: 2014-12-21 09:46 pm (UTC)Her heart raced as tears leaked from her closed eyes. A scream rippled from her lips as she woke. Her hand went to her chest and she knew that one of the crewmates near her must have heard her. She was only in her underwear so she slipped on Alex's jacket, grabbed her belt and bag and walked from her room before anyone could check on her. She felt herself shaking as she walked barefooted through the ship.
Yuna wasn't paying attention to where she was going as she walked quickly away from her nightmares. She couldn't calm herself down and fresh tears spilled from her eyes. She looked up from her wanderings and found herself standing in front of Alex's door. Why had she come here? She didn't even know if he was in his room. She gently rested her head on his door trying to stifle her tears and racing heart before knocking. It was only this morning that they talked. Should she really be asking him for comfort now? Could anyone else really comfort her anymore?
Re: Nightmares
Date: 2014-12-21 10:11 pm (UTC)Easy to hear the footsteps approaching, then the faint sound of tears and a thump against his door, over the normal white noise that was part of the ship. Then the knocking, and he got to his feet after marking his place in the dry medical text from somewhere around Germany in the 1870s. (How it had ended up on the Exploration ship, he didn't know.)
Alex had not expected Yuna, as the door slid aside. Not that he was going to turn her away. Stepping aside and ushering her in from the hallway, he was in his the blue-BDU pants, and black-tee shirt of their official Exploring uniform. Bare feet, no Hoody, and he actually had short dark-brown hair that had a hint of curl to it, cut close to his head.
Nightmares
Date: 2014-12-21 10:29 pm (UTC)Yuna stepped into his room just enough to be inside and then out of the way. It was cold in the halls of the ship but it was warm in Alex's room. She shivered for a moment looking at the walls of books set up for him to read. "I'm sorry. It's so late." Her voice was a little horas but she tried to sound like her usual confident self.
Re: Nightmares
Date: 2014-12-21 10:35 pm (UTC)Now, even with their complications, she was his friend. Alex was usually good with being protective.
Nightmares
Date: 2014-12-21 11:08 pm (UTC)"I don't want to sleep."
Re: Nightmares
Date: 2014-12-21 11:14 pm (UTC)"What happened?
He understood insomnia--so to speak. Kept his voice gentle, and pulled over his desk chair, so he wasn't towering over her. Determinedly looking at her face, and not bare legs.
Nightmares
Date: 2014-12-21 11:20 pm (UTC)"I just had a nightmare. It will be alright." Yuna wasn't sure if she was trying to convince him or herself of that fact. She has already told him that she likes him but she knew it was a little more than just liking someone. What if he didn't like her? Her past wasn't very pretty and she constantly did things that put herself in danger.
Re: Nightmares
Date: 2014-12-21 11:24 pm (UTC)"Not fun, either way. Especially if it's enough to drive you here." Quietly voiced, with a hint of comfort in his tone. Because he did care; he wasn't sure to what degree yet, but he did.
"Do you want a washcloth, to wipe your face? or do you want to wait on that, in case more tears come?" Reaching out to stroke through her hair, like he'd done earlier. Seemed like it was a good way to comfort her.
Nightmares
Date: 2014-12-21 11:37 pm (UTC)Yuna always wondered if it would have been better if she had died that day. She had never once been able to answer that question until now. Alex had made her want to live again.
Re: Nightmares
Date: 2014-12-22 02:35 am (UTC)Moving to his closet, and pulling out his hoodie, before he returned to her. "It's good to hide in, and should dwarf you about as much as my jacket." Still quietly voiced, and trying to order his mind and thoughts.
Nightmares
Date: 2014-12-22 02:45 am (UTC)She turned back pulling his hood over her head and handing him his jacket which probably smells more like Yuna than it did Alex now that she has slept in it.
Re: Nightmares
Date: 2014-12-22 02:55 am (UTC)Part of why he changed clothes normally, when on the Exploration Ship.
Then he moved to the washroom, where water was heard running. A few minutes later, and Alex handed Yuna a warm-washcloth. Then guided her back to sit on the bed, as he sat too. "I've...had a lot on my mind. But I'm a good listener, and I know how much nightmares suck. So talk with me? Tell me, Yuna?" Doing his best to offer comfort, ignoring any of his own potential discomfort.
Nightmares
Date: 2014-12-22 03:11 am (UTC)She placed her head in her knees with the wet cloth held between them. After a few deep breaths she looked up at Alex. The washcloth hanging between two fingers as she leaned one arm against her knees while her other hand gripped her head. Where would she even start?
"Sometimes when I dream.. they feel like other peoples sad memories. More than just a nightmare or my own.. I know it might sound crazy but.." Yuna did sound crazy but she wasn't sure how else to explain it.
Re: Nightmares
Date: 2014-12-22 03:15 am (UTC)"So, your nightmares feel more like other people's sad memories?" Besides, Alex well-knew about dealing with other people's voices in his head.
Nightmares
Date: 2014-12-22 03:22 am (UTC)"Thank you for listening. I'm sorry. For coming to you with this.. I really shouldn't." Yuna wanted to tell him things but she wasn't very good at it.
Re: Nightmares
Date: 2014-12-22 03:25 am (UTC)So honestly puzzled there, and confused, clear in his expression.
Nightmares
Date: 2014-12-22 01:27 pm (UTC)Re: Nightmares
Date: 2014-12-22 01:34 pm (UTC)"So, what scared you, in your nightmare?" Moving back to the original subject.
Nightmares
Date: 2014-12-22 01:47 pm (UTC)"I was running and men where chasing me. It was Bevelle I'm sure. I was with someone but I don't remember him. I heard his voice but I couldn't understand what he said. We kept running until we hit a dead end. Then were were trapped." Yuna's hand moved to rest over her chest. "We were killed and then I was alone. I felt someone crying and lost in the darkness like they were reaching out to me to shelter them and then I was them.." It sounded more confusing as she gave voice to her nightmare and she wasn't sure how to take it. "It all felt so real."
Re: Nightmares
Date: 2014-12-23 03:03 am (UTC)Those, he could understand. And he could relate enough.
"It wasn't, not for you anyways. But I know it's scary, and it's definitely not pleasant." Keeping his voice quiet, shifting how he sat so one leg was on the floor, the other curled in front of him as he turned to her. "I remember, when...I first woke up, as I am now. I was on an autopsy table, about to be studied. I couldn't remember why I was there, and I couldn't understand at first why the two doctors were terrified of me. They ran, and I couldn't clearly remember what had happened. I just knew I had to get away."
He hadn't told her before, this much about his past. Usually it was all generalities, more on what had happened during the outbreak, not on how he'd started out, before things had gotten bad. This wasn't quite the very beginning, but it also was where it had started.
"I fled, and kept myself in the shadows, and I saw the doctors being questioned by guys in SWAT gear. That is, heavy flexible armor and weapons, with face-coverings." Close enough for her reference, since SWAT likely didn't make sense. "They were shot, and I didn't know why--but I knew it wasn't good. I was spotted, and they shot at me--so I ran, taking hits but not enough to kill me. And I didn't know how or why, but I was able to jump higher than I had before---I cleared the fence around the building. Kept moving, until I was cornered in an alley. One of them found me, as I was leaning against the ground, trying to piece together what had happened, and in pain from being shot. He tried to finish the job."
Still with his voice low, but carefully neutral. No emotion, just telling a story as it had happened. Factual, no hint of how he'd felt about any of it. "Somehow, I didn't die--although he thought I did. It was how I found out that I heal and regenerate. I snuck up behind him, and was able to return the favor of killing him."
Easier to explain that way--no need to go into how that had been his first brush with consuming, how it had restored some of his memories, helped him have a point to start figuring things out from. Maybe some other time, but not now.
Nightmares
Date: 2014-12-23 07:19 pm (UTC)"Were you scared?" He knew that she had experience with corrupt leaders that killed anyone in there way and anyone to keep a secret from being leaked to the world. She could understand that sort of thing happening even if she wished it didn't have too. There were people like that everywhere.
Yuna wanted to reach out, touch him and comfort him but she knew it wouldn't work like that. Maybe it was only to comfort herself? She didn't know for sure so she stayed still on the bed watching Alex as tears once more welled to the corner of her eyes. She wanted to protect him.
Re: Nightmares
Date: 2014-12-23 07:42 pm (UTC)Reaching out again, even if Alex wasn't very good at comfort, and wasn't fond of touching--Yuna was crying. Or about to. And he didn't understand quite why, even as he reached out to stroke her hair by her cheek. "It's over, a while ago, and I'm really alright. I...told you, mostly so you'd understand that yes, I know how scary your nightmare must've seemed."
Nightmares
Date: 2014-12-23 07:49 pm (UTC)"I can understand being angry also. I've had experiences when I was to angry to be scared." Yuna very rarely felt scared which was why it was so hard of an emotion for her to handle.
Re: Nightmares
Date: 2014-12-23 07:53 pm (UTC)No judgement, just explaining, as he pulled to sit back, hands at his sides. "I think there are a few here who'd understand, but I also understand not opening up easily." He was definitely quiet, and often a privacy freak.
Nightmares
Date: 2014-12-23 08:02 pm (UTC)"I'd like to open up to you also." She wanted him to know everything about her and she wanted to learn so much about him as well.
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