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Posts: 9 (18/01/2009 08:34 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Report Post	Tags : None "Nii-chan!" The scream rang around the room Lightning insisted on sharing with Earth, a high, panicked sound echoing around and waking the boy, his white blonde hair clinging to his cheeks in damp strands. Another nightmare. They weren't a rare occurrence; in fact, almost every time he slept for a prolonged period they caught him, creeping up unawares. It was why he hated sleeping, hated and avoided it as often as he possibly could. Sitting up the night was fun. There were always things to do, all night long, things which weren't sleeping. He would have avoided it today, if he hadn't been so tired. They had been busy - doing things they habitually did - fun things, things he enjoyed very much while he was awake but couldn't bear the memory of while he was asleep. He wouldn't have gone to sleep, if he hadn't been so exhausted. Fortunately, he and Earth shared a room - Lightning's insistence. He couldn't be alone, ever. He crawled from his tumbled bed, shaking and whimpering, and put himself into Earth's bed, pleading for his brother to wake up as he clung to him. "Nii-chan..."
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Posts: 5 (18/01/2009 09:22 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Report Post	Earth was already awake. From the first scream Lightning gave his eyes instantly flickered open. He was accustomed to being woken up like this in the middle of the night due to Lightning's nightmares. He didn't really mind, he was all too used to it now, and besides, he always made sure to be there if Lightning needed him, and this was absolutely no exception to the rule. Even so, he did rather like his sleep, but he wasn't going to make any complaints when Lightning was the main concern of the evening. Sleep would have to wait, all things needed to be put aside in the case of Lightning, and as always that was what would be done. Being customarily quiet he lifted his blanket and let Lightning into his bed with him. He gently raised his hand and petted the little blonde, whimpering figure wrapped about in his arms. "It's alright" he mumbled quietly, still petting him and lightly stroking his soft little locks of hair.
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Posts: 10 (18/01/2009 09:59 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Report Post	"It's not - it's not-" Lightning stuttered, unable to form a coherent sentence. "They were all there, dead, and I couldn't-" All his words were tumbling out at once in a rush of terror, making no sense to anybody apart from Earth, who understood perfectly, every time. It was always the same. His dreams were nearly always the same in theme, although they varied slightly: his dormant imagination seemed capable of tormenting him in new and increasingly worse ways every time. He didn't understand it, although he had had dreams and the subconscious explained to him before. It would remain one of the things he had conveniently forgotten, over the years. There were a lot of those. Suffice to say, the things he felt no remorse for while he was awake seemed determined to catch up with him while he was sleeping. And that was why he hated sleeping. "Can I stay here?" he asked, his blue eyes wide with terror in the light the moon and stars was casting through the open window. He always asked the same thing, and Earth always let him stay - if he ever did refuse, Lightning's whole world would have come crashing down in frightened disappointment. He claws small hands into the front of his brother's clothes. "I don't want to go back to sleep..."
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Posts: 6 (18/01/2009 10:18 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Report Post	"You can stay here" Earth said gently, patting the little blonde on the head as he often did as a way to calm him down. There was of course no other answer to Lightning's request - if it could be called such. Over the years the same occurrence had turned more into tradition than anything else. It was a surprise that the two of them could fit into the small bed space Earth had, being as broad and large as he was. Then again, Lightning was very small and slight, so perhaps it was just right for both of them. When able to, they were always together one way or another and, with all admittance, Earth wouldn't have it any other way. Sharing his bed and broken sleep was just another daily thing that ran between them, and it almost seemed odd when one was busy or away and the usual occurrence couldn't happen. For someone who seemed at total peace with solid sleep patterns, he very rarely had them. Earth very rarely had dreams too, and if he did so it seemed they never affected him quite to the extent they affected Lightning, who often screamed and cried and on one or two occasions ended up hurting himself in the process. It was always best to take care of him before it got to that point though. Earth wouldn't know what he would have done if Lightning ended up getting hurt through his own negligence. Shifting a little on the bed so that there was more room for the two of them and so he could prop himself up enough to observe the scared little face peering at him with helpless eyes. That was the sort of look Earth knew very well that Lightning shouldn't have, and always decided that it should be dealt with a soon as possible. "What would you like to do?" Earth mumbled, gently brushing Lightning's pale cheek with his thumb, wiping away all the trails of tears and what-not.

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