Dreams and Nightmares - Dollhouse - Gen (Echo)
Title: Dreams and Nightmares
Characters: Echo, Caroline
Word Count: 163
Rating: PG
A/N: Written for the ABC meme.
Summary: Echo dreams of Caroline.
Her dreams are peppered with violence and sex. Fists, weapons, bare flesh and bondage. Bright colours; black clothing.
The girl in her dreams - Caroline, her name is Caroline, your name is Caroline - is the same girl in the mirror and she looks at her, eyes wild and mouth smiling like a clown and says, "You have to wake up."
The words echo. They bounce.
She wants to ask why, but the words that come out of her mouth are different. "Did I fall asleep?" she asks, and the girl laughs. It is a sound like a tiger's roar and the world ripples with its strength.
Echo takes a step back and she is falling from the edge of the Earth with the universe crowding around her and the girl's voice follows her down and says, "I told you so, didn't I?"
On nights like that Echo wakes up screaming, clawing at the cover above her, but by morning she can never remember why.
Characters: Echo, Caroline
Word Count: 163
Rating: PG
A/N: Written for the ABC meme.
Summary: Echo dreams of Caroline.
Her dreams are peppered with violence and sex. Fists, weapons, bare flesh and bondage. Bright colours; black clothing.
The girl in her dreams - Caroline, her name is Caroline, your name is Caroline - is the same girl in the mirror and she looks at her, eyes wild and mouth smiling like a clown and says, "You have to wake up."
The words echo. They bounce.
She wants to ask why, but the words that come out of her mouth are different. "Did I fall asleep?" she asks, and the girl laughs. It is a sound like a tiger's roar and the world ripples with its strength.
Echo takes a step back and she is falling from the edge of the Earth with the universe crowding around her and the girl's voice follows her down and says, "I told you so, didn't I?"
On nights like that Echo wakes up screaming, clawing at the cover above her, but by morning she can never remember why.