LOG; Harper and Uhura

[deusexmechanic]

Who: Harper and Uhura
What: Nightmares and serious faces :|
Where: In the ~bedroom~ B]
When: In the DEAD OF NIGHT.
Warnings: DREAM GORE. I tried to keep it not too explicit, but the nightmare's got some creepy themes and unpleasant images going on in it.

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[lt_n_uhura]

Uhura had been through this twice before with him. The nightmares that made him wake up screaming had been shocking, but she always assumed that it was from what had happened on the Barge. She never really wanted to ask him about them before, fearing hat bringing it up might just make things worse. And yet, this was too frequent now to just be...unrelated.

His screaming broke through her own sleep and she was instantly awake, sitting up and turning towards the sound. There was no time for her own confusion, either.

"Harper," she breathed, jittery from being jolted awake in such a way, and trying to get her bearings. She reached out blindly in the darkness and put a hand on his shoulder. "Hey, hey, calm down."

[deusexmechanic]

For a moment, Harper couldn't separate everything. There had been something inside him and Rex and Tyr and Magog and then someone was saying his name and touching his shoulder and he couldn't see so he jerked away from her hand like he'd been burned by it.

Then the world slowed down a few paces. His eyes adjusted to the darkness and he remembered.

Rex was on the Barge. He was on the Barge. Uhura was on the Barge.

"Sorry." He said, quietly, "I just-- you know. Weird dream."

[lt_n_uhura]

She moved her hand away quickly and instead leaned over to turn on a soft light that would at least fight the darkness off a small amount. When he seemed to come back to himself, she tried to relax, but her fingers were still jittery and she didn't think she was going back to sleep any time soon.

"Don't apologize," she said, trying to reassure him. Again, she reached out and just gently put her hand over his. "It's alright. What happened?" It was the first time she had actually asked about it, but she was starting to get worried about it.

Worried about him.

[deusexmechanic]

Harper let out a breath, twisting his hand over so that he could close his fingers around Uhura's. The light helped. Being able to see her helped. He shifted closer to her on the bed, "I didn't mean to wake you up. It must really suck trying to get a decent nights sleep with me, huh?" He tried to get his voice to sound teasing, relaxed... but he just sounded stressed and guilty.

He paused for a moment, then added: "It was just a dream. A really weird dream. You shouldn't worry about it."