#10 (holy crap, I got in the ass by the one true sentence!)
Subject: Final Fantasy VIII
Character/Pairing: Selphie Tilmitt
Themes: #16 “You think I dream when I’m asleep.”
Rating: PG
Warnings: If you aren’t in Squenix_uni, you aren’t likely to get this. Also, there’s several allusions to Kingdom Hearts. So there’s a spoiler warning in here as well if you haven’t played Kingdom Hearts. ^_^;;
A dream, that’s all it really was right? It was just some silly little dream thought up by her overactive imagination. She must’ve eaten the wrong food item at dinner that night. Or maybe it was the fact that she wasn’t sleeping very well from stress and her course load. That just had to be it; there was nothing wrong with her, Selphie thought.
But that just didn’t explain why she was having this nightmare constantly for three weeks straight. She started eating better, attempting to get more sleep and still the nightmare came. The exact same dream, over and over, night after night. It made her afraid to sleep because she knew that the nightmare would come.
This was the second night that Selphie had gone without sleep since she’d left the safety of Balamb Garden to come to Squenix University. Sure, she’d made friends, even a few enemies but that wasn’t exactly on her mind at the moment as she sat on her bed huddled in a corner in her boyfriend’s hoodie.
The same hellish dream every time she tried to sleep, the same sequence of events, the same ending each and every time. The thing that woke her every single night was that there were people in the dream that she recognized off the University’s network and it shook her right down to her very core. What did it mean? What had happened? Why would she be dreaming about the exact people for three weeks straight? Surely by now the dream would have altered in some sense but obviously it had not as Selphie Tilmitt, a mere child, skipping rope in hand went running down a beach on an unknown island being chased by monsters she would later find out to be called the Heartless?
A boy with a wooden sword, cocky, somewhat arrogant in his ways but loved what he did and did so with every ounce of pride he could muster. Another boy who had orange hair who treated her like a little sister and gave the perky brunette a sound defense whenever she was picked on by the older children of the island. Both of them were gone, devoured by these small black monsters with glowing yellow eyes.
And now, they were chasing her. These Heartless monsters were coming after her, coming after everybody. The island itself was being consumed; ocean, palm trees, paopu fruit, everything was going, going, gone. She scrambled up the last standing palm tree, the tallest on the island in a vain attempt at escaping the small monsters. Even though it was to no avail in the end.
Emerald green eyes flew open in an instant as Selphie’s eyes overflowed with tears from experiencing the nightmare once again. She was curled into the same position wondering when she had fallen asleep. She could feel her cornea’s burning as they demanded more but the tiny young woman was too scared to go back to sleep. The dream scared her that much that she just couldn’t work up the courage to go back into something that wouldn’t involve the dream.
And so, she went to the college network to record her thoughts on the dream. She recalled it as best she could and was now waiting for one of the youths from the dream - Sora - to speak with her about the same topic.
Until that moment came, Selphie sat on her bed and cried silently, not wanting to disturb her suitemates.
Character/Pairing: Selphie Tilmitt
Themes: #16 “You think I dream when I’m asleep.”
Rating: PG
Warnings: If you aren’t in Squenix_uni, you aren’t likely to get this. Also, there’s several allusions to Kingdom Hearts. So there’s a spoiler warning in here as well if you haven’t played Kingdom Hearts. ^_^;;
A dream, that’s all it really was right? It was just some silly little dream thought up by her overactive imagination. She must’ve eaten the wrong food item at dinner that night. Or maybe it was the fact that she wasn’t sleeping very well from stress and her course load. That just had to be it; there was nothing wrong with her, Selphie thought.
But that just didn’t explain why she was having this nightmare constantly for three weeks straight. She started eating better, attempting to get more sleep and still the nightmare came. The exact same dream, over and over, night after night. It made her afraid to sleep because she knew that the nightmare would come.
This was the second night that Selphie had gone without sleep since she’d left the safety of Balamb Garden to come to Squenix University. Sure, she’d made friends, even a few enemies but that wasn’t exactly on her mind at the moment as she sat on her bed huddled in a corner in her boyfriend’s hoodie.
The same hellish dream every time she tried to sleep, the same sequence of events, the same ending each and every time. The thing that woke her every single night was that there were people in the dream that she recognized off the University’s network and it shook her right down to her very core. What did it mean? What had happened? Why would she be dreaming about the exact people for three weeks straight? Surely by now the dream would have altered in some sense but obviously it had not as Selphie Tilmitt, a mere child, skipping rope in hand went running down a beach on an unknown island being chased by monsters she would later find out to be called the Heartless?
A boy with a wooden sword, cocky, somewhat arrogant in his ways but loved what he did and did so with every ounce of pride he could muster. Another boy who had orange hair who treated her like a little sister and gave the perky brunette a sound defense whenever she was picked on by the older children of the island. Both of them were gone, devoured by these small black monsters with glowing yellow eyes.
And now, they were chasing her. These Heartless monsters were coming after her, coming after everybody. The island itself was being consumed; ocean, palm trees, paopu fruit, everything was going, going, gone. She scrambled up the last standing palm tree, the tallest on the island in a vain attempt at escaping the small monsters. Even though it was to no avail in the end.
Emerald green eyes flew open in an instant as Selphie’s eyes overflowed with tears from experiencing the nightmare once again. She was curled into the same position wondering when she had fallen asleep. She could feel her cornea’s burning as they demanded more but the tiny young woman was too scared to go back to sleep. The dream scared her that much that she just couldn’t work up the courage to go back into something that wouldn’t involve the dream.
And so, she went to the college network to record her thoughts on the dream. She recalled it as best she could and was now waiting for one of the youths from the dream - Sora - to speak with her about the same topic.
Until that moment came, Selphie sat on her bed and cried silently, not wanting to disturb her suitemates.