Dream | 06

[ofgratitude]

[Privacy: Fairly open; little details like alter egos and telepathy might be harder to pick up on if you don't know Allelujah well.]

He tugs the sheet tighter, pulling it around him as he curls his body into a smaller ball to ward against the sharp aches that spread across his whole body; the movement leaves him dizzy and sick, small as it is, and

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[nocatchphrase]

You were a cute kid. No wonder you got the girl that young.

[ofgratitude]

We're not [hesitation; the situation is a little complex thanks to time paradoxes and whatnot] together.

[nocatchphrase]

[now there's a shock]

...What?

[ofgratitude]

We are in your time?

[nocatchphrase]

I guess you're at sort of a rough patch but...essentially. You two were pretty lovey-dovey for a long time.

[ofgratitude]

A-Ah.

[nocatchphrase]

She really means a lot to you, doesn't she?

[ofgratitude]

She was all I had.

[nocatchphrase]

If you hold out, I'm sure you'll be fine, true love and all that. Just remember not to force your views on her.

[ofgratitude]

I don't intend-

[Pauses, and the puzzled expression slides away to be replaced by a far more troubled one] Is that...what I have done?

[nocatchphrase]

It's what your doing back home. So if you aren't doing it now, you can thank me for warning you in advance and listen so you spare yourself some misery.

[ofgratitude]

Why would I force...

[nocatchphrase]

You want to protect her like a good man should, but remember she has her own ideas of justice, revenge and duty.

[ofgratitude]

Revenge?

[nocatchphrase]

Do you know Colonel Sergei Smirnov from the Federation?

[ofgratitude]

I don't recognise the name. [But he might recognise the circumstance-] Is he the man who...died?