Sirens and smoke

[kyunnii]

Muses: Cho Kyuhyun (kyunnii) and Jung Nicole (backhugs)
Date / Time: 02/27, 2AM
Rating: PG-13
Type: Thread
Status: Closed; Completed
Summary: Nicole ends up inside Kyuhyun's dream, which quickly degenerates into fear-fueled nightmares.

Comments

[backhugs]

Nicole had learned about pregnancy, of course. Even at her "special" mutant training academy, they had enforced the appropriate standards when it came to sex education, and had huddled them all into an auditorium in her first year to force them to watch the joyous, albeit terrifying video of a woman giving birth. Even a few years later, she couldn't get over the surreal quality of it all - a fetus growing within the womb, the vagina expanding in diameter, the hours spent in labor - but then, people were complicated. It only seemed right that the way they came into the world was just as complicated. "I will." she promised, words more huffs now than anything else. Everything else was left unsaid. At least you won't have to experience it.The backdrop was almost totally silent now, Nicole's control influencing more aspects now that Kyuhyun was zeroed in on her wellbeing. A totally clean transition would be ideal, but she wasn't sure she wanted to rip this moment away from him just yet, not when he was doing so well. Plus, there was that

[kyunnii]

An orphan. Kyuhyun felt a small twinge of sadness. He'd always felt bad for those who came into the world with no one to look after them, guide them. There were far too many orphans, and each time he ran into someone who claimed to have left a child on their own he wanted to shake some sense into them. Human lives were so short, the amount of time it took for a human child to grow into an adult even shorter, but those years were crucial. He had no respect for someone who would leave their own blood to face a cruel, cold world on their own

[backhugs]

"A long time ago..." she repeated under her breath, her disbelief disguised under her appearance. While his reactions told her he was being honest, she couldn't fathom what it could possibly mean right at that moment. (Just when did this guy get married? When he was three?!) But there wasn't a moment for her to dwell further on the information when she noticed he was looking away, using those precious seconds to change back. Nicole looked like herself again, offensively bright turquoise garb replaced by casual day clothes, the blood and gauze nowhere in sight

[kyunnii]

Kyuhyun was starting to notice the strangeness of the dream, how it wasn’t progressing how it usually did. Usually, he was too caught up in his fears to notice it was a dream, but with someone influencing it…he was slowly becoming lucid

[backhugs]

Her smile remained, softening into something a little less optimistic, more reluctant. "I'm Nicole," she repeated, hoping that he wouldn't wake up remembering it. She could see he was starting to distance himself from the dream now, taking notice of the ridiculous factors that would pass as appropriate otherwise. "I'm here because I wanted to help you." While it was the truth, she wasn't sure what she'd say if he pressed for how she got in - admitting that part of the truth was out of the question. But his mind was working quickly, catching up on changes much faster than she would have hoped for. Best case scenario, he would accept her as just another figment of his dream, the logical part of his brain stepping in.

"You were re-living a part of your member in your dream. I'm just here to make sure you don't do that to yourself," She almost continued with "again" but that seemed a little forward, almost rude. An assumption, no matter how much experience she had had with dreams before. Plus, there was that whole 'he was definitely not

[kyunnii]

Eyeing her, Kyuhyun looked around again. A dream...it was only a dream. It was the year 2014, nowhere near the 1800's or the much more distant 600's when Silla had been conquering the other kingdoms in the Korean peninsula. None of this was real, just old memories resurfacing as they always did.

But her... Kyuhyun's gaze returned to her, eyes wary. The name Nicole...it was familiar, like he'd heard it before, but he'd never met her, that much was certain. She had interfered with the nightmares, something that had never happened before. Just what was going on

[backhugs]

She could feel the growing anger before she even saw it on his face, lips thinning with mental preparation for the questions that would undoubtedly come. As it was, Nicole didn't blame Kyuhyun in the slightest - how he was currently perceiving her interference was how she viewed it herself. Intrusive. Balancing the dream state before it all dissolved around them, she met his gaze head-on, smile replaced with something more serious

[kyunnii]

It wasn't enough. The knowledge that she hadn't invaded his dreams on purpose wasn't enough to appease Kyuhyun just then, humiliated that his personal fears and weaknesses had been discovered. Just another thing he couldn't prevent. How was he supposed to guard against someone who could enter his dreams? The positive feelings earlier were gone, forgotten in the face of this invasion of privacy.

Please? Please what? 'Please' wasn't going to prevent what had just happened. It wouldn't erase what she had seen, nor would it erase the sudden awareness from his mind.

"You're not welcome here. This wasn't for you or anyone to know about," he snapped. "Stay out of my head

[backhugs]

The blankets were tangled around her legs when she work up, tears tracking down her cheeks. While her body used to the strenuous exercise her mind went through every time she walked in dreams, it didn't make it any easier when a dream went badly. Nicole sat up, breathing labored, hands coming up to wipe at the tears instinctively. He would know, he would remember, was all she could think, his angry words mixing into her thoughts until she cringed with shame at the comfort of her own bed.

But the horrendous outcome didn't undermine her confusion about Kyuhyun. If anything, it was the evidence to prove that she hadn't been paranoid when she noted irregularities between his dream and other's dreams. A vivid detailed memory dream - one definitely set in a time period that would be found in history books, his role as the doctor in a village, the raid out of nowhere (the point of the dream with most chaos, emotional turmoil, she remembered with a shudder), his calm answers to her questions. A long, long time ago. He had been so kind when