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.

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[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.

"I have no right," she admitted, barely acknowledging the hand that gripped her arm. He had figured out the alien quality of her presence - there was no real reason to hide it now. The least she could do was say as much of the truth as possible and hope that it alleviated some of the frustration that was seeping in, threatening to overwhelm. "I didn't mean to get in, I didn't want to. But I can't help it, I end up having to --" Nicole took a deep breath, forcing back what she could, trying to buy them some time. He was starting to merge into consciousness and if he tipped over to that side, he would most likely remember everything - her features, her name, what she had just done-- "I didn't target you on purpose, nor did I know this dream would be yours."

The dream was starting to rock, buildings still upright but rolling unnaturally, the mountains that filled the backdrop fading out of existence. She could only do so much in the face of the dreamer's emotional state, his knowledge sliding everything back over to reality. He would know she had mutant abilities, if he awoke now, he would know. Her panic wasn't setting in just yet but Nicole knew it would as soon as she awoke again. But what could she even say, now that she had been found out? "Please." she whispered, unable to say much else.

[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!"

The dream shattered, Kyuhyun's eyes snapping open as his whole body went rigid. After a moment he started breathing properly again, chest rising and falling and fingers slowly uncurling themselves from their death grip on his bedsheets. He could feel the sweat dampening his shirt, sending chills down his spine as he groaned and shifted onto his side. The alarm clock beside his bed flashed 4am. He could hear Lian snoring by the foot of his bed.

Slowly his heart rate settled back to a steady pace, no longer trying to escape from his chest. Just a nightmare, he thought, closing his eyes. No...not just a nightmare. A nightmare that had been invaded by an outside force. A strange supernatural girl...which races could even do what she had just done? Who was capable of walking through another's dreams? Her name was...was...

Reaching out and grabbing his phone from the side table, Kyuhyun opened the notes application and jotted it down before the details of the dream could slip from him.

Nicole.

[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 taking care of her, fighting instinct giving way to medical responsibility. But he wouldn't remember that as much now, or as positively as she had hoped.

Nicole blinked, more tears spilling out. Disappointment was hard to bear, another thorn to the fact that her power was eclipsing her control by leaps and bounds. Even the fact that she tried to help didn't excuse the fact that she was essentially trespassing. Another shudder, a sigh, hands smoothing over her blankets before she laid back down. She'd get rid of her pajamas in the morning - she wasn't sure she'd be able to look at them again without remembering his angry words and even angrier eyes.

It was a long time before she could fall asleep again.