Re: No pref. Whichever you'd like, I'm easy. :0)tr_generalmodMarch 27 2012, 06:12:07 UTC
((OOC PIck your poison: Number 3 which would be smut or Number 10 which all I am coming up with is First time he has to deal with one of her nightmares...))
Blood spattered across her face as the man next to her slumped to the ground. And then the gun was against her head and guards were yelling at her. "I tried... I tried... see look. Working. I'm working... please don't kill me," she pleaded. A sigh of relief as the gun left her head only to double up in pain as the butt of the gun caught her in the ribs.
The scene changed and Japan burned. People screamed. Spheres danced through the air... slaughtering...
In the bed, Martha whimpered and began thrashing about. A second later she was screaming in her sleep.
Cameron, although a fairly heavy sleeper, does feel when Martha begins to stir, eyes fluttering open when 'stirring' turned into flailing and kicking. He'd sat up, about to wake her, when that blood-curdling scream echoed through the room. Now, he knows something is wrong, and he tries to shake her out of whatever nightmare she's having. "Hey! Come on - wake up ... it's just a dream. Whatever it is, it's just a dream, and I'm real and ... please, just wake up."
Her eyes finally open, though its clear she's not awake yet.
"Don't touch me!" she hisses. "It's enough you have my family. Jack... the Doctor. Now Japan!" She swings a fist at Cameron and leaps out of bed and backs against the wall.
"Are you going to kill me too? Torture me and set an example to the world?"
And Cameron is trying to get close, but after the way that punch almost connects, he's a bit tentative in his movements, but he's loud, as he tries to connect with her through the haze of her dream. "Martha, Martha - no one's going to hurt you, okay? It's Cameron. You're here with me and you're safe ... come on, just wake up, please?"
Silence. Martha's eyes come into focus. "Cam?" she asks in a weak voice. "What...?" And then her knees give out.
Martha pushes herself to a sitting position and looks up at him in the bed. She shivers out of fear and cold as she wraps her arms around herself for safety. "What happened?"
He is there by her side in a flash, bringing the blanket with him, so that he can wrap her up tight. "I don't know! I was sleeping, and then you were screaming - you said something about your family? Jack, the Doctor? About Japan? Is it - I mean ... are you alright?"
She leans against him as the tremors lessen. "It... Nightmare... I thought they'd gone away... It's been so long since it all happened," she muttered, forgetting at the moment that Cameron had no idea what she was talking about. That he'd find the whole idea crazy. They'd never talked about the Doctor... he knew she was a medical officer for the UN... but this?
He just holds her tight, trying to soothe the last of those bad images away. "You can tell me, you know. Whatever it was you were dreaming about - you can tell me and I can try to help."
She curls against him grateful for his warmth and support.
"I dreamt I was back in the paradox year. Saxon kidnapped my family... my two closest friends... and it was up to me to stop him from taking over the universe. I saw Japan again. Burning. And he was after me. He was going to kill me before my mission was over."
Her hand tightens on his arm as she sees the images over agian.
Cam listens closely, and he really has nothing to say, but the one thing he can do is offer comfort, because Martha obviously needs it. "Well ... you're still here, sweetheart. You're here with me, and you're safe, okay?"
Martha clutched his hand and pressed her forehead against his as she tried to calm down. In a few minutes she was breathing naturally and the tears fell silently rather than through sobs. She wiped her eyes on the back of her hand.
" 'm sorry. I didn't know... It's been four years since the Paradox. I thought the nightmares were done. I hadn't had one since meeting you."
It takes all the willpower he has not to ask what she's talking about, but there was a time and place for that, and now was not that time. He's concentrating more on keeping her calm - whatever the nightmare was ... obviously it was something that had taken it's toll on her. He doesn't want to dredge up any more bad memories or feelings. "You know I'm here - I'll help you through."
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The scene changed and Japan burned. People screamed. Spheres danced through the air... slaughtering...
In the bed, Martha whimpered and began thrashing about. A second later she was screaming in her sleep.
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"Don't touch me!" she hisses. "It's enough you have my family. Jack... the Doctor. Now Japan!" She swings a fist at Cameron and leaps out of bed and backs against the wall.
"Are you going to kill me too? Torture me and set an example to the world?"
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Martha pushes herself to a sitting position and looks up at him in the bed. She shivers out of fear and cold as she wraps her arms around herself for safety. "What happened?"
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"I dreamt I was back in the paradox year. Saxon kidnapped my family... my two closest friends... and it was up to me to stop him from taking over the universe. I saw Japan again. Burning. And he was after me. He was going to kill me before my mission was over."
Her hand tightens on his arm as she sees the images over agian.
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" 'm sorry. I didn't know... It's been four years since the Paradox. I thought the nightmares were done. I hadn't had one since meeting you."
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