( closed ) nightmare

[techblessing]

Who: Gumi, Lily (Aiko and Reki later)
Location: Inside Gumi's Nightmare | Reki/Aiko/Gumi's Apartment, Tokyo, Japan (XI!AU)
When: The night after returning to Japan after this log. (4 years post-XI)
Content: Gumi has a nightmare and a hangover.
Format: ... action.
Notes: post formatting taken from Avie's musebox and stuff. 8O
Also, this log involves stabbing and blood. Just saying.


[ the flight back was okay. kinda awkward, still. they made it back home safely, though. it was night time by the time they returned to the apartment, and Aiko was so tired that she was put to bed almost immediately. Gumi had said she was a little tired and gone to her room soon after.

That was a lie. She was wide awake. Wide awake, and alone with her thoughts. After a few hours of laying in bed with no results whatsoever, Gumi got up. Maybe a snack or something would help.

She made her way to the kitchen as quietly as she could, so she didn't wake the other residents of the house, and looked around the kitchen for whatever she could find that seemed like it'd help. Among the hidden things, there was a bottle of sake.

Gumi stared long and hard at it. She'd gotten it a while back. It was being saved, just in case she needed it.

She only wondered for a few moments whether or not now was a good time before taking the bottle and a shot glass to her room. It didn't matter that the sake was warm. It was better than nothing.

She sat down in bed again once she got back to her room and downed a shot of the sake. And another.

Before she knew it, she was asleep.

Unfortunately, it may have been better for her if she'd stayed awake.

It was night time. The moon was full, and it was very bright ... Gumi didn't even need the city lights to see where she was going. She was walking the streets of Tokyo, not quite sure where she was going, only that she was going somewhere ... ]

Comments

[techbane]

Figures.

Hey, meet me at that cafe at the end of your block. The cops just showed up.

[13376066135.livejournal.com]

Don't get caught. I'm not hauling your ass out of jail.

Be there in ten.

[techbane]

I'm innocent this time, I swear!

[ON HER WAY TO THE CAFE NOW]

[13376066135.livejournal.com]

[ brb sneaking out of the apartment quietly so she doesn't wake up Reki and Aiko again. and yeah, cafe. ]

[techbane]

[snoozing at a table with a cup of coffee in front of her. the cashier looks tempted to poke her with a broom or something.]

[13376066135.livejournal.com]

[ would dare the cashier to poke her, but nobody deserves the wrath of Lily like that. so she'll just sit next to Lily and pat her shoulder. ]

[techbane]

- Wuh?

[13376066135.livejournal.com]

Rise and shine, sleeping beauty. I'm not kissing you to wake you up.

[techbane]

Haha, very funny.

[13376066135.livejournal.com]

I thought it was.

[techbane]

Are you still drunk?

[13376066135.livejournal.com]

Nope, hungover.

[techbane]

Right, right.

So. Tell me more about this nightmare you had.

[13376066135.livejournal.com]

I was walking down the street, you were walking in the opposite direction, you were acting weird so I wanted to find out what was wrong, you ran, I followed, and when you finally started actually kinda telling me things, you stabbed me.

More than once.

[techbane]

[i-ignoring the stabbing part for now]

... What did I even tell you?

[13376066135.livejournal.com]

... I don't remember. Specific words are kinda fuzzy.

[ lying, but she really doesn't want to talk about that. ]

[techbane]

You sure it wasn't Stabby Lily?

[13376066135.livejournal.com]

Stabby Lily doesn't know me on a personal level. Whatever you told me, it felt personal. I'm sure.

[techbane]

Huh.

Weird nightmare.

[13376066135.livejournal.com]

No kidding ...

[ quiet for a long time. ]

... It really scared me. It woke Reki and Ai up.

[techbane]

You should probably lay off the booze for the next few nights. Just saying.

[13376066135.livejournal.com]

I don't think I'll be drinking anytime soon. I'll probably give that bottle of sake away. Wonder if Lu and Onii-sama would want it ...

[ props her head up on her hands, elbows on the counter of the cafe bar that they were sitting at. ]

I don't want Ai to see me like that again, and I know Reki hates it when I drink too much. I feel kinda bad. Especially after we'd just gotten back from our America trip.

[techbane]

[SUBJECT CHANGE GET]

- Oh, right. Uh, how was the trip?

[13376066135.livejournal.com]

It was fun. We saw the school again. Visited the pasta restaurant. Everyone there loved Ai.

[ not going to mention how awkward some of it was but if you pay close attention Lills, you might see a little of how awkward it is to talk about. ]

[techbane]

Did anything blow up? [she just spent like three hours clubbing her head's still ringing okay]