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Heather Mason ([personal profile] foolishwren) wrote2011-06-27 11:00 pm

71. [Action/Video] Backdated to Sunday afternoon.

[You know when you wake up and you feel like there's a leaden weight sitting on your chest, stopping you from moving? Most of the time when that happens, it's because of sleep paralysis. Somewhat less of the time, it's a close encounter of the third kind. ... This time, however, it's a very large Furret curled up neatly in the middle of Heather's chest, taking advantage of the fact that her trainer both produces heat and is stationary and comfortable, AND of the fact that there is currently a brief moment in which nobody is looking over in this direction to shoo her away.]

[... Except that Heather's not going to be stationary much longer.]

[The first thing that happens that disrupts the vacant, sleeping stupor of Heather's face is a wince and a scrunched nose, because fluffy Furret tails are not the best things to have brushing up against your nostrils when you're coming out of a deep sleep.]


Nhngngnh...

[Ffffh what was-- what. Oh, ow. Opening eyes that haven't seen light in a good seven days kind of hurts. And trying to talk through a throat that hasn't made a single noise kind of hurts too, which is why all that Heather manages at first is a sort of croak.]

[But that croak is enough to get SOMEBODY'S attention.]

[From the foot of the bed, Cujo snorts into wakefulness from where he's been faithfully sleeping on his trainer's ankles. With a deep wuff, he surges to his feet and joyfully clambers over the blanketed body, stepping on Arty and causing her to vacate her perch atop Heather's chest with an indignant hiss, until he's standing over her with a great big doggy smile and a paw on either side of her.]

[Heather squints up at him, scrunching up her face. On one hand, the sight of those floppy orange ears and big black nose is one for sore eyes, but on the other... oh god does she not want to see a dog right now after the kinds of dreams she'd been having...]

[Coughing and lifting her arms weakly, she tries to shove him away long enough for her to get her bearings.]


Cooj, gimme some spac-- acklPHTHG OFF.

[No force in this world or any other could stop Cujo from greeting his favorite human being's return to wakefulness with lots of licking. Startled into a slightly more awake state, Heather makes a still-sleepy noise of disgust and shoves feebly at the Growlithe, scooting away.]

Dammit, mutt, I mean i--

[Turns out, trying to slip out of bed after not moving for a week? Hurts, too. WHOMP. Face, meet hotel room floor. And possibly part of Henry's sleeping bag.]



[VIDEO]

[A few minutes later, presumably after proving sufficiently to her father that she's not DEAD, the feed clicks on, revealing a very, very bedraggled Heather who looks like she went a week WITHOUT sleeping instead of spending the whole time unconscious.]

Mornin'.... what'd I miss?



[ooc: Because the nightmare threads will likely affect CR pretty strongly, I'll tag them as long as anybody wants/it takes them to be finished! I'm also fine with discussing their outcomes, though, if anyone needs a conclusion right away.]

[identity profile] dead-black-eyes.livejournal.com 2011-07-19 01:52 am (UTC)(link)
From the burns, or something unrelated?

[He's very interested, and it shows. That kind of intensity is impossible to mistake for anything else.]

[identity profile] dead-black-eyes.livejournal.com 2011-07-21 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
I believe it, if where you come from is anything like the place I saw.

How did you die?

[identity profile] dead-black-eyes.livejournal.com 2011-07-23 03:59 am (UTC)(link)
[It's a non-statement that L doesn't hear, that he doesn't pick up on, whether he can't or is just extremely determined to know the truth.]

I'm told that I'm quite intelligent, with an enormous propensity for comprehending "complicated" things.

[identity profile] dead-black-eyes.livejournal.com 2011-08-02 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
I actually don't have time to watch a lot of movies... not only that, but if you were to lay out the life of the Universe in the form of a calendar, with the Big Bang at midnight on New Year's day, followed by twelve months and 365 days, all of humanity's history could be contained in the last second of the last minute of the last hour of December 31st.

What are the odds of intelligent life developing parallel to ours in that very narrow window of time? Furthermore, considering that the Universe is continually expanding, everything is getting further away from everything else, broadening the distance life would have to travel in order to connect with Earth. Even the closest galaxy to the Milky Way is lightyears away...

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[identity profile] dead-black-eyes.livejournal.com 2011-08-02 03:12 am (UTC)(link)
What...? Your face is doing this... I wasn't that far off, was I? I mean, she has an enormous chest. She probably has to have all of her shirts specially made so that they don't burst.

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[identity profile] dead-black-eyes.livejournal.com 2011-08-02 03:59 am (UTC)(link)
But Dolly Parton has never had children...

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[identity profile] dead-black-eyes.livejournal.com 2011-08-05 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
I'm sorry. It's true that many females are insecure, but you're not finished growing, right? There's time yet. You don't need to be insecure.

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[identity profile] dead-black-eyes.livejournal.com 2011-08-05 09:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Because of chestbursters...

Is there something wrong with them? You say that they're "terrifying"; the sheer size isn't enough to genuinely instill fear in someone, unless signs of fertility are in some way repugnant to you and amplification of those traits is emotionally overwhelming...

[Video]

[identity profile] dead-black-eyes.livejournal.com 2011-08-05 11:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[Socially awkward, blunt, and weirdly insightful are a really, really bad combination. L winces slightly as she drops her pokegear, listening to what sounds like she's throwing up from the next room over. At the very least, gagging horribly...

He waits for a moment or two before getting bored and restless. He sets his pokegear aside, leaving the video function on, and glances around for something to do with his hands.

Ah. There are some old snack wrappers. He can arrange them in so many different ways. By alphabetical order of the first ingredient, by alphabetical order of the second ingredient... by alphabetical order of the third ingredient, thrilling! He becomes pretty happily engrossed in this, and Heather will return to someone who appears to have all but forgotten the subject matter of their conversation. Not that he has, but... oh man L looks like an idiot better than most idiots.]

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[identity profile] dead-black-eyes.livejournal.com 2011-08-06 05:32 am (UTC)(link)
[He glances up quickly, halfway through organizing the wrappers alphabetically by the second letter in their fifth ingredients.]

I was, or something like it, but you look terrible. About consistent with how you sounded, actually.

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[identity profile] dead-black-eyes.livejournal.com 2011-08-06 04:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[Yep, he did. It's very fortunate that L's not a sympathetic vomiter. He's... not particularly sympathetic in any capacity, actually.]

I actually think it had to do with Dolly Parton. The timing suggested that my hypothesis was not incorrect...

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