soul_logs | [OPEN] * Field trip aftermath.

Characters: OPEN
Location: The Clinic
Rating: Not exactly sure...PG minimum?
Time: February 28; Anytime during the day.
Description: Sheena's recovering from her Madness-induced nightmare--both physically and emotionally. Anyone care to visit?

She was supposed to be recovering, but the nightmares and dreams brought on by the Madness wouldn't let her. She had been initially helped at the field trip site, but that hadn't lasted long--thanks to her own deep-seated fears over her memories. Not even the sedatives given her had been able to keep everything at bay. She had woken up several times during the night, frantically searching the room for any trace of those eyes that seemed to be wherever she looked. Eventually, the drugs and exhaustion had taken their toll, and she had fallen into a somewhat restless sleep.

This time, when she awoke, sunlight was streaming into the room, keeping the images away. Now, in the clear light of day, she was able to deal with what happened, and wondered if she was going to be able to handle things here.

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"That's the only problem with that kind of wish. Not just what might change, but what if it doesn't? Then it would have been for nothing, right?" She scoffed lightly. "Like you said, things are the way they are, so they had to have happened for a reason, right? So no matter what we change, it could still occur because it was meant to."

And the price to pay? A future that might-have-been...

She chuckled softly. "Yeah, you can learn both good and bad things with every experience--like touching fire. And I guess the lessons are easier to learn if there's someone who cares enough to help you."

"That is it exactly. And we might lose even more in the process. It is best to make the most of what we have, and attempt to do our best in every moment given us."

Gai gave her a smile. "Things are always easier with someone. No one should be alone; it is when we are alone that we are weakest, not our strongest. However, I do wonder if you should be resting." He didn't have to go, but he also didn't want to keep her up too long. She'd been injured, after all, and injured enough that she was willing to stay in the clinic. That meant something, in his eyes.

That was part of her problem. She could never stop wondering what if Corrine had lived? Would she still have been able to make the pacts? Would her grandfather had ever woken up? As much as she wanted to change that time, she couldn't without possibly damaging the present and future.

She looked at him, his comment making her realize just how tired she actually was. She really didn't want him to go, but she wasn't going to ask him to stay, either. She nodded slowly in response. "Yeah, I guess you're right," she finally said.

He saw the hesitation and wasn't sure what it meant. Likely she didn't want to be alone, and he could understand that, but he needed to get back home too. There were dogs who wouldn't understand a message about him running late, and he had a partner he wasn't certain would know how to take a sudden night alone.

"I will visit again tomorrow, if you would like." It was the best he could offer. Gai reached over and rested a hand on her shoulder. "I am sorry. I shall not leave you alone for long, I promise."

No, she didn't want to be alone. Her dreams this time around were much worse. But, she got through the ones when she was a child mostly alone; she could probably get through these, too. She had no right to disrupt his life any more than she had and ask him to stay.

"That would be nice," she told him. "And don't worry about leaving. It's okay. I really shouldn't have kept you as long as I did." She wasn't laying a guilt trip, Gai. She was genuinely sorry she detained you for so long, since she knew that things were going on in their zone he had to attend to as well.

After searching her eyes Gai gave her shoulder a quick squeeze. "Rest well, Sheena. I shall see you in the morning." He bowed before leaving, a quick thing, and then he was slipping out and headed home, mind dwelling on her even as he left.

Meanwhile, Sheena watched him go, eyes fixed on the door for several moments after it closed. Even knowing it would be pointless, she lay back and closed her eyes, hoping any sleep she got would go uninterrupted.

[OPEN] * Field trip aftermath.

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