Dark Dreams and Rough Morning

It was dark, empty. Only her, and her bed. Nothing was around, just a black void.

Just on the edge though was... something. Walls that seemed to flex..., large hazy shapes that seemed to sway and dart just out of sight. She couldn't get a good look at them, her neck and body refused to move. A voice spoke out to her but it was a languge she couldn't understand and spoken in a way she couldn't process. Spoken wasn't even a good way to describe it either. It was like... something was forcing the words into her ears no..., her mind. Like encoding a disk or file. She could tell though the tone of the message was... inviting. Calming. She could feel that the being behind it meant no threat or danger to her. Rather... something else.

Movement. A flash. Red and black intermingled..., her twin and the shaped void..., entertwined and.... nothing....

BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEE...

Susan work with a start, flailing her arms to catch the alarm clock with her hand, shutting it off. She sat up in bed breathing hard and... sweaty? Odd, the temperature last night wasn't supposed to be that hot. And her muscles felt slightly sore, like she'd been running. Her mind started putting this all together along with the dream...., what dream...., it had been something. A strange experience she had felt but couldn't recall. And the alarm clock. When was the last time she'd slept in that late? It was a back up measure more than anything, the two of them usually woke up an hour before needing it. Susan focused and turned to see her sister still cureled up in her bed, covered in blankets.

"Well.... least she seemed to sleep well..., maybe." Susan thought as she slowly stretched out. Whatever happened last night was something to be dealt with later. She really wanted a shower. If Mary had a rough night too, for now, she'd let her twin sleep. That and Mary always had a habit of taking the warm water for herself, here was a good time to get in before it was all gone.

Moving lightly, Susan made her way into the bathroom. She warmed up the shower, stripped down and let the water do it's work. Susan's anxiety slowly melted away as the streams of water washed over her. Perhaps it was just the change in Gil's nature. Or maybe something Mary said effected her more than she thought. Or maybe it was just some illness getting to her. The two of them had been working pretty hard, and the thing with Gil had distracted them.

"Come on girl what's wrong with you... it's just one weird day and a dream." Susan muttered as she cupped her cheeks a few times with her hands, "Pull together. We have that meeting today..... geeze...."

Today was going to be about that bubble brick idea. Another failure. Mary had been right, all red tape was a bit stifling but even as a kid she knew most the funding they would get would come with the idea of results. But it was just a bit... off putting to see a board room not only not understand the problems, but also get mad they weren't getting the money they wanted... or the time saving they wanted just..., greedy greedy greedy. Susan was smart enough to get the logistical problems but scicence was never something that could be scheleded on a time table, nor the out of the box solutions they came up with always worked all the time. She had no problem dealing with others that understood that just..., "Mary might have been on to something."

It had been more fun as kids, just doing what they wanted and applying the results and findings to colleges and award boards. Back then it was just to push science but now it was for a result.

Susan just clenched her fists and lightly thumped her chest. "No no, that's just reality. But can't let that stop or weigh us down." Emotional reacitons wasn't going to help, especially if they lost it in front of others. No what they really needed was a vacation or a de-stress day. A period of time where they could just.... do and study what they wanted again. That made the most logical sense..., or maybe therapy of some kind. But this would be cheaper and..., well they probably DID have a lot of stuff to unpack...., hmmmm.

"One thing at a time.... recharge batteries and then worry about mental trauma." Susan sighed as she started to lather up with her body wash. ".... am I a little bigger?" She puzzled as she reached her chest. Another thing to worry about, she didn't need to get fat now, not with everything else going on. Today's start was a bit weird but... honestly she'd seen weirder.

Was gonna be a long one it felt like though.