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No no no no no no it hurts stop what is she saying what stop no no no no no Alice stop stop stop V N stop Nori’s kid holy robo-god i’m being stabbed stop stop stop stop stop stop STOP
Uzi woke with a start, gasping. She hated this. She hated all the stupid nightmares she had. She doesn’t even know why- it couldn’t have been that bad. Like, V was fine afterwards! ..So why wasn’t she?
She’d been having these for the past 2 weeks or so. She never told anyone, because it wasn’t that important and she didn’t want to worry them. This one, however, felt like it was overwhelming her and she felt herself freeze up and panic. Suddenly, she was back in the lab, or whatever the hell it was. Alice was there- Her finger was being cut off she was being stabbed-
”-Uzi, UZI!” N. Why was N there? Wait, this wasn’t the lab-
“N..?” “Uzi! Thank robo-god, y-you were heating up and panicking- Are you okay? What happened?”
She tried to speak, tried to tell him, but she could only get a few words out. ”A-Alice. I was- the lab- my stomach-“ Her breath hitched. Even just thinking about the lab hurt. She settled for the next best option, leaning over and shoving her head onto N’s shoulder. He patted her back, and she didn’t even realize her wings had popped out until he accidentally touched them.
She tried to make them look as small as possible without putting them back in, because it hurt a little whenever she did so, but if she felt even a little pain she was back there- She was getting off topic. She didn’t like her wings, but she just could not be in pain right now.
N patted her reassuringly. She loved N so much. “Do you want to talk about it?”
Uzi nodded hesitantly. She had to open and close her mouth a few times before she actually started speaking. “I-It was the lab- and I was on the stupid table again, strapped down, a-and Alice, she cut off my finger, but this time she cut off all of them,” she paused. “And- and she stabbed me. Not in my h-hand, like before, but she stabbed me in the stomach, and I was glitching and it hurt and I heard V yelling for me-” Her breath hitched again and she had to regulate her breathing before she could look N in the eyes. His expression was heartbreaking.
“Oh, Uzi.” He pulled Uzi into a hug. She knew that he had been having nightmares, too, but his were mostly about V’s death. He wouldn’t tell anybody what the other ones were about, but Uzi had a feeling it had to do with whatever Tessa apparently told him.
Her breathing picked up again, and she looked up at N. “I don’t want to go back to sleep.” Whenever she slept she was always back there, and she had a feeling her subconscious would find a way to throw N into her nightmares as well.
N looked down at her sweetly. Did she mention how much she loved N? “You don’t have to.” He booped her on the nose and she scowled (lovingly) at him. “You are so lucky you’re adorable.”
It wasn’t until the morning after that she realized he had successfully distracted her from even thinking about Alice.