you tell me 'just give in'

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Who: Jesse Finch and anybody!
What: PLOT HALLUCINATIONS
Where: Lighthouse, around there!
When: Days 37-39
Warnings: Possible self-harm, violence, swearing.
Notes: This is a catch-all log for important hallucination things! I'm forward dating a little because I'm going to be so busy in the next week or so, and I'd like to tag while I have the chance! I have a basic idea of what is going to happen down at the bottom there. As you can see, it is... not very detailed, which means I am super okay with just about anything going on! He's going to be particularly panicked, so if anybody wants to screw with him an/or knock him around, I welcome it. Lemme know what day you want in the subject line for varying crazy-times. c:

He's hiding in the lighthouse. Jones can't get him here. He's safe, for now, as long as he doesn't sleep, and as long as he doesn't leave. But he's running out of food, and water, and he's so tired, and he keeps finding snakes, curling around his legs when he nearly-dozes-off. Of course, he kills them, and of course, they hiss and go up in smoke, and he's wide awake - for another hour.

And then he does it all over again, curled up somewhere dark with his pipe, ignoring the communicator on his wrist.

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It completely throws Jesse for a loop.

He stares at Kobra, curled up against the wall, eyes wide. It can't be... it isn't, but it is, and Jesse's utterly speechless for a long moment before he's reaching out to touch, rest his hand on Kobra's shoulders, the pipe clattering to the floor. He doesn't question it, not right now. This is what he needed.

"Yeah - yeah, hi, you okay?" He hasn't slept, but Jon can fix that, right?

[goodluckkobra]

Fuck, Ghoul looks so broken. He looks so small and Kobra wonders if he ran into Korse, too.

"Okay now." He settles against Jesse's side, wrapping his arms around Jesse. "He mess with you, too? I think we're safe up here."

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Oh, okay. Okay, yeah, he can do that. Jesse latches on, resting his head against Kobra's shoulder. "Y-yeah. It's safe here, I ain't been attacked for real. He's been getting other people, though, he - I seen him, he chased me." It doesn't even register that Kobra isn't exactly talking about Jones.

[goodluckkobra]

"Safety in fuckin' numbers, right?" They just need Party and Jet now. "Who... who'd he get? Anyone we needa help?" It's so safe and comfortable here, though. He really hopes not. 'Long as the rest of his boys and Kenz and Lyds and Dan are cool, he is A-okay.

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"Galen," Jesse mumbles, eyes closing. So tired. "Got Galen again, got Kenzi, probly more, I dunno, I - I ain't slept, I can't sleep. S'not safe to sleep, he'll find me. You." His words sort of turn to mush toward the end, but he can't help it.

[goodluckkobra]

"Shit." Nothing against Galen, but Kobra was a lot more worried about Kenzi. "Shit, we gotta do something, right? We can't just let him take more people we care about."

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"No, yeah, you're... you're right, we gotta do something," Jesse sighs. He totally would, except he's pretty much passed out. Jon will keep him safe, right? Right, totally. "I was gonna try n'stop him. I was. But we can. Y'think we can do it?"

[goodluckkobra]

"Yeah, I know we can." Not that their previous attempts have been successful, but he never lets logic or reality get in the way. He runs his fingers through Jesse's hair. "Shit, you been sleeping at all?"

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Oh, well. That's reassuring, and Jesse maybe shivers a little at the fingers running through his hair. It's involuntary - it just feels so nice. Relaxing. "No, I - s'been... I been tryin' t'stay awake. So - so a day? Two? Kinda blurs together, ahah." A beat. "Have -- have you? Slept."

[goodluckkobra]

"Not really, no." Hard to sleep when everyone's watching and a madman wants to fuck your shit up, right? "You sleep first. I'll keep watch. Then we'll go get everyone back from that fucker."

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He doesn't want to sleep, he can't, and he shouldn't trust this - but Jon wouldn't hurt him. Jesse just sighs, soft, and nods a little. "No - hey, not... not for too long, alright? I'll watch for you, too, and then - and then we'll get it." He has no idea how Jon is going to help him kill a nightmare, but whatever, it makes him feel better. He's already curled up against Kobra's side.

[goodluckkobra]

"I know. I have your back and you have mine." He squeezes Jesse tight. "Sleep, dumbass. You totally earned it." He got Kobra's bed back and everything.

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And maybe he smiles a little at that. Okay. He'll sleep. And he does, burrowed up against Kobra's side, and weirdly enough, he doesn't dream. He's so exhausted that it doesn't take long.

And when he wakes a while later, a few hours, he'll do the same for Kobra, nudge and pull and fuss at him without saying much to get him to sleep. Jesse promised, right? Rest.

[goodluckkobra]

Ghoul's being weirdly nice. That's the last thing Kobra thinks as he drifts off on Jesse's shoulder. He must feel bad about the bed and shit. Either way, this is nice and it's not like Ghoul's never nice like this. It's just rare. They'll rest and then they'll get everyone back and keep their friends safe, even Galen.