This is my first fic with Tegan and Nyssa so be nice, please?
I do not own them. Meh.
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Nyssa was walking along in a dark alley. She didn't know where she was but she was very afraid. She wished the Doctor, or Tegan or Adric were there with her.
Suddenly she saw her father at the end of the alley. She ran joyously towards him, but as she approached, his image glowed white and shattered, as if it was made of glass.
Nyssa screamed, and rolled out of bed, dragging her blankets with her. The noise had woken Tegan up and she swung herself out of bed and went to help her friend.
"Hell's teeth, Nyssa! Are you all right?" she asked, untangling the younger girl from the twisted sheets.
Nyssa had been so scared by her dream that she couldn't say a word, just clung to Tegan as though she was drowning. They stayed like that for a few minutes until Nyssa was calmed sufficiently enough to speak.
" I saw my father, Tegan," she whispered, tears streaming down her cheeks. "I ran towards him and he just...shattered." She buried her face in Tegan's chest again.
Tegan stroked her curly hair and thought about how she could distract Nyssa from her dream. It sounded absolutely terrifying.
"I've got an idea!" she announced, remembering a childhood trick. "I'll teach you how to build a house of cards."
Nyssa looked thoroughly bemused. "A house of what?" As a Trakenite, she was completely unfamiliar with the Earth pastime.
Tegan
stood up, stretched, and started rummaging in one of her drawers. "A
house of playing cards. You stack up all the cards in a tower, until
they fall down, or you run out, whichever comes first."
She sat
down beside Nyssa and showed her the exact technique for getting them
to stack just right so that they didn't fall down. By the time they
had made a spectacular tower of 52 cards it was nearly an hour and a
half later, and neither felt like going back to sleep.
"I know
you play games with these cards," Nyssa said, interestedly. "Can
you show me some."
They played gin rummy, snap, blackjack, and
all the card games Tegan could think of, until sleep began to settle
in.
"Are these really a cure for nightmares? They certainly work," Nyssa said, as she climbed back into bed.
Tegan yawned. "Nah, not really. In my family, though, we always play with them. Stops you from going mad sometimes. But yes, they do work as nightmare cures."
"I wish I'd discovered them sooner," Nyssa said, before she fell asleep.
After that, Tegan never put the cards back in the drawer, but always left them on top of the dresser. To her, cards were cards, but to Nyssa, they must have seemed a godsend. After all, she knew of Nyssa's awful nightmares.
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The ending sucks, sorry.
