Six woke up first, he went back to his room to get ready for work. He let holiday sleep in then came back to see if she was awake. He knocked on the door and was going to wait for her to respond but after hearing something drop on the floor and a scared sound from holiday that was not quite a scream but more like a squeek he pushed the door open and ran to inside. She was staring at the mirror her hair was up and she was dressed for work, she had dropped her brush on the floor or at least knocked it and a hair strainer off the counter. " sorry I just." She paused and looked down " I just dropped my hair brush in fine." But that was a lie, she looked pale and even though she calmed herself down quickly it was clear she was distracted. " doctor?' Six said. She knew she was caught. " it's nothing I just thought I saw someone. But no one's here other than us, it's probably just because I'm not getting enough sleep." She smiled already looking better. Six didn't say anything more on the topic.
They both went to the lab, today holiday would have to talk to a counselor, sometimes solders had to do it too it was not a weird thing at providence, fighting huge monsters, wondering who could turn next, sometimes the rest of the world forgot how bad things were if they even knew, the news always made it sound like the world was ending, the public had hope with rex, and providence as well as other organizations although they were far less professional. But providence agents saw the worst of it, they knew how bad it could get, no one was unaffected so it was not a far stretch for white to assume that doctor holiday might have some form of PTSD or insomnia at least, though sleepwalking was not a common sign of those.
Holiday was not as sure, things were looking better for her, she had her sister back, she was closer with six and rex, rex had his brother, and while she still had a lot of work to do and never got a brake it was not as bad and nothing serious or traumatizing happened outside of the normal life or death stuff. There was a chance it happened slowly that she could deal with the stress and fear but over time something was braking.
" so do you prefer to be called Rebecca or Mrs holiday, wait are you married.." a nice lady with short red hair, blue jeans, and a basic plain light blue top smiled waiting for an answer.
" oh umm doctor holiday is fine." She smiled back and let out a sigh, she didn't realize she was holding her breath. " alright doctor, so what's the problem? " she was expecting a story of how holiday was haunted by a mission she went on or something along the lines of what the agents would say, she didn't expect a cheerful. " oh it's nothing that serious, I've just been sleep walking, white knight is mad that iset off the motion ditectors.. I guess I've also been having bad dreams, but I somehow climbed out my window while I was asleep." Holiday didn't really have anything to hide she wanted to get this over with. psychology was not the most exact science.
The lady, her name was Maddy sighed. Then she smiled " that's not what I was expecting, but this is a good start!, the sleep walking sounds dangerous but I'm more concerned about the dreams, so one thing at a time and well get to the bottom of it!"
Holiday was surprised at how exited and energetic this lady was. " are the dreams about something that happened " Maddy asked
" no."
Maddy nodded " are they about something relating to current events in your life."
" not current, no."
" so they relate to your past but didn't happen? Are you scared that they might happen."
" no they're just dreams, unrealistic ones at that... But they relate to when my sister was an evo before she was cured. Sometimes anyway, other times it's rex or me. The faces switch around but the same thing is happening."
Maddy leaned forward holiday inched away. " and what exactly is happening in them?" She appeared to be interested.
Holiday hesitated. " dissection , which of course is fine I'm not grossed out by a little blood or some guts.. But also torture.. like whoever is on the table is being experimented on and kept alive but just barely, they're suffering. But the scientist keeps working. "
Maddy leaned back." Are you ever on the table, or are you the scientist?"
Holiday looked tired. " one or the other or neither, sometimes both. Like I said they're unrealistic. Its not a perfect reacuring dream there are changes. I wake up feeling like i didnt sleep at all."
" I think taking some time off, maybevisiting your sister would help. I can give you pills to help you sleep if you want, I can tell by looking at you that your not sleeping enough, or working too much. I will ask white knight to give you a week off but have someone observe you while you sleep. " holiday nodded " I don't think I'll need the pills. But time off might be enough. I don't think I've got a day off in seven years, not that I'm going to complain I like working here. "
