Pidge felt her body waking gently from what felt like a deep, long sleep. The kind of sleep that made you feel sore upon waking. She groaned softly as she tried to move around.
"Mmmm…" She opened her eyes to find herself in bed with the rest of her family. Keith and Lance were spooning on one end with Hunk right beside them. Shiro had wrapped one arm around her gently and was still sleeping peacefully. She continued to look around, expecting to find a sixth person.
"Uh…." her mind was a little muddled still from sleep but….There SHOULD be one more person there, but...for some reason she was having trouble remembering who.
Pidge slipped out from under Shiro's arm carefully, not wanting to wake him. Something felt off as she got up and looked around, almost in a daze. She felt like she was...missing something, or someone. She gripped her shirt over her heart, feeling it ache, like she'd lost something. A bad dream, she must have just had a bad dream. She tried to assure herself as she locked herself in the bathroom and started the shower.
As the warm water began to make steam, she felt like whatever dream she'd had was poking at the back of her mind. Something wasn't right. She sighed as she stripped off her night shirt and stepped in.
"Man, whatever dream I had last night must have been bad, I feel awful…" she sighed as she sat down and tried to relax. She began to finally calm down, letting her mind clear as the hot water ran down her back. She opened her eyes to see water dripping down her face- onto someone else's face? A woman with blood stains on the corners of her mouth, tears that dripped down her cheek.
"You-!" Pidge cried out in alarm and jumped up only to slip and fall onto her back.
"Pidge?" Lances tired voice came from the other room, "You ok?" he yawned deeply as the rest of the family seemed to stir.
"Y-yeah just slipped on the soap!" she fibbed in the moment, unsure of what to make of the vision she'd just seen.
"Be more carefull.." her oh so concerned big brother yawned again before what she guessed was snuggling up to either Keith or Hunk.
Pidge felt her heart race. That! That's what was missing! That woman! She could feel her heart aching for the woman but...who was she? She was so close yet...Yet Pidge couldn't bring the memories to the fore of her mind. Like something was stuck. Her whole body felt frustrated, every part of her WANTED to remember, to KNOW who that woman was. But she just couldn't!
"Pidge, everything ok? Lance said you fell?" Shiro's voice came through the door, of course Dad was concerned. This made the small woman smile to herself.
"Yeah I'm fine, just had a bad dream I'm good" she said.
"Alright, let me know if you wanna talk ok?"
"Okay!" she replied before signing softly. Did anyone else remember the other woman? Something in Pidges gut told her no. Somehow she was the only one with even the slightest glimpse of that woman. Her face, she couldn't even bring to mind details, just that she was a woman, a woman who'd clearly been hurt and that Pidge herself had cried over her. But no eye color, hair color, nothing! It was frustrating for some reason because her entire being told her this was important but nothing else would come to mind.
Later that day Pidge found herself wandering around unable to think straight. Shiro was on the training deck, Keith and Lance were off doing their own thing and Hunk was in the kitchen again trying to cook. She sighed, she felt the need to keep quiet for now. Something told her she needed to wait. Though she wasn't sure what.
That's when it hit-