Blink 2x20
It's funny how a random phrase or sentence can strike a cord with you.
She's the reason I get outta bed in the morning...
He'd had to raise his head at that point. That sentiment. He felt so... accustomed to it somehow. It resonated within him. Like he'd thought it a thousand mornings before.
When Robert would open his eyes, staring at the same grey ceiling he'd been trying not to see all throughout his restless night, now lit by the first rays of light through the halfheartedly closed curtains. Looking blankly as the harshly bland tones of his bedroom began to reassert themselves from the darkness of another 8 hours wasted. Finding his limbs surprisingly uncooperative as his determination to sit up were close to nonexistent. Weighing the satisfaction of a good puzzle against the unrelenting weariness now infused in his bones.
How it was only her face, smile unimaginably bright against his shadows, that drove him to move.
She believes in you, that's important.
It was everything. She was everything. Her sarcasm, her expressions, her personality, her ideas, her friendship, her support... her everything. Important didn't come close.
She's my prayer warrior.
Yeah. That worked.
Hope you guys liked it, I was going for more poetic rather than plot here. I've been working on something long and plotish for 308. I'm actually considering making it a separate oneshot.
The insomnia details are from my personal experience, feel free to mock me for it's bleakness. You have no idea what I think of in the middle of the night having a manic episode :P
PS It's fanfiction... I'm boring.