So in honor of Idiot closing today, here's something especially dreary and morbid to make things worse.
This idea I got from Admiral Godunuv, a write for a different fandom, basically what all of the characters would have nightmares about kind of thing.
The Extraordinary Girl was especially difficult to write for.
Read, reveiw, eat, pray, love.
And check out my N2N fanfic.
I don't own Idiot
Next up: Will/Whatsername piece, and then a Johnny/Will piece
Title: Nightmares
Rating: T for morbidity
Characters: Heather, Johnny, Will, Tunny, St. Jimmy, The Extraordinary Girl, Whatsername
Pairings: Mentions of Johnny Whatsername, super vague mentions of Will/Heather
Timeline: Sometime during Idiot, I like to think after Will and Heather broke up but before Know Your Enemy, but I left it pretty unspecific.
Tunny dreams of the trenches. War has infected him mind and he's crawling low to the ground, trying desperately to make his way to some special destination and he's got to get there as fast as he can. He has to get there and he has to ignore the soldiers around him that get infected with nerve gas, he has to ignore the sick dances they do as they fumble into death. He has to keep going and ignore that his comrades are getting shot and each time one is shot, the skin and organs and brains fly at him and completely cover him. He has to keep going and he has to ignore the fact that he's crawling over skeletons, hearing and feeling their bones crunch beneath him. He has to ignore the fact that these aren't fellow soldier's skeletons, but the skeletons of Johnny and Will and Heather and Libby and Alysha and Declan. He has to keep going and he's finally there when he realizes what this place is and he tries to move away, but he's too late and he watches as the bomb explodes next to his leg.
He wakes up and feels like his lungs are on fire. He looks down and his leg is gone.
And for a minute, he cannot tell dream from reality.
Heather is running as fast as she can, not from something, but to something. She's in this house of mirrors, this maze and she can hear her baby crying and she knows that at the end of this maze, her child waits, but she's bumping into the mirrors and each time she does, the baby screams louder. So she runs, keeping a hand on the wall, trying to make it through and out of the corner of her eye, she sees something. In the mirror and it's the most gruesome thing she's ever laid eyes on. Twisted, malicious smile, dilated eyes, blood dripping down it's pointed teeth and she shrieks, running faster, but it's no use.
Because this creature is running faster than her.
Because each step this creature takes drains more energy out of her.
Because she knows exactly what this monster is and she's never been more terrified in her life.
Because this monster is her.
Will watches everyone he loves leave him while things burn in his dream. Heather looks at him, pleading with him as her abdomen burns and he tries to go to her, but the alcohol in his system has slowed him down and he can't move fast enough while her flesh melts and her bones burn. Tunny appears and he's on fire, writhing in pain, accusing Will, and blaming Will and wondering whether or not Will is going to find purpose in his life and Will wants to punch his friend and call him every name in the book, but the moment he does, Tunny turns to ash all around him. Johnny is burning in front of him and he begs Will to join him and Will wants to, but he can't move so Johnny takes off into the night, blazing like a firework, leaving sparks all around Will as he leaves. And those sparks close in and begin burning closer to him and Will tries to run but there's the alcohol and he can't jump over the fire or move, all he can do is scream once the fire and the alcohol meet and tear him apart.
Whatsername wakes up to the object of her nightmares. The dreams are reoccurring and they always start off peacefully. She comes home with Johnny, laughing and smiling and he kisses her and it's nothing but love and then suddenly, his eyes haze over and he takes the shape of something else, face hollowing out, half of the hair on his head burning out of his skull, eyes darkening, face becoming more malicious and he forces his lips on hers and she pushes him away and tries to run and screams no, but this person, it's no longer Johnny, it's this alter ego he becomes when he's high and the word no means nothing to him, not even when she screams and cries and fights while he holds her down to have his way.
She wakes up, and she's choking on air and Johnny looks up and asks her what's wrong and it takes her a moment to convince herself that this is Johnny, her Johnny. It takes a moment to convince herself that this is not St. Jimmy.
In her dreams, her hands are shaking cold and she is not as extraordinary as everyone thinks she is. She's fading, particle by particle. And she's a nurse, but this is not a medical condition she knows how to fix. She watches as her hands fade out, her arms, her feet, her legs. She's blurring and blending and no one cares, they're moving on and she screams for help but not a single person hears a sound. She wakes up crying and wipes the tears away and goes through her day like normal, because her dreams don't scare her anymore. They're starting to become her reality.
Johnny does not have nightmares. He sleeps peacefully because he is the source of his worst fears, or rather Jimmy does. He sits by, oblivious as this hallucination he has created for himself destroys everything he loves in life. And Jimmy laughs this wicked little cackle because Johnny won't know about the damage until it is too late.