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Sunny Baudelaire ([personal profile] biteybaby) wrote2025-01-11 08:22 pm
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Closed: The World is Quiet Here.

Nightmares are nothing new for Sunny Baudelaire. There was a time when she had them somewhat infrequently, before her birth parents tragically perished in a sudden house fire that may or may not have been started by an individual who may or may not have recently died any number of painful deaths, though research into the exact specifics of those events is still ongoing. After previously mentioned arson, Sunny Baudelaire experienced a period of very frequent nightmares, followed by a few months where her nightmares were lessening, a word which here means "became less frequent, though did still happen from time to time".

Unfortunately, she has been having very intense nightmares every time she has fallen asleep in recent days, and in general her waking hours have been less than ideal as well. Recently it seems like everyone but her got to be reunited with their loved ones from home, but all Sunny got was --

She wakes up, multiple times during the night, screaming at the viciously frightening dreams her subconscious has decided to inflict on her. Count Olaf, dead, getting up though and continuing to menace her. Count Olaf kidnapping her and taking her back home, away from her daddies and her brother and everyone else, and keeping her in another birdcage. Count Olaf killing Violet and Klaus in all of the many several ways many several people killed him. Magnu's mommy, who by all accounts was a very lovely person in real life, but in Sunny's dreams she's mean and horrible and laughs at her because her mommy didn't get to come here, even though they're both equally dead and therefore equally as likely to show up.

Sunny is very glad that every time she wakes up crying her daddies are there to hug her and calm her down enough to go back to sleep. She is also very glad that she is still wearing her bedtime pull ups every night. Most of all though, she is glad that Count Olaf is definitely incredibly dead, and even though she can't be with Violet and Klaus, she knows they won't be harmed by him any more. She just wishes the nightmares about the whole situation would stop.

This morning she wakes up screaming from a nightmare at almost the same time she gets up normally, and so she decides to just stay awake. She has big plans to go get groceries with Magnu anyway, and after a bit of a touch and go start to her day, she's finally dressed and out the door with Magnu.
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[personal profile] summerdude 2025-02-11 04:47 am (UTC)(link)
"Yeah," Magnus says. "I was really sad. I actually started thinking that it would have been better if she never visited, because it just made it harder to wait after she left."
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[personal profile] summerdude 2025-02-11 05:37 am (UTC)(link)
"Before he visited, I missed him a lot and didn't know if I'd ever see him again and it made me sad. After he visited, I knew what it would be like if he was here, and it made the waiting hurt a lot more. Especially since at first I was convinced she would show up again any day now, and then the longer it went, the harder it became to believe I'd see her again. Before she showed up for visitor's day, I had... hm. It was easier to hope."
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[personal profile] summerdude 2025-02-12 01:49 am (UTC)(link)
Magnus isn't going to promise that they'll find a way, because he doesn't want to promise something so important if he can't guarantee it. "I'm just saying I know it sucks really bad," he tells her, giving her a little squeeze. "And I know I'm really, really lucky. I'm lucky to have Alex, and I'm lucky to have two great dads -- and one Jerome -- and such a great, cool, fun, smart, talented little sister. There's people I really, really miss back home, people who are like family to me, but... I know it's different than it is for you. I know it really, really sucks extra bad for you that Violet and Klaus didn't come, and the worst possible person did. And I'm sorry that it's so unfair."
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[personal profile] summerdude 2025-02-12 01:57 am (UTC)(link)
"No? Even to have two great dads and a good second brother?"
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[personal profile] summerdude 2025-02-12 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
"Three great dads and one great mom," Magnus agrees.
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[personal profile] summerdude 2025-02-12 02:28 am (UTC)(link)
"But you miss your there-family too."
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[personal profile] summerdude 2025-02-12 04:03 am (UTC)(link)
Magnus hands her a balloon. "Wanna scream and throw some water balloons about it?"
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[personal profile] summerdude 2025-02-13 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
Whoa. That kid has pipes. Magnus decides that his role, in this moment, is not to also throw water balloons and scream; his role is to hand her more balloons each time she releases one.
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[personal profile] summerdude 2025-02-14 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
Magnus sits down next to her. The level of the water balloons in the bucket is extremely depleted. "Splandoo," he says, wrapping an arm around her little body and pressing another kiss to the top of her head.
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[personal profile] summerdude 2025-02-14 04:17 am (UTC)(link)
"It's gonna get better," he tells her. "I promise."
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[personal profile] summerdude 2025-02-14 04:30 am (UTC)(link)
"I know, sweet bug." He strokes her hair back. "If you can think of things that we can definitely do that might help make stuff feel better more quickly, let me know, okay? We'll be sure to do them."
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[personal profile] summerdude 2025-02-14 05:08 am (UTC)(link)
"Yeah! Do you wanna go down on my lap, or do you wanna go down by yourself? I can stand at the bottom or slide down next to you."
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[personal profile] summerdude 2025-02-14 03:36 pm (UTC)(link)
"'Kay. The big slide or the medium slide?"

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