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[biteybaby]

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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[biteybaby]

She nods again.

[summerdude]

Magnus hands her a balloon. "Wanna scream and throw some water balloons about it?"

[biteybaby]

She takes the balloon and immediately goes to throw it at the ground, letting out a very loud scream with her whole chest.

[summerdude]

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.

[biteybaby]

Sunny throws several balloons. She's not sure how many, as she isn't keeping count of them, but with each balloon she lets out another loud scream. After a while, she is all screamed out, and sits down, incredibly exhausted.

[summerdude]

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.

[biteybaby]

"Uh huh. Tough."

[summerdude]

"It's gonna get better," he tells her. "I promise."

[biteybaby]

"Want it better now."

[summerdude]

"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."

[biteybaby]

She nods. "We go down slide now? I done playing balloons."

[summerdude]

"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."

[biteybaby]

"Lap."

[summerdude]

"'Kay. The big slide or the medium slide?"

[biteybaby]

No matter how upset she is, she will never turn down the opportunity for big slide when the other option is just medium slide. "Big."

[summerdude]

"Alright, bug," says Magnus, going over to the big slide and sitting down. "Climb on."

[biteybaby]

She is very careful and sits down in Magnu's lap.

[summerdude]

Magnus wraps his arms around her, snug and tight. "Okay, now tell me: how fast do you want to go?"

[biteybaby]

"Speedy zoom."

[summerdude]

"Speedy zoom, huh? Okay." Magnus takes a deep breath and shoves off with a good chunk of his strength. They rocket down the slide at high speeds, fast enough that they plow into the ground below it and skid a good few feet. Sunny is protected from this; she'll notice the bump down and the slowing when they hit the ground of the playground. Magnus... feels deeply uncomfortable in the jeans area. It's fine, though, if she's having fun it's worth it. He can deal with the discomfort.

[biteybaby]

"Bumpy," she says as she climbs off of Magnu's lap.

[summerdude]

"Fun-bumpy?"

[biteybaby]

"Uh huh." Were she in a better mood she would probably be begging to go again.

[summerdude]

"Wanna do it again, or do you wanna try the swings?"

[biteybaby]

“I tired,” she says. Between not getting a good night’s sleep, and all of the yelling and crying she has done today, she is too tired to want to play swings. “Maybe sit and you tell storytime?”