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Elicia Hughes • Age 7 ([personal profile] asobouyo) wrote2011-06-23 01:53 am

25th Teddy Bear [Voice/Action][TWO DAYS]

[[Nighttime; June 23rd]]

[Elicia had had a tough week.

Shuffle, shuffle—the sound of turning blankets and small feet moving back and forth through them. She's been rolling in her sleep for a few minutes now, flipping her hidden journal into a little book tepee, while it records the buzzing air and soft incoherent murmurings of a child dreaming. They're not happy dreams, after a while, and it takes but a moment before she's wide awake and horrified and crawling under her blankets with her mouth in a shaky near-crying line. The journal. That's right.

She reaches over and opens it up all the way, unable to see anything in the dark. Her voice is watery and lined with a sort of innocent, hurt desperation when she speaks.]


[Voice]

Please tell me a story. I wanna hear stories, if anyone... wants to talk... I like them a lot. I—I promise I'll go back to sleep, but I just wanna hear one...

[Pretty, pretty please...

But despite stories, sometime in the night, she rises up from her bed and patter-pitters quickly into her parents' room. Scary, they're too scary—and they could be real. Because she's seen scary real things like it before. And the last thing she wanted was a blue-eyed woman slowly creaking out of her closet, like she kept imagining, over and over and over again...]


[[Daytime; June 24th]]


[It was a cold snap, today. Elicia wore her poofy pink jacket for the occasion. Truth be told, she's had a very tiring night of trying to sleep, and she'd failed at it fairly well. There were a mesh-up of things. Scary things. She didn't want to draw any of them, so she decided on focusing her attention to playing. By the end of her short-lived playtime outside, she's laying on her arm on the front steps of her house, the fake pink sword Law gave her still clamped in her hand.

A good nap. There was nothing scary... Just good. That was important. It's a good thing children bounce back well enough, even if only for a while, because she's got a content air about her later on in the day. Anyone who wants to visit, now's a great time to; she'll be drawing funny circles all over the ground outside with a stick. Clapping her hands and smacking them. And nothing happens. :|

But she sure as hell is pretending something's happening.]




Bam!! Now you can't stand against my dirt alchemy!! [throws dirt up with her hands at her big teddy bear >:^(

HA, screw you, teddy, you've got dirt on your head!]

You'd better give up soon, or else I'll have to use my water attack next!!

[AND THEN YOU'LL BE MUDDY!!!]

((ooc: Just make it clear which day you're replying to and all that. I have faith in you. |Db))

NIGHT...TIME...I HAVE SO MANY TAGS STILL BUT BUT BUT

[identity profile] shoutsgeronimo.livejournal.com 2011-06-23 09:03 am (UTC)(link)
Ooh, terrible late for a little thing like you to be awake. Had a bad dream, Elicia?

it's true I'm a sap :( 1/2

[identity profile] shoutsgeronimo.livejournal.com 2011-06-23 09:11 am (UTC)(link)
'Course you're not scared! Little girl like you in a place like this, bravest of the brave, you are.
stungunning: (caring Milly is caring)

['Nother one for storytime?]

[personal profile] stungunning 2011-06-23 09:11 am (UTC)(link)
Oh my, aren't you very sleepy? It's a long time past my bedtime, you must be very grown up to be awake this late!

Are you alright?

[identity profile] shoutsgeronimo.livejournal.com 2011-06-23 09:16 am (UTC)(link)
When I was your age, a very long time ago, I used to get very frightened that my house would fall down the mountainside in the middle of the night, and someone would have to read me Moxx in Socks three whole times before I would settle down again. Have you got a favorite story? Or maybe you'd like to hear something new, eh?
stungunning: (well what should I do now?)

[\o/]

[personal profile] stungunning 2011-06-23 09:17 am (UTC)(link)
Well... my Big Big Sister used to tell me lots and lots of stories, I don't know which sort of story is your favourite. Do you like... hmm...

Hmm...

[During the day 8|]

[identity profile] mikangirl.livejournal.com 2011-06-23 09:22 am (UTC)(link)
[Antisocial Nami is as antisocial as they come this week. But. Elicia went through a lot, and while Nami knows she's not really responsible for it, she knows she's the best person to try and make things a little easier...and she should probably speak to Hughes as well. Both before Noel comes back. So for your sake, kiddo, she will smile today. B|

...not quite expecting to find a snoozing Elicia on the front steps, though.]
fabrecation: (Story of my life)

[Voice]

[personal profile] fabrecation 2011-06-23 09:43 am (UTC)(link)
[Luke's still in the clinic, and he's still bored out of his mind. Thankfully, he should be getting out soon... Only to look forward to more bed rest at his apartment. Man...

But... huh. Elicia's asking for stories... He can guess at the reason, too. He'd always wanted to do the same thing when he got bad dreams.]


I can think of a few good stories. My caretakers used to tell them to me when I had trouble sleeping. [Guy, Natalia, the maids... heh, he even remembers one of the knights reading to him a few times.]

[Voice]

[identity profile] no-use-running.livejournal.com 2011-06-23 10:25 am (UTC)(link)
There's a story they tell in my world. Would you like to hear it?

[Voice]

[identity profile] no-use-running.livejournal.com 2011-06-23 10:37 am (UTC)(link)
It's a story about a very beautiful princess. Very wise and graceful and lovely.
stungunning: (beeeeeeeeam)

Re: [voice]

[personal profile] stungunning 2011-06-23 10:45 am (UTC)(link)
How about I tell you the story of Trixie the Terrifically Troublesome Tomas?

[identity profile] mikangirl.livejournal.com 2011-06-23 11:01 am (UTC)(link)
[...robots.

Nami gives an uncertain look at the front door. Then she sits down quietly beside the sleeping five year old. Maybe she's having a good dream.

...maybe not. She'll tuck a few bits of hair away from Elicia's face and then sit, one warm hand on her shoulder. She doesn't really wanna wake you up. Though she probably will in another minute or two.]

[STORY TIME] - placeholder until after work. :|b

[identity profile] chiisaichou.livejournal.com 2011-06-23 12:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[That is the sound of a frightened child. A frightened child Miyabi knows personally, and cherishes as her little sister. Her heart aches the moment she hears her desperate cry, and she can't find it in herself to turn down such an offer. She wonders just what kind of nightmare the girl had, and can guess one a few things. Mmn...she frowns, wanting badly to go to her side, but...a story would be good enough, right?

For now, maybe.]


I know a good story, little sister. It's a good one, about how the rabbit got all the way up to the moon. Would you like to hear it?

[Action - Night of the 23rd] This okay?

[identity profile] crytearsofjoy.livejournal.com 2011-06-23 02:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[Instead of replying via journal Winry walks out of her room, and over to Elicia's. Den is at her heels, but she's not concerned with him right now. Right now it's Elicia. The blond knocks softy three times on the little girl's door, and whispers.]

Elicia?

[Voice - Night of the 23rd]

[identity profile] boomchucka.livejournal.com 2011-06-23 02:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[Selphie's been prone to some bad dreams herself lately so when she hears little Elicia's having the same problem, she tip toes out of her room and settles herself down into the overstuffed easy chair in the living room.]

There's a story my Matron used to read to me when I couldn't sleep. Did you want to hear it, Elicia?
all7seas: (this is a conundrum)

[night time | June 23]

[personal profile] all7seas 2011-06-23 03:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[Well, she has caught the attention of a wakeful pirate.]

Ah, bitty pirate. What about a song? They're also helpful on troubled nights...
simplestgift: (Up to something.)

[action | Daytime]

[personal profile] simplestgift 2011-06-23 05:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[Kennedy meanders by while Elicia is playing, sitting on the stoop of house 29 and resting while watching her. It has only been two days since he was released from the clinic, and this is the longest walk he's taken since being discharged. It feels good, but he wishes he hadn't gone for quite so long now. Still, watching Elicia is therapeutic and he is loath to interrupt her, especially when he's not really supposed to do much physical stuff for the next four weeks.]

[Voice/23rd, Night-time]

[identity profile] eidolon-soul.livejournal.com 2011-06-23 06:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[Someone else has had horrible luck with sleeping, despite really, really needing it. Her voice is soft, exhausted yet concerned.]

...Elicia? What's wrong, sweetheart?

[Action/Daytime, 24th]

[identity profile] heavenslament.livejournal.com 2011-06-23 06:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[Terra pauses in her walk through the town, when she spots Elicia laying down. At first, she can't help but wonder if the little girl is hurt and rushes over...only to see that she's just sleeping. D'awww. Terra can't help but smile, and checks to see if she's warm/comfortable enough.]

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