Tifa & Yuffie II

[Yuffie Kisaragi]

Phoenix fidgeted nervously as Miles recounted the event, trying not to remember how Miles had been when he had found him. Cearan noticed, but said nothing, figuring that it was no surprise the man didn't like talking about it.
"I remember that one. there was only something around 30 surivors, give or take...I remember panicking thinking it was the subway Dad was in, but it wasn't, luckily..." he said, cringing a little. He took a sip of his hot chocolate, turning back to Miles again. "it's not always that painful, is it?" he asked, seeming worried.

[Tifa Lockhart]

Miles watched Cearan carefully as he mentioned his father, but said nothing. He picked up the conversation at Cearan's question without missing a beat.
"It gets worse in the cold weather.... but I had a nasty fall on it only a few months ago and I've been having regular problems with it ever since. I expect this is an unfortunate combination of the two."

[Yuffie Kisaragi]

Cearan nodded. "oh...okay" he seemed rather at a loss for anything else to say and turned to gaze interestedly at the pair of paintings on the wall again. Phoenix noted the action but said nothing, after all he didn't feel he needed to unless the boy asked.

((hey charly, you know that amazing piece of music you showed me, moonlight or moon-somethingorother, what was it called and who was it by, again??))

[Tifa Lockhart]

((it was Moonlight - Saving Josh. That's all i remember of it.

I have no idea what to post))

[Yuffie Kisaragi]

((I dunno, skip a bit? and thanks btw ))

[Tifa Lockhart]

((Skip to what? Do we even have anymore storylines?))

[Yuffie Kisaragi]

((we did have another one, but I can't think of it D: besides, we can't let this RP die now! we have to dicuss this moar! >_<))

[Tifa Lockhart]

((well do you have any ideas?))

[Yuffie Kisaragi]

((I think we had a mini idea that the kid kept having nightmares and wouldn't talk to Miles about it so Nick talked to him and shiznit cuz it was memories of teh bodies and stuff other than that, I need to think))

[Tifa Lockhart]

((take your time))

[Yuffie Kisaragi]

((uh, it's your post, you realise...))

[Tifa Lockhart]

((I dont have any ideas.))

[Yuffie Kisaragi]

((blarg!))

The afternoon had gone by with mostly just idle chatter for the rest of the night and at first things were a little haywire having a third person in the house, but after a few days things went back to being pretty much normal, except that Phoenix still found it very unusual to be getting home from work to actually find someone at home.
And just about every day after school, Cearan would be sporting another bruise or graze from yet another tousle with kids who always teased him about not having any parents. Phoenix naturally had to patch him up each time, before Miles got home and after a while, Miles began threatening to go and personally throttle the kids teasing him, Phoenix and Cearan had BOTH teamed up to convince him not to. Yet despite things being mostly on the normal side, Cearan remained just as restless as ever and only seemed to be looking more and more tired as the days went by, eventually Miles and Phoenix had to ask him what was wrong, and at first he denied that anything was up, though eventually he relented and admitted that it was just nightmares.
Miles had tried to talk to him about it, but the boy had denied any sort of conversation relating to it, saying it was just some bad dreams and he would settle. Miles had taken (despite Phoenix's nagging not to do so) to listening through the wall for any signs of distress from the boy.

tonight was no different, Miles was sitting awake, as he always did for the first few minutes, to read and make sure that Cearan was alright, and Phoenix was laying with his head under his pillow contemplating ways to convince Miles that Cearan would talk about it when he was ready. Eventually he grew bored of laying awake waiting for Miles to settled and pulled the pillow off of his head, looking up at Miles rather worriedly.
"Miles, you've been up for the past hour, you know...you should get some sleep, you'll end up as bad as Cearan..." he mumbled, rather sleepily, getting quite tired because of how late it was.

((is this okay? XD quickly let's brainstorm so we can keep this going! ))

[Tifa Lockhart]

Miles hadn't been getting much sleep since learning that Cearan was having nightmares. Even when Phoenix thought he was asleep he was actually lying awake, listening out for any sign of restlessness in the other room. A tiny voice in the back of his head kept telling him that he was being over-defensive of the boy, and that he really should back off and let him handle it on his own. The more powerful voice however, told him that for those fifteen horrible years that he'd been suffering from the same nightmare the only thing he'd wanted was for someone to come and tell him it would all be OK. There was no way he was going to let Cearan suffer alone for as long as he had. He wanted the boy to open up and talk about it NOW, before it had the chance to tear him apart from the inside and leave him as horrifically scarred as he himself was.

He sighed when Phoenix spoke, lowering his book and pushing his glasses down his nose a little so that he could see his love properly.
"I want to be awake if he needs to talk to someone Phoenix," his voice was the one he used in court, when he had no intention of letting anyone else overshadow his opinion. "I don't want him to end up like me. Taking so much medication to get a few hours of sleep is not good for anyone, if I can be of help and prevent him getting that bad, then I will."

[Yuffie Kisaragi]

Phoenix sighed slightly, recognising the tone easily. He knew he wouldn't be able to argue this point, but he was worried for BOTH of them, neither were sleeping properly as of late. "I know that, Miles, but you really need to get some sleep...getting no sleep worrying about him won't help anyone." he said, resting his head on his hand and frowning worriedly. "I know you're worried about him, Miles, don't think that I'm not worried, too...but you really need to get at least SOME rest..." he was quite aware that Miles would refuse, he just wanted to put that opinion across.