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After missing Ben in the gym--Anakin'd received an apologetic message a few minutes after he'd started walking to his office, something about oversleeping--Anakin had sat down in his chair.

...and promptly fallen asleep again.

The door was open, though.

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Another day of disturbing dreams had led Veronica to seek out someone she thought might be able to shed some light on whatever was going on.

She lifted her hand to knock on Anakin's door and announce her presence when she realized he was sleeping.

Okay, clearly whatever was going on was affecting him as well. She sat down and waited for him to wake up.

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She was waiting a good fifteen minutes before Anakin lifted his head with a bleary "oh, what the hell."

He rubbed his eyes. "Veronica?"

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It was a very long fifteen minutes during which she fretted a good bit.

"I would ask if you're okay, but I'm guessing you're not," Veronica said. "I stopped by to ask if you knew anything about people sharing dreams. I've been having a lot of random naps lately."

She didn't need to be a detective to figure out that whatever was going on was also affecting Anakin.

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"Sharing dreams?" Anakin repeated. "Not that I'm really familiar with. What kind of dreams?"

Deflect, Anakin, deflect.

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"The last few days I've been randomly falling asleep and having really odd dreams," Veronica explained. "Yesterday, Tyler and I were talking and I'm pretty sure we had the same one."

Not that either of them had been interested or willing to delve into the topic of a sex dream with each other.



[Anakin is welcome to pick up anything he wants from V telepathically, btw]

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Anakin's forehead furrowed. "That's very strange, even for here."

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"Yeah, no kidding. Last time I had weird dream vision things, my ex-boyfriend's father's ghost was haunting me."

Veronica was certain Anakin remembered that, given that he had heard her screams.

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"And what a charmer he was," Anakin said, rolling his eyes. "These don't feel like visions to me. For one, I'm much younger in them."

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"Yeah, well, I'm a vampire in mine," Veronica said. "One of last night's dreams involved me fighting with Piper."

She shook her head at the memory. "I was ruthless. And apparently sleeping with Bel and Lindsey."

Vamp her clearly had horrible taste in men.

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"Wow, vampire you has horrible taste in men," Anakin said with a tiny smile.

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"Right? Ugh," Veronica said, smiling back. Because really. "There's definitely something going on though. Tim and Tyler both told me they've been having problems with randomly falling asleep."

That made her remember something though. "Oh, and unrelated, but did you hear that Angel is in a coma?"

Because she needed more things to worry about.

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Anakin's jaw dropped. "I hadn't. Sithspit. Something fall on him?"

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"I have no idea what happened," Veronica said. "Piper called me the other day and told me. He and Logan were investigating something and he just collapsed."

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When Raven arrived at Anakin's office and found him asleep, she naturally became concerned, wondering if whatever was happening to her and Dinah had struck him as well. She hesitated a moment, then reached out to see if she could sense his feelings, if his sleep was peaceful or troubled.

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His walls, even asleep, were incredibly high, but grief and guilt were leaking through just before he opened his eyes.

"Again?" he said, rubbing his eyes. "I swear I don't sleep like this."

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Her own troubles were forgotten and replaced by concern for another. "Something is troubling you," Raven said. "You were feeling sadness and guilt."

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"Strange dream about losing a friend," Anakin said. "But things were wrong. It felt real, but it can't be real. He lives in LA now."

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"It may be that you are experiencing what Dinah and myself did yesterday," Raven said. "We both fell into slumbers against our wills, and dreamed of this place, only so terribly wrong." And it wasn't just the place that was wrong, the people were, too.

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Anakin nodded. "An island full of monsters and despair?"

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"Yes," Raven said. "And people who were not themselves. They wore the faces of friends, and knew what they knew, but they were vicious and hungry."

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Anakin nodded again. "Vampires. At least in my nightmares. Full of people I haven't thought about in years."

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"What is happening?" Raven said. "How are we sharing the same dreams? Liir and I had the exact same dream, but from different points of view. We fought each other and used our gifts in ways that we should not have."

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"I don't know," Anakin admitted. "There was a time, long ago, when a curse on the island gave us horrible nightmares, but they were never shared by another person. I felt something...wrong...a few nights back. Maybe this is connected to it."

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"Did you feel both hope and desperation?" Raven said. "It had a familiarity to it, as if I knew who was feeling it, but not quite."

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He nodded again. "Like I should have recognized them, but didn't. I have a bad feeling about this."