Matthew Hayes

21. My muse buys yours a gift.

Gabe couldn’t seem to fall asleep. He’d been tossing in his bed for hours yet despite how tired he’d felt when he first fell into it sleep would not come to him. It was for that reason that the knock at the door- soft at first, and then repeated again a bit louder- was not as rude an awakening as it might have been. Curious who could be calling on him at this hour Gabe rolled from the bed to his feet and went to the door, and was pleasantly surprised to see that it was Matt responsible for the knocking.

"Matt? Everything okay?" he asked, suddenly terribly curious to know why his colleague was standing at his door in the middle of the night.

His gaze was drawn to Matt’s face as the word “death” passed his lips and he fell silent, before suddenly stiffening and abruptly standing to try and leave.

Because water was going to become scarcer now, wasn't it?

Gabe couldn’t seem to fall asleep. He’d been tossing in his bed for hours yet despite how tired he’d felt when he first fell into it sleep would not come to him. It was for that reason that the knock at the door- soft at first, and then repeated again a bit louder- was not as rude an awakening as it might have been. Curious who could be calling on him at this hour Gabe rolled from the bed to his feet and went to the door, and was pleasantly surprised to see that it was Matt responsible for the knocking.

"Matt? Everything okay?" he asked, suddenly terribly curious to know why his colleague was standing at his door in the middle of the night.

Matt went quiet for a few seconds, and when he began talking again, the words were a jumble. “The rest of the ship. I tried getting down there but everything’s locked and I don’t have clearance.” He ran his fingers through his hair with a shaky breath, eyes averted.

"They never gave us the complete details of the situation - it’s probably to prevent panic, but…" He stopped again, trying to find the right words. "Everyone else. The system mentioned a hull breach. That would explain why no one is allowed the enter the lower levels. The decompression alone - they could be dead-" Dead within seconds as the air rushes out of her lungs and the convulsions-

Gabe couldn’t seem to fall asleep. He’d been tossing in his bed for hours yet despite how tired he’d felt when he first fell into it sleep would not come to him. It was for that reason that the knock at the door- soft at first, and then repeated again a bit louder- was not as rude an awakening as it might have been. Curious who could be calling on him at this hour Gabe rolled from the bed to his feet and went to the door, and was pleasantly surprised to see that it was Matt responsible for the knocking.

"Matt? Everything okay?" he asked, suddenly terribly curious to know why his colleague was standing at his door in the middle of the night.

"I don’t mind at all, I couldn’t really sleep myself anyways. I’d offer you something to drink but all I have is water," he said almost apologetically as he cleared off some space at his small table for them to sit. There were miscellaneous little mechanical parts scattered across the table’s surface  that he swept aside.

Gabe couldn’t seem to fall asleep. He’d been tossing in his bed for hours yet despite how tired he’d felt when he first fell into it sleep would not come to him. It was for that reason that the knock at the door- soft at first, and then repeated again a bit louder- was not as rude an awakening as it might have been. Curious who could be calling on him at this hour Gabe rolled from the bed to his feet and went to the door, and was pleasantly surprised to see that it was Matt responsible for the knocking.

"Matt? Everything okay?" he asked, suddenly terribly curious to know why his colleague was standing at his door in the middle of the night.

Just as Matt considered knocking a third time, the door slid open. "What, can't I visit a friend in the middle of the night during the apocalypse?" he joked, grinning slightly at Gabe's confused expression.

((Answered them stars with extra doctor scribbles!

for a while i had bloody noses that were so bad i just gave up using tissue, gave up using towels and would just stand with my head over a sink

(oh my god that sounds awful BUT YOU SURVIVED you made it . an achievement.)

8. Kiss on the stomach

//swEATS VERY NERVOUSLY