I'll have a cup of tea and tell you of my dreaming

[twistedspoon]

Who: Everyone
What: DREAMS
When: A whole 24 hours spanning from September 14th-15th
Warnings: Creepy nightmares? Innuendo? I don't know, the usual.



There had been so much buzz about those stupid lollipops for weeks now. Not only out loud, but in her head - thoughts ranging from what's the deal with those things? to gotta have more to pricy as fuck. Eventually, she confused the cravings of others for her own, and it just so happened that her very own roommate had a box right on her side of the room!

Casey wasn't supposed to touch it, but she didn't see why. Money issues, or something. She didn't get the big deal about money either. She wasn't a Meowth, so there was no reason for her to have any. Therefore, the rules about it didn't apply to her.

That was her logic, anyway.

When Ai was asleep, she opened up the box and put her telekinesis to good use. Five of the candies lifted into the air - two green, three yellow - and the wrappers tore off in perfect synchronization. Too bad nobody was watching. The Abra opened her mouth wide and crammed all of them in at once, because she had no concept of savouring anything.

Shortly after, she fell asleep, the sticks still poking out of her mouth. That had to be bad for her teeth.

Soon the dreaming began...

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[testsubject1]

This was a dream. Could robots even dream? Even in GLaDOS's humanoid form, Chell didn't know if she could still dream. And for so long she had been convinced that Caroline had been deleted from her brain, but then not too long ago she found out that that was a lie.

Was this the real Caroline trapped inside GLaDOS's mind? Begging to be set free?

It was. It was really sad, wasn't it? The Caroline that Chell had met before had been oblivious, it seemed, and Chell really wanted nothing to do with her. But now this Caroline knew that she was trapped.

A much worse fate than the one Chell had suffered. But what could they do? They were in a dream space. Even if they "rescued" Caroline, it would all be for naught once they woke up. Right?

So she turned to Shadow and shook her head. It wouldn't work.

[saw_a_deer]

Caroline turned to Shadow, then Chell. After that...she turned to look away. She really didn't want to do this It was a while before she said anything, but when the assistant did finally speak, her voice was quiet. "Your friend--Chell, is right. This is my fate, to be trapped inside Her mind. Besides..." she paused for a few seconds,

"I don't want to leave. If I were to escape her...to have a body I could control again...She would be in complete and total control of her body. It would only be a matter of time until she took over the school. Except...she'd win this time. Without me to limit her functions, to convince her, to do whatever I could to stop her...there's not a doubt in my mind of the result."

[obfuskate]

"Nonsense."

That hand of his curled into a fist and hung tensely at his side, his shoulders softly trembling. Shadow was not about to take no for an answer, and for Caroline to treat GLaDOS as unstoppable, not even willing to fight her influence... It was madness! Madness that he wasn't about to allow to continue!

"I am the Ultimate Lifeform. I will kill her easily with my bare hands and allow you your peaceful escape," he told her, ears pinning to his scalp as anger bubbled beneath his surface. "You simply cannot give up now...!"

[testsubject1]

Chell didn't even know how she felt about this. She felt bad for Caroline, yes, but at the same time, she had brought it upon herself by blindly following Cave Johnson, hurting people in the name of science. If she hadn't done that, then perhaps things would be different.

But she stood by passively to watch the exchange between Caroline and Shadow because she didn't know what she thought. She somewhat agreed with Caroline; if Caroline freed herself of GLaDOS, then GLaDOS would be a monster with no remorse for anyone whatsoever. It was only because of Caroline that Chell was able to escape from Aperture...

[saw_a_deer]

No Shadow...you don't get it. Caroline isn't giving up, she's doing the exact opposite. Do you honestly think she really wants to be here? No, she'd love to leave this place and have her life back again. But instead, she was choosing the more logical path. Even if she could escape, it wouldn't be worth endangering more people's lives.

"Haven't enough people died, Shadow?" Caroline started, her sharp eyes looking right through the hedgehog. "Killing her did not solve anything the first time and it will not solve anything this time. Besides...I do not want her dead. Spending all this time in her mind...I've come to pity her."

[obfuskate]

This couldn't be. His logic was crumbling. Shadow had no idea what to think other than knowing deep down that she was right. GLaDOS was immortal. No matter how much he displayed his arrogance like a trophy to her, she was powerful, and he couldn't deny that much. She was a super-powered being, much like he was, and ridding her of a mind with pure sense, with a heart...

He felt his own heart drop at the horrifying reality:

Caroline was stuck in here.

Forever.

His head drooped, ears wilting as he had no more fight left in him. He only had one more question, one more very, very important question:

"... Why? Why pity her?"