Epileptic Trees

[cityship]

The crew dreams.

As they have been for the past while, their dreams are being tampered with, but tonight it's different. Roxie, one of the crew members has done rituals to try to give the crew good dreams. However, the power of the Nightmare King can't easily be overcome, as a result, rather than pleasant or nightmarish, people's dreams are instead taking a turn for the surreal tonight.

Get ready to go down the rabbit hole, Meatship.

The jovial extra terrestrial sporadically giggled at the sight of the imaginary synthetic meat by-product. Exuberance!

Curiouser and curiouser.

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[cabbage-butt.livejournal.com]

"What a fantastic theory you had," Brainy says smartly.

"What I find fantastic is any notion that there are answers beyond the realm of science. The answers are there. You just have to know where to look. Your proof was only circumstantial."

[shes-intense.livejournal.com]

"At least I was trying to think outside of what's already proven. You don't discover anything by sticking to what you know!"

She humphs and crosses her arms. "I know the truth is out there Querl. I believe it! There is alien life among us one one day I will HAVE proof and you'll believe too!"

[cabbage-butt.livejournal.com]

"I'm not saying that it's impossible, Brenda, I'm saying we need better proof. We're dealing with the realms of what's considered conventionally impossible. It's going to take more than a few knocked down trees and the accounts of some backwater hicks to prove things to anyway."

Brainy sits on the edge of Brenda's desk, crossing his legs delicately.

[shes-intense.livejournal.com]

"Then where do you suggest we start looking?" Brenda asks, leaning on the desk herself and sipping a coffee. "You come up with some rational science explaination for everything I bring up, including how you're green and have space-age technology."

[cabbage-butt.livejournal.com]

That's where he goes quiet.

Then he sighs.

"Oh, Brenda. I should have told you sooner--but you were so focused on proving alien life was out there that I wasn't sure I could trust you."

[shes-intense.livejournal.com]

"...what?"

She blinks at him a couple times.

"Of course you can trust me! I trust you don't I? I told you all about when my mother was kidnapped by aliens and how my aunt and my dad are involved in the conspiracy!"

She stood up straighter, reaching out a hand to lift Brainy's chin, stroking his cheek gently.

"Querl, I promise you can tell me anything."

[cabbage-butt.livejournal.com]

"I don't have a genetic skin disorder, Brenda, and I didn't make all this technology in my shed from used pinball machine parts."

He takes a deep breath. "I," he says, "am an alien."

He adds, "From the future."

He also adds, "Also, I'm actually a male."

[shes-intense.livejournal.com]

Brenda gasps, taking a step back.

"You're... all this time! An alien right under my nose! An alien in my OFFICE!"

...

"I figured the male thing out when I never saw you in the ladies room though."

[cabbage-butt.livejournal.com]

"Also, I have something else to tell you."

He stands up to face her.

"Ever since I've started working with you, I've been irresistibly attracted to you. I don't need to calculate your gravitational constant to know the attraction is undeniable."

[shes-intense.livejournal.com]

She raises a brow at him, giving him a glance up and down before moving a step closer to him.

"And I thought I was the crazy one. Your logical ways drive me out of my mind Querl Dox... but the heart wants what it wants."

(Wow, she could have sworn she was better with words than this...)

"Does your species know much about human love, Querl?"

There is leaning in close and ear-nibbling to go with that question.

[cabbage-butt.livejournal.com]

"No, but we're well known for our unquenchable thirst for knowledge," he says impetuously. "Teach me, you titian-haired goddess!"

[shes-intense.livejournal.com]

That desk looks shockingly comfortable, lots of paper on it which is sort of like a mattress right? Right. Of course.

She pushes him down onto the desk and slides up next to him, tossing her jacket off and pulling out the twist her hair is up in. His hands are all over her and hers all over him, pulling open the jacket and then the black and violet bodysuit underneath.

"One small step for woman, one giant leap for human alien relations."

[cabbage-butt.livejournal.com]

"Sprock the prime imperative," he says, pulling her in for a passionate kiss.

[shes-intense.livejournal.com]

Brenda wakes up with a start, the fog of the dream falling away in groggy clumps as she flails her way up from under her blanket, sheened with sweat and gasping.

".....What the HELL!?!" she exclaims, not giving half a thought to the fact that Jeka is still asleep a few feet away.

"Ohgodohgodohgod what the hell am I why did I how did I what?!"

[cabbage-butt.livejournal.com]

Brainy wakes up in his bed and sits abruptly upright, Koko still clinging to his head as he does it and screeching slightly in alarm as Brainy wakes him up.

He gasps for air for a few minutes wondering what in the world he was just dreaming and why he'd been in heels, and then wipes a hand over his face.

Koko hops off his head to curl up on a spot on his pillow, and Brainy sits there, thinking, for several minutes.

Once the initial shock and confusion fades, other odd feelings linger. Other odd, very, very frustrating feelings linger, and ultimately he decides the best way to deal with them is to take a sonic shower on the coldest, most unpleasant setting.