[RL WITH SULU]

[torchwoodteaboy]

It was dark. A fact which, recently, had become a lot more of an issue than it normally had been for him before, but Ianto wasn't thinking in terms of then and now. Because something was coming for him out of the darkness, but this time he knew exactly what it was, and exactly what would happen to him when they found him. The same thing that happened to Jim, and Sue, and countless others, others that Ianto had barely taken the effort to learn the names of, but watched in horror as they marched them off in a line to those rooms. Those rooms with the plastic hanging from the ceiling, the rooms that, without any walls to block out the sound, made it that much easier to hear the sounds of his coworkers screaming, the sounds of the machines and thank god he couldn't hear the noises of what they were doing over the screaming, or he might just go mad.

He sat, barricaded in the deepest, darkest parts of the archives, the sounds of the machines and those units echoing across the space, because they'd moved and started to set it up in there, now, and Ianto couldn't do a damned thing except hide and hope against all things that they would make enough units to call it quits. That they would finally, finally leave and that he could move, breathe, get away from this place that for the better part of the day he was so sure was going to be his tomb. He had to get out. Had to find Lisa. Had to get them the hell out of there before god knows what else happened next. He cracked the door open just a hair, to try and check if the coast was clear, just in time for one of them to turn down the hallway, searching, looking his direction. Ianto thought his heart might rip out of his chest, it was beating so fast.

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[parked]

Laughing a little, Sulu made a noise of affirmation and pressed closer to Ianto. "Don't worry, I'm tired enough to pass out here. I'll give you nothing but good vibes." Unfortunately, his hand wasn't free to reach for Ianto's hair, so he'd have to leave that out for now and hope that Ianto really was tired enough to sleep. He sounded better, less haunted by his nightmare - and that was good.

Sulu also found himself feeling a bit better after having told Ianto how he'd been feeling lately, which was going to make it a lot easier getting to sleep. He could only hope that they'd both be able to stay asleep, and that Ianto wouldn't have another terrible nightmare.

[torchwoodteaboy]

Ianto smiled. "Good," he said, softly. And maybe they'd both sleep soundly until it was time for them to get up and fix this. Because they would. They would fix it, and everything would have to be better eventually, because it couldn't not be. Because he believed Sulu when he said that they'd been through too much for there not to be a light at the end of the tunnel, when everything would be nice and just the way they needed, for a little while at least.

He found himself drifting within moments, more relaxed than he'd been in a while, certainly since the nightmares had started. He chuckled, quietly. "...can feel your good vibes already," he said, half asleep but still capable of being cheeky even still.

[parked]

Sulu could tell that Ianto was drifting with the way his voice sounded, sleepy and relaxed, considering the circumstances. He hummed a little, pleased at the fact that Ianto was feeling well enough to make his little comments - and really, it was nice that he was feeling that well in general, not just tonight. He'd been better, able to sleep less and stay awake more, like he used to. And if everything went well...

"I'm nothing but good vibes," Sulu murmured, imagining that somewhere along the line, Ianto was going to catch a break, and relishing in the thought. Somewhere along the line, all of them were going to catch a break, and it would be wonderful. Until then, though, he knew he and Ianto would just have to settle for curling up together against the nightmares and wait.