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Rating: General

Summary: This time it’s not a dream.

Notes: first line from Pearl-o

Date: October 6, 2004

River is on a bed, in a room.

It always starts this way. She even has a little song she sings, because she knows it scares them.

They’re coming, they’re coming, they’re here. Two by two, hands of blue.

But this time it’s different. This time, it’s Simon, and Simon will never hurt her. He gathers her in his arms and whispers in her ear, it’s going to be all right. She’s going to be all right. She lets him think she believes the lies, because he needs to. He needs to believe he can fix her, and she needs to believe he wants to.

He’s still there when she wakes, and she knows this time it’s not a dream.

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