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It'd been a fucking while since Gideon did this shit, but it wasn't too hard to remember how to set it up. Once they got back to the hut, he got to work making two lines from the stuff he grabbed, using the desk since it was the only fucking flat surface in their hut

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[all_happening]

For all that Penny had seen and done, one thing she couldn't say she had much, if any, experience in was telling the good shit from the bad. With the kind of people she'd hung out with, and therefore acquired anything she'd used from, there wouldn't have been any question about its quality. What there'd been at the party looked decent enough to her, but she wouldn't have been entirely surprised either if the island had provided them with something messed up.

Either way, she figured it was worth the risk. There was no sense in worrying about it.

"Well, that's good," she said, leaning over to get a look at what he was doing. She would trust his judgment on it. "Fuck, I can't even remember the last time I did anything stronger than pot."

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Gideon remembered his last time. He'd done shit with Desmond, a little before he'd really started talking to Penny. The thought made him frown just a little momentarily, but it was gone pretty fucking quickly.

"Yeah, me either," he said instead, not wanting to dwell on it. When he got shit ready, he leaned up to look at her. "All ready, whenever you want to fucking go for it."

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Penny caught the frown, or at least thought she did, but it was gone so quickly that she had to wonder if she'd imagined it or not. Her attention was mostly elsewhere, anyway. There was pretty obviously no money lying around anywhere, so she reached for one of the notebooks he'd kept by the desk and tore off a piece of a page, rolling it up as she glanced expectantly over at him.

"You first or me?" she asked, one eyebrow raised. If she were to be completely honest, she'd have rather done it herself -- better something happen to her than to him, if it turned out not to be good shit -- but it didn't seem right not to ask, either.

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Gideon had been thinking the same fucking thing. That the other shit was fine didn't mean this was. He reached out to motion her to hand it over.

"I'll go first," he said, obviously not fucking saying why.

[all_happening]

It was all Penny could think to do to try to sleep it off after coming down from being high. Neither wanting to do more when it would all be gone soon anyway nor sitting around being miserable wouldn't have done either of them any good, so she'd turned in early. It was, as far as she could tell, a win-win situation.

When she did finally wake up, it was still dark out, but closer to morning, as far as she could tell. She probably wouldn't have gotten up for a few more hours were it not for the fact that Gideon, beside her, had cried out and was now sweaty and shaking, which was worrisome enough for her to reach over and turn on the light, squinting against its brightness.

"Hey," she murmured, lips curving into a frown as she reached over to gently shake him, hoping it would be enough to wake him up. "Gideon, baby, wake up, it's okay."

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He hadn't had so vivid a dream in fucking months, especially not about this shit. It was always the same, but now, in more terrifying detail. It was to the point he could almost fucking feel the hot breath of that thing on his neck, and it was around then that Penny started shaking him awake. It took a few moments, but just as the thing was about to rip his fucking throat out or something, he woke up.

He sat up immediately, breath exhaling in a gasp. For a few moments, he half expect to be pushed back down by that thing, and he was near frozen in fear. Eventually, though, he realized where he fucking was - and where he fucking wasn't anymore - and let out the breath he'd been fucking holding.

"Shit," he said, still feeling his whole body shaking. That was all he could fucking think to say.

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Penny was almost relieved when he sat up, but the way he was acting negated it pretty fucking quickly, even if she wouldn't have expected anything else. She was tempted -- beyond tempted, really -- to move close, wrap an arm around him; for all she knew, though, that would only have made things worse at this point, so she held back, hands clasped in her lap as she sat up more fully.

"Hey," she murmured, shifting so she would be able to meet his gaze, finally, but tentatively reaching out to lay one hand lightly on his arm. "Look, it's me, you're okay now." She wanted to know what was wrong, of course, but she knew better than to ask so soon. With as shaken as he still obviously was, it would wait.

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Gideon let out another huff of a breath, eyes focusing on Penny when she came closer. He was never so fucking glad to see her in his life. She'd been dead in the fucking dream, and that image wasn't anything that'd be fucking going away any time soon. He reached out to place his hand over hers.

"Sorry," he managed, realizing what must have happened. There was no way she'd be up this early - especially because he was sure she felt like shit too - if he hadn't woken her up. He didn't even want to know how loud he'd gotten.

[all_happening]

Upon waking up, Penny still felt pretty fucking out of it, though all things considered, that wasn't too surprising. She'd slept for a long time, but after doing that coke and waking up in the middle of the night, it wasn't nearly as bad as it'd been, but she didn't feel great, either. It helped that she was curled up there beside him, and could sense that even before she was fully oriented.

"Morning," she murmured, managing a sleepy smile up at him as she blinked a few times. "Afternoon, I guess." She didn't know just what time it was, but she could tell it was pretty fucking late. "How'd you sleep?"

[anewwaive]

Gideon had been up for a while. He couldn't really get into a deep sleep with everything that happened, though at least he had something. Penny was still fucking out like a light when he got up, and she seemed too comfortable for him to get up and move around too much. What he did was grab his computer, and for most of the time she was asleep, he fucked around on it.

Her waking up came as a surprise to him, and he glanced over at her when she spoke. A slow smile formed on his face. "Alright, I guess. I didn't expect you to be up this early. I didn't wake you up, right?"

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"No, no, not at all," Penny replied quickly, giving a slight shake of her head, the smile she'd managed staying in place. Yawning, she shifted a little, easing in closer to him, though she remained lying down. "Just woke up, is all. It's not that early, right?" She was awake enough now that she wouldn't be going back to sleep or anything if it was, but she really hoped it wasn't.

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"I don't know for sure. Probably after noon, at least. You were fucking out cold," he said, a bit of a teasing tone in his voice. He shut the computer and put it aside on the floor so he could turn to her. "You fucking hungry or anything? I can go get shit if you are."