Asleep & Wide Awake (SHORT FILM)
vivianreed for Rachel
Rachel is Michael's girlfriend. She also takes care of his sleepwalking problem through medication etc. She loves him quite alot, so she is very concerned for his well-being.
She also got him into the habit of prepping, as she is a prepper herself.
She is a strong, warrior-type, but under her facade has a very loving and tender character.
(This is a flashback sequence. Rachel and Michael are running away from fast zombie-like creatures, before they turn around a corner, slightly out of breath, and this line starts the conversation off)
RACHEL: Listen, I have to go get some medicine for you before there's nothing left. You go to the meeting point and set up camp, I will meet you there!
(Because Michael has sleep driven before, she locked the keys in a safe. This line is in the same situation as before, however a minute has passed and they have moved into a building so Rachel isn't completely out of breath here anymore.)
(For context, Michael's line before this is: Be careful.)
RACHEL: Always am. Take the back door, down the hall to the right. The code is 8439.
(The 8-4-3-9 should be said suddenly as if it was a slight sleeptalking mumble, used to convey the facts that Michael only got to the car keys because Rachel told him the code in her sleep.)
(This is towards the end of the film. We have found out that nothing actually happend and Michael sleep drove to the meeting point under the impression of an apocalypse. However, someone got hit by a car on a certain street they know and so Rachel is extremely scared of Michael being the one who killed him. She blames herself for him having sleep driven again. I wrote her as being close to tears here, but let's see what you come up with! :D)
(Ignore the Michael lines, they are just for context.)
[...]
RACHEL: Wait, if you're at our meeting point... Oh god please no... You didn't drive along Woodland Park Drive, did you?
MICHAEL: No. Maybe... I don't fucking know, can you please tell me what's going on?
RACHEL: (almost a whisper) You've never sleep driven that far...
MICHAEL: Rachel, Sleep Driving is not possible. Nobody can sleep drive, okay???
A moments pause that feels like forever.
RACHEL: Michael, someone died.
MICHAEL: What?
RACHEL: Someone got hit by a car last night... On Woodland Park Drive... The car is nowhere to be found, they said there was blood everywhere. (pause) Michael, please tell me you didn't hit anyone...
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