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Sam Wilson ([personal profile] sizeofyourbaggage) wrote in [community profile] thecapitol2015-01-07 03:57 pm

tried counting sheep

Who| Sam Wilson and YOU! All of you!
What| Sleep issues and trying to settle post-arena
Where| Various spots in the Tribute Tower/over the Capitol
When| After the end of the arena and through the first week after, mostly before Panem Nightly
Warnings/Notes| Prompts for specific locations under the cut! Nightmare and PTSD-talk likely, probably mentions of violence and death


Late Nights in District 5
It’s probably not a secret that Sam hasn’t slept much since getting back from the arena, the same way that he can pick up the signs that he’s not the only one with sleeping problems in District Five. Some nights, he doesn’t even try - he either doesn’t return back to the floor at all, or when he does, he heads straight for the couch or the kitchen.

The nights he is there, he can be found in the common areas at all hours of the night, watching bad Capitol TV with the volume on low, in the kitchen making snacks, or even occasionally catching a few minutes of sleep on the couch before he jerks awake again.


In the Training Center
He’d been in the training room a lot before the arena, sure, but it’s even worse now. Whenever he has downtime that he can’t fill up by something else, Sam ends up here, going through a workout, practicing with whatever weapons are available, or just attacking the punching bags.

When he’s alone, he goes all out, sets up a playlist full of fast-paced, heavy workout songs and just loses himself in them.

When there’s other people there, though, he goes slower, reduces the pace so he can maintain a conversation, if they’re the type that will put up with him when he attempts to strike up one.


Out and About in the Capitol
Now that the curfew’s gone, most mornings he goes outside for his run. He hasn’t found a path he likes enough yet to make it a regular one, so he alternates routes through the parks and on the sidewalks.

When he’s done, sometimes he lingers in the Capitol, going shopping or just wandering around to get a better feel for the city, keeping an eye out for anyone he knows. Or anyone who looks like they might be a Tribute, instead of another… interestingly dressed Capitol citizen.


For Close CR
Some nights, he just can’t stand the thought of being alone. All right, a lot of nights, and he’s not too proud to seek out company when he needs someone else’s presence to pull him out of the thoughts that get stuck in his head.

Even if he does feel a little guilty at the late hour, but he figures they could tell him to get lost if they actually are sleeping, and don’t want to be disturbed.

So he when he can’t sleep, he makes his way to rooms that aren’t his, knocks quiet but firm on the doors of the people he considers himself lucky to call his friends.


(Starter prompts for specific threads in the comments!)
aboveangrybees: by <user name="easycompany"> (129)

[personal profile] aboveangrybees 2015-01-12 11:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Steve doesn't sleep much anymore, every time he closes his eyes he relives the last arena death or re-imagines it worse than before - starring eyes he's much more familiar with. Of all the various and terrible ways that Steve has died in all his arenas, this last one was easily the worst, even if it was the quickest. His mind just can't process it, not how it needs to.

So, he's not asleep when Sam comes by late in the night, not even when Bucky came by earlier to join him. He's staving off sleep with idle conversation and art, letting Bucky do whatever he wants without concern - this pretty much had been their shared room for months, it's normal.

Setting his sketchbook aside, Steve is up and at the door, opening it for Sam and already gesturing him in. Sam is welcome here anytime, day or night.

"Can't sleep either?"
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[personal profile] tookthewheel 2015-01-13 12:41 pm (UTC)(link)
It seems like they've become as bad as each other over time. Neither of them sleep well, plagued by what they've gone through and Bucky's watched as Steve becomes as much of an insomniac as he is.

The incident in the last arena doesn't make it any easier for Bucky, as much as Steve tried to assure him it was all right. He still insists that Bucky sleeps and since they both came back this time Bucky's starting to think he should do the same for Steve, he dislikes watching the shadows grow deeper under his friends eyes, knows in a moment of epiphany this is probably how Steve felt with Bucky all these months.

He's reading on the bed when the knock sounds at the door, something he does a lot of between talking to Steve, sometimes with questions and curious observations. Sometimes he just tries to covertly observe him out of the corner of his eye.

Bucky stays quiet when Steve opens the door to Sam and let's the other man in, just watching to see what this is about.
aboveangrybees: By <user name="zodiacrockstar"> (aka Me) (125)

[personal profile] aboveangrybees 2015-02-03 06:25 am (UTC)(link)
Seems tonight the gathering spot is in Steve's room and he's perfectly okay with that. In a way it helps him to know his friends feel they can come to him for some level of comfort. Even in the Capitol, he kept a certain level of distance from people, careful of attachment all the same as he had been when he woke up in the future - a deep inability to trust everything won't be ripped away from him in a blink of an eye. Once he was learning to trust again, but now each arena reminds him why he shouldn't, why he can't.

Thor, James - he keeps losing people like a dying man trying to cup water in his hands.

So, maybe that's why he answers before checking with Bucky, aching to keep some people real and nearby while he can, before they slip through his fingers.

"Of course, you can stay for as long as you'd like," his tone says Sam is always welcome. Though once the words are past his lips, he looks back at Bucky, as if double checking with the man when he should have done so beforehand.
tookthewheel: (Master of disguise)

[personal profile] tookthewheel 2015-02-03 04:15 pm (UTC)(link)
"Sam." Bucky responds with more familiarity than he'd carried before. His eyes are watching Sam as he walks in, taking in every aspect of his appearance and the clear exhaustion written into his features.

If the Capitol wants to wear them down to a breaking point slowly they might be on the path to succeeding.

When Steve gives Sam permission to stay Bucky nods, a second before Steve turns around to look at him, whereupon he repeats the gesture for his friends benefit. It's on the tip of his tongue to ask if he should leave now but he doesn't let himself voice it, thinking a second afterwards that asking it would make Steve unhappy and, if his previous experience is anything to go by, Sam wouldn't want that either.

He doesn't say anything else for the moment but he does close his book, making it clear that his attention is now focused on the two of them.