There are things in Alex's nightmares that are mutable based on what's happening around her. There are things that are constant but that are presented in new ways. What Alex steps off into on the fourth floor is a mix of both. Screaming isn't what Alex does in these situations--that's normally saved for when the dreams rip her into waking rather than real circumstances--but she does gasp loudly. It's a familiar sort of gasp to someone who knows Alex as well as Simon does: it had happened when she'd found Maddie Franks' body hanging in her apartment, it's what happened when they'd received the video of Edward Lewis being murdered in his cell, it's what will happen when Alex is watching Black Tapes seated on Richard Strand's sofa when he gets back from Italy and all of those people are killed.
Of course, the gasp tends to coupled with a very Alex 'oh my gawd' which always shows her at her most Canadian. Here what happens instead is a very soft but empathic: "fuck." Alex Reagan all too often doesn't think these things through and it's what happens right now as she wishes that she'd listened to Simon's knocked no. Her core starts to tremble and shake, the tremors spreading outward with each increased thudding of her pulse. Her breathing shudders but she steps off onto the floor anyway. Alex may not be wise, but she's brave, and she knows that whatever else Simon isn't going to hurt her. Hell, she'd practically said that to Strand hadn't she?
But Alex hasn't missed the way that people's powers are acting up and she knows it. It's easy for her to forget that the source for Simon's abilities comes from the door that his parents had opened for him. She'd see the aftereffects of it before over and over, but he'd never used those particular parts of it around her. He's not trying to scare her even if back home Alex doesn't think that Simon thinks that she's scared enough of the web that she's on now. This isn't him, and because she knows that it's not him, Alex just raises her chin.
"I'm coming down, Simon." Down the hallway, Alex means. "So if you can control what's happening right now I'd really appreciate it and if you can't, I don't blame you for it."
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Of course, the gasp tends to coupled with a very Alex 'oh my gawd' which always shows her at her most Canadian. Here what happens instead is a very soft but empathic: "fuck." Alex Reagan all too often doesn't think these things through and it's what happens right now as she wishes that she'd listened to Simon's knocked no. Her core starts to tremble and shake, the tremors spreading outward with each increased thudding of her pulse. Her breathing shudders but she steps off onto the floor anyway. Alex may not be wise, but she's brave, and she knows that whatever else Simon isn't going to hurt her. Hell, she'd practically said that to Strand hadn't she?
But Alex hasn't missed the way that people's powers are acting up and she knows it. It's easy for her to forget that the source for Simon's abilities comes from the door that his parents had opened for him. She'd see the aftereffects of it before over and over, but he'd never used those particular parts of it around her. He's not trying to scare her even if back home Alex doesn't think that Simon thinks that she's scared enough of the web that she's on now. This isn't him, and because she knows that it's not him, Alex just raises her chin.
"I'm coming down, Simon." Down the hallway, Alex means. "So if you can control what's happening right now I'd really appreciate it and if you can't, I don't blame you for it."