Sleeplessness and the Raptor Brain

[personalmephistopheles]

Fandom: Animorphs
Rating: G
Setting: Post-War
Characters: Ket Halpak, Tobias
Word Count: 444

General Summary: As has become a frequent reality for him, Tobias has been having trouble sleeping, but even he can't go without sleep forever - especially he can't.

Author’s Note: This particular piece was written over a year ago and is dedicated to my friend Sylvs for their birthday and as one of our been-around-for-ages fandoms in common is Animorphs, and we both adore Tobias, I wrote something with him even though I’d never written Animorphs fic at all before.


Tobias wakes up like clockwork at one in the morning out of habit. It’s deep winter, the coldest it’s been in years, and he’s not as resilient as he used to be so he’s resigned himself to abandoning his tree at night and taking refuge in the New Barn. The New Barn, wasn’t a barn at all, really, but a part of a wildlife rehabilitation facility that Cassie had built on the fringes of the Hork-Bajir settlement at Yellowstone. It’s safe and secure, and more importantly, it’s climate controlled, but old habits are hard to break, and he finds himself jolting awake as the hands on the clock click over from one hour to the next, his eyes quickly adjusting to the twilight produced by the emergency lights glowing in the darkness.


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