𝜗𝜚˚⋆⭒˚｡⋆ in which aliya levine begins her third year of surgical residency with a particular green eyed rich boy, overbearing parents taunting her all the way from malibu, an ex who refuses to leave her alone, a chaotic best friend and a pair of t...
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chapter fifty one━if/then season eight, episode thirteen
❝this hospital is getting weirder by the day.❞
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When Aliya was a kid, she had nightmares.
Frequent, reoccurring nightmares that happened from the age of five, all the way up until the age of twelve.
They were the kind of nightmares that woke you up in the dead of night in a blind panic, trembling and sweating from the memory of what had happened the previous night when you were asleep.
They terrified her.
She grew to dread the night. When her mother would send her up to bed, and all she really longed for was to be tucked up under the covers with warm gentle hands, and told everything was going to be okay.
But, that was a wish that would never happen for five year old Aliya.
When the nightmares first happened, she ran into her parents room, where only her mother had woken up, instantly sending the sobbing girl back to bed and denying her breakfast the following morning for waking her up in the middle of the night.
From then on, Aliya kept her mouth shut.
About all aspects of her life. If something worried her, she learnt to just bottle it up instead of bothering anyone else with her burdens.
It had gotten to the point where the young girl wouldn't sleep. When her home in Malibu went pitch black and the automatic porch lights switched off, her book torch turned on, and she hid beneath the covers reading her books until the morning.
Molly Levine didn't believe any of this. Not in the slightest. She thought her daughter was making the whole thing up for attention.
What Molly didn't know, was that all Aliya's nightmares stemmed from her.
Was the giant spider with eight big, furry legs actually Molly Levine in a different universe?
Or, maybe the intergalactic alien who ate human flesh?
Who knew.
You'd have to ask Aliya's sleep therapist, if she ever got one in another universe where her mother actually cared.
Though, if her mother actually cared about her, in another universe maybe she wouldn't actually have nightmares.
