5 for blue team or the gammas?

equivalencept:

You get half and half!! ~800 words. Prompts from here

Ash rolled over onto his other side, for the sixth time in ten minutes. He’d been trying to fall asleep for the past two hours, but he couldn’t seem to get comfortable.

Well, that wasn’t exactly true. The bunk and temperature on the ship were the same as always, UNSC-standard, but it was his teammates that he was missing. He was used to Mark’s snoring and the sound of Olivia’s deep breathing, but they were both in the medbay now. Livi for a (thankfully minor) head injury, and Mark because he had to get a kidney replaced.

Ash couldn’t think of the last he’d been alone. Well, he was alone whenever he had to spend the night in the medbay, but memories of time spent there were never happy memories. And anyway, he was almost always in a drug-induced sleep while he was there. He didn’t have any sort of sleep aid now.

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