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Guppy dreams. This time, he's fighting back.

He is standing in the remains of his flat, feet treading in the ashes and brushing past the flowers laid out for Woody and the cat. The whole of the storey has been burnt out, and he is looking down at the streets of Holby.
"Go on, jump. Make everyone much happier."
He turns towards the voice and sees Asar-Suti standing in front of him with an evil grin.
"I'll do it for you if you don't. Everyone wants to see you suffer."
Guppy stares him straight in the eyes.
"What's two plus two Asar-Suti?"
The god looks surprised.
"Five, of course. What did you think it was?"
"You aren't real. You're a dream. Two plus two is four."
Suti turned to fire, his voice bellowing around him.
"I AM A GOD. IF I SAY TWO PLUS TWO IS FIVE IT BLOODY WELL IS!"
"No, you do not exist. This is a dream."
He looks around frantically. Doesn't realising you're in a dream allow you to get out? The fire roars up and burns his arms. He stumbles and falls off the side of the building. Half way down the scene changes, and he lands in the Rescus department of the hospital. He knows what he is going to see even before it appears. Three doctors, four patients, all dying. He cannot move or be seen or heard. He can only watch, paralysed, as the fourth man dies again. He expects the sea of blood to rise up at any moment, but it doesn't come.
Instead, another man enters.
"Do something! You're letting my father die!"
One of the nurses tries to calm him down.
"I'm sorry sir, he's already dead. There was nothing we could do."
"You mean you didn't do anything! I watched through here, you all let him die! Now you will all die!"
The man pulls out a gun and shoots the three doctors and the nurses in the room.

Guppy screams, grabs something and hurls it towards the gunman. As it smashes he wakes up and stops screaming. He is curled up in the foetal position and shaking like a leaf. For ten minutes, he lies there, sobbing uncontrollably.
He recovers enough to stop crying, and gradually uncurls. Still shaking, he gets up and makes his way across the room to find out what he smashed by mistake. It's the alarm clock he was using to stop REM sleep. It is unfixable. He picks up the bits, dumps them in a drawer, then goes to sit back on the bed.
He remembers Gil's offer; that he could go and sleep in his and Asar-Suti's room with them, or one of them would come and stay with him. It's very tempting, and for a moment he can't think of anything he would like better right now than a hug. He stands up, puts on his dressing gown and approaches the door, but then stops. Waking both of them won't help anything. All it will mean is the two of them losing sleep as well as him, and possibly anyone who happens to be hearing his screams next door. He takes the dressing gown off again, lies back down on the bed and does not sleep for the rest of the night.