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Tori wasn't sure what had woken her up out of a sound sleep.
She supposed a strange feeling had come over her in her sleep. What it was, she could not quite grasp. However, an odd sensation gripped the pit of her stomach.
At first, the blonde woman had been dismayed upon waking up, as she'd been suffering from insomnia for the past several weeks - therefore, sleep was a gift that did not come easily for or to her.
Tori sat up in the near-pitch darkness, her ears pricked. She didn't quite know what kind of sounds she was listening for, but she knew something was awry.
The strange feeling getting stronger by the moment, the blonde diva reached over the nightstand and flipped on the lamp.
And her heart nearly stopped at what she saw...
"Oh, God...Lita!!"
Tori leapt up from her bed, now fully awake, all the grogginess she'd felt a moment earlier gone. Lita was lying in the other bed, on her side, facing her, Tori's own bottle of sleeping pills just beyond the redhead's slim fingers. The cap lay nearby, just past her head on the pillow, and three pills lay scattered there as well.
Dear God...Lita had taken practically the entire bottle...
The blonde sprang into action, the wheels in her head turning rapidly as she acted. Shoving away the blanket, she lightly slapped at the other woman's slack cheek, praying for a reaction - any reaction - out of her.
There was none.
Then, she remembered that the thing to do to prevent a person from overdosing was to walk them around.
Counting her lucky stars that she was strong, Tori lifted Lita up and out of the bed. The redheaded diva was totally limp in her arms, and she feared she might panic because of it.
"God damn it, Lita! Why did you do this?! It's not worth it!" she shouted, her voice practically at a screaming volume.
As she continued to walk the redhead around the meager length of the hotel room, Tori was relieved as she suddenly detected a slight movement from the other woman.
"Mmm..."
"Lita? Lita, can you hear me?"
"Where...mm..."
The muscular blonde was jolted by a sense of relief. Lita was mumbling almost incoherently, but at least she was alive.
"Thank God, Lita!" Tori cried, and she found herself suddenly having to fight against tears at the amount of relief she felt.
"T-Tori...?" The redhead tried to lift her head to eye her, but she felt too weak.
"Come on...I have to take you to the hospital..."