If there was one thing being dead made you miss, it was sleep. Such a small thing, something you usually take for granted, something you push away and avoid doing. Something so irrevocably human that he wasn’t sure any other species could do it. It’s been years, but Tate never got used to not sleeping, as sleep was a huge part of his life. He used to sleep for days. He slept through classes, through meals, through everything, simply because he could. He can’t anymore. When he first died he used to lie dormant for hours waiting for sleep to come, but it just felt like trying to go to bed at eight in the afternoon when you’re more of a four am type of person. It’s excruciating. It’s weird, because when he was anchored to the murder house, he still had a form of sleep, not exactly, but close. He used to disappear for hours at a time, randomly, and he never remembered what happened during those hours. Perhaps he was sleeping, but there was never dream to remember. Or, maybe, those were the hours he did awful things. Regardless, he doesn’t have those hours anymore. He remembers everything. Every hour of every fucking day and it’s beginning to drive him even more insane than he already is, and that’s saying something. Tate was sat on the roof of an apartment building in Downtown New Orleans, watching the cars and the drunk people pass by, his legs dangling off the edge of the four story building as if falling was a foreign term. Maybe that’s because the fall couldn’t kill him, no fall could. When he heard the creaking of the latter. Someone was coming up. He didn’t turn to face them as he he heard their approach.