Save Me From My Nightmares

ANDY’S POV
The memory of Sienna’s bloodcurdling scream as the doctor put her shoulder back in its socket echoed round my head, it made me wonder if she had ever screamed like that back at home over something that sick bastard of a father did to her. I shivered at the thought; the thoughts of him scarring and bruising her body were making me sick with rage. I looked over to where Sienna was asleep in the hospital bed and suddenly my rage disappeared as I drank in her soft features and all I could think of was what her lips would feel like on mine.
Ugh what was I thinking, she’s just a kid, she’s had a tough life, I cant be thinking like this. How can this girl be affecting me so much when I’ve only known her for a few hours?
Sienna started twitching and shaking in her sleep.
“No no, stop please no!” she mumbled, becoming more panicked in her sleep. When she started screaming and thrashing, I shot up and crawled into bed next to her, hugging her tightly, whispering her name and stroking her hair. She opened her eyes in fear and then visibly relaxed when she saw it was me.
She didn’t tell me what the nightmare was about and she didn’t need to, I could guess and suddenly I didn’t care about my better judgment, I just continued to hold and soothe her until her breathing slowed and she fell back to sleep, I vowed to myself that I would never let anyone hurt her again.

SIENNA’S POV
It was the same nightmare; it always was, my father’s drunken fists pummeling me and me unable to fight back. I would scream and scream, but he would be relentless.
I woke up feeling someone’s arms around me and ready to panic but as soon as a gazed into those piercing blue eyes and listened to him whispering my name I felt like I was in the safest place in the world. I know it was silly to think like that, I’m just some kid that he found in the alley and took pity on, he’s only hugging me to get me to shut up but in that moment I could pretend otherwise, like he and I were meant to be together and he had vowed to keep me safe for all eternity. I let these thoughts and the feeling of Andy’s arms wrapped around me soothe me back to sleep, a sleep that, for the first time in a very long time, was completely nightmare free.

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