Drabble: Nightmares

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Title: Nightmares

Author: badly_knitted

Characters: Jack and Ianto

Rating: G

Spoilers: Nothing specific.

Summary: He’s haunted by nightmares every time he closes his eyes.

Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.

A/N: For the prompt ‘Wake Me Up’, one of the prompts I didn’t get around to using for tw100’s challenge 292: Billboard Hot 100 last year. I’ve dug them out again to supplement the prompts I got from my f-list, just because there are still loads I wanted to use.

He’d witnessed so much horror in his life, only to relive it every night in his dreams. He’d seen friends and loved ones die while he continued on, fought aliens whose only goal was to destroy humanity, seen the very worst things humans could do to each other. It was bitter irony that he couldn’t even escape the memories in sleep.

As horrific visions woke him, wild-eyed in the darkness, heart racing, he found himself wrapped in a warm embrace.

“Just a bad dream. You’re safe, go back to sleep.”

In his lover’s arms, he found sanctuary from his nightmares.

The End

Comments

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Lol! It'll be interesting to see how many think it's Jack having the nightmare and how many think it's Ianto. I left it up to readers to decide, but tried to write it so it fits both.