Jemily One Shots

Nightmare

Emily's POV

I keep tossing and turning, hoping whatever is keeping me up will suddenly go away. Spoiler alert, it doesn't. I finally open my eyes to see what the commotion is. It's still dark out so it shouldn't be Henry. I look over to see if Jennifer is awake, maybe she was just trying to get comfortable. But she's mumbling and jerking her head. She's having a nightmare.

JJ and I get nightmares frequently so nothing new here. Mine are usually about her horrible mother and unsubs killing people I care about. JJ's are pretty scattered but mainly about her time overseas in Afghanistan and her parents fighting. Depending on what she is dreaming about is how I should wake her up.

When she's dreaming about Afghanistan I just have to gently say her name and how she is safe and Henry is perfectly fine until she wakes up. Those ones are the worst because if you try to wake her up by touching her she gets violent and starts screaming because she thinks those horrible men are hurting her.

The dreams about her parents however, she responds best when I tightly hug her and wake her up by saying her name over again.

I quietly shift to where I'm close enough to her to listen to her muebles.
"P-please don't hurt him, i'll do anything" Dammit, Afghanistan. I quickly, but quietly get out of bed and turn my bed side lamp on. I take a peek at the time, 3:42, damn she's not gonna get much sleep for the rest of the night. When JJ gets a nightmare she usually doesn't go back to sleep because her anxiety is spiked and she's simply just not tired anymore. And me being the caring person I am, make myself stay up with her because I don't want her to feel alone in the dark. It makes for some great movie marathons though.

I walk over to her side of the bed and kneel down to her level.
"Jeeeeeennn, Jeennnnniiiifffeeerrrr" It doesn't usually take her long to wake up when I talk to her. She's a light sleeper because she's constantly on alert for if Henry wakes up. Thank god because I sleep like a rock most of the time.

After about 3 minutes of whispering her name, and talking about Henry, her eyes start to flutter open, there are those beautiful ocean eyes. JJ used to get super embarrassed about her nightmares but over time she's warmed up, especially because her PTSD is not the greatest.

Jennifer and I have a nightmare routine, I know it sounds petty stupid. I usually just run her a bath because she gets super sweaty and then change the sheets if there's sweat on them. For the rest of the night until morning we just watch movies together or we will bring Henry in here to cuddle with us.

"Hey loser, how are you feeling?" I know not to try and get to her to talk about the nightmare straight away, rookie mistake that usually ends in arguing or a panic attack. I know she'll come around in the next day or two so for now I just focus on making her comfortable.
"Like I just had a panic attack while running a marathon" Yup, she's definitely drenched in sweat.
"Ok do you wanna bring Henry in here while I get your bath ready?"
"Yeah, I'll go grab him now" she says as she gets up to grab our son.

A couple minutes later I walk out of the bathroom, JJ's bath being set for her.
"Hey love, your bath is all set, i'll change the sheets and get us a movie to watch, ok?"
"Ok, thanks Em" she walks into the bathroom and cracks the door. I gently set the sleeping Henry on the chair in the corner of our room so I can change the bed sheets. Henry starts to stir as soon as I finish changing the sheets. His eyes open and immediately he sits up confused.
"Hey bub, c'mere lets get you in our bed"
"I sleep in mama bed?" His sleepy voice is so cute, I wish he could always sleep in our bed, best cuddler if you ask me.
"Yeah bub, let's get you settled" I lay him in the middle of the bed so he's sandwiched between JJ and I when we lie down.

I hear the bath drain so I quietly knock on the door and JJ opens it, her hair is wet and she has on my sweatpants and an old FBI tank top.
"What movie did you pick out?" She's taking one of her anxiety pills as I tell her that I chose the movie Titanic.
"Oh, I didn't know you wanted to cry tonight, but ok i'm cool with that" she chuckles

JJ's POV

I really would not know what to do if it weren't for Em. I feel like she knows me better than myself sometimes. Before we get back into bed I pull Em into a hug, we both aren't very touchy people but we seem to always find our way to each other through touch. Ok that sounds weird, basically we hate other people touching us but we love to cuddle and hug each other all the time.
"What was the for" Em asks as we pull away
"For loving me and being patient with me, now c'mon, Titanic is a long movie" We settle into bed, Henry immediately finding his way on Em's chest to cuddle. I'm always jealous they cuddle so much but he always seems to wake up on me and not Em by morning.

*The next morning*

We finished the Titanic, we both cried at least 3 times. That door could have held both of them if Rose wasn't so damn selfish.

It always surprises me how Emily manages to stay awake the entire night with me, but it helps to have someone with me after a nightmare. Even when we hadn't moved in together yet, no matter what time I would call her about a nightmare, she would drive over to my place and watch a movie with me until the sun came up.

I want to talk to Emily about my nightmare before Henry wakes up so I guess this is my only chance before we put him to bed tonight. I don't warn her, I just start talking about it.
"My hands were chained from the ceiling so I couldn't move or defend myself. He came into the room dragging Henry in with him. I begged him not to hurt my boy but he wouldn't listen. Henry was crying for me to help him but I couldn't move. Em, I tried so hard but I couldn't do anything" I started to tear up so I stopped talking, that's about when I woke up anyways.
"Love, I promise I will never let anything happen to Henry or you for as long as I live and breathe. You two are the reason I live and continue surviving everyday, I will make it my mission to die fighting for you both" Damn now i'm straight up sobbing, Henry has woken up by now and is curious as to why i'm crying my eyes out.
"Mommy what's wrong, are you hurt?" He stands on the bed and grabs my face as he talks, giving me a kiss on the forehead when he's done talking. He totally gets that from Emily, no doubt.

"No bub, I just had a bad dream and it scared me a little that's all"
"I'm sorry mommy. Hey! We should watch Paw Patrol to cheer you up, it always helps me. And we can watch it in your bed!" Henry always finds a way to make me laugh, Emily grabs the remote and turns on the channel for Paw patrol. Henry cuddles in between the two of us, leaning against me and putting his feet on Em's legs, he is so silly. I love him so much though.

That's pretty much how we spent the rest of our day, watching TV and cuddling. I turn to Em,
"Hey, you know I love you right. Like so much that I don't think I would know how to function without you?"
"Yeah Jayge, I really do, and I love you too" she smiles at me and goes back to watching the show until henry speaks up.
"Hey I love you guys too, and you're never allowed to forget!" I laugh and kiss the top of his head before Em wraps her arm around him and starts rubbing his back.
"We love you too monkey"

Wow, my little family is the exact definition of perfect.