Gabenath, The Sandboy Begins

Tears

Nathalie's POV ish
Gabriel was crying.  Softly.  Nathalie had never seen Gabriel cry.  She had never even seen this side of him.  Word's couldn't describe how she felt.  Horror, fear, worry, and confusion were just a few of them.  Not to scare or startle him, she whispered, "Why are you crying?" In the soften tone she could find herself say at this moment in time. 

He sniffed in response to her gentle words.  He didn't let her go.  Not yet.  "Because I-I"  he sniffed again "hurt you so so much.  Why do you do this for me?  Your too precious for this world and I-I don't deserve you..."  He trailed off as she thought about his words. "Are you mad at me?"  He said worried that her nightmare was him.

"No no don't think that.  I fear your disappointment in me not you."  He let out a yawn as he hadn't gotten much sleep lately.  They had both been tired lately from work and being hawkmoth and mayura.  Gabriel still didn't like or approve of her being mayura so she only got the miraculous occasionally. 

"Come on, you need sleep"  she pat his back to gesture to him to stand up.  He rubbed his eyes and still up cautiously.  "Head to bed okay?"  Nathalie said to Gabriel making sure he and her got the sleep they needed.  "Okay"  he replied.  Nathalie grabbed the covers of her bed and layed down and faces the wall opposite to the door.  She closed her eyes attempting to sleep.  But something bothered her.  If her and Adrien got their nightmare, did Gabriel encounter his?  She suddenly felt the bed get heavier and the sheet adjusting.  She turned her head to see that Gabriel had fallen asleep in her bed.  She was too tires to deal with this tonight of all nights.  She turned her head towards the wall again and fell asleep.

In the middle of the night
Nathalie had awoken in the middle of the night.  She tried to comprehend what was happening when she felt a pair of arms snake around her waist.  All the memories of the previous night came flooding back.  The Sandboy, Gabriel, her questions.  But after all this she felt comfort and warmth in Gabriel's arms. But it felt so wrong.  Emilie wasn't dead, she was in a coma, alive. What would Gabriel think when he woke up?  Nathalie you have the man of your dreams cuddling with you, think about the consequences in the morning.  Gabriel squeezed fighter which made Nathalie seem to ignore everything else.  She fell asleep once again in Gabriel's arms.