Not Another Mummy (Shidge)

A Bet well Won..

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The day soon turned into late evening before night took over completely. The sun had set long ago and Shiro was left awake as the other's fell asleep. Well, that was until Pidge was startled awake within the first couple hours almost making Shiro leap out of his skin. 

"Bad dream" Katie admitted with an embarrassed look, still a bit pale in the face from whatever nightmare she just faced. 

"Want to talk about them?" Shiro asked with a small but concerned smile, giving her the option to try and release her dark thoughts in hope to lighten her heart. 

"Nah, It's just my mind playing my fears against me. Nothing is certain until it happens" Katie replied with full confidence, not going to let a mere dream push her down. 

"That's a good way to look at everything" Shiro carefully stated as he glanced to her in disbelief over how well she's handling this. But than he noticed her hands, they still trembled in slight fear proving she was mostly still trying to calm herself down. 

"I mostly thought it up when Matt kept promising to make me cookies but forgot to actually make them on the day. I use to say it to guilt trip him into making them for me and it worked" Katie mumbled back with a faint smile, passing on such a useless fact that Shiro didn't need to know to help distract herself and clam her rapidly thumping heart. 

"I'll keep that in mind if I ever need to guilt trip someone later in life" Shiro grinned back amused, hearing her snort in reply. 

A few more seconds past, an odd but content silence filled between them and at first Shiro wondering if she had fallen back to sleep again. But than she spoke up again, neither noticing that at  the top of the hill, a few Magi men had sat on their horses watching. 

"D-Do you ever have nightmares? Bad ones?" Katie nervously asked, feeling as weak as a child and hoping to feel a bit better if someone as big and brave as Shiro had them too. If he was able to deal with them than maybe she'd be able to do it too. 

"All nightmares are bad, some are worse but all nightmares are never pleasant when having them. But yes, I do have them. Had them since I could remember, every time I close my eyes I relive some of my soldier days or just be faced with nightmares" Shiro answered honestly, his gaze drifted off to somewhere she couldn't see herself. 

"Every night? Don't you know a way to help calm them or defeat your demons somehow?" Katie blurted out in shock, turning her head towards him with wide eyes over it. 

"Everyone has demons to defeat and they're never easy to be rid of. Some take years and some, they just stay with you for the rest of your life. I've accepted that fact, accepted my demons but it doesn't mean I like them. I've just learnt how to live with them a bit better and I go through them because I know I need to live my day to day life as normal as I can. Sleep's important and refusing to sleep won't make the dreams go away, it'd just let the fear overpower you instead" Shiro explained with a small smile, his eyes kind and he seemed mostly calm but his hand shake every so slightly, showing how much of a damaged man he was deep down. 

"What if you've learnt to live with your demons but don't accept the nightmares themselves?" Katie asked instead, distracting him from his past by throwing in a different question.