BROKEN

Dreams which were reality

She woke up sweating, panting heavily to catch her breaths, again a damn bad dream, she was too tired of this now, the dreams were so vivid and frequent that they almost seem to be real.

Natasha was an undercover cop (agent) and a bold women, had a traumatic past in Russia but now she was safe in America so she was all good, she loves two things herself and her man, she does her job and rest of the time is for her man.

Quite from a time now, she was having harsh and bad dreams just as she did in her childhood, and she didn't know what's wrong but whenever those arms were around her, she felt safe and at peace.

Steve! You should stop coming from the back and hugging me. You scared me this time, she said softly to him hugging him as well.
Sorry sweetheart, I'm late again, the trials are so heavy, and I got something fishy and hard this time working on that case, he made a soft face and replied. She smiled in his embrace.

Steve met Natasha when they were studying in college, they first become friends, best friends, lovers to a happy couple, he was an investigative officer and had a tough job, but he does one thing very passionately, love Natasha, Steve was only family she had, whom she wanted to protect at every cost.

She woke up again at night, drenching in her own cold sweat, saw at her left side, Steve was sleeping soundly, she didn't wanna disturb, she got up went to the washroom "what are these, what do they mean, we are so full and happy in life, what does this all mean?" Questions were in her head, Steve called her name, she went out, you okey? bad dreams are disturbing you Natasha, wanna tell, I'm awake to listen now anyways, Steve smiled at her, he's my idiot, Natasha thought and smiled back.
"I'm seeing dead bodies all around me, they are trying to tell me something but I can't understand and this dream is so vivid that it looks real to me Steve".
He caressed her hairs and calmed her down! don't worry, it's just a dream, I'm here for you, sleep, he started to humming softly for her, Steve but you? Hush! Sleep, I'm okay.

2 months time lapse

Steve! Baby come to bed please, I'm tired I will sleep without you, Natasha almost yelled from her bedroom to Steve who was in his study focused on evidence he got to investigate.
Coming darling! Just a moment, he replied still reading the paper contently.

Natasha? Your agency, I wanna talk about it, Steve entered the bedroom.
Natasha? He called out her name again.
He got into the covers, hugged her from behind, she was asleep, "I'm sorry babe, got late again" he whispered to her and in no time in that exact hug he fell asleep as well.

Days were passing, Steve and Natasha were busy in their professional lives, Steve was stuck in a case and Natasha was not in town due to her secret trip from her agency for work.
Steve was alone at home, tired yet sitting on a couch and having his coffee, with eyes closed, mind at his case and heart with his girl. Someone knocked at door, PLEASE HELP ME, HELP ME PLEASE, a girl was shouting from outside, he rushed towards the door and opened it the white front door of the house had blood printed hands on it, his breaths got hitched for a moment, but no one was there, it was cold outside, freezing wind, he went outside to check because he knows that something's wrong, but no one was seen, suddenly he saw what a normal human being can't see or do, someone was doing pieces of a girl at the road side, a cold stream of shock and fear run through his body, not only he was cutting her like nothing but enjoying this all while doing so in this cold weather, he knew the girl is gone and that he didn't know that Steve saw everything from not too far, he went inside his house his body was shivering from fear what he saw is not normal, he called police and told them about this all, maybe this all is linked he thought, his case, this girl coming to his door, he's been seeing it with his own eyes, maybe this all is something, he thought. The scene was never leaving his sight.
He went to washroom, washed his face with cold water, the scene was not going anywhere from his eyes, he was tired and restless maybe that's why he's feeling like this, he thought, he went to bed and was trying to sleep.
After few hours, Natasha came home, it was almost midnight, the door seem suspicious to her, she felt wrong, she silently came in and then to her bedroom, she was relieved to see Steve's fine, then who was at the door? She thought, she changed and slide into the covers besides Steve and hugged her softly, when she realized, he was burning, temperature? How?