Supernatural Academy

Chapter 4- Nightmares and Getting Lost

"T, stop moving." Wesley mutters quietly, feeling his best friend tossing and turning. He only really wakes up when he hears whimpering and soft cries. "Teddy? Wake up!" He says shaking him gently. This causes Sam, Holden and Gabriel to stir awake as well. "What's wrong?" Sam asks tiredly. "Is he okay?" Gabriel asks rubbing his eyes. Holden gets up and turns on the light.

Theodore wakes up suddenly, breathing heavy, looking around trying to figure out where he was. "Hey, T it's okay, you were having a bad dream." Wesley says. Theodore bursts into sobs. "I-I-I want mommy a-and daddy!" He cries out. Wesley hugs him, and looks to the now wide awake Sam, Holden and Gabriel. "Can one of you guys go get the hall monitor and see if they could get Jax or Char?" He asks the other boys. Holden volunteers and rushes out of their room.

"I um can you get Alpha Jaxon? It's his brother, he needs him! Or Charlie!" Holden runs to the hall monitor asking. Quickly explaining what was going on, the hall monitor tried to get in touch with Jaxon, but heard back that he was out doing a security check of the school grounds. He was able to get a hold of Charlie, and waited a few minutes before Charlie came barrelling down the hallway. The second he stepped foot onto the floor, he could smell the distress from Theodore. Thankfully the hall monitor had told the other students on the floor to go back to their rooms so there wasn't a big crowd.

As soon as Charlie got into the room, he pulled Theodore from Wesley and into his arms, holding him tight. He'd been doing so well, no nightmares for the last few months, but this seemed to be a big one. Charlie spent a few minutes trying soothe and calm Theodore down. When his cries turned to sniffles and hiccups, Charlie instructed his brother on what to do next. "Wes, I need you to go grab a pull-up for me from his room, I'm gonna help him take a quick bath okay?" He said, heading into one of the bathrooms.

"Pull-up?" Holden questioned. "Yeah so what?" Sam said aggressively. They had wanted to keep it a secret from everyone, not wanting anyone to make fun of him for it. "Nothing, just—" Holden started. "Just what huh? Nothing's wrong with wearing them!" Sam cut him off. "No you're right, it's just, he doesn't have to hide them in his room, he can keep them in the bathrooms if he wants. It'll be easier." Gabriel quickly filled in for his twin who was getting tongue tied. "Oh. Yeah that would be easier..." Sam said quietly, embarrassed about his outburst. "You guys don't think it's weird right?" Wesley asked the twins when he got back. Gabriel responded for both them. "If he needs it then who cares right?" He said. Wesley gave them a small smile, Theodore was his best friend and he wasn't going to let anyone make fun of him, especially not their roommates.

After reassurance from Charlie that they could all go back to sleep, the boys reluctantly laid back down. Charlie spent another 35 minutes with Theodore after his bath, until he fell asleep, though he wouldn't say what his nightmare was about. He almost decided to bring him up to his room, but thought it'd be better for Theodore to stay here. Leaving Theodore in his room, he walks out to find his Wesley sitting up waiting for him. "Char? Is he okay?" Wesley quietly asks his brother when he sees him. "He's fine Wes, But I told you to go back to sleep." He responds. "B-but he was really scared. Did he tell you what the dream was about?" Wesley says, worry written all over his face.  Charlie kneels down in front of his brother to comfort him. "I know he was scared, but he's asleep now, he didn't tell me, but when he's ready too, he'll tell us okay?" He says. "Okay, I'm gonna go sleep with him so he won't wake up alone." Wesley says getting up. He gives Charlie a hug saying goodnight before joining Theodore, but not before asking his brother to stay the night. Charlie sadly refused and told Wesley that he'd see him in the morning and left. When Charlie got back to his room, he was met with Jaxon about to run into him.

"What happened? Is Theo okay? They tried to get me, but I was too far out near the borders doing a security check." Jaxon said. "He's okay, he had a bit of a nightmare, scared him pretty badly, but he's okay, he's asleep again, and I'm sure Wes is sleeping with one eye open wanting to make sure he's okay." Charlie said pushing Jaxon back into their room. "Now I'm going to sleep, and you're going to leave your brother alone tonight because if you go now, all five of them will just wake up again, and I am not prepared to be hosting five pups at 5:30 in the morning." Charlie said dropping onto his bed. Jaxon grumbled a fine, it was taking everything in him to not rush over to his baby brothers room. Come tomorrow, he won't just be a big brother, he'll also be a teacher, which means he can't show favouritism and won't be able to go easy on any of the pups, something he was dreading since he'd always been close with all of them.