Broken Hearted | Legacies

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14. Let's Just Finish The Dance

An extremely excited Nova was walking down the dark hallway, towards her dorm room to talk to her best friends about the Miss Mystic Falls pageant happening at their school, but she suddenly stopped when she passed the common room and saw someone whimpering, a confused Nova walked into the common room, wondering who was here so late, her eyes went wide in shock when she saw Alec laying on the couch, a book on his chest, having a nightmare about something.

"Stop" Alec cried, his limbs starting to trash, "Don't hurt her, not her, please, don't do this to her".

"Alec" a concerned Nova whispered, quickly rushing over to the middle Salvatore, "Alec, wake up" she said, shaking Alec's shoulder.

"No" Alec cried.

"Alec come on, it's not real" Nova said, sitting on the edge of the couch, "Whatever you're seeing it's not real, just open your eyes and look at me, please, just listen to my voice".

"Please" Alec pleaded.

"Dammit Alec, wake up!" Nova yelled, Nova's yell suddenly caused Alec's eyes to shot open, he let out a gasp as he sat up in a hurry, "Hey, hey, hey, you're okay, you're okay" Nova assured, rubbing Alec's back, an extremely disoriented Alec clutched on to Nova's arm while taking heavy breaths, "It's okay" Nova whispered, hugging Alec, "I'm right here, you're okay".

Alec didn't say anything, he just wrapped his arms around Nova tightly, the dream he had of him hurting Nova, spinning around in his head, making him seriously uneasy and terrified about the possibility that there could ever be a time where he would be the reason the girl in his arms would be hurt.

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Next morning, after much looking around, Nova ended up finding Alec in the gym, very aggressively punching a punching bag, "You know, it's rude to run away from someone once they finished comforting you" she said, talking about the fact that once Alec had realised his surroundings last night, he quickly shoved Nova away from him and ran away from her.

"I didn't ask you to comfort me" Alec said, continuing his punching and refusing to look at Nova.

Nova let out a sigh, "Look Alec, I know I'm probably the last person you want to talk to, but I also know that you're not going to talk to anyone, so for your own sake, please talk to me, what happened to you last night?".

"Ever heard of minding your own business?" Alec snapped.

Nova walked over to Alec, she grabbed the punching bag but Alec continued to keep punching it, "I'm worried about you Alec".

Alec stopped punching and grabbed the punching bag, his hands landing on top of Nova's, "You don't have to be, I'm fine" he said, looking Nova in the eyes.

"But you're not" Nova retorted, "I thought your nightmares ended a long time ago, what triggered it again?".

"My nightmares never ended, I just stopped telling people about it" Alec stated.

"That's not healthy Alec" Nova said.

"Can you just let it go?!" an annoyed Alec yelled, in his anger releasing a wave of magic that shoved Nova to the floor.