You Mean Everything To Me (Avengers/OUAT Fanfic)

17. She's pathetic

[Willow]

After Tove, Loki, Emma and Hook had left, Mulan started to make marks in the sand with a stick. She drew an H shape and put the stick in the middle of the H.

"What is it?" Aurora asked.

"It keeps the time," Mulan replied.

I laughed for a bit and they all looked at me.

"What?" I said as they gave me sceptical looks. "I have a watch." I laughed again.

"What's a watch?" Asked Aurora.

"It's a small device on my wrist that tells the time automatically." I showed her.

Mulan glared at me as Mary Margaret asked her why she needed the time.

"We can mark watches. Take turns sleeping. We'll most likely have to walk through the night again, so we should rest whilst we can." Mulan replied.

"I'll take first shift." Said Mary Margaret and Aurora agreed to stay with her. As me and Bucky walked away, we heard them talking about sleeping curses and nightmares. Mary Margaret said how her husband used to chase away the nightmares for her.

As we sat down, Bucky turned to me. "When I had a nightmare, I was woken up and my memory was wiped. They'd then torture me again, causing more nightmares. If I complained, I'd go for days without food."

I didn't know what to say, so I just said. "If I had a nightmare, I would be taken into a corner, beaten until I was blue and told to toughen up."

Then Aurora arrived and we decided to go to sleep. Although sleep meant dreams. And dreams meant memories.

*****

After laying down for about an hour, I hear Aurora start to whimper.

"Hey, the girl's having a nightmare." I called to Mulan and Mary Margaret, although they didn't hear me. When they didn't respond, Bucky got up and went to comfort her. I bit my lip, frustrated. Why couldn't Mulan or Mary Margaret do it?

"Hey, Aurora, it's okay. It's just a dream. It's okay." Bucky cooed, waking up Aurora. She opened her eyes and buried her head in Bucky's chest, crying.

I felt my face go red, but I decided to ignore it.

"It was horrible." Aurora sobbed. "It was the same as last time. There was this room, with bright, blood red curtains. There were no windows or doors, it didn't make sense. I couldn't get in or out, I was trapped." She took a couple breaths. "The curtains, they were on fire." Her next words were blocked out by her sobbs.

"Hey, hey, it's okay," Bucky said, stroking her hair.

"No, there was more. Beyond the flames, there was someone else. I could just see their eyes, they were staring straight at me!"

"It's okay. Try and get some more sleep, I'll stay with you." Bucky said, resting her head on his lap. She lay there for a few minutes before she fell asleep again.

Anger bubbled up inside of me. I turned over to face him. "She's pathetic."

He gave me a look that said 'shut up.' "She's been through a lot. I bet your nightmares are stupid too."

I scoffed and turned back around. He didn't know shit about my nightmares.

*****

I looked down at my watch. "It's nearly been 10 hours," I muttered. "Tove, where are you?"

Mulan contemplated something before standing up and drawing her sword. She walked over to the beanstalk as Mary Margaret exclaimed "Woah! What are you doing?"

Mulan turned around and pointed her sword at Mary Margaret. "Just stay back, Emma gave me 10 hours."

Mary Margaret and Aurora, who'd finally gotten off Bucky, both protested.

"You're just gonna leave them to die?" I yelled. "That's my best friend up there!"

"10 hours! They may already be dead." Mulan swung her sword, but I picked up one off the floor and parried.

"No-one leaves my friend behind." I growled. She tried to flip the sword out my hands, but I hit the hand with the butt of my sword and she dropped her's, cradling her fingers. "If anyone's going to cut down this beanstalk, it's me. We still have 13 minutes."

I walked away with the three girls looking at me in shock.

"Well, that was dramatic."

I turned around and there was Tove. I walked straight up to her, inspecting for injuries.

"You have a cut on your face, what happened?" I demanded.

Tove scowled and looked over at Loki. "Someone can't control where he sends flying objects."

I walked up to Loki and cracked my hand across his face.

"Don't hurt my friend," I growled at him, before walking away from the group.

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