Handsome Jack X Reader

A Terrible Dream

~Still dreaming~

You ran down the hallways of Helios as fast as you could. This Nisha character. You couldn't trust Jack's life in her grubby-pandorian-vaulthunter-whore hands. Calling her a whore was a little harsh, but something about her just rubbed you the wrong way. 

When you approached the doors leading to the room where the loader bots where being held, you noticed a control pad next to the door. "Dammit." you whispered. You needed to get through the security. 

"Scan your ID card please." You heard a robotic voice say. You took out the card and swiped it. "I'm sorry but you do not have the right clearance to access this room at the moment." It said. You growled and kicked the steel wall. 'How to get in, how to get in' you thought. 

"My echo eye." you breathed. You turned on your echo eye and scanned the control panel. A "scan complete" shined in front of your vision as you pulled a small device from your pocket that projected files and code. You remembered a small moment when Jack gave you a hacking program that was, and I quote, "For getting into places you weren't supposed to be." You quickly applied the code to the files and watched as a small cloud of smoke arose from the broken control panel and the doors jaggedly pushed open.

You sprinted to the front of the room and looked out. There must have been hundreds, no thousands of loader bots in single file lines . You turned around and saw a bunch of buttons. Your eyes scanned over everything to see if you could find anything useful to help you. You saw rows of blue buttons labeled "Section 1, Section 2, etc." 'This must be how you start them up.' you thought. Without a second more to lose, you rammed your hand down onto the buttons, pushing close to all of them. Loader bots awakened from their sleep and turned to face you. You grabbed the remote control for them and pushed a few buttons, making it so they would follow you.  You started to run back down the hallways. The sound of robotic footsteps echoed in the empty hallways as you pulled out your ECHO device and started to track where Jack was. Before you could finish tracking him, you ran through the open doors that led to where the escape ships and other cargo were being held. 

There he was. He was shooting at ships and people who were wearing DAHL uniforms. "JACK!" you yelled. His gazed shot towards you. His expression turned from aggravated to worried. He put his hands over his head and started sprinting towards you.

"GO!" He screamed towards you. Confusion crossed your mind, but before you could ask him why, you turned around only to be greeted with the sharp pain of a metal fist. The punch to your face was strong, throwing you to the ground. You could feel a cut form on your cheek as blood pooled in your mouth.  You tried to get up but your body was heavy. Falling back to the ground. Your eyes fluttered open and you saw Jack punch the DAHL engineer in the face. Hard. Jack climbed on top of him and began landing more and more hits on him. The sound of his fist hit the sides of his face made chills run up your spine . He continued, until you heard a gun shot and blood splatter on the ground. Jack rushed to you and helped you up. You brushed yourself off and regained your balance. 

The next thing you knew, blood gushed from Jack's shoulder and he fell to the ground, relieving a DAHL soldier behind him. "Run..." Jack breathed. You shook your head no and bent down to pick him up. He slapped your hands away and he yelled "RUN" You backed away and ran. Soon after, you heard another gun shot, but you dare not look back. You just Kept running.

~Back to reality~

You sat up abruptly and your chest pounded as you breathed heavily. You could feel your eyes swell up with warm tears.  Your hands covered your face as you felt the warm embrace of someone else. They wrapped their arms around you and pulled you closer. You turned towards them and dug your face into their chest, taking in their scent. It calmed you in a way and your felt a hand come to the back of your head, stroking your hair. "Shhh. It was just a dream. I'm here now." You heard Jack say. He sounded tired and worn out. Had he been up all night?  He slowly laid you down and he pulled you close to him. Your head was on his chest and you could feel your heart rate slow and your eyes became heavy and hard to keep open. You felt him place a kiss on top of your head. He pulled you closer and you could hear him inhale. When he exhaled, you could feel his heart speed up. "Get some more sleep pumpkin." You heard him say as sleep pulled you back into it. 

Sleep was something that would numb all feeling coming from your brain. But when your brain is asleep, your heart is in other places, doing things it shouldn't be doing.

~To be continued~

(BTW this story was totally not inspired by the song "Sleeping with a Friend" XD)