Merlyn

Nightmares

"It's still the same." Emma said walking into her room, putting the bag that she had down by the bed.

"Moira didn't have the heart to change yours or Oliver's rooms." Tommy told her sitting down on the bed he that had become like his own at one point. "What happened over there Emma?" He asked. He had noticed that she looked much more paranoid now. Looking for every exit, analyzing the situation.

"I don't want to talk about it Tommy. I just want to put it in the past and move on." Emma said sitting down next to him and resting her head on his shoulder.

"That's understandable." He said wrapping his arm around her. "But know that if you ever want to talk or need a shoulder to cry on, I'm here."

"I know." Emma said picking her head up and giving him a kiss on the cheek. "You should probably go before Ollie gets too suspicious of why you were in here so long."

"Yeah, I'll um see you later." Tommy said awkwardly getting up. He wanted to stay with her longer, hold her close to him.

"Once Ollie and everyone goes to bed, maybe if you want to come back and we can talk?" Emma asked hoping that he would want to come back.

"Yeah. I'd like that." Tommy said giving her a genuine smile.

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With a smile on his face, Tommy walked out of Oliver's room after making plans for the next day. He started his journey to his beloved's room. Her room was at least 5 doors down from Oliver's which made him glad, there was a less chance of Oliver finding out.

Without bothering to knock, Tommy walked into her room. She was on her bed fast asleep. Taking his coat and shoes off, Tommy crawled into bed with her. Instantly, Emma cuddled into his side.

She was safe and that's all that mattered to him at the moment. Soon he too was fast asleep with Emma in his arms. What he didn't notice was that Oliver had followed Tommy to Emma's room. Oliver saw the care Tommy held Emma with. He smiled to himself. His sister had someone to take care of her if he couldn't. That's all that mattered to him. Oliver left the two to sleep, walking back to his room.

It was around midnight when everything changed. Emma's screams could be heard throughout the Queen Mansion. Tommy was the first to wake up. He quickly put his shoes and coat on acting like he just came into the room.

"Emma!" He yelled attempting to wake her up as her family ran into the room wondering what in the world made her scream at the top of her lungs. Instead of waking up and calming down, Emma attacked Tommy. Skillfully pinning him down with little to no effort. "Em, baby it's me." Tommy said making her finally realize who it was.

"I'm so sorry." She said moving off of him and turning to face her family. "I didn't mean to wake you guys up. Thought I had that under control, guess not."

"It's fine sweetie." Moira said hugging her. "You've been through hell and back, you get to be like this." She said. "Go back to sleep." She told her before walking off with Walter.

"You okay?" Oliver asked worried for her. "Those screams, Em, they seemed to filled with pain."

"I'm fine Ollie, just some bad memories." Emma said faking a smile. "You can go back to bed."

"Do you want me to stay?" He asked.

"I'm fine." Emma reassured him as he left.

"Just call me if you need anything." Thea said to Emma before glaring at Tommy and leaving.

"What happened?" Tommy asked holding her close.

"Can we just sleep? I don't want to talk about it." Emma told him.

"Whatever you want." Tommy said.