Fairytail Drabbles

Chapter 81: Midnight/Macbeth x Angel/Sorano - 'Nightmare'

Sorano woke as to the unusual sound of Macbeth whimpering under his breath as he shifted uneasily in his sleep, the arm that had slipped around her at some point was now painfully tight but she made no move to remove it. Nightmares were a common occurrence for both of them, but whilst she would easily cry out or start awake because of them, Macbeth usually remained silent and it was only in the morning when she caught the shadowed look in his eyes that she would know what had happened. So for him to making a noise at all was a sign that this was worse than usual, and she carefully rolled over in his arms so that she could peer at his face, her heart aching at the fear in his expression. They all had a long way to go before they could atone for their past, but that didn’t make it any easier to see him being haunted by that past and her hands were gently as she reached up to brush his hair out of his face before pressing a gentle kiss to his cheek.

“I’m here…you’re safe…it’s over,” it was a mantra that they used whenever the nightmares were especially bad, and she repeated it over and over even a she slipped her arms around him and hugged him tightly, and gradually she felt him beginning to settle once more. She would stay like that for another half hour, quietly repeating the words until she knew the nightmare was banished for the time being and then she would allow herself to drift to sleep, the mantra echoing in her mind and helping keep her own nightmares at bay.