Appetite For Destruction

-011

I woke up in an unfamiliar room, it was dark and cold and I felt my stomach drop as I looked around. I was alone with no recollection of how I got here. I stood, the ground was wet and cool on my bare feet as I ran around the room trying to find the door in the dark.

From the other side room a door flew open and there stood Andrew. He looked the same as when I left him, except his features looked distorted. His brown hair was ruffled and messy, and his green eyes looked almost black as he looked at me with disgust. My heart all but stopped as he walked towards me and I realised I had no where to go, so I curled up into a ball on the ground and covered my face but the blow I was used too never came.

Instead he started laughing and when I looked up again the room had changed, it was now lighter and instead of a bed a chair sat in the middle of the room but it wasn't empty. My stomach dropped when I realised an unconscious Happy was strapped to the chair and I was desperately trying to run to him and help but no matter how hard I tried it was like I was running in slow motion.

Andrew looked towards me with the same angry eyes I had seen many times "If I can't have you Evelyn, neither can he" and with that he held a gun against Happys temple and pulled the trigger, leaving me screaming desperately trying to get too him.

I woke up with a scream, in a pool of my own sweat. I was gasping for air as I looked around the room, realising I was back in my dorm at the clubhouse. The bed next to me was empty and I looked around realising there was no sign he'd been in to bed at all tonight.

The clock on the night stand only read 11:08pm, there was every chance he just hadn't come to bed yet but the panic in my stomach wouldn't stop. I climbed out of bed pulling on a sweatshirt and walking down the hall to find if anyone was around. As I was walking down the hall I walked straight into Tig, he eyed me with confused eyes as I desperately clung to him and sobbed.

"Evie? What happened? What's going on?" He demanded as he pulled me back checking me over for any sign that I had been hurt.

I managed to get out that I'd had a nightmare in between sobs and that I needed to see Happy.

"Oh doll, he's still out helping Chibs with something but I promise you he is okay...I can take you to Jax though" I nodded and he guided me down the hall to where a few of the guys sat at the bar, in amongst them was my brother who jumped straight up the minute he saw my tear stained face.

Taking my hand he led me back to my room and pushed the door shut behind him "Evie, are these nightmares anything to do with what you told Juice?" He sat next to me on the edge of the bed with an arm around my shoulder.

I felt my face screw up in disgust at Juice and his big mouth but before I could speak again Jax spoke "he only told me so we could protect you"

I was suddenly too tired to argue about it as the adrenaline wore off from the nightmare "can you lay with me until I fall asleep?"

He nodded and I crawled in and got under the covers whilst he stayed on top of them, with his arms behind his head. It took me back to being twelve when our father died and my world was crushed, Jax would usually come home in the middle of the night and find me awake, for a while I'd only slept if I knew he was in the house. He'd become my safe space and even now sixteen years later he still felt like that space for me.

So as my breathing slowed and I started to feel relaxed, I could feel my eyes getting heavy before I fell asleep.