Daytime Dreamer

🖤 Night Terror

Hope you all enjoy this one! I wrote this back in February, a long time, I know. 😄 Next one I post will be the second part of The Beginning. ❤🖤

"Stop! Please! Just let her go! Joker, please! Please stop hurting her!" I scream as I watch the horror that's in front of me. Sally, my best friend in the entire world, who I love more than anything in this universe, being beaten to death. "Oh come on, kid! Lighten up! Have a little fun!" The Joker exclaimed while laughing like a madman. He leans down in front of me and lifts my chin up with the crowbar in his hand. "Come now, honey bun! You're not going to miss the best part, now are you? We're just getting started!" He then walks over and crouches down to Sally, pushing the bloody crowbar into her bruised ribs, making her whince in pain. "You've been a very bad girl, miss McKenna. So you must be punished." He lifts the crowbar off of her, and drops it to the floor.

"Prepare yourself for a severe spanking, my darling. But let me tell you right from the start..." he slowly reaches into his jacket pocket and pulls out a gun, and puts it to Sally's temple. "... this is gonna hurt you a lot more then it does me." *BANG* "SALLY, NO!" I jolt upward, with my chest heaving and sweat pouring down my face. I jump when I feel someone's hand on my arm. "Rhiannon, what's the matter? Babygirl, look at me, what's the matter?!" I turn my head and see Sally next to me in bed, with a look of fear on her face, and she doesn't have a mark on her. "Oh my god, Sally..." I lunge at her, wrapping my arms around her neck, holding her tighter then I ever have before, and crying into her shoulder. "You're okay... oh, thank God you're okay..." "Of course I am, babe, why wouldn't I be?"

She starts to pull away, but I pull her back in. "No, not yet. Please, just a minute longer..." She holds me tighter, and starts to run her fingers through my hair, gently rocking back and forth, while softly shushing me at times when she heard me whimper. After a while of holding each other, I finally pull away from her. "So are you gonna tell me what happened?" She says as she strokes my cheek and kisses my forehead. I take a deep breath and tell her. "I had a dream that that psycho clown we see on TV called the Joker, like, kidnapped us and he made me watch as he was..." "Was what?" She asks, gesturing for me to continue. "beating you to death with a crowbar..." I close my eyes tight cause I can feel tears starting to come out. "If you don't wanna continue, babe, it's okay..." She reassures me, rubbing her hand up and down my back.

"No, it's okay. I'm sitting on the floor, with my hands tied behind my back, trying not to look at what he's doing to you, then he says something and pulls out a gun and right when he shot you, that's when I woke up." I start to cry again and she wraps her arms around me, and kisses my temple. "Shhh, baby, it's alright... Joker isn't going to kidnap us, and he couldn't even kill me if he tried. I'm dead, remember?" She throws me a wink, making me smirk. "I know, but it felt so real, and it just scared the living hell out of me." I let her go and start to lay back down, and arch my back when I feel my shirt soaked. "Ugh..." "What's the matter?" I get out of bed and head to the bathroom. "I'm completely soaked in sweat." Sally follows me and leans against the doorway. "How about you take a shower? That'll make you feel better..." I smile and nod, and she starts the shower for me. "If you need anything, just call me, okay?"

She starts to walk away, but I grab her wrist before she can leave. "What's the matter, babe?" I look down cause I'm so nervous to ask her. She takes my face in her hands and lifts my head up to look her in the eyes . "Baby, tell me. What?" "Would you... stay in here with me? I don't wanna be alone." She runs her thumb over my cheek and nods, while putting her forehead against mine. "Of course I will... you want me to get in with you? Only if you're ok with that. I know you've never showered with someone before..." I take a second to think before I slowly nod. She smiles at me sweetly and we got in the shower. She was helping me do my hair, while I was helping her do her's. I've always had trouble washing my hair cause of how long it is. While she was helping me rinse the shampoo out, she started to hear a sniffle.

She knew it was coming from me, so she slowly turns me around to see me with my eyes red and puffy, and tears streaming down my face. "Baby... what's wrong? Why are you crying?" I wrap my arms around her waist and start crying into her shoulder. "I'm sorry. I just can't stop thinking about that dream. I never want anything to happen to you..." Sally starts to shush me softly while holding me tight. "Shhh, it's alright... nothing is gonna happen to me..." I pull away and she wipes my tears away with her thumbs. "I know, but I'm just scared that somehow, someday, something is gonna happen and you'll disappear forever, and I'll never see you again... I don't think I could live without you, Sally..." I start to cry harder and I hold onto her tighter. "Shhhh, it's okay... I'm always gonna be here, sweetheart. I'll always be right by your side, no matter what, okay?"

She pulls away and holds my face in her hands, stroking my cheeks with her thumbs. "You're my best friend, and I love you more than anything in the entire universe... and I would gladly die again for you, without hesitation... and I'd do anything in the world to keep you safe..." I can see tears starting to fall from her eyes, and I wipe her tears away with my thumbs. "When we first met, I promised I'd always protect you no matter what, and that I'd never leave you. And I will never ever break that promise... and I'll do everything in my power to prove it to you, even if it takes me 50 years... and you have no idea how much you mean to me, my sweet girl..." I give her the sweetest smile and I hug her again as tight as I can before we finish showering. We get out and get dressed and sit on the bed, watching Scooby-Doo on the TV. Then she wraps her arm around my neck, pulling me in close to kiss my temple. "I love you, short stack." I laugh and wrap my arms around her waist, hugging her tight. "I love you more, Sal."