Post Dawn

19. Nightmares

"Kill them? All of them?" Mike nodded at Sam's question.

She shook her head a few times looking around the room and then focused her gaze back on him.

"You and I were on the same mountain right? There was at least a dozen of those things left." Sam said to him.

Mike took a breath and nodded. "I know. But we don't have another choice. Its fucking with everyone without them even knowing. That's why Jess feels all weird. Somewhere she knows that- that she's right fuckin' next to that godamn mountain."

Sam nodded. "We can't just- I dont know, hire someone?" Mike started to laugh at Sam and then she gave him a look and he stopped.

"Sorry, sorry. Just- hire someone? You mean like a professional? Where would we even find someone like that?" Mike asked her.

Sam looked down at her lap as she twiddled her fingers.

"I don't know it's just. I dont want to go in blind."

"We went in blind before. And we all survived it then. Why should it be any different now?" Mike asked.

Sam sighed and leaned back onto the bed. "Mike. We all barely got out of there. One little slip up and we would've been dead. I don't know if I can handle that again."

Mike scooted towards Sam on the bed and wrapped his arm around her. He looked over the clock on the table next to him and saw the time read 2:03.

"I know. I know. But we don't have to think about it right now. We can talk more tomorrow or whenever you want to. It doesn't have to be right now. Especially since it's late and I'm exhausted. We haven't been able to sleep through the night since we went up there."

"I don't mind. It keeps me from dreaming about it." Sam explained. Mike nodded in agreement as the two laid down.

"It'll be okay. If you wake up, just wake me up. I'm right here." Mike said to her. Sam smiled slightly and then faced him as she slowly closed her eyes and drifted off as Mike watched her sleeping.

He didn't want to admit it to her but he hoped she would keep him awake longer. He didn't want to have the dreams either. He hated them. He tried to stay awake at all costs.

He moved a strand of Sam's hair out of her face and smiled slightly.

He was falling hard and he wasn't going to try and deny it. He knew himself that he loved this girl. He only wished he had seen it sooner.

He bit his lip at the thought. About how awkward they had been but now they were sleeping in the same bed.

It was the mountain that had brought them together finally but he wasn't sure how Sam really felt. He knew what she said at the hospital and what she did was all her being her. The truth.

But he couldn't just leave it like that. He needed promise. Promise that she wouldn't lie about her feelings to him. For him. He wanted to know her thoughts every time he saw a hurt expression on her face but sadly he couldn't read minds.

Especially not hers. She was so hard to read for him. Then again, she was hard to read for anyone. That is except Josh. He knew how to pick away at her and find everything. Mike envied that.

He wished he could be more like Josh. Except of course his psychotic behavior on the mountain. Sam seemed to be very open to him. His only wish was that he could be there for her like Josh was.

Even if Josh liked her more then what he hoped, he thought maybe he could learn from him. What he did with her and how he acted with her.

Maybe he could make her open up more just based on how he acted.