#c;verse

22. waking someone up from a nightmare

Oleander and Cygnus

Cygnus was prone to nightmare. There were days that he wouldn’t even bother sleeping because he could feel the fear creeping up on him and catching him in a vice like grip.

But that night he was sleeping like the dead. Ollie usually made he comfortable enough to keep the nightmares. It’s too bad Cygnus couldn’t do the same for him.

The bed was shaking and for a second he thought there was an earth quake. Then he heard the whimper and realized it was his boyfriend, thrashing as he had a nightmare. Sitting up he looked at the God for a moment not sure what to do. It was usually the other way around, he had never had to wake someone up from a nightmare.

"Ollie," He called out worriedly, the whimpering got louder and his heart pounded in his chest. "Ollie, wake up!" He reached out to touch him and the touch seemed to send the other over the end as he jerked awake screaming. "Oleander! Calm down! Ollie! It’s me Cyguy!"

It seemed to take a second for the God to register what was going on and he blinked at Cygnus his chest still heaving. “Cyguy?” He whimpered.

His arms hung in the air where Oleander was just standing. He slowly lowers them as he frowned at the other. He didn’t think about that. He didn’t think about Ollie and how he felt, he was so wrapped up in his own little bubble of self hate that he couldn’t see the damage he was doing to his boyfriend an this relationship.

He looked over to his half naked boyfriend and smiled from where he was sitting on the counter. "I'm wearing it. I figured you can't go out without a shirt, so now you're trapped in my house!"

He tried not to listen to the other’s words. Tried to keep himself distant from the other. But his hand is taken and placed over the God’s beating heart. He swallowed hard and doesn’t say anything. There was nothing to say. He merely stood and felt the heart beat under his hand and tried not to hear the words. Tried not to hear them. But even as he tried he still heard them and they were accompanied by a whisper of the word lies.

Cygnus watched worriedly as he watch Seth's eyes flicker between the book and his face. The smile came to his face and he was even more worried as he covered his face with the book. "You just came up with a bad idea." He moaned, knowing it to be true. As if to prove his point Seth uttered the words I have an idea. He felt Seth shift and he lifted the book so that he could see his boyfriend kneeling over his ankles.