Waking from a Nightmare with The Bad Batch
Tags: Nightmares, comfort, bed sharing, fake character death, tw: techs death
Scenario: You and your Batcher are sleeping together when you start having a nightmare, a nightmare that you lose them. You bolt upright as you scream their name and they wake up beside you.
"Hunter!" You scream his name as you wake from your dream, the covers being yanked off of the both of you as you sit up.
Your heart is pounding, and tears are spilling from your eyes creating rivers down your face. Hunter sits up beside you, places a hand on your shoulder and coos at you softly
"Hey, hey. Shh. It's ok" He pulls at your shoulder slightly and you lean back into his chest, soft sobs escaping your lips as you remember your dream.
"Oh my sweet baby boy" Hunter pulls you closer and begins to stroke your hair. You continue to sob, you can't help it.
The scene replays in your head, over and over making you cry harder. He simply holds you letting you cry it out until you can take in enough air to speak.
"Do you want to tell me about it?" Hunter asks tentatively you sniff and attempt to wipe away the trail of tears, but they continue to flow.
"It was a Separatist ship, we had been stationed there and Grevious showed up, he...you...I watched him...put his blade through you" You begin to cry more as you recount your dream to him.
He holds onto you tightly still lightly shushing in your ear and brushing his hands through your hair.
"I'm not going anywhere, it'll take a lot more than a laser sword to bring me down" he squeezes your shoulder and plants a kiss on your neck, he continues to hold you tight until you completely calm down again.
"Crosshair!" you reach out and clutch at his sleeping figure beside you.
You grip onto his arm with such strength your knuckles crack. He wakes up beside you and grabs your arm in return, in your hazy state you don't notice as he tries to pry your hand away.
"Hey" he shakes you lightly to bring you out of your frightened hazy state.
You look down at your hand that was clutched around Crosshair's wrist. You let go like his skin burned you and gasp.
"I'm- I'm sorry," you say through sobs, you can see the red marks you left on his wrist and guilt now floods your being alongside terror.
"I'm sorry" you struggle to say again but he stops you.
He takes your shaking hands in his placing his thumbs on your palms rubbing small circles into your skin.
"Breathe, follow me" and so slowly he breathes in and out and you follow with him. Bringing your heart rate down to its usual pulse.
"Better?" he says quietly, and you nod in response.
It's all you can manage right now. Tears still fall here and there dripping into the space between the two of you. He wipes away the stray tears from your face.
"Another nightmare?" he asks and you nod again "What was it this time? Friendly fire or a Sith?" he says it jokingly, but you scowl at him and shake your head
"Neither you fell from the ship. It was a fire fight and we had to swerve out of the way...and you fell" You gulp trying to stay calm, but the fear rises in you again.
The small grin that was on his face fell instantly. Yeah, not the time for jokes. He brings your hand to his lips and places a soft kiss to it.
"I'm never going to leave you, not willingly"
You almost believe him. Almost.
You lay forwards and place your head on his lap taking his hand and bringing it to your mouth to kiss the marks you left behind.
"Wrecker!" you must've been yelling in your sleep before you came to your senses because Wrecker already had both his hands on your shoulders and was shaking you relatively forcefully.
You gasp when you fully awaken and realise the situation you are in. Your face feels wet. You're crying?
"Oh, kriff, I didn't know how to wake you" Wreckers voice shook as he says this, worry laced in his voice.
"What's wrong?" he asks. You open your mouth to speak but all that comes out is a shuddering breath
"Hey, you know what, forget that. Just c'mere" without waiting for you to move on your own he picks you up bridal style and holds you to his chest as if you weigh nothing. To him you probably do.
You hide you face in the crook of his neck, tears dampening his shirt collar
"Do you uh, wanna try and talk to me about it again?" without removing your face from his neck you mumble
"You died" your breath hitting his neck as you spoke.
"What?" he asks disbelievingly
"You died" you say again bluntly "The droids swarmed you and backed you off a cliff. I didn't get to you in time"
You start crying again, rough breaths leap from your throat and choked gasps follow with them. Wrecker puts a hand on the back of your head holding you close.
"That is never going to happen, okay? I can fight off swarms of Clankers all day, every day, you don't have to woryr about that one bit. You hear me? And I know you'll always have my back. I trust you"
"Nah that's just a dream, you always have my back during missions. I got you and you got me!"
You look up at him and give him a kiss on the shoulder. He returns the affection with a kiss on your head.
"Echo!" your eyes fly open and you gasp, you toss from side to side looking for Echo but he wasn't in the bed next to you
"Oh, kriff. Echo!?" you shout louder this time, and you hear quick footsteps getting closer and suddenly the door slides open. Echo was by your side in an instant.
"I'm here, I'm here. I'm sorry" you look into his golden eyes, full of light and colour. You put your hand on his face and chest, feeling his warmth and his heartbeat. It's still strong still thrumming with the essence of life.
"Thanks the stars" you sigh.
He places one of his hands over your own, the one on his heart
"Are you alright?" you take in a shaky breath, closing your eyes.
"I'm fine now. But...I wasn't...you. You died, in my dream and then I couldn't find you"
Echo exhaled sharply and a look of sadness creased his brow "I'm so sorry, darling. but I'm here now. I won't leave" he pulls you towards him and wraps his arms around your back.
"Tech!" you roll over abruptly and reach for Tech, he wakes up abruptly and reaches for his goggles, pulling them on.
"Please remove your hand and calm down"
You take you hand away from his shirt where you tangled it the material "Kriff sorry"
"That is alright" he curls your fingers over and places his hand on top them.
He extends two fingers and presses them to your wrist, his fingers cold against your skin. He looks at your face, but you look away, you can feel tears welling in your eyes and you don't want him to see
"Were you having a nightmare?"
"How could you tell?" you say sarcastically
"Well judging by your pulse, your lack of eye contact and the rate in which you inhaling and exhaling, that is what lead me to my conclusion"
You look at him now, a dead panned expression on your face
"Oh you weren't being genuine" you sigh and look away again
"I'm sorry, I just- yeah it was a nightmare" you rub at your eyes trying to clear your vision and your tears, but they keep flowing.
You continue to rub at them, irritated you sigh heavily. He takes your other hand and holds that one in the same fashion as the first.
"Would you care to tell me what it was that you dreamed of? Perhaps I can help ease the emotional distress?"
You sigh once more and begin to tell him of your dream "We were on Eiradu, I think, I recognised the rail car. You were hanging from a broken one, I could see you but you fell, there was nothing for me to do, I couldn't reach you, and then you were gone"
Tech hums thoughtfully "Well that is highly improbable, I don't see a scenario where that would be the outcome"
"Improbable but not impossible?" you clarify
"Well...considering all that has happened and could happen in a universe as vast as ours nothing is impossible"
You smile, it amazes you how clearly logical Tech can be but its soothing in away, almost like he has all the answers, or close enough to give you comfort.
"I can see you are feeling better. Do you wish to try and sleep or perhaps a round of Dejarik?"
You chuff at him "I could go for around of Dejarik"
This was very spontaneous and for some reason gave me a huge headache but it's fine. I really like these :) Hope you enjoyed too!
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