#stassidy

Peter knew that Brian had suffered from nightmares. With his little league coach on trial, all the memories of him came rushing back. The nightmares started up again and Peter wasn’t prepared to be waking up at night to hear Brian screaming. Most nights, Peter didn’t get much sleep or waited until extremely late to fall asleep.

Peter watched as Brian was tossing and turning in the bed. He knew any minute now the male would wake up. He watched as sweat was pouring off the male as his eyes quickly opened and he sat straight up. Peter slowly waited a few seconds for Brian to realize where he was before he began to rub his back.

“It’s alright, Brian. It’s just another nightmare.” Peter said soothingly as Brian moved to lay his head against Peter’s chest.

“It-it was him again… Peter, he.. he..” Brian whispered as tears formed in his eyes. Peter held Brian close and kissed his head.

“Hey, Hey. Calm down. He can’t hurt you anymore. You’re safe with me, Brian.” Peter said as he rubbed his back slowly. It took a bit for Brian to calm down but once he did, he was laying on Peter’s chest, his hand slowly rubbing up and down his chest. Peter let out a content sigh.

Peter knew it was hard for Brian to talk about the past. Having him open up about the sexual abuse as a child was hard enough. Now that his past was coming back to haunt him, Peter did everything he could to keep the memories at bay for his boyfriend.

It was the middle of the night when Brian got out of bed. Since the trial, Brian couldn’t get much more than a power nap here and there. Peter woke up the moment Brian got out of the bed, being such a light sleeper lately. Peter slowly opened his eyes and watched Brian leave the bedroom to get a drink in the living room.

“Brian?” Peter softly called our as he walked into the kitchen. Brian was downing a glass of water as he frowned.

“Sorry. I didn’t mean to wake you.” Brown frowned at Peter. Peter chuckled some and gave him a soft kiss on the cheek.

“It’s fine, Bri. I haven’t gotten much sleep lately. You okay?” Peter said as he moved wrap his arms slowly around Brian.

“It’s just been hard lately. I hear him at night when I’m trying to sleep. I can see him when I close my eyes. I can still hear him…” Brian said as he buried his face on Peter’s chest. He held his boyfriend close against him with a sigh.

“I know it’s hard. But remember, we have your first therapy appointment tomorrow. We’ll work through this slowly. Okay, Brian?” Peter reassured him and gently rubbed his back. Brian nodded as he slowly took a few steps back.

This is short, I’ve had this sitting in my box for too long and I am so sorry.

“You think you can just run that pretty mouth of yours whenever you want, don’t you?” Peter glared at Brian. Brian rolled his eyes as he looked at his boyfriend.

“It was a little bar fight. It’s not like the cops were called.” Brian said as he raised a brow.

“They told us that if we didn’t leave, they were calling the cops!” Peter argued to Brian as they continued to walk down the sidewalk.

“You might have to put that mouth of yours to use tonight. To get yourself out of trouble.” Peter said as he placed a kiss to Brian’s temple. A smirk came over Brian’s as he nodded.