AU GreedIzumi drabble, made as a companion to a pg-13 fanart of mine which you can find here: and Izumi are not mine, otherwise I'd find a way to make them canon...
Keep the nightmares away
Anytime he closed his eyes to rest, it felt just too much dam similar to that. He turned over, rolled on the mattres, reminding himself that he was free, no straps holding his arms and legs, nothing to prevent him from getting up, walking to the window and opening it, from breathing the cold air of the night. Still, it deeply bothered him, to the point he often gave up, went down to the bar again to drink, talk, hook with someone, till his body craved for some minutes of unconsciousness, something far too desperate to be called sleep. He didn't realize that, as he fell to darkness of mind, his shield surfaced to cover his whole body, protecting it.
She was quite surprised the first time she happened to see it, when she felt his body turning to something cold as metal, freezing her skin. It wasn't the first time she saw the shield, obviously, still she was angered enough she got ready to throw him out of the bed and against the wall for startling her in such a situation. It was the moonlight to save him, trailing over the dark shield to his head as the clouds moved. For being an ugly mask under which he didn't like to be seen, it showed well enough its owner's unrest. She felt her anger drain away as she looked at the pained way his eyes were tightly shut. No way to know what he was dreaming about… but Izumi reached to take him again into her arms, slowly massaging the hard surface of his shoulders and of the back of his head, and when she finally felt the coldness retreat under her hands, fingers now caressing soft black hair, and the face of her lover, of her man, smiling to her into his dreams she finally let herself draft to sleep, content.
FIN