Her Darkest Dreams
By Kimberly Brame
Chapter 1
She knew where she was even before she opened her eyes. It was the smells that told her where she was, it the kind of smell that you only have to smell once and you'll never forget it again. It was the smell of mold and piss and blood mix with sweat and sex.
Slowly she opened her eyes and looked at the man that was standing in front of her. She didn't know the man's name. She only knew his face and voice and the hardness of his fist.
He always came to see her. He would laugh as he ordered his men to chain her to the ceiling by her arms and neck with her feet still chained to the floor. He would then order his men to leave. Most of the times he would stay for what felt like years but could only have been hours. He would yell at her while punching and beating with any thing he could get a hold of that would hurt her but not kill her. He favored a whip that had glass or metal in the ends of it, cat of nine tails. Then he would inject her with something that made her blood feel like it was on fire causing her to scream in pain. He would keep injecting her with it till she was begging him to kill her. Then he would force himself on her. He would do this over and over till she pasted out.
But today was different, today he had another man with him. He and the other man undressed in front of her, both taking their time. She wanted to close her eyes but feared if she did that they would inject her with that stuff if she did. Slowly they both came at her, one from behind the other from the front. Both men started grabbing, slapping, pouching and biting at her body. The looks in their eyes scared her and she begged and pleaded with them to stop and not hurt her anymore.
Then suddenly they both rushed at her slamming them self's in to her swollen body causing her to scream out in pain.
Wufei jumped at the blood curling scream Melody let out in her sleep, waking him from his. As fast as he could he turned on the light and grabbed her, trying to wake her up.
After two years he thought he would be use to her nightmares but every night still felt like the first time. At first she couldn't remember anything from her past and had slept like a small child, only waking up screaming once in a while from a nightmare. But in the last year the nightmares started coming more often. It had gotten to the point that Wufei had given up sleeping in his own room and bed so that he could be right there with her when she needed him during the night, which is how he found himself holding Melody curled up to his chest sobbing.
A minute or two past and the door to their bedroom to revile four very sleepy looking ex-pilots crowed around their door. Heero was standing at the front of the group holding his gun lose in his hand. After taking in the room he put his gun down on the table use inside the bedroom door and moved so the others could get in the room. It had been sometime since one of her nightmares had woken everyone up. The other four though that her nightmares had all but stopped shortly after Wufei had started sleeping in the same bed as her. Wufei hadn't told them that they where getting worse because she had asked him not to say anything.
Trowa set down beside of Wufei and pulled Melody's feet into him lap and softly rubbed the bottom of them.
"Make it go away." She sobbed into Wufei's chest.
"Make what go away, sweetie?" Duo asked squatting down in front of Trowa and Wufei.
"The sounds, feeling, all of it" She whimpered still sobbing
"Quatre, my flute please" Trowa mumbled softly looking over at his boyfriend with a sad smile.
"Sure thing"
Later that night, after the guys had gotten Melody back to sleep, Quatre, Wufei, Heero and Duo set in the living room talking.
"I though the nightmares had finally stopped" Duo yawned as he laid his head on Heero's lap.
"No, they haven't" Wufei mumbled from the chair across the room "If anything they are getting worse"
"What do you mean?" Quatre asked setting his tea down on the coffee table in front of him.
"It's getting harder and harder to wake her up each time and she is having them almost every single night."
"Do you think subconsciously she is trying to remember more and that is what is causing the nightmares?" Heero asked as he braided some of Duo's hair.
"I don't really know, she won't talk about the dreams, she just cries." Wufei sighed slumping in his chair feeling helpless.
"I just wish we could stop them." Trowa mumbled sleepily as he entered to room and set down between Quatre's legs and yawned.
"This is bull shit!" Quatre exclaimed after a couple minutes causing everyone to up and look at him. "We can save the world and colonies but we can't help one girl."
"Don't think about it, Q-man" Duo said standing and helping Heero stand as well "If you dwell on it you'll do nothing more than make your self sick."
"Duo is right, we all need to get some sleep" Heero said shifting a yawn
"Yea, we can talk more about this later." Wufei yawned as he back to bed as well.
"Night guys" Quatre said waving goodnight to the others as Trowa pulled him back to their room.
Wufei entered his and Melody's bedroom, and a soft smile came to his face at what he saw. Melody was curled up to the stuffed dragon he had given her when she had first come to live with them. He loved to watch her sleep sometimes; she looked like a small child the way she curled around the dragon. He love how she wasn't afraid to show him her weakness. Wufei tried to remember what it was like before she had come in to his life but couldn't and felt like his chest was going to brake if he kept trying. That is when he finally understood all the things he had been feeling for the last year and a haft.
He had fallen in love with her.
To Be Continued
