CAPTIVATE: MIDNIGHT FRIGHT AND AWKWARD CONVERSATIONS

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-----------------------------------------PATCH POV--------------------------------------------------

"PATCH!" Nora screams sitting up in bed. I up next to her, my eyes bright, alert, looking for danger, I scan the room for any sign of anyone who would even begin to dream about hurting my Angel.

"What is it Angel?" I ask, trying to push her behind me but she isn't cooperating. She keeps trying to examine my chest.

"Nora, I know I'm irresistible but why are you staring at my chest?" I'm only joking, but she doesn't notice.

"The blood," she moans "There was so much blood. Where's the blood?"

That's when it hits, she had a dream about me, and the blood she thinks is real.

I chuckle. "Nora… hey I'm fine."

She looks up at me with her wide eyes full of confusion and worry. I feel a rush of tenderness for this little human girl who captured my heart. "it was just a dream, my Angel, just a dream, I'm okay, you're okay, we're okay. Go back to sleep My love, it will fade in the morning."

She nods and presses her face into my white shirt, "I love you, I love you so much." She whispers, her voice is harsh, broken.

I kiss her head repeatedly, too overwhelmed to speak.

She slumps back into my chest in sleep. Her hands grip on my shirt. I fall back on the pillows and wrap one arm over her waist, hugging her to me. The other arm I use to play with her beautiful silky hair.

I lift a strand gently to my nose, letting the sweet smell, almost like vanilla. Like the shampoo she used.

I rub my fingers together, I frown, wishing I could feel how soft it must feel.

Her grip on my shirt tightens. Tears slip from beneath her closed eyelids. " Don't hurt him, please don't hurt him," she begs "Hurt me instead." Tears drip down her cheek and I wipe them away gently. I always have to be so careful with her. One little mistake and she's gone forever.

If she dies, I know I'll die with her. Well the shell of Patch will still survive, but I wont. The soul, or whatever that's inside me will die with her.

She sits up and screams. I grab her in my arms. "Shh… Baby shh…" I croon to her and she falls back on my chest.

"Sorry Patch." She mutters.

I laugh. "I'm in your bed, holding you in my arms and you just screamed. You don't have much to be sorry for."

She opens one eye as the blood fills her face. "Does everything have to be an innuendo with you?"

I touch her cheek and smirk at her. "You know you love me for it." I say in falsetto.

Nora's mom knocks on the door. "Nora, Honey, are you okay? I heard you scream." She opens the door slowly and Nora looks at me in horror.

I smirk at her and make myself invisible before she has a heart attack.

I touch Nora's mind ' relax Angel she can't see me.' I run my hand up her thigh. She slaps it away. Her mom looks confused.

"It was a particularly annoying insect, I didn't mean to wake you up. I had a bad dream." She says.

Mrs. Grey bites her lip "Nora, can we talk since we're both awake at this ungodly hour?"

Nora sits up further on the pillows. She runs her hand through her auburn hair, I fallow the motion with my fingers and kiss below her ear. "Uh… I guess so." I smirk as she tilts her head so I have better access to her sweet skin.

I know what's coming when Mrs. Grey sits on the edge of the bed. I lick the place I just kissed and wrap my arms possessively over Nora's waist.

"You and Patch seem to be getting pretty serious and I just want to be sure you're being careful." Mrs. Grey says, looking concerned and nervous.

I blow on the wet skin and Nora jerks, her face flooding with color. "Mom do we have to do this now?" she asks.

'Yes Nora,' I whisper in her mind. 'I so want to heat this.' I suck on her ear. She gasps.

"Of course Honey, I just want to ask one question. Do you love him?" Mrs. Grey asks.

Nora flushes again, "I- I think so, but how do you know?" her voice becomes troubled and I feel bad for her. I pull her closer to me.

"You'll figure it out dear," Mrs. Grey says, patting Nora's hands before getting up with a quiet goodnight.

I kiss her and chuckle " go to sleep my love." Her eyes open wide.

"Do you really mean that?" she sounds vulnerable.

"Do I mean what? I ask absently stroking her hair.

"Love me?" her voice is tiny, her eyes downcast.

I sit up straight. "Of course I love you, I love you so much. Don't you know that?" I sound distressed. I hate that.

"You've never said it before." Nora's voice is small, but not as small as before.

"Then I'll keep saying it, over and over and over." I say, touching her blushing cheeks. "Now go to sleep Angel, I'll still be here in the morning."

She yawns and licks her lips. I fallow her tongue with my eyes. "I don't want to."

"If you don't sleep now I'll be too tempted to kiss more then your sweet mouth. Something lower." I let my eyes linger on her chest before lifting my eyes to hers.

I know my eyes are dark and heated, she gulps and nods, her eyes wide until she obediently closes them.

I kiss her eyelids as she drifts to sleep.

I watch her sleep until her breath slows further as she enters REM. I wonder what she dreams.

My dreams are deep and full of Nora's sweet scent.

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