Zoey lay on the ground, blood covering her chest.

Her parents lay dead in giant red pools of blood.

Rudolph runs over and begins to cradle Zoey.

Rudolph sat up in bed with his heart pounding and covered in sweat. He looked at the clock. It was two in the morning. To make sure he was dreaming, he looked to his right, breathing heavily.

Zoey slept soundly beside him. She wasn't bleeding from her chest. She wasn't injured.

He let out a heavy sigh of relief.

His fiancée woke up from this.

"Rudolph? Are you okay?"

He kissed her full on the mouth before he pulled away.

"Did you have the nightmare again?" she asked, already knowing the answer.

He paused. "Yeah, but let's just go back to sleep."

"Rudolph, why are you having this nightmare over and over?"

Rudolph looked at her. This would be the first time he told her about the details.

"You're covered in blood."

"What?"

"In the dream. I saw your dead parents. And just when when I start to hold you, I feel your body loosing it's warmth."

Zoey was surprised by this. That had happened nearly four years ago.

She threw her foreleg around him. "It's okay, now. I'm alive, and here we are." Then she paused. "My parents would be so happy for us." Tears began to run down her face.

Rudolph hated seeing her like this. He wrapped his forelegs around her and began kissing away her tears.

"They are, Zoey." he said, before kissing her full mouth again. "They are. Now let's go back to sleep."

"Goodnight, Rudolph."

He wrapped a foreleg around her. "Goodnight, sweetie."

She fell asleep immediately.

Rudolph smiled.

He remembered three years ago.