Title: A Living Nightmare

Title: A Living Nightmare

Author: mecha_borg

E-mail: mecholah@austin.rr.com

Rating: PG

Disclaimer: They aren't mine. Short, sweet, and to the point.

Author's notes: Well, I've never really written a fic by myself before, so... I thought I'd just write a small one in my spare time. I wrote this a LONG time ago, but my sister tried to get me to write more, which didn't work out. So, I'm posting it now, as is. By the way, this is from Darien's point of view.

I stood, my hand around his throat again, wondering if this time I would succeed with the goal I'd had for over a year now. He gasped in pain like in my dreams. Dreams in which I shot him, strangled him, and threw him of the edge of a cliff... but he came back every time I killed him then, would it be the same this time? Is this yet another dream? In all my dreams it was I who'd died and not he, would history repeat itself and somehow turn the tide against me? Suddenly he had a gun in his hand and put it up to my head... he pulled the trigger…

I jumped up in bed to find one of my pillows clutched between my hands, the other pillow across the room. I got up out of bed to get it. I put the pillows back on the bed and looked at my clock, 3:47 AM. I got up and washed my face. The cool water felt good. I decided to read some quotes to help myself relax. It was getting harder to sleep at nights. I would have liked to have one night of decent sleep, just one. But as long as Arnaud was living I knew that wouldn't be happening.

I shut my eyes and images from the dream kept coming back to me. Horrible images I wanted to forget. I opened my eyes and looked at my clock, 4:03 AM. This night was going to be long.