The third time it happened, Atsuki had had a nightmare.
When not on assignment, they stayed at FORT HQ, where there were dorms. Nola and Natsuki shared a room...
...and so did Liu Yee and Atsuki.
As is to be expected, this posed a bit of a problem. The two of them were fully accepting of what was going on between them, but they knew full well they couldn't let anyone else know, or they'd never work together again.
Because of this, there was not much Liu Yee could do but grit his teeth when he woke in the middle of the night to the sound of Atsuki having a dream in which he was doing to him what he would very much like to be doing to him right then. Likewise, Atsuki had to just roll over and keep himself quiet when one of Liu Yee's wet dreams got a bit vocal.
But nightmares were a different thing. Although far less common, they were absolutely terrifying, and had a tendency to reduce even the hardest of ∑ users to shivering children who wanted nothing more an to be comforted. Atsuki had them more often than Liu Yee did, so many a night he had awoken to the quiet sobs of a frightened teenager, but up until recently he hadn't allowed himself to do anything about it. Things had changed between them, though, so one night when Atsuki's lonely cries had awoken him, Liu Yee got up, lifted the still-dreaming boy up off his bed, and carried him back to his own. He had tugged the blanket up over the two of them and was about to go back to sleep when Atsuki opened his eyes.
"Nnh... what...?"
Liu Yee managed a tired half-smile and put an arm over Atsuki's shoulder. "Nightmare. You were dreaming."
"Oh... All right..." He shuffled upwards so that they were eye-to-eye and kissed Liu Yee softly on the cheek, who blushed. "Can I stay here?"
"Sure," sighed Liu Yee, rolling his eyes. "Why not."
Atsuki gave the great shuddering sigh of one who has just cried a good deal, buried his face in Liu Yee's nec, and drifted into a more peaceful sleep.
His bed-mate didn't have quite such an easy time of it, but eventually he got a handle on his raging hard-on, convinced himself that molesting his slumbering co-worker was not a good idea, and succumbed to the dark himself.