Damn the Dark
Mary-Lynnette woke up in a cold sweat, gasping and clutching at anything within her reach. But she couldn't breathe, despite her best efforts. The air was too thick, the blanket too hot. In fact, everything was too hot. She couldn't scream for help, she was hyperventilating. My God.
And then Ash was grabbing her, shaking her over and over again.
"Mare! Are you alright? Talk to me, please!" he shouted at her. She still couldn't find the breath to conjure up a response, hard as she tried.
Instead she chocked and wildly latched onto him, groping at his bare skin. He held her back as she sobbed on and on, murmuring useless words of comfort in her ear. He sounded calm, but she knew him well enough now to recognize the worry and grief over her suffering that he suppressed for her everyday.
He extended his arm carefully, so as not to disturb her, to turn on the light on the beside table, but Mary-Lynnette's pain stricken voice stopped him in his tracks.
"Don't you dare!" she hissed.
Ash turned back towards her, shocked. Her eyes were reduced to slits and her breath was unsteady.
"Mary-Lynnette. What's wrong?" he stroked her arm soothingly and tried to decipher her thoughts through her eyes by looking deeply into them.
She stared intently back at him, not breaking eye-contact. Fear glittered in the deep blue speckles of her eyes and she slowly came to her senses.
"I don't know," She hesitated. "Just don't turn the light on, all right?"
She turned away from him, pulling the ivory comforter over her head as her breathing slowed.
Ash sat quietly beside her, wondering exactly what had happened just then. He would ask Mary-Lynnette in the morning, when she was more rational and her thoughts weren't clouded with sleep. She was just overtired, that was it.
In the morning everything would be okay…
(A/N) So, I don't really know where I'm going with this. But you know what I like? Reviews. Especially reviews that might give me ideas about the story? I would REALLY love that. I have some ideas, and I will try to update ASAP. Reviews give me motivation, you know.