For the past month, Morrison has had a reoccurring dream.
It happens after he's staked out a place to rest, clearing every entry, blocking every door. Finally then he could remove his visor, reducing his sight to a gray haze before he laid down to rest. Visor was in reach, and so was the pulse rifle. He was getting on in years, but he'd not lost his wits.
It would start as cold. Cold, sharp points lightly dragging down his face before slipping down his chest, causing the skin to prickle but not break. Jack's eyes would fly open, and he'd instinctively reach for his gun, but find that he couldn't move his wrists, couldn't move his arms or legs, he was pinned and exposed for this shadow to touch.
Not much could be seen, given his failing sight- just the dim form of a figure standing above him. They just stood there, only their breath audible in whatever place Jack had shacked up for the night.
Struggling was pointless, and his dream monster never harmed him.
Just touched him.
His claws would caress Jack's body slowly, after a while kneeling beside him to examine the solder's scarred body. At any point, those claws could dive into his skin, break his bones and still his breath-
But they never did. They never so much as drew blood.
The stranger's kiss did though.
It would happen, so suddenly, so hungrily, like the shadowy stranger intended on devouring him. His lips were frozen and cutting, his teeth twisted and sharp and his tongue diving into Jack's mouth and his breath was being sucked away, he could barely breathe but oh did he kiss back, he kissed back hard against the needles and pins until what little sight he had blurred even more and start to fade…
And then he'd be gone. The grip on his body, the jagged lips against his own, all gone. Jack would snatch his visor, gasping for breath and blinking away the dots from his eyes…
To discover he was alone.
It was easier to think they were dreams. Just the dreams of a lonely man, a shadow of Jack Morrison.
But in the morning, he'd taste the blood on his lips.
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