Rocket was snapped out of his thoughts when Tia began to stir and soon he saw her eyes flutter open and immediately met his gaze. She smiled before taking in her surroundings and sighed. They just couldn't keep their hands to themselves.

'Morning gorgeous,' Rocket welcomed with a smirk on his face as he began to play with her hair. Tia lifted her head and rested it on his shoulder before resting her eyes and enjoying his company.

'Morning,' she muttered as he began to caress her back, still avoiding her scars as much as possible but Tia had grown used to that. She avoided them as much as she could also like when she had shower, she would always avoid them and even when Rocket bedded her they were both self-conscious of her scars. The scars held too many horrible memories. Enjoying Rocket's sparkling touch on her back, Tia had relaxed too much and it wasn't long until she fell asleep again…

Tia was lying in bed when Rocket suddenly came out of nowhere and slowly began to kiss her neck and wrapped his arms around her. She smiled and enjoyed the feeling before turning round to kiss him. They continued to kiss passionately before Rocket began to lift her shirt. She didn't know why; but she refused him but he wasn't giving up. He wanted her and wanted her now but in a different way than what she was expecting… Tia broke away from his lips to tell him out straight.

'Rocket, no,' she said firmly but he continued. 'Rocket…' she hissed at him and tried to push him off but he pinned her hands above her head and despite putting up a fight, Rocket somehow managed to pop her shirt up over her head but Tia felt extremely uncomfortable. Something wasn't right; she could feel it. 'Rocket, please, no…' she pleaded with him but he continued; working on his clothing and the rest of hers while sitting on her thighs so she couldn't kick him and somehow managed to keep her hands above her head. 'Rocket, let me go…please,' she pleaded with him but he completely ignored her. 'Rocket, please…' she tried again but what he did next shocked her. Suddenly she felt something punch her stomach making her curl up in a ball and it wasn't until she had registered the pain and what had happened that she realised she realised it was Rocket's fist that had collided with her stomach. She couldn't believe it. He hit her; Rocket actually hit her! She was in so much shock that she couldn't speak or move but Rocket was well capable of doing both.

'Now, shut up and oblige!' he hissed at her before continuing to her strip her and every time she pleaded with him to stop or even spoke at all; he would continue to abuse her and Tia could've sworn that most of her ribs were already broken he was hitting her that hard and the pain was unbearable. Once they were both undressed, Rocket was still unhappy as he bedded her maliciously, causing Tia to remember many painful memories. Please tell me this is just a dream, please she thought over and over again as Rocket continued to rape and beat her…

Tia screamed out in pain and shot up before curling herself up in a ball. The nightmares she had with her Dad in them were nothing compared to the one she had just had. Suddenly, she felt arms wrap around her and she then remembered where she was and who she was with. With that in mind, she also remembered the dream she was after having and jumped out of his arms down to the bottom of the bed.

'Don't touch me!' she yelled at him and he stayed where he was; knowing she was frightened.However, he had no idea as to why she seemed to be frightened of him.

'Tia, it's ok now. I'm here,' he assured her, staying where he was as it was what she was wanted and it was obvious she was particularly frightened and he didn't want to frighten her more. Little did he know; he had already scared her enough…

'That's the problem Rocket, you're here…in a bed…' she muttered and gulped before jumping off the bed and going to the other side of the room. Why was she scared of him? He could tell she was but he didn't know why; he would never dream of hurting her.

'Tia, I won't hurt you; you know that!' he tried to assure her knowingly but after having that dream, Tia found it hard to believe. Yes, it was only a dream but she couldn't help but have a bad feeling about it; she could sense something was wrong so she couldn't help but not believe him.

'I did know that Rocket, not now…' she confessed, tears welling up in her eyes. She wanted so hard to believe he wouldn't hurt her and cry into his shoulder while he comforted her and told her he loved her but the feeling she had in the pit of her stomach told her differently.

'Tia, come on! You know I'll never hurt you! You've been hurt enough, I would never, ever do anything to hurt you, I swear!' he promised her and looked at her for any sign that she had given in. She bit on her bottom lip and looked at him nervously. She could see it in his eyes that he meant it…for now at least. She sighed before asking him.

'Promise?' she questioned just to be sure. That nightmare had her extremely weary and she knew there would be no sex for a while until she was positive it wouldn't happen. Again, this was the fault of the feeling she had in her gut.

'I promise you,' he assured her and she sighed in defeat. She believed he wouldn't hurt her (for now) but she knew shaking the feeling in her stomach would be hard. 'Come here Tia, talk to me,' he pleaded and she slowly walked over next to him before he slowly locked her wrists as she stood next to him and pulled her into a tight embrace but was careful with her as he could tell she was still weary of him for whatever reason. He knew it had to do with the dream but he didn't know what could be in the dream to think he would hurt her. He hated seeing her hurt but if he ever caused her pain he knew that would hurt even more and it hurt him a lot the thought of her thinking that he would hurt her…

'Are you ok?' he asked worriedly a while later. She had been so quiet and she still hadn't relaxed even in his warm embrace. She was so tense and nervous. It broke his heart seeing her so still, so tense and so…not her. Thankfully she nodded.

'A little better, yeah,' she said but didn't really believe it herself. She felt better but still wary of him. She wasn't sure if it was the shock or whatever but she knew that the feeling in her stomach would not go away for a long time as the weariness which she knew would prevent her from sleeping with him for a while.

'Tia, what was the dream about? Why are you scared I would hurt you? I would never do that so why would you think that?' he asked and she looked up at him, biting on her bottom lip before finally admitting her dream to him. She tried her best not to cry and she didn't know why but she didn't want to cry so he could comfort her. Quite frankly at the end of the explanation, Tia was even afraid to be in his arms but he kept a tight grip on her so she couldn't much which didn't help her fear but she was too scared to speak up. At the end of it, Tia stopped and tried to hold on to the tears. She wasn't going to give in to him but suddenly, Rocket let her go and she got off him but before she could go anywhere, Rocket gripped her shoulders before going into a speech.

'Tia, I can tell you're worried about if that ever happened but Tia, I swear to you that I would never, ever hurt you! You can trust me on that! I love you too much! Please tell me you believe me,' he pleaded and placed his forehead on hers. He needed her to believe him as it was the truth; he would never, ever hurt her.

'Rocket, I want to but I can't shake this feeling I have,' she confessed to him earnestly. She wanted to believe him but the feeling she had was preventing her from doing so.

'Ok…just give it time then. Just wait and you'll see that I'll never hurt you and you'll shake that feeling, I promise,' he then took in for a warm embrace and kissed her forehead but Tia knew that the dream meant something but what? She did know though that something bad was just around the corner…