Prompt: (#21) Lightly kiss their collarbone and their jawbone just below the ear, then whisper I love you.
The Kindest Love Is Still Bleeding From the Last Shot...
(Good Morning Fire Eater- Copeland)
Severus Snape had nightmares... a secret that he guarded fiercely throughout his life, and usually preemptively remedied with the use of dreamless sleep... though he was careful about his intake. Being a spy, he didn't have the luxury in life to indulge in state-altering substances.
Although, nightmares was perhaps too tame a term. Night terrors was much closer to the reality- in which he woke with his heart racing, a scream caught in his roughened throat, while cold sweat coated his skin, his wand usually in hand and his gaze frantically whipping about to ensure his safety.
Luna herself, not immune to certain sleep disorders, tended to suffer from sleep-walking.
Nightmares were something, even in spite of all she'd seen and been through, exceedingly rare for her.
But even so, her heart went out to the man who usually suffered from insomnia. All that plagued his mind keeping him from being able to rest properly, as much as he was perhaps, running from what he'd find in his dreams.
Dreams, Luna felt, should be a place of calm and rest- a place where all that seems unachievable becomes possible.
And so she took it upon herself, to keep watch over his dreams.
And when she would see his brow furrowing, or his breathing pattern change... before he'd start to whisper the name of the ghost that haunted his every waking moment, she would lean into him, her fingers lightly smoothing over his face in feathery-touches.
She would trace whispering kisses over his furrowed brow, down his nose, pause briefly at his lips, perhaps even kiss his collarbone, before laying a kiss on his jaw, just below his ear and then she would whisper in her most soothing and softest of tones that he was safe... and he was loved. That she loved him... that she would protect him...
That she wouldn't leave him.
Never.
~Fin~
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