"Ville, sweetie you have to fall asleep at some point." Bam said watching Ville pace back and forth in the living room.
Ville hadn't slept in the last two days and it was making Bam and the others worry increasingly about him.
"I can't, Bam. I have to stay awake to keep you alive." Ville said pacing faster.
Bam got up and stopped Ville's pacing with his hands on his shoulders. "Baby, nothing is going to happen to me, okay? Whatever it is in your dream that scaring you is just a dream." he told him pulling him into an embrace. "Dreams don't hurt people. They just torment them."
Ville relaxed against Bam's comforting embrace. /He's right. They are just dreams that won't hurt anyone./
Right when Ville was going to completely relax and make his way out of Bam's embrace and into the embraces of a comfortable bed that he's been neglecting for the last two days, someone behind him grabbed him and screamed "Got'ya!"
Ville screamed in a high pitched voice and elbowed them in the face.
"Novak! That's so not cool!" Bam yelled at his retarded friend.
Novak looked up at Bam holding his bleeding nose. "I didn't think he take it that bad." He said wiping the blood on his fake leather jacket.
"Not take it that bad? Dude, he hasn't slept in two fucking days because of nightmares. What part of scaring him more didn't seem that bad to you?" Bam continued to scold Novak as Ville sat on the floor between them rocking and crying.
"Well…I…uh…I…don't know." Novak replied starting to feel bad.
"What's going on in here?" Ape asked coming into the house. "Oh Ville, what happened?" She asked spotting him on the floor still rocking and crying.
Ape went over to Ville and wrapped her arm around his shoulders and hushed him.
"Fucking Novak scared the shit out of him when I about had him going to bed." Bam told his mother still yelling.
Dunn and Jess came up behind Novak. "You're an asshole." Jess said slapping him in the back of the head before checking on Ville himself.
"You're such a fucking dickhead." Dunn snapped giving Novak an atomic wedgie. Novak howled as his dingy underwear disappeared up into his ass.
"Come on, Ville, let's go have some skullcap tea." Ape said helping Ville up, "It'll soothe your nerves and take away your anxiety." She told him leading him to the kitchen, her arm still around his shoulders.
Bam looked at Novak, who was still digging his underwear out of his ass. "Don't go anywhere near Ville again until his better, Brandon. He doesn't need you scaring him when he's scared to start with." He told the other man. "If I see you around him or doing anything that will scare him, I'll pound you face in." He warned him.
"So will I." Dunn added in.
"That goes for me too." Jess added in as well.
"Then where I am supposed to go? Ville's always here, making it impossible for me to avoid him unless I leave." Novak asked clearly upset.
"Not our issue." Jess said pushing Novak out of the house.
Ape sat Ville down at the dining room table, and then made her way to the cabinets for the tea cups and skullcap tea.
"So, what's been going on with you lately, Ville?" She asked putting a kettle of water on the stove.
"Haven't been sleeping is all." Ville sniffed wiping his runny nose on the back of his hand.
"Well, there has to be a reason for you not sleeping." Ape said sitting across from him.
Ville sighed and rubbed his hands over his tired face. "I've been dreaming about some demon called Legion torturing me in cruel medieval ways."
Shocked flashed on Ape's face, before it turned to understanding. "Do you know anything about the demon named Legion, Ville?" She asked him.
Ville shook his head.
"Well, I do." She said, "Would you like to know it?"
"If it can make my nightmares go away, then yes I would like to know it." Ville answered.
"Well," Ape sighed getting up as the kettle started to whistle, "Legion is a demon from the Christian bible. He first appears in Mark 5:9 "Then Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" "My name is Legion," he replied, "for we are many." Ape set the tea filled cups down on the table and sat back down in her spot.
"What's that suppose to mean, Ape?" Ville asked sipping his tea.
"It means that Legion was possesed by many demons." Ape said sipping her own tea.
"But what does it mean for me?" Ville asked, "Why is this person possessed by countless demons torturing me?"
"It's not really him that's torturing you, it's you torturing you. There's something going on in your mind that's bothering you so bad that it's making these nightmares and demons to come out." She explained.
Ville stared down at the loose leafs floating in his tea. "I don't know what it could be though, April." He whispered. "Maybe I should see a professional."
Ape reached out and took hold of Ville's hand, "If that's what you want to do then I will help you find the right person to help you sort this all out, so you can get back yourself again."
Ville looked up at the woman across from him and looked into her loving and caring eyes. "I would appreciate that."
Ape smiled at Ville and gave his hand a gentle squeeze. "Okay then, I'll find someone that can help you."
"Thank you, Ape."
"Anything for you, Ville, you're like a son to me."
Bam came down the stairs, "Are you okay, Ville?"He asked kissing Ville's neck.
"Yeah, I'm okay now."Ville replied.
"Good, I kicked Novak out of the house." Bam said sitting next to Ville.
"Did you?"
"Yeah, he won't bother you anymore."
Ville turned to Bam. "Bam, I'm going to see someone that can help me sort out my dreams and stuff."
Bam pressed his lips together.
"I'm not going to leave. I mean like see a psychiatrist in an out patient type situation." Ville told him.
Bam nodded, "I support you, Ville." he said, "I just want you to be okay and to be yourself again. If that takes a psychiatrist, then I'll support you in it."
Ville kissed Bam deeply on the lips. "Thank you, Bammie." he mumbled against his lips.
"You're welcome, Willa."