Nightmare

(Set post-"Bad Code.")

Sometimes he wakes up in a cold sweat.

Throughout his captivity, listening to Root spill details about his life, he had lived in fear of hearing one particular name. She couldn't have known about Grace—but she knew so many things she shouldn't have. Whenever she had mentioned his past, he'd tensed, waiting for the name that never came.

But now, in his nightmares, she gives him that sickening smile and whispers it, and he starts awake. Sometimes he lies there in the dark, wondering what he would have done if she really had spoken it.

He has no answer.