Tegan Chronicles Sanctuary Style 2:

Flights of Fancy 7:

What Dreams May Come

Helen leaned in and sighed into her shoulder. She had double-checked the restraints and made sure they weren't too tight. But with Tegan's strength she had to make sure she couldn't get out either. Of course she could always punish her if she did, but being their first time together she didn't want to resort to more painful techniques. Still old habits die-hard and she lowered her lips to her nipple biting it until she heard a pleasurable whimper escape from Tegan's throat. She moved to the other one before kissing a wet trail down her abdomen.

She inhaled the sweet musky smell and flicked her tongue across the tight pink nub and then down through the folds. She slipped one finger into the wet fleshy warmth and plunged it in as deep as it would go before adding another and yet another stretching her to her limit. Her fingers pounding in and out of her.

"Magnus."

"Hmmm?" Helen blinked her eyes and looked up to see Will staring down at her. "I'm sorry, I must have dosed off."

"Well, it is two am." He smiled. "I saw the light was still on and you didn't answer the first time I called your name. You should probably head to bed, you'll be more comfortable there."

Helen nodded and stood. She took a tired step toward the lamp on her desk.

"I've got it." He turned her toward the door.

A few minutes later she found herself standing outside Tegan's door. The cool metal doorknob burning her hand, she started to turn it and stopped. She had no right. And then she heard it; a scream that made her feel like someone had just sucked all the oxygen out of the atmosphere.

When she opened the door Tegan was sitting straight up in bed. Her respirations were shallow ragged panting as if she'd just been chased for miles by some overtly evil clown. Her eyes flashed up at Helen before the light flickered and died.

"Tegan?" Helen stepped into the room wondering if she had just woken the entire Sanctuary.

"I'm fine." Tegan fell back onto the bed, her hair plastered against a sweaty forehead.

"Bad dream?" Helen knew that was an understatement. The last time she'd heard a scream like that, come to think of it she wasn't sure she'd ever heard a scream quite like that.

"Yeah." Tegan pulled the covers back up to her shoulders and turned away from Helen.

There was just enough room for her to sit on the edge of the bed, and she wasn't going to just leave. Not after a scream that should have woken the bloody dead.

Tegan felt the bed depress at her hip and tensed her muscles to try and keep from tilting back into Helen. It didn't work.

Helen put a comforting hand on Tegan's back and felt muscles as tight as steel cords rippling beneath the skin. "Talk to me."

"You don't want to know."

"It wasn't a dream." Helen remembered Tegan telling her that when she slept memories that weren't hers haunted her dreams.

Tegan shook her head. Tonight it was different, tonight it was her memory or it started that way. A horrible memory of Nirrti whipping her until her chest and back looked like bleeding raw ground beef, and then it morphed into something dark and twisted. It was Helen hanging in her place and Tegan was holding the cat-o-nine

tails with blood dripping off them.

Helen rubbed soothing circles into her back.

"It was just a dream." Tegan sighed.

"A nightmare." Helen whispered. "You can tell me."

"I'd rather just forget it."

Helen understood. She'd had those dreams, she had even had those real life moments that you just wanted to forget happened. "Scoot over."

"What?" Tegan mumbled.

"Scoot over." Helen repeated as she kicked off her stilettos. This was highly inappropriate she knew. But she used to do the same thing for Henry and Ashley when they had woken from a nightmare. Although she'd stopped with Henry when he hit puberty.

Tegan moved over without turning and she felt Helen climb under the covers behind her and snuggle up to her.

"At least for tonight, let me protect you from your demons." Helen whispered gently in her ear.


A/N sorry it took me so long to post this last one. I got lost for a little bit with somethings going on. I'm currently trying to get TCSS 3 edited and improved before posting it, so please bare with me.