N is for Nightmare

It was a sunny summer day, and six year old Jamie Reagan was playing in his tree house. He had been in it all day only taking a break for lunch. His older brother Danny came out to check on him.

"Hey kid. Do you need anything?"

"That's captain to you, you scurvy dog."

"I'm sorry captain." Danny said with a grin.

Jamie popped his head out the window. He had on his pirate costume that Danny got him for his birthday.

"Ahoy matey. No I don't need anything. Oh wait. I need a shovel to bury my booty."

"Aye aye sir." Danny said with a salute. He went over to Jamie's sandbox and got his shovel. He brought it over to a bucket on a rope and pulley and sent it up.

"Thank you first mate."

"Your welcome. I'll be in the kitchen if you need me."

The front door opened and Mary and Erin walked in. "Hi Danny, where is Jamie?" His mom asked.

"He is outside playing pirate. He is going to bury his treasurer chest."

"That's good. He loves that pirate costume you got him."

"He only takes it off to let you wash it. What are you going to do when he out grows it?"

Before Mary could answer, they heard screaming from the back yard. Danny ran out the backdoor and saw Jamie on his back with a big dog growling in front of him. "Danny help me. He bit me, and it hurts."

Without thinking for his own safety, Danny ran in front of the dog, waving his arms and shouting at it.

The dog turned and ran off. Danny knelt down in front of Jamie. His face was wet with tears and his right arm was bleeding.

Mary scooped him up and took him to the doctors. Luckily the bite wasn't deep and only needed a cleaning and wrapped. For supper that night Mary made Jamie his favorite foods. He even got to stay up late with his older siblings. When he fell asleep on the couch Frank took him to bed.

Danny woke up to the sound of crying in his room. He sat up and turned on his lamp. Jamie was sitting on the floor with his knees under his chin. "Jamie. What's wrong?"

Jamie stood up and crawled into Danny's bed next to him. "I had a nightmare." Jamie started crying harder.

"Jamie I'm sorry." Danny wrapped his arm around Jamie and gave him a big hug. "Do you want to stay with me."

Jamie nodded his head. He laid down on a pillow and closed his eyes. "Thank you Danny."

"Your welcome kid."

The nightmares continued for a few more weeks, Jamie would come in to Danny's room. Sometimes Danny woke up when Jamie came in. Sometime he woke up and Jamie was sleeping on his floor. Then one Saturday morning he woke up and Jamie wasn't there. When he went to Jamie's room he saw him asleep in his own bed. Danny was glad that Jamie's nightmares where over. The kid was a bed hog, always moving and kicking. Once in a while Jamie would have a nightmare and he would always run to Danny. Danny didn't mind one bit.

Author's note: I rewrote this story. I'm still not 100% happy with it but I wanted to wrap it up.