Here is another "nightmare" oneshot. Hope you enjoy :)
A loud rattling noise woke Donatello. Half opening his bleary eyes he leaned across to switch on his bedside lamp, squinting at the sudden burst of light. As his eyes adjusted, he caught a quick glimpse of the battered alarm clock, that he'd rescued from the dump, violently shaking before it suddenly flew across the room hitting his bedroom door before falling to the floor with a loud clunk.
Glancing around his small bedroom, the ninja could see that several other, generally inanimate objects, were also moving. Many of his books, pens and tools were either shaking or flying around the room at a high speed. To any outsider the whole scene looked like something out of a supernatural horror movie, but Donnie knew exactly what was going on and the erratic movements of the person sleeping beside him only confirmed it, though how long it had been going on for, he did not know.
Given the number of battles and death defying experiences they had all lived through it was unsurprising that the team suffered from nightmares occasionally. But Aprils telekinetic abilities seemed to go out of control whenever she had a bad dream often giving similar results to what was happening now. The first time it happened she'd been so embarrassed that she'd burst into tears despite his reassurance that everything was ok.
Her nightmares had gotten worse and more frequent since her episode with the Aeon crystal that led to her becoming possessed and reduce him to atoms. Even though she'd managed to regain control of herself and was able bring him back to life, the whole experience had traumatised her. Knowing it had been the fault of the Aeon inside her, and that April would never have done such a thing herself, Donnie had forgiven her immediately, but it made little difference to how she felt. He had a feeling it was something that would take a long time for her to get over, if she ever did at all.
Rolling over he could see that April was deep in the grasp of a nightmare, her entire body writhing and kicking in attempts to get away from whatever plagued her mind. Her flaming red hair messily covered her face which was full of fear and she was gasping for breath. It pained him deeply to see her this way. Scooting closer to his girlfriend he quickly encircled her thin frame with his strong arms, restricting her panicked movements as he held her close so her back was against his plastron, and ignoring her continued attempts to kick and struggle.
Scooping the hair out of her face, Donnie rested the side of his head against hers murmuring comfortingly in her ear in the hopes that she would somehow hear him in her sleep.
"It's ok April, I've got you" he said quietly, softly stroking her hair.
"Donnie" she gasped seeming to relax a bit as she unconsciously listened. Her breathing slowing down to a more normal rhythm and her face relaxed. Her panicked movements reduced to random twitching though she still felt tense.
"I'm here April, your safe, we all are". Gently he kissed the side of her forehead, "There's nothing to fear, it's just a dream. Go back to sleep, I won't let anything happen to you".
Finally, she completely relaxed against him. Cradling one of his muscular arms as a child would a toy and burying herself deeper into the safety of his embrace she let out a sigh, as if she had been holding her breath for a long time, before going still. Briefly de-tangling himself, the turtle leaned back to switch off the light, seeing the various floating objects fall to the floor around them, they could wait till the morning. The lack of movement allowed silence to fill the room. Nestling back into their embrace, he closed his eyes, listening to Aprils slower more even breathing allowing sleep to pull him under. To him April meant everything, and it never ceased to amaze him that she was his, but even if she wasn't he'd decided a long time ago that he would always be there to protect her.
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