Title: Nightmares
Author: bloody-ink
Rating: G
Disclaimer: All of Atlantis and it's character's belong to it's creator's.
She laid there in the dark unable to move,it seemed as though the gravity in that moment was crushing down upon her. It was so great that she was almost paralyzed in that spot on the cold cement floor.Lying there strainning her eye's to see through the darkness.Feeling a presense in the distance stir she held her breath and tried to make out what it was,"Major?"
The presense appeared as a creature like being that rushed at her,she braced herself and let out a scream of fear shutting her eye's.Shaking and drenched in a cold sweat she opened her eye's and saw it looking down at her.Wraith. She tried to move away but it moved it's hand out towards her and plastered it to her chest.She tried to reach out and knock him away but she felt herself begin to drain away.To weak to do anything else but cry she whinced in pain and cried out in a weak little voice, "..help...someone please...help me...John...help..."
Tear's flowed down her cheeks as she laid there weak and defenseless,she closed her eye's and tried to shake it all away,thrashing her head back and forth.A hand reached out and grabbed her arm,flinching she cried out more,"Elizabeth...Lizzie!" yelled a familiar voice
Her eye's shot open,tear's soaked to them,gasping for air. She shot up seeing Major Sheppard right next to her,holding her arm. Disoriented and confused she scaredly moved away looking worriedly around her,"Where...where am I? Don't--don't let them take me!" she cried out pouncing on him.
"Who? What? You're fine,you're here in your quarter's...I heard you scream...," she pulled away and he reached out a hand and placed it on her shoulder.
"In my quarter's?" she soon began to calm herself down.
"Yeah, you were having a nightmare...but you're alright now," he gave her a reassureing smile.
She pulled her knee's up to her chest and placed her head on them and began to cry again. He looked at her sympathetically, knowing this was one of those time's where she wasn't her strongest. The last few day's had been hard on her,being kidnapped and tortured by the Wraith,it had left her weak and tired. After he had carried her limp body back to Atlantis he knew that the strong barrier he had once so respected had deteriorated almost indefinitly from her. And here she was tramatized by her own dreams, frightened and shaking. Cautiously, he moved toward's her and wrapped her up in his arm's and pulled her against his chest. She gripped onto his shirt as her sobbing was muffled by the warmth of his very being. He began to rock her slowly back and forth, smoothing back her hair as she continued to cry,"Shhh, it's alright, you don't need to worry. It's all over with,they can't hurt you anymore..." her cries began to subside.
...I'm here...they won't hurt you...I won't let them...," he kissed her on the forehead and sat there as she fell asleep in his arm's where he soon after her fell asleep as well.