A Dream One Night
copyright KES 2005.
Disclaimer: Unfortunately I don't own these characters, the WB does.
At the cabin, David was tossing and turning in his sleep. The woman next to him was too, until he heard her call his name. She turned over and watched him. "He must be having a bad dream," she thought to herself.
In David's dream, all his thoughts were coming at once. The fight with Max, his reunion with Maria, Will leaving town, all of it. He and Maria had hurt a lot of people and it really bothered David. More than he let on to Maria and more than he let on to himself. He and Will were getting along great and he had gone and messed everything up. He had cared so much for Max and even thought he was falling in love with her. The look in her eyes when he told her it was over. The look in her eyes when she told him she wasn't pregnant with his baby. He will never forget that look.
At the cabin, the woman thought she should wake him, but they always say not to wake someone having a nightmare. So she wrapped her arm around him, kissed his shoulder and whispered, "Its ok, David, its ok."
In David's dream, he saw the last moments he had with Will before he left. The tears, the yelling and the fight. Not just Will's tears, not just his own, but his mother's and his sister's too. He hated to see his mother cry.
At the cabin, the woman got up and went to the kitchen to get some water. "I wish I knew what was happening in his dream. I wish I could be there helping him through it." She walked back into the bedroom and sat on the edge of the bed and rested her hand on her stomach. She and David were expecting their first baby in a few months and they were ecstatic.
In David's dream, everything was swirling together, all the words spoken, all the tears, him and Maria, him and Will, him and Max. Finally it got to be too much and he couldn't take it anymore. "Enough" he shouted, loud enough to wake him out of his sleep.
"Hey, you okay?" the woman asked.
"I just had the worst dream. I hurt so many people," David told her.
"Everything is okay now, David. I promise you," the woman told him, rubbing his back, resting her chin on his shoulder.
David put her hand on her stomach and said "I know, cause you are here with me."
"I love you, David."
"I love you too Max."