A/N: heh heh, yeh I know I haven't updated in quite a while…. O.o Sorry about that I've been pretty obsessed with oekaki and I just got photoshop :D Well anyway here's chapter two!
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxox
Only Nightmares
Chapter 2
The next morning Raven awoke to the sound of someone breathing beside her, and could feel the warm air blowing on her neck. When she finally came to her senses, she realised she was lying next to another person, in a room that definitely wasn't hers. In her panic she managed to fall out of the bed, landing with a thud on a pile of messy clothes on the floor.
"Huh? What…" Beastboy's dopey face appeared over the side of the bed, and lit up when he saw Raven sprawled on his floor rubbing her sore back. "Heh, that happens to me a lot" he grinned, remembering the previous night and touching his still tender nose. Then without warning the nightmare came into his mind, the reason why he had stumbled so carelessly out of bed in the first place. His warm smile was instantly gone, eaten away by the dark images of his dream.
"I bet it does…" Raven mumbled as she stood up, also remembering the events of last night. She looked up at Beastboy's dull face and sighed. "Beastboy, you need to try and forget about it. The more you think about it the more likely you'll have it again." This just made matters worse of course.
He looked up in surprise. "You think it'll happen again?" he asked nervously.
"Look…I don't know…" She said, trying to recover, "Let's just… go and get some breakfast OK?" She smiled warmly at him. Beastboy nodded uncertainly and clumsily climbed down from his bed.
Raven glared up at his dishevelled bed. "Aren't you going to make that?" she looked at him accusingly.
"Nah" He said, glancing up at the sheets hanging off the bed as they slowly slid down onto the floor. They exchanged glances, and then giggled quietly.
'Well, at least I got a laugh out of him,' Raven thought to herself as she followed him out of the door.
The day went by fairly slowly for Raven. She went about her usual business, meditating for a while after breakfast, reading for a little bit, and even helping Starfire make lunch. It was an unusually quiet day though; there wasn't a single call for help and the other team-mates seemed to be keeping to themselves. She felt she should be enjoying the extra peace and quiet, but she simply couldn't concentrate on the words on her page. She had read the same sentence far too many times already and still didn't know what it said.
Sighing Raven put the book down. She just couldn't keep her mind off Beastboy and his nightmare. It didn't help that whenever she looked he seemed to be lingering close by, and never let her out of his sight the whole day.
She looked over to him. He was sitting on the couch flicking through channels, clearly also unable to concentrate. Raven shook her head as he looped and started flicking through the same channels. His mind was obviously far away.
She glanced at the clock. It was quite late now; almost 10:45pm. She abruptly got up and tucked her book under her arm.
"I'm going to bed, goodnight Beastboy." She said in a monotone voice. He suddenly jumped up, a pleading look on his face. He didn't say anything, but Raven knew he didn't want her to go, and that he'd probably rather be battling Slade than have to go to bed and face sleep.
As she reached her room and prepared herself for bed, she wondered if she would be awoken by his screams again that night. The thought made her shudder; it had not been a pleasant alarm clock. 'Maybe he won't even go to bed', she thought as she climbedunder the cool sheets,drifting to sleep with image of waking in the morning and finding him still flicking channels.
Beastboy didn't know what to do. He had felt lost all day, just dreading having to go back to bed. He felt worse now that Raven had gone. He had made sure he had been near her all day, just for the extra comfort ofher presence and the reminderthat she was still alive. He knew he was probably being stupid and paranoid, it was after all just a nightmare…
Still, he couldn't shake the horrific images from his mind. They had been so realistic, he just couldn't bear the thought of Raven being in a situation like that.
'I can't go through that again, I just can't go back to sleep, I won't, I won't…I…w-' "Argh!" Beastboy suddenly jerked himself awake. "I'm not going to sleep!" He told himself furiously. But he just couldn't resist it. He was hopelessly tired after the previous night, and before long his eyes had drifted shut, and he flopped lifelessly onto the sofa.
The next morning…The morning sunlight crept through the gap in Raven's curtains, stirring her slightly. She rubbed her eyes and stretched slightly, still not fully awake. She felt something warm and soft against her side and cuddled up to it, wrapping her arm around it's furry tummy as if it was a teddy. The 'teddy' wriggled slightly in her grip. 'That's odd…' She thought groggily, tightening her grip. 'Since when did teddies move…wait…since when did I have a teddy…'
"Argh!" She suddenly let go of the creature and sat upright throwing her sheets away from her in alarm. A small green cat with rather ruffled fur poked its head out from under the thin material, giving her an apologetic look. "Oh…Beastboy," She said, exasperated and still rather shaken. He morphed back into his human form and sat up, looking down at his feet.
"Urm…sorry Raven…" He mumbled sheepishly.
Raven shook her head, her eyes still closed sleepily. "Did you… you know…have that nightmare again?" He nodded. "This can't go on Beastboy, you're losing too much sleep," She said. Secretly she had had the best sleep in weeks when she had been beside him. She enjoyed having someone next to her, someone warm to cuddle up to in the middle of the cold night. But looking at his face she could see that it needed to stop. He was paler than usual, his skin a sickly green, his eyes had losttheir usual spark of youthfulness and bags were forming beneath them.
He looked up at her aghast. "But…I…"
"Beastboy it's not that I don't understand, but look at yourself! You're going to make yourself ill!"
"No! You don't understand! You think I'm exaggerating but you have no idea what it's like!" He yelled. Raven jumpedbackfrom his sudden outburst. "Every time I can see your broken body sprawled lifelessly across the floor, your clothes torn, your skin covered in bruises and cuts. Every time I can hear you screaming, over and over, calling me but I can't reach you! I can feel your breathing, the very beating of your heart slowing, each pulse more painful and strained, I can feel your life slipping away… your body, the floor everywhere is covered in blood…so much blood… YOUR BLOOD RAVEN!" He screamed, tears streaming down his face.
Raven looked at him horror stricken. She was frozen; his description had shocked her to the core. And she knew he was right. If she saw him like that, she would be the same. Without warning he flung himself into her arms, gripping her tightly and taking sharp breathes as he sobbed into her hair. She slowly hugged him back, not knowing what else to do as he cried endlessly for her…
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxox
A/N: o.O; hehe, angsty. I think there may only be one or two more chapters to this, since it was always going to be a short story, and I have other ideas. The more reviews I get the more encouraged I will be to continue! XD