Chapter 8: Nightmares

Once the trio was back in the living room Marshall and Rocky went to their beanbags to finish watching the show. Rubble and Zuma were both talking and still watching the show while Skye was talking to Everest.

Chase smiled, "I'm glad she's getting to know the pups".

He then walked out to his pup-house to head in for the night. He had to go to bed now if he wanted to wake up at his usual time.

"Everest, are you sure it wasn't a date?" asked Skye.

"For the fifth time, it was not a date. We just went out as friends"

"Okay, okay. Anyway how has your training been?"

"Good actually. I'm getting used to driving. Wow never thought I would say that" chuckled Everest.

"Imagine trying to fly. I remember I was terrified the first time I drove my helicopter. Once I got the hang of it though it was fun" said Skye.

"Geez, I don't even want to think about flying. No offense"

"None taken. Anyway it's getting late. We should go to bed" said Skye looking at how the rest of the pups were asleep.

"Okay goodnight Skye" said Everest.

"Goodnight Everest" responded Skye trying to get comfortable on her beanbag.

Everest then waited for Skye to fall asleep. Once Everest new Skye was asleep, she quietly walked out of the room. She had something to take care of.

Once she was outside the lookout, she made her way to a blue pup house and knocked on the door. She heard someone moving around in the pup house. A few seconds later the door opened to reveal a half asleep Chase.

"Everest? What are you doing here"

"Chase, come inside with the rest of the pups. I'm sure as hell not leaving you alone outside after the last time" said Everest referring to the beach incident.

"Everest, I'm fine. You can go back inside"

"Fine then, if you don't want to come with me, I'll stay with you" said Everest as she walked into his pup house.

"Everest what are you doing?"

"Chase you just came back into my life after two years. I'm not losing you again. So that means making sure you don't sneak out again"

"Okay whatever" said Chase as he walked back in and layed down next to her.

A few minutes later Chase fell back asleep. While he was asleep he unconsciously wrapped his paws around Everest. She jumped but then relaxed when she remembered who was next to her. She then began to blush a bright red. She liked having someone to sleep next to.

After a few hours of sleeping Chase awoke with a jolt. This in turn woke Everest up.

"Damn it! Every fucking night!"

"Chase are you ok!? What happened!?" said Everest who was now wide awake.

"These nightmares. I don't know why I keep having them. First it was rare, then it was every week, now it's literally every night. I don't know what to do" said Chase, starting to tear up.

"Chase look at me. I'm here with you. Nothing's going to happen. Just try to calm down" said Everest softly, "Now what was your nightmare about"

"It was about me, and you, and….Tyler"

Everest froze. That name alone brought back a very painful memory.

"It was about that day, wasn't it?" asked Everest.

"Yeah, it was"

The two then sat in silence, thinking about that day. It was terrible for all of them. Because of this Chase was thrown out, Everest was abandoned in the Arctic, and their owner Tyler died.

"I'm sorry" said Everest breaking the silence.

"For what?" asked Chase.

"It was my fault. I'm the reason you were kicked out, I'm the reason that I was stranded in Antarctica, and I'm the reason Tyler died"

Now Everest was the one who started to tear up. This meant that it was Chase's turn to comfort her.

"Everest, it was not your fault. It was never your fault. Tyler's death was no one's fault except for the driver who was speeding. You getting abandoned was Tyler's parents fault, even though they were hurt they should have never left a pup to die there. Me getting kicked out was my own fault. It was like how you volunteered to step in for my job in the Paw Patrol. Just like you, I wanted to do the right thing. I couldn't let you get thrown out" Chase then put his paw on top of her's and whispered the last part, "I couldn't let another person I cared about get hurt"

The room then went silent. They stayed there for a few minutes gazing into each other's eyes. Slowly, Chase leaned in. His lips met hers. Her eyes widened realizing that her best friend was kissing her. The kiss lasted for several minutes before Chase pulled away. His eyes then widened realizing what he had just done.

"Oh my gosh! Everest I'm so sorry. I was just...I thought..." explained Chase trying to find a reason.

"Chase" said Everest, "It's okay I'm just, shocked. I never knew you felt that way about me"

"The truth is I've felt this way ever since you and Tyler found me in that alleyway. I was scared and alone and you saved me. Listen if you don't feel the same way I understand"

"Chase it's not that it's just, well, I don't know what I feel. I just don't know"

"It's ok. I'm sorry"

With that said the two then fell asleep awkwardly next to each other. Everest just had one question on her mind.

"What do I feel?"

Hello everybody. So recently with this story I went through all the chapters and fixed the typos in them and even changed some small things around. Feel free to let me know if I missed any typos. Hopefully you like were this story is going so far. Thankfully I'm starting to plan out this story more so the next chapter should be out soon. At the time of writing this it's 5:37 in the morning so I need to sleep. Thanks to quarantine my sleep schedule has been majorly fucked. Anyway I hope you enjoyed and I'll see you in the next one. Peace.