P.S WHEN I WROTE INSTANTANEOUSLY I LITERALLY GUESSED AND TOLD MYSELF THAT I ONLY GOT ONE SHOT OTHERWISE I WOULD RE WRITE IT AND I ACTUALLY GOT IT RIGHT

A week had past since Crane had first come to stay with her, a week since her nightmares started, a week since she heard him say she loved him and nothing had changed. Each night the same thing would happen, they would both wake up screaming from their nightmares and they would end up talking until the sun came up, then they would try to sleep this time together in the bed. And this night was no different.. except it was.

She was riding with the horseman through the forest when she saw the clearing up ahead, she had gotten familiar and as they approached the hairs on the back of her neck stood up, after all this was her death bed. She had long since stopped trying to jump off the horse and escape something she wasn't sure what, but something kept her there and there was no use trying to run so instead she sat eyes squeezed shut, fits cleaned tight waiting for the horseman to strike.

But nothing happened and after a few minutes she dared to open her eyes. She let out a breath like she had been holding it in the whole time, she was back in her apartment, she was in her room on her bed and Crane was, he was, She stretched her arm out and it found nothing, her heart starting racing and it threatened to beat out of her chest, she jumped up and was relived to see him sleeping on the mattress beside her bed, and Crane was here with her.

" LEFTENANT!" He said as he trudged through the woods surrounding the cabin searching for her. It had only been four hours since she was taken but he knew it was only a matter of time, he knew what the horseman had planed and he knew why. He stopped dead in his tracks as he heard the ear piercing scream that could have only come from one person and one one person only. " CRANE" he heard her scream. " Abbie, ABBIE I'M COMING" he screamed as loud as he could. He instantaneously started running as fast as he could towards her voice, crashing through anything and everything in his path. " ABBIE" he screamed again hoping and preying she could still hear him. " CRANE" he heard again and he knew he was close, just another 20 feet and he would find her.

It hadn't even been a minute after she woke up when he started screaming her name and she knew he must be having the same nightmare she had. She jumped out of the bed and scrambled over to where he was, She took his shoulders in her hands and gently shook them " Crane it's okay i'm here" she said quietly, when that didn't work she tried again this time calling his name louder. It took a few attempts but he finally woke.

He woke up and his eyes darted around the room searching for her. " Crane, I'm here, i'm alright" she said knowing what he was doing.

" Abbie" he breathed " It was only a dream" he said. He sat up and looked straight into her eyes, she was alive, she was with him, she was safe, it was just a dream.

" You had it too huh?" she asked looking straight back at him, they were so full of fear and she knew most if not all of it was for her. He moved over and she jumped up onto the mattress next to him.

" I thought i had lost you" he said softly reaching his hand out and taking hers in it " I cannot loose you Abbie" he said eyes still not leaving her.

" And you wont" she said hoping it was true.

" If i lost you, i don't know what i would do, there would be nothing left for me here, in this world, in this time.. your all i have" he admitted. So many things came to her mind, so many ways to try and convince him he wouldn't loose them but none of them meant a thing because she couldn't promise something like that and even if she tried he wouldn't buy it, So she didn't instead she just wrapped her arms around him, resting her head on his chest. He felt her warmth like a raging fire and wrapped his arms around her resting his chin atop her head.

They sat silently holding each other until she finally voiced a question that had been eating away at her since she over heard him talking to Jenny a week ago.

" Listen" she said her voice smaller than usual which told him she was unsure or nervous about what she was saying, something she very rarely was " I think you should come sleep up on the bed from now on". She had been expecting some lecture about how improper that would be and that he was fine sleeping on the mattress but instead he didn't say a thing he just looked lost in thought. " But only if you know you wanted too" she said nervously just hoping he would say something, anything. Still nothing she was about to say that they could just talk about it in the morning when he jumped up scooping her up in his arms and carried her to the bed placing her down gently on the side she always slept on.

If it had have been anyone else he would have straight up refused, but this wan't someone else, this was Abbie and now more than ever he couldn't stand being apart from her, not when he spent every waking moment terrified that the horseman would take her away from him. So he didn't refuse instead he jumped up with her in his arms and placed her down in the bed on the side he knew she slept on and covered her with the sheets before climbing under them himself.

" You seem really shaken, was something different about this one?" she asked turning her body to face him resting her head on her hand.

" Not entirely, it was a feeling, like i knew why i had to hurry to get you back from him, i knew why he was doing it i just couldn't remember why" he said turning to face her.

" oh i see how that was hard for you " she teased.

" Tease all you want Miss Mills i for one believe that it could mean something" he said.

" Alright we'll see if we can find anything about it in the archives tomorrow but for now we should try and get some sleep" she said yawning.

She lay on her side for a moment while he repositioned himself on his back and after a moment of hesitation she creeped forward placing her head on his chest " Is this alright if i?" she asked hovering over his chest. " Of course " he said a little quicker maybe than he should of. She relaxed against his chest and to his heart beating in sync with her every breath. It gave her that same sense of security that she only got with him and she let out a sigh before resting her hands between their chests. They lay silently for a while as one being, everything they did synced into one smooth movement. " Never leave me Ichabod" she a slight second of hesitation he wrapped his arm around her waist and pulled her closer to him. " Never Abbie". He felt her hand relax against his chest and closed his eyes.

Every time he fell asleep with her by his side he dreamt of like after the war and tonight was no different except the dream had an edge of reality that he couldn't quite explain like he was reliving a memory that he hd never lived in the first place, but it didn't bother him because she was their, with him, and they were happy and smiling and that was all that mattered, she was all that mattered.