I've set it in an AU modern day setting.

Isabelle had suffered from nightmares ever since she was a child, ever since she lived in the house in the countryside just south of Scotland. There had been a forest that her bedroom window looked out onto, which look angry and full of gloom in the dark, when she was a child she was sure she saw things darting between the trees. Though her mother had always told her it was her imagination, until one night. Her nightmares became real.

It was a night in late August when the heat was quite warm-especially for British weather-and it was an unbearable heat, so her mother had opened her windows wide. She had only turn 12 a few months before, and she had taught herself over the years that monsters weren't real and neither were the figures in the forest. That night she had gradually fell asleep around 10pm, but a tap against the glass of her window, and the creak of the old rusty hinges when the window was pulled further open, woke her up. When she pushed herself and rubbed her eyes, the scream that was caught in her throat just wouldn't escape her lips. There was a dark burly figure looming at the bottom of the bed, she could tell it was a man, around his 20's. In the moonlight, his face was all sharp angles and his teeth gleamed, along with the points of two incisors. The man at the foot of the bed began moving around the bed, getting closer and closer to her with every step.

Finally she found her voice and the screamed escaped, loud and clear, to have her mouth covered with a pale hand. The mans face came up close to hers, searching her face and scanning her features, smiling and tutting.

"Shhh, we wouldn't want to wake mommy and daddy now would we?" Isabelle's eyes widened, as the man began closer the gap as his teeth extended. She closed her eyes, forcing herself not to cry. Vampires, monsters, zombies and ghosts weren't real she was still dreaming. She felt the warmth of his breath against her neck, then as he got closer..

The door slammed inward and opened wide, along with her eyelids. She threw herself upright in bed, her hands flying to her neck, feeling around frantically for marks. The next thing she knew two strong arms were wrapped around her waist, pulling her tight against a warm chest.

"Iz, Isabelle! Calm down, you're safe. I promise you're safe." she turned her head into his chest, as tears trailed down her cheeks. She thought the dreams had stopped, they hadn't come in so long. Simon knew of her dreams, he knew of her past and knew of the figures in the forest and he accepted everything about her. She loved him for it, and he told her constantly how much he loved and cared for her.

"It was the man again, Simon. He was at the bottom of the bed, he had fangs." Simon nodded against her shoulder, trailing chaste kisses across it, in a comforting fashion. She'd moved in with Simon two years ago, and he'd got use to her dreams and sudden awakenings in the night.

"He's not here. I won't let anyone hurt you Iz, you're safe and sound here. This is our home, I will lay down my life before I let anyone hurt you." Isabelle smiled a little, and nodded.

"You know I'd do the same for you right?" Simon laughed a little, smiling.

"Of course I do, I love you. Now come on, lets get some sleep, we can leave the light on okay?" she nodded at him, and slowly laid back still wrapped in his arms. Simon pulled her tightly against his chest-after flicking on the bedside lamp-,and tucked in the cover around her. She closed her eyes, and held his hands in hers as she fell asleep. He was her rock, her protector and her equal in all things.

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