Oh my gosh im actually starting to run out of ideas for this already eeeeeeeehhhhhhh
This one is gonna be set in the same settin as the anime because I thought this fic would be better that way with the theme of it, so it's back where the anime is set, only difference is that alois and ciel are boyfriends and sometimes they sleep in eachothers beds(wow the last 2 fics have been about sleeping can u guess what im not getting haha h a) todays word was flame! And I think you can all guess where this is going, meheheheheh (also I apologise in advance because this one is actually really really bad, and like im not even saying that compared to these others this one is hella rank, but I tried as hard as I could for this one idk I couldn't get anything good to come out and I just kinda threw this up ha) uwu
Flame.
Sometimes Ciel has nightmares. He dreams of the flames he saw that day, the fire he saw and the screams he heard. Sometimes he'll see his parents all over again, sometimes he'll see himself get trapped and burn slowly, sometimes it's Sebastian and sometimes he sees Alois. He watches, horrified and paralysed as he watches the blond boy get trapped under falling rubble or falling over and breaking a bone, and slowly burning and screaming for help and Ciel can't do anything he can barely breathe and oh god-
Usually, he'll wake up after a nightmare and see Alois, snuggled into his side and sometimes drooling all over himself. Tonight though, he wakes up alone, even though he and Alois fell asleep together earlier that night.
He panics for a second, but tries to calm himself by telling himself that Alois is still here, maybe he just got up to go use the bathroom, or went for a walk(he does that sometimes, whenever he has a night terror of his own or can't sleep), but he waits and waits and waits, and Alois hasn't come back yet and he's starting to get worried that maybe he's actually left him or maybe something bad happened.
His mind flashes back to the dreams he sometimes has, the ones where it's Alois going through the torture, and although he knows there is no way something like that could happen now, it's in the back of his mind and it's making it hard to breathe.
After sitting for a few more minutes, he gets even more worried and gets up, sneaking out of his room and tiptoeing down the halls. He looks out of the window to see if he can spot anything outside, and he sees a small figure lying in the grass, and he knows it's Alois. He quietly runs down the stairs and outside into the garden, sitting down next to Alois and gently shaking him.
The blond boy wakes up with a groan, and looks utterly confused when he realises that he's sleeping outside, in Ciel's garden. "Ciel, why are we out here?" He mumbles, still not fully awake.
"Well, I don't know why you're out here, but I woke up and you weren't there. So I looked for you, and for whatever reason you're lying here, in my grass, having a nap." Ciel shakes his head and Alois chuckles a bit. He stands up and mutters something about sleepwalking, and takes Ciel's hand in his and walks back inside.
"Did you wake up because you had a bad dream again? Is that why you looked for me?" Alois asks, tilting his head slightly. "Stupid, I'd come looking for you whether I had a bad dream or not if I woke up and you were gone, but I did. It was about you, and when you weren't there I panicked."
Alois shushes Ciel with a finger, and drags him inside the bedroom again. "Well I'm here now, and that's all that really matters, right?" Ciel mumbles a yes of course, always, and snuggles under the blankets with Alois curled around his side.
He doesn't have another nightmare that night.