(Huge thanks to my reviewers. So glad you guys like this so far. Probably won't be your typical romance, because I love writing fights too. So there will be a lot of fighting in this , to my reviewers, you all seriously kick ass. xXx Deanna)

The thrashing around in bed beside him had Roman sitting up, rubbing his eyes. He leaned over and kissed Laney, thinking it'd wake her up. Laney sat up and rubbed her eyes, as she bit her lip and tried to get her bearings. She blushed when she realized she'd fallen asleep and he'd put her into bed, and he was apparently dozed off beside her. The nightmares had to happen tonight. She swore to herself as she said quietly, "I'm sorry.. Maybe I should go back to my room?"

"Stay, Ellana." Roman said as he looked at her and asked, "You okay?"

"Not really." Laney said quietly as she leaned against him, took a few deep breaths, and then started to tell him the things in the nightmares. The things that until now, noone but her adopted sister Maxine knew. She never told anyone any of this before, and as she told him, she stared a hole through the flowered comforter on the hotel bed. When she finished, she looked up and jammed her hand into her eyes, to stop the tears.

"Hey.. Look at me, babe." he said quietly as he pulled her into his lap and then continued, " I get why it'd scare you. You lived through something hellish. Not many people actually make it through what you did. And you'll be okay. Nightmares are okay. Hell, I've had them before."

So he hadn't really, not many, but he was supposed to say that. It was part of being her man, and he was just happy that they'd finally gotten headed down this path. That he had her, to himself.

" I know, it's just.. They make me feel so damn out of control, Roman. I hate it, too. Because there's so much that confuses me about all that. I mean, I get the feeling there's stuff I'm not remembering, or not correctly, and I'm scared that if I dig, I'm not going to like what comes up." Laney admitted as she let him hold her, and then took a few deep breaths. "I'm such a baby."

"You're not." Roman insisted and then said again, "Stay. I texted your sister when she texted you after you fell asleep."

"Oh lord. Now she's going to give us both so much shit." Laney groaned as she blushed. Roman shrugged and smirking said "Let her."

" I thought you usually room with Dean and Seth?"

"Not this time. Told them I didn't want to. Besides, Dean and I kinda got into it."

Laney chuckled and then said "Kinda? You were trying to put him in a headlock, baby."

He smirked at her use of a pet name and then leaned in, kissing her. "I was not. But I told him to leave you the fuck alone, that we were together."

"And I take it he didn't agree."

"Exactly. If it hadn't been for Seth and a few of the guys, I probably would have put his head through a wall. But he's cool now. Apparently, he decided that it wouldn't have worked anyway. Something about you being a stubborn pain in the ass?" Roman said as he shrugged and chuckled.

Laney pretended to pout then said " So basically, he's going to back off."

"If he doesn't want to be speared then murdered." Roman said with a chuckle as he pulled her down into bed beside him again then rolled her to face him, his hand going over her cheek.

"So you don't mind this? Me waking up like a spaz? That's why I normally took walks at night." Laney said as Roman shrugged and said "You're not a spaz,and no, I don't mind. I'm with you, I want to be with you. This is part of that." as he moved some hair out of her face and smiled.

Laney moved closer to him and then said quietly, "I have to say, being completely honest here.. With you, is probably when I feel the safest. I'm just afraid of my own damn mind a lot of the time. But when I'm with you, I really don't feel all that afraid."

"Good." Roman muttered as he put his arms around her. He shoved what she'd told him out of his mind. But it sickened him, how she'd had to see that, how she'd had to live through what she had. By now, he'd heard most of what she'd lived through and didn't remember from Maxine, and he'd figured out that Laney's father didn't just snap one day like she thought. But he didn't want to open a door that she didn't want opened.

All he wanted to do was love her and make sure she was okay. And the fact that she was letting down her guard enough to tell him what she just had made him really happy, because it meant she was slowly getting used to them being together. He rolled onto his back and turned off the lamp and then lie there, talking to her in the dark.

Laney bit her lip and looked at him, moving closer. "Thanks for not being pissed. I am sorry I did that just now."

"Don't apologize. It was a nightmare. Not your fault."

" But I woke you up. I hate when they happen, because I just feel like I'm putting anyone who's in the room with me through hell. And it makes me feel weak, because I can't control or stop them."

"Shhh. It's okay. Just relax." Roman said quietly as he pulled the blankets up. When she finally started to snore quietly again, he smirked to himself. Maxine told him not so long ago that it often took her over half the night to even think about getting her back to sleep again.

He finally let himself fall asleep for the night too, trying to figure out a way to help her with the nightmares. He had a suggestion in mind, but he didn't want to rush her. It would make him happy if she'd share a room with him on the road, but he also knew that they were just getting together, and he didn't want to push too hard, not when he waited so long for this to happen finally.