RANDOM WORD: NEUROTICALLY
For as long as they had been together Bonnie had weird dreams about Damon doing things to her in her sleep. Not sexual things. Weird things. Like, smothering her or holding her under water. It was all very strange, but when she jokingly mentions it to him one evening he stiffens, but says nothing and frankly, the lack of witty retort makes her nervous.
That night she decides she won't sleep she'll pretend and see if, perhaps, he is trying to kill her. Nothing happens at first and then when the clock is creeping toward three and her eyes are sinking toward truly closing she feels him moving. Forcing her body not to react she feels his hand cover her face briefly and then flee. Ten minutes later the same thing. Ten minutes later he repeats the action again. On his seventh pass she grabs his hand and bolts up right.
"What are you doing?" She accuses and he looks both shocked and sheepish at being discovered. "Are you trying to kill me?" Her eyes narrow at his laughter. "Why are you laughing? This isn't funny!"
"I'm sorry, but Babe, I'm a vampire. I don't suffocate people."
"Then what are you doing, Babe?" She crosses her arms huffily and he knows he's going to have to come clean.
"I was checking something."
"What?"
"Your breathing."
"My breathing?" She repeats with not just a little doubt in her voice.
"Yes. I'm worried about you. I'm forever and you're, well, you're a witch, but Babe, really, you're just mortal and I just can't keep myself from checking to make sure you're okay."
"While I'm sleeping? You've been giving me nightmares. I'm safe as kittens next to you."
"So I'm neurotic. I just wish you would let me turn you already. Then I wouldn't have to worry so much."
She slips closer to him in the bed and begins to kiss him as she teases, "But this whole house is wood. What if a stray splinter accidentally staked me?"
"Never happen," he groans. "Once I turn you we're moving to an all concrete abode until I'm sure you can handle yourself."
"Oh, so only for three or four hundred years then?"
"Give or take a decade." And his body covers hers, none too gently.
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