Chapter 24 – Happy Things

His hands were all over her and she could feel him trying to get the button of her jeans to release. Her hands grabbed his wrists in an attempt to get him to stop as panic began to skitter through her entire body. She could barely breathe with his mouth covering hers; she shook her head negatively to get the kiss to break. She gasped out for air as she watched the tip of the blade touched her torso just below her bra and gently slid down; no pressure being applied. "No – No please…" She begged as she watched the cold unforgiving knife slid back up before piercing the skin at the rib cage and dragging down as little sips of blood leaked from the shallow cut.

"NOOOOOOO!" Kira screamed out as she sat up with a start clutching her side. Her eyes snapped open as her thoughts came to a screeching halt. She looked around the room and noticed it was her and Roman's bedroom; when she looked down she saw herself still clutching her tank top covered torso. She took a couple of deep breaths as she tried to calm her erratic breathing.

Her violet eyes blinked as she tried to calm her shaky nerves. She swallowed hard as she moved up in the bed. She was covered in head to toe sweat as she reached over and grabbed her cell phone before dialing the all too familiar number. It rang a few times before it went to voicemail before she looked at the clock on the night stand. "Shit…" She cursed under her breath; it was 4 in the morning and she knew Roman was half way across the United States sleeping. She hung up, tossed her phone back onto the night stand and pulled herself from the bed.

Kira walked into the bathroom and stripped off her sweat soaked clothes and got into an ice cold shower. She needed to cool her body off or it would be a waste to go back to bed.

Roman was actually awake but he was trying to empty his bladder at the time he heard Kira's ringtone. He was used to her calling around the same time in the middle of the night. It didn't matter that he'd moved them to a different house, she'd started having nightmares about Jackson stabbing her now and she was battling them almost on a nightly basis.

The first couple of months in the new house the nightmares were excruciating for Kira. Roman had gotten her to go to a sleep therapist and it was somewhat starting to help. The nightmare's stopped happening every night and now mostly happened when Roman was on the road. She was dealing with them the best way she could. He walked back into the hotel bedroom and grabbed his phone as he fell back into bed as he hit the call button on his phone; when it went to voicemail he knew she was in the shower – they seemed to help calm her down afterwards. He would give her thirty minutes and call her back. He flipped the TV on and watched a little ESPN to occupy his mind and keep him awake until he could call her back.

Fresh from the shower, Kira had combed the knots out of her hair and had dressed in black cotton shorts and a white form fitting cotton t-shirt. She had pulled the sheets from the bed and started them in the washer, before going back upstairs and putting fresh sheets on the California King bed she shared with Roman. Her head snapped to the side when her phone rang just as she had finished up and was about to climb back into bed and give that sleeping thing another shot.

She smiled softly as she hit the answer button. "What are you doing up babe?" She asked softly.

"I was actually awake when you called but I was trying to pee first and guys can't rush peeing or I would've been able to answer the phone; can't sleep or bad dreams?" He asked in a deep voice. He sat back propped up on a few pillows to keep himself comfortable so he could talk to her for a bit.

"Bad dreams…" Kira whimpered into the phone. "I'm sorry to call so late – I just needed to hear your voice." She admitted. There was something about his voice that was comforting to her and had an extreme calming effect on her whole body; especially after one of her dreams.

Roman shook his head. "You know I don't care what time of day you call me. I'm always available for you." He started honestly. "You want to tell me what happened or you just want to talk about non-sense?" He loved hearing her voice and as long as he knew she was okay than he could rest easy. He could tell from her silence she didn't want to talk about the dream. "What did you do today baby?" He asked; picking a subject to keep her mind occupied.

"I helped Melissa decorate the baby's room. It was fun. We went and got paint and borders and furniture. It was a lot of fun. Elsa tripped and fell into the purple paint." Kira laughed. "She's going to be scrubbing purple off her for weeks." The sound of Roman's laughter was music to her ears and made her heart flip in her chest. Kira smiled. "Roman…"

"Yea baby?" He answered as he pushed the image of Elsa being covered in paint. He was SO telling Dean.

"I miss you."

Roman smiled softly. "I miss you too baby. I'll be home in a couple of days and then I'm all yours I promise." He was contemplating taking her on the road with him the next time around just to get her away from Florida for a while. She needed to get away even if it was just for five days.

"So please tell me you got pictures of Elsa covered in purple paint." Roman practically begged.

When Roman was home he would get Kira out of the house as much as he could during the day at night he kept her mind occupied with him and everything about him. Today they went out.

Roman sat across the room nursing a beer as he watched Kira laugh with the girls yet again. They had thrown a gigantic baby shower for an almost 8 ½ month pregnant Melissa and Seth. They made it a co-ed baby shower and now the girls were cleaning up and helping Melissa put away all the baby stuff she'd gotten.

Seth tapped his fist on Roman's shoulders and watched as the big man turned and looked at him. "What or who seems to have gotten your attention bro?" He asked with a smirk.

Roman chuckled. "I'll give you three guesses and the first two don't count." His grey eyes moved back to the jean covered rear end of his girlfriend standing on her tippy toes trying to put some clean glasses away. "If you gentlemen will excuse me for a minute; my gentlemanly duties are warranted in the kitchen."

Kira squealed when she was suddenly lifted by her hips. "Jesus Christ Roman! You scared me half to death." She finished pushed the glasses onto the top shelf. "Down handsome…" She patted his hand as she found her feet on the kitchen floor as he turned her to face him and a few seconds later Roman lifted her up and placed her on the counter. "What's up with you today?" She asked softly as he made himself comfortable standing between her thighs.

Roman shook his head. "Nothing baby; I just missed you while I was gone. How are your sleep therapy sessions going?" He asked as he leaned down and softly kissed her lips. He'd noticed she wasn't calling him in the middle of the night nearly as much the last couple of weeks and was hoping she wouldn't have to keep seeing the therapist unless she wanted to; especially if it was helping her.

Kira nodded. "It's good. She does seem to be able to get to the root of my nightmares and has been helping me quite a bit since I started seeing her a few months ago. It feels like it's paying off. It's easier to get through the nights now."

"Even…without me?" He asked with his eyebrows raised in question.

"It's never easy to sleep through the night without you Roman. You're my favorite sleeping buddy." Kira stated honestly as she pulling him down and caught his lips.

"Uh - hey, Roman those gentlemanly duties that you spoke of; did those include making out with your girlfriend in the kitchen?" Dean asked from the living room.

Seth groaned. "Don't besmirch my kitchen Reigns!" Seth demanded. He jerked slightly when he felt a slap against the side of his head and looked over his shoulder to see Melissa giggling as she walked around the couch and he immediately took her hips and guided her down to his lap.

"Leave them alone Mr. Rollins." Melissa chastised. "It's not like they are getting it on - on our counters or anything. Besides I'm sure we've done worse in there." Melissa admitted and smirked before her cheeks tinged pink.

Seth chuckled. "Yes ma'am Mrs. Rollins." She was the most beautiful pregnant woman he had ever seen. The pregnancy had been somewhat easy on her but she just knew the next would kick her ass. Seth rubbed her protruding belly; he liked the fact she used the thought of a 'next pregnancy' in her sentences when they talked about their future.

It had come as no surprise that as soon as Seth found out Melissa was carrying his child he had immediately asked her to marry him and in true Melissa fashion she declined the first 4 times because she insisted he was only doing it because she was pregnant. Finally after hours of making love and bathing her body in kisses and caresses he finally got her to see that he couldn't possibly be more in love with anyone else. Elsa, Kira and Sydney had helped throw together an amazing small wedding a few close friends and immediate family only.

"How are you feeling pretty lady?" Seth asked softly as he kissed the side of her neck.

"I'm okay. You're princess is pretty active today. If she doesn't sit still while hovering over my bladder I'm going to pee on your leg." Melissa admitted with a laugh.

Seth chuckled. "Maybe I should get you to the restroom…" He suggested and received a swat to the chest. "C'mon baby, let's get you to the bathroom." Seth carefully helped her stand up and walked her down the hallway to the restroom. He stood outside while she was busy; then re-joined their guests.

Kira and Roman walked back into the living room. Roman sat down in the overstuffed chair across from Dean and Elsa in the other chair; Roman pulled her onto his lap as she leaned back against his chest and got comfortable.

Kira looked over at Phil with Sydney sitting in his lap. "I have never seen two more tanned people in my entire life."

Sydney laughed. "We finally took time out of everything and went to Bora Bora for our honeymoon. Who knew 3 months sitting in the son could tan the skin like this."

"Man I'm tanned in places I wasn't even aware I COULD tan." Phil chuckled.

Syd shook her head. "You know it's bad when Phil comes walking into the little hut with his swim trunks down around his knees and a surprised look on his face. All he could say was 'My nuts are brown.' He must've said it a dozen times before I threw a pillow at him and told him to get his brown nuts away from me."

Phil shook his head. Not a lot embarrassed him, but he couldn't stop his cheeks from reddening even if he wanted to. It only made the guys and girls laugh at him hard. "Well…They were." Phil chuckled out. "It bad enough the next day when I got out of the shower I was bent over drying off smart ass came up behind me and said I must've had some kind of flesh eating disease because my usually neon white ass was brown too." That admittance only got the other three couples laughing harder at him as his cheeks reddened a little more.

Elsa giggled. "I've so got you beat on the embarrassment factor Phil. This fool thought it would be funny to put fake spiders in the hotel bed on night. They looked so fuckin real. They jumped and hopped around."

Dean chuckled. "You guys should've seen her; it was un-real. Even after she put me in a head lock and I cleared them out and threw them all away she still wouldn't get into the bed. She refused to even come near it. I had to get dressed go all the way down to the front desk and beg the night manager to give us a different room. I claimed the room smelled like smoke. Which is did but it was from me, but what they didn't know wouldn't hurt them. Got all the way back upstairs and moved into the next room and got in bed."

Elsa smirked. "He's never done anything that dumb again. Plus I got my revenge the next morning."

"Yes…Yes you did baby." Dean shook his head and buried his face in the middle of Elsa's shoulder. Everyone would see the tips of his ears turning red. Dean Ambrose was ACTUALLY embarrassed.

Sydney looked between Dean and Elsa. "What happened?" She asked; inquiring minds wanted to know.

Elsa smirked. "I waited until he was in the shower and then I put all the suitcases and towels and everything in the closet and called Roman and begging him to put the fire alarm…And he did." Elsa couldn't help laughing. "This fool runs out of the shower and bypasses everything and runs butt naked into the hotel hallway; down at least 10 doors towards the elevator before he suddenly realizes he doesn't have a stitch of clothing on."

Dean shook his head. "I almost got arrested for indecent exposure. The hotel almost called the cops on me." He pinched Elsa's thigh and it only made her laugh harder.

"I love you baby but you know you deserved it. You know I have a high fear of spiders." Elsa laughed as she turned to see Dean's face she leaned down and licked the end of his nose as a tease.

Dean growled. "I think it's time to head home." He thrust his pelvis up and bumped into her ass as she was sitting on his lap.

"Agreed."

Roman and Kira were lying in bed later that night. "Baby, I want you to come on the road with me for a while. I love having you with me."

Kira smiled softly. She knew Roman had wanted her with him on the road for a long time, but with her battling her nightmares; she didn't want to disturb what little sleep he did actually get by thrashing in bed next to him. She didn't want him to have to baby sit her and her bad dreams while moving through the wrestling ranks in WWE.

Kira looked up at Roman. "I think I'd like that."

"Good, when I leave on Friday you're coming with me." Roman stated. "I think Elsa is coming with Dean so at least you'll have a partner in crime. Seth is home now until the baby comes and Phil is getting ready to take Sydney on a European tour." Roman's arm pulled Kira closer as she burrowed into his side more.

Tonight her dreams would be filled with happy things.