Hey, it's wonderful receiving prompts, because we all have similar themes, but each one turns out completely different. Prompted by: 'stuckbeingrachel' I'm getting use to typing your name!

Garden

Beginning

"Jerome?" Mara whispered, she was in Alfie and Jerome's room, in the middle of the night, manoeuvring through the darkness, trying to find Jerome. She heard an unintelligible mumble, and followed the sound "Jerome?" she whispered again.

"Shut up, Alfie." He whispered, turning over. Mara could just make out the outline of his bed, so she edged towards it, crawling onto his warm blankets.

"Jerome? I can't sleep. I was hoping you'd take me to the garden,"

Jerome sighed, rubbing his eyes with his hands tiredly "Listen Alfie, I thought I said stop waking me up in the middle of the night for you gam-" he paused, as he saw Mara sitting beside him, looking down. "Jaffray?" he asked in disbelief "What are you doing here? The door was locked!"

"You have me a key, remember?" Mara reminded him. Jerome did remember, and he turned towards her, letting his eyes drift shut. "Jerome," Mara smiled "Jerome, please," Jerome struggled to sit up, but did so eventually, and Mara didn't think she'd seen anything so adorable in her life. Jerome's too-big-for-him red t shirt was creased, his hair a fluffy mess, and his eyes dreary and confused.

"What's wrong, Jaffray?" he yawned

"I had a bad dream." She admitted. Immediately Jerome was wide awake, and he turned so he was facing her directly, his eyes searching hers in the darkness

"What about?" he asked curiously. But she shook her head

"I don't wanna talk about it."

Jerome groaned inside. He was always so curious to how his girlfriend worked, and what she was thinking. What she feared, what made her happy. And a great way to be able to do that would be through her dreams, especially if she was having nightmares. Jerome had nightmares, all the time. About her leaving him, and about Rufus coming back. "You want me to take you to the garden?"

Mara nodded

Lime Break

The Garden. It was Jerome and Mara's place. Well, it had first been Jerome's. When he had first arrived at Anubis house he would play in the small back garden, that ended at the fence. But one day, when he was about six, he noticed one plank on the fence turned, and he walked through it.

Mara thought the garden was beautiful, long grass, up to her knees, silvery blue in colour. Large trees and dandelions every day throughout the year. Edible berries from the bushes, it was like something out of a fairy tale, and it made her feel calm.

Jerome was lying on the grass, and Mara lay slanted beside him, her head resting on his chest as she stroked his fingers up and down her arm. "Will you ever tell me what it's about?" he asked, prying slightly

"You don't want to know," Mara laughed to herself, and now Jerome really wanted to know.

"Oh come on, Mara! Please, you know how much I hate being kept in the dark like that." He sighed, turning his head, inhaling the sweet air. The air in the garden even seemed different to the rest of the world, lavender, and the sweet glaze of honey.

"You broke up with me," she sighed "For Nina,"

Jerome's eyebrows widened, but he felt himself smiling slightly. So he and Mara weren't so different after all. They both dreamed of the horror of the other one leaving them. "Silly Mara," he chuckled. He rolled himself over, so he was hovering above her, keeping himself propped up with his arms. "You're the only one for me." He pressed his nose to hers and Mara smiled

"Good. And you're the only one for me."

"I knew that already," Jerome winked at her. Mara laughed

"I want you to know that Jerome. I would never leave you for Mick. Certainly not Eddie." She shuddered visibly. Jerome arched an eye brow at her "It's just, Alfie told me about your bad dreams, when you wouldn't tell me, I figured I'd ask him."

Jerome seemed angry for a moment, before he laughed, realising it didn't matter, and that in fact, Alfie had done him a favour. "Clever," he noted. Pressing his lips to hers.

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