Open_on_Sunday Drabble, Prompt: Stick
Title: Guardian
Author: Sandy (sp23)
Rating: G
The drugs help with the pain; the physical pain, anyway. But the nightmares come regardless of how doped up he is. He dreams about it again and again; Caleb grabbing him, holding him immobile, and then the pressure and pain as Caleb sticks his thumb in Xander's eye.
He awakens with a cry, his lone eye searching the dark, and spots a shadowy form sitting in a chair beside his bed.
"Stay away," he cries, frightened and disoriented.
"It's okay, mate," a soft voice says; a voice well-known and once hated.
Xander relaxes, drifts off, and sleeps; tonight's nightmares banished.
Author: Sandy (sp23)
Rating: G
The drugs help with the pain; the physical pain, anyway. But the nightmares come regardless of how doped up he is. He dreams about it again and again; Caleb grabbing him, holding him immobile, and then the pressure and pain as Caleb sticks his thumb in Xander's eye.
He awakens with a cry, his lone eye searching the dark, and spots a shadowy form sitting in a chair beside his bed.
"Stay away," he cries, frightened and disoriented.
"It's okay, mate," a soft voice says; a voice well-known and once hated.
Xander relaxes, drifts off, and sleeps; tonight's nightmares banished.