{nightmare meme} Alice's dream was clouded with tears, again. Floating along in the stream of her tears, her mind realised the sound of crying was still continuing, while she herself was no longer crying. She awoke and turned over to see Syd upset on the other side of the bed. Alice sat up and wrapped an arm around him, stroking his back slowly to comfort him. "Are you quite alright, Dear?"
Before Syd rolled over to face her, he wiped his face on the blanket. Another nightmare. He’d woken up shaking and crying every night for a week, but he wasn’t going to let Alice know that. He smiled at her, “Very alright. In fact, I can tell I’m asleep because the girl of dreams is right here in front of me.”
Syd returned only a few minutes later, but with a handle of vodka. He unscrewed the cap and began to drink it straight out of the bottle, wrinkling his nose at the stinging liquid. While vodka wasn’t his drink of choice and he hardly ever drank it without a mixer, it would get him drunk and do the job quickly.
He hoped that Alice had gone back to sleep so he sat on the edge of the bed and took a large chug of the alcohol, praying that alcohol poisoning would help him sleep.
Alice truly wished sometimes that she would be able to fall asleep after one of his nightmares, but she was a worrier. It was in her veins, and she loved, er, cared, about him too much to just ignore what was going on with him.
She moved gently, to not scare him, walking her fingers along his side before getting up on her knees to move behind him. One hand splayed out upon Syd's stomach, the other over his shoulder to his chest, Alice kissed his cheek, his jaw, until whispering against his ear, "At least come lie down with me?"
