Im desperate to write but I can’t so you’ll be getting more thought echoes
I’m thinking about female reader being offered/demanded as Nightmare’s bride to stop his forces from invading Dream’s kingdom/other idk. You’re taken from the light into the darkness, ripped by your roots and brought to a world you don’t understand, belonging to a terrifying man almost twice your height with arms that could crush steel, with the intelligence to cause devastation.
It’s your first night with him and you’re terrified having to be alone with him in his room. He could do anything he wanted to you, from consummation to something even more terrifying. He could demand and take whatever he wanted from you, but… instead, he gives you time and space to clean yourself alone, allows you to change away from his presence, and by the time you reach the bed, he’s ‘asleep’, with his back to your side of the bed.
You’re overwhelmed and scared, and when you start crying under your breath you find that your groom hadn’t actually slept. You see his cyan eye staring at you, but somehow it’s not as sharp as it looked when he first ‘inspected’ you. You’re scared that now you have to fulfill your role as his new wife, but he just says
“it’s alright, i’m not planning to do anything to you.”
“i’m sorry everything’s so scary right now. cry, it’s ok. i’ll keep you safe,”
The man that made your blood run cold this morning now made you warm by wrapping his arms around you, squashing you to his chest… he smells nice and safe, and instead of running away from him you cling to him for comfort and cry little sobs that make him hold you tighter.
