OH GOD I SENT A REACTION REQUEST FOR THE UhHH NIGHTMARES BUT I JUST SEEN UR RULes aND REBLOG SO LET ME REPHRASE THIS REQUEST; can i get a JOON imagine where u have a nightmare ?? lots of fluff w small bits of angst pls he's my angel
GENRE. fluff; angst (you probably need a microscope)
CHARACTER. kim namjoon x reader | no supporting character
AUTHOR`S NOTE. namjoon is my noodle. this is kinda short but thanks for requesting & happy reading, bub!
[02:28 AM] [what remains at night is the sound of them breathing.]
―namjoon`s hands trembled as he ungrasps the steering wheel. first day of completely driving on his own felt not only exciting but also frightening. every minute he was on full concentration and this, really made him tired as hell as he finally parks his car in the garage under his apartment.
turning off the ignition, he stuffs his car keys in his pocket after getting out of the car. though his body felt like it would just fall down any second, he thanked the architect of this building who gave the intricate thought of giving a proper functional lift.
his floor was 8th and he stands there, slumped against the silver-coloured metallic wall. his senses were somewhat outdated right then so he didn`t exactly feel the lift moving up against the gravity and finally stopping on his floor.
“oh, finally, i can finally just lie down,” he says to himself while inserting his keys to the entrance door. it was at that moment he realizes that you`re probably sleeping right now in your shared bedroom.
he opens the door with the remaining effort in him so as to not make any sort of sound and alert you. he proceeds to close it the same way, hangs his overcoat on the hook, opens his shoelaces and puts them back into the shoe rack. it looked like you had not gone out today because there wasn`t any trace of dust at the entrance.
because the only thing that was lit in the whole apartment was the hanging light above the dining table, namjoon opens his watches, unbuckles his belt and takes out the car keys from his pocket and place them on the clothed cover of the table. it took him a lot of concentration and consciousness to not make a single bit of a sound.
after all, he had known this all along that you`ve a very weak sleep situation. you get awakened by even a tad bit of creaking. namjoon proceeds to tiptoe towards the bedroom. if he had the chance he could`ve changed in another room but he didn`t want to, first of all, go through another turmoil of opening and closing a door and second of all, the closet was in the bedroom. either way, he has to enter in that. it was times like this when he remembers his promise to you that he`s going to buy a much spacer apartment in the future. you`ve as always chimed in adding that you will work hard too to financially help him.
namjoon finally dressed himself up in his sweatpants. he usually throws in a t-shirt over it but tonight felt too warm for that. also, he had this sudden urge to hold himself against your sleeping figure. he could make out under the dim moonlight from the open window that you`ve almost curled yourself up into a ball.
he slowly with batted breathe settles on the bed, right beside you. taking the thin blanket which has been covering your lower body till now, he takes his share of the same and finally lies down next to you.
minutes pass by and as he feels sleep entering into his system, he senses a twisting beside him. he moves his arm that was resting over his face to look at your direction. he couldn`t particularly make out the exact expression but he felt a certain uneasiness in you. he turns over on his side, facing your body and touches the side of your neck only to feel a thin sheet of perspiration gathered up there. along with that, he witnesses your breathing getting louder and this time you were not just breathing through your nose but through your mouth.
without hesitating any longer, namjoon flips you over so that you are lying on your back and not your side like before and opens the top three buttons of your nightshirt and moves your shirt`s collars apart and exposes your neck and half of your chest to the open air of the room.
“breath, ______, please breathe,” he mumbles to you and himself at the same time. your current state makes him realize that you`re probably seeing some nightmare. he rubs off the sweat that was accumulating on your face, sticking your hairs to the side of your face, he blows air through his mouth over your eyes to make you feel a little relaxed. though after a few moments it felt like you were feeling a bit better than before.
namjoon, thinking that he might just try feeding you some water starts getting off the bed when he feels something holding his wrist down to the bed. his reflex works faster than him and he returns back to hovering his face over your now awakened face.
you tried blinking multiple times to get used to the darkness and namjoon`s breath against your face.
“are you okay?” he whispers.
your mouth was feeling too dry and void at the same time so you kept it shut and just nodded back at him.
“were you having a bad dream?” joon`s voice felt too soft, it was like silk and roughness combined.
you nodded back at him but this time your hand reached up and they held his face in their palm softly. namjoon leaned into your palm taking in their texture and before he decides to say something, he leaned in and pressed his lips against yours, giving a soft kiss to soothe you down.
“feeling better?” he asks, his eyes too close to your own. you broke the eye contact and nodded back at him.
“let`s go back to sleep then,” but he completely forgot for a moment that he was initially getting up to get some water for you to drink and thus, he gets up and brings in a glassful of water for you from the kitchen, “here, drink this before sleeping.”
he helps you getting up and he even uses a wet cloth to clean the sweat that was giving you discomfort. though you whined indicating that it`s okay but he still did that.
“it`s okay. it`s not rocket science.”
after all these, he climbs back to the bed beside you and this time he doesn`t just lie down on his back. he turns to your side and holds you close enough so that your face remains against his chest and you breathe in the familiar warmth before going back to sleep.
it`s good to say that night after that a bad dream, you slept like a baby while namjoon protected you in his embrace.