Nightmares
Title: Nightmares
Pairing: Yeoljong
Rating: PG
Length: 564
Description I've been having a lot of nightmares lately.
Summary: Sungjong can’t sleep at night, not when he’s being haunted like this.
3AM
The tossing and turning every night was hard to ignore, especially for a light sleeper like Sungyeol. He tried to ignore them previous nights, but he was particularly irritable this night, as Sungjong had been moving around on the top bunk for nearly an hour.
He stood on the edge of his bed and peered over at the younger, poking his shoulder a few times as if that would wake him up from his disturbing slumber. A few droplets of sweat decorated his forehead and it was clear by the way Sungjong kept moving his head around, he was having a bad dream. With one rough shove, Sungyeol managed to get Sungjong to wake up with a loud gasp.
Thankfully, Hoya was still listening to Omarion or Nelly and hadn’t heard the loud noise.
Sungjong’s chest was heaving as he rubbed his eyes, looking over at Sungyeol with a frightened expression. “I-It was just a dream.. That was it. A dream.”
“Jongie… What’s going on? You haven’t been sleeping normally these past few nights.”
“There was this guy, he had us all locked up in the basement.” Sungjong kept blinking as he recounted the dream to Sungyeol, pausing every few words as if the dream were still vivid in his head. By that time, Sungyeol had climbed onto the top bunk to lay down next to the maknae who clearly was having a difficult time.
“We’re all okay, and that’s all that matters. I’ll stay here if it helps you sleep.”
“But… But what if he comes back into my dream? I don’t know what to do… I can’t even push him away! He just pops up and keeps taking you and the other hyungs away…” Sungjong turned to his hyung, placing his forehead on the other’s chest, his own chest heaving.
“I promise you, I won’t abandon you. I’ll be right here when you wake up too… And if the hyungs ask any weird questions I’ll beat them up for you. Okay? Now go back to sleep.” Sungyeol’s long arms wrapped around the younger protectively and he closed his eyes.
“Thank you Yeollie hyung…” Sungjong looked up at his hyung and gave him a warm smile before burying his face back into his chest; sleep overtaking his mind a lot faster than he anticipated.
Sungyeol had never held someone until they fell asleep, but he definitely liked the feeling (and it didn’t really help that he had a crush on Sungjong, but that was to be dealt with another day and another time).