“Can you turn down the light on the way out?” I asked snuggling down in the bed.
“Yeah, good night King” Noah said as he touched the switch.
“Good night Noah” I said as he left the room closing the door behind him. As I lay there waiting for sleep to take me, I thought about everything I'd learned since I woke up and wondered “am I really in love with him or is it just the mating mark at work?”
When I finally drifted off to sleep, I was dropped into a nightmare. As I looked around, I saw the stone walls of a castle and a group of people standing by a carriage. Approaching them, I saw a little girl that resembled Serenity next to a slightly older boy who was holding tight to a mans chest. After a few minutes watching them, I tried to talk to Serenity but she couldn't hear me which told me I was merely an observer. A few seconds later, a woman appeared next to the man holding the young boy and began to speak.
“Remi, Remi honey you have to let go of daddy. We need you to go with auntie and uncle” she said and then the man holding the child said “it's for your own safety son, you need to go and be a good boy.” Then as I watched, the boy leaned up to look at his father and I realized “oh my god, this is one of Remingtons' memories but then who are the people taking him away?” After a few minutes, the people taking him along with Serenity and Remington got in the carriage and left. As the carriage drove away the image shifted around me revealing the same castle but this time it was on fire. Through the smoke, two figures came running and as they got close I recognized them as Remingtons' parents who had just sent him away for his own safety. As they got closer, I could see the looks of horror and pain on their faces when they suddenly stopped falling face down on the ground. As they lay there, they reached for each others hands just as two men came out of the smoke and cut off their heads. Turning, I saw the little boy from earlier hiding just outside the stone entry way. Looking back towards his parents, I realized he'd seen everything but no one saw him. Turning back towards him, I saw him running into the forest as fast as his little legs could carry him. After a few moments, I was pulled from the dream to the fire side with Lucifer. Taking a seat, I asked “did you do that?”
“I did not. It is an effect of the mating bond you two share. Because you fell asleep thinking about him, it showed you what he was dreaming about” Lucifer explained.
“Was he aware of my presence in the dream or memory?” I asked wondering if he saw me.
“I am unsure. I also saw what he was dreaming about and tried to calm him but it didn't seem to have any effect” Lucifer said laying his head on his paws.
“Is there a way I can go into his dream again? Can I do it at will or does it only work when I fall asleep thinking about him?” I asked trying to figure out if there was something I could do.
“I do not know. Maybe if you concentrate like you do when you are searching for something in your mind, you may be able to pull yourself to him” Lucifer said.
“Okay, it's worth a shot” I said then closing my eyes I concentrated on finding Remington in his dream. When I opened my eyes again, I was standing in a forest. Looking around, I found the little boy sitting by a waterfall with his knees pulled up to his chest. As I approached the boy, it was obvious he wasn't aware of my presence. Moving to stand behind him, I knelt down and wrapped my arms around him willing my scent to wrap around him as well. As I held him, the little boy changed to the young man I'd met by the lake and I could feel his emotions calming down into a state of relaxed unease.
“Why are you so uneasy?” I wondered aloud thinking he couldn't hear and wouldn't respond to me. To my surprise, he answered “because even though I know this must be a dream, I want this to be real but if it was real you probably wouldn't be doing this even if I was crying in front of you.”
“How are you so sure that some part of this isn't real?” I quietly asked still hugging him.
“Because this is the night my parents died. No on came to me in the forest that night, in fact no one found me for two days. So, you cannot possibly be real” he explained. Letting go, I turned him to face me on his knees then placed both hands on either side of his face and kissed him. Then after a minute, I pulled back and opened my eyes to see him staring at me in shock. Unable to hold my laughter, I said “I take it that surprised you.”
“Now I know this has to be a dream. Maybe my mind is taking the worst event in my life and trying to make it something happy but if that was the case then why did it chose you when I'm not even sure how you feel about me?” he asked making me laugh more.
“I kiss you and you have no idea how I feel about you?” I asked still laughing while pulling him into a hug. When I could breathe again, I pulled away with my arms still wrapped around his neck and I asked “what if I told you our mate bond allows us to travel into each others dreams? What if I told you, I saw everything you saw and felt everything you felt as you ran into the forest that night? What if I told you, I wanted to find you so I willed myself to your side and then willed my scent to wrap around you to calm you not realizing it would pull your conscious mind to where I was?”
“Wait, so are you trying to tell me that you are actually here? This isn't a dream, well it is because you're physically in the hospital, but you're actually aware of everything we are doing?” he asked skeptically finally catching up.
“Geez whoever said all hot guys are dense must've been right” I teased then said “alright, you want proof that I am here. I've teased you once before, do you remember what I said?” At that he blushed and I said “I see you do. You were staring at my mark and in order to get your attention I said 'what? Why do you look like you've seen a ghost? Or do you see something you like?'” quoting myself as I told him about the day we'd officially met.
“Oh my god” he said wrapping his arms around my waist and burying his head the nape of my neck. We stayed like that for a few minutes before I said “hey” then after a pause “hey, look at me Remington.” Then after a few seconds, he lifted his head up and stared into my eyes for a minute before I kissed him again. We spent the next five minutes kissing before he broke it, panting we knelt there with our foreheads touching. When I could breath again, I asked “so, do you believe me then?” Giggling, he said “well, after all that, it'd be damn hard not too” descending us both into laughter. After we had calmed down a little, he said “so can I ask you a question.”
“That would depend on the question” I said teasingly as I looked into his beautiful bronze eyes.
“I was just wondering what you thought about what you saw” he said looking away to hide his sad expression.
Making him look at me again, I answered “we all have our past, some may have had a happy one while others have a sad one. I will not judge you for yours though I am a bit confused on the details but you can tell me when you're ready.”
“That's good to know. I will not judge you for yours either no matter what it may be. So, when you're ready to tell me I'll listen” he said as he looked into my eyes before kissing me again. Breaking it again, he asked “so can I take this as you like me at least?”
“You think if I didn't that I'd keep kissing you or that I'd let you kiss me?” I asked sarcastically.
“Well I'd hope not” he said laughing again. Then after a few seconds, he added chuckling “wow baby got 'tude” before becoming serious again and continuing “I won't ask you to accept me right now. I know we don't know each other very well but I hope that one day soon you will.”
“Yes I do” I said bopping his chest before adding “and thanks for that. You're right we don't know each other very well but I want to change that. As soon as I am allowed out of the hospital, we are going to meet and talk.”
“Too bad that when we do that I won't be able to kiss you like this” he said before kissing me again with a hunger that wasn't for food.
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