Alex POV
I woke up in the middle of the night from a hard kick to my thigh. It was Jack. I groaned in pain but Jack was still wildly kicking out. I held his legs down with mine and softly shook his upper body to wake him up. He whimpered quietly. He was hard to wake up though, he didn’t really react to me softly shaking him. So I had to shake him harder. Nothing. I tried to lightly punch his arm, no positive reaction either. He started punching the air around him too now, hitting me a few times.
I instinctively tried to restrain him by hugging him, keeping his arms and legs under control.

Surprisingly, that did the trick. He tore his eyes open, making me jump. He panted and started crying. I relaxed my grip on him a bit and started rubbing his back. He curled up into my chest and cried, trembling quite a lot.

“Was it a bad dream?” I asked carefully. He nodded. “You’re safe now, I’m here to protect you,” I said softly, playing with his hair. He got a little calmer and stopped shaking as bad.

I held him for a long time, whispering sweet little nothings into his ear, patting away his tears with a corner of my pyjamas and rubbing his back. His breathing went back to normal after some time and he fully stopped crying too. I held him as I sang a lullabye I had always sung to Elaine, but strangely enough, it didn’t make me sad to sing it to him but it made me smile, even if a little sadly.

Finally, Jack was back asleep. I cautiously got the blanket fluffed up once more to meet my expectations and then drifted off into the land of dreams.

Notes

I know this is really short but somehow writing was hard today.
At least it's fluffy c:

-Laura