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Kelly woke up from his happy slumber for no apparent reason. It wasn't that he was too cold, and he surely wasn't too warm. There were no loud sounds or bright lights that would have woken him up, only the bliss of pure silence. With a grunt of frustration (he didn't appreciate his sleep interrupted for nothing) the dark-haired lieutenant pinned his wake-up on having no reason, and he rolled over in an attempt to go back to that sweet temporary unconsciousness - also known as, glorious sleep. He reached out an arm to wrap around the blonde, but the bed beside him was empty. Kelly's eyes fluttered open and he sat up in bed as he looked around, trying to locate Matt.
He wasn't in the bedroom at all. This prompted Kelly to get out of bed, clad in only his boxers, and step out of their room. He peeked in the spare bedroom, bathroom, and living room but there was no sign of him. At last, Kelly found him in the kitchen, sitting on the floor in front of the open refrigerator.
Kelly's voice was soft and gently as he spoke, "Hey."
"Hey." Matt looked surprised to see the other man out of bed.
"You okay?" Kelly murmured, tilting his head to one side as he stared at the blonde.
"Huh?" Matt glanced to Kelly for a moment before seeing the worry on his face, "Yeah, I'm alright."
Kelly switched his gaze to the fridge, the door all the way open. "You hungry?"
The blonde shook his head.. A minute later shrugging his shoulders, in a sense, unsure.
"You should come to bed." The dark-haired lieutenant suggested, offering a hand to Matt in case he needed assistance getting up.
"Why?" Matt countered in a dry voice, his eyes finally peering up to Kelly's, searching them.
"You need to sleep, baby." Kelly was kneeling down and sitting beside Matt now, somehow getting the sense that he wouldn't be moving too far quite yet.
Matt snorted, leaning his head back a little, "Pfffft.. I can sleep when I'm dead."
Kelly paused for a few short moments as he realized what this all was, what Matt really meant. "Nightmares again?"
The blonde nodded, his stress and anxiety evident in the way his eyes stared blankly ahead, like he was trying to hide everything from the world. He couldn't hide it from Kelly though, Kelly had known Matt long enough to realize when he wasn't okay.
"How bad?" Kelly was in protective mode now. These nightmares had been plaguing his lover for too long now. Kelly wrapped an arm around Matt's bare back, he was wearing nothing but a pair of boxers same as Kelly. Difference was, he was freezing cold and Kelly was a radiating furnace.
"Bad." Matt murmured, leaning into the touch.
Kelly scooped Matt up. He was too light these days. "You're coming back to bed with me."
Matt nodded against Kelly's shoulder as he was lifted and brought into the soft comfort of their queen sized bed. Kelly followed in right after, pulling Matt to him so close, that there was no room to be pressed together any tighter. Kelly's strong calloused hand pushed through Matt's thick blonde hair, trying to soothe him to sleep. "It's okay to sleep, I'll be right here..." He whispered into Matt's ear softly, "I'll protect you."