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Once again you woke up with a scream, your eyes wide and body struck with terror. You took quick shallow breaths as your mind and body still reeled from the horrors of your nightmare. Dick was quick to come to you, having long been attuned to you.
Dick was gentle, reassuring. “Hey, hey, calm down. They can’t hurt you anymore.” He spoke to you in quiet murmured words, that spoke of love and reassurance. His arms were wrapped around you and one gently stroked your back while you attempted to gather yourself against his chest and stop your body from shaking.
The incident which haunted you happened years ago, but even though consciously you had moved passed the event, at night you were still cursed to replay that evening over and over again, until you awoke much like you had tonight.
It had been Dick who rescued you from them. Him and a few members of the team had burst through and pulled you from the ones who had wanted to hurt you. At least, that is what you had wanted to happen. In the end it seems like they actually did manage to achieve their goal. Even though the bruises and cuts had long since faded, the mental anguish and terror they had subjected you to still remained.
But as you sat there in Dick’s embrace, like you did whenever the nightmares came, you felt safe, you felt secure. He was always going to be there for you, to protect you, to love you, to help you heal. It had been his hands which bandaged up your wounds when he rescued you, and now you knew that with time, it would be him which helped heal this too.
As long as you stayed here in his arms, as long as you two loved each other, there was nothing that could keep the two of you apart.