[It didn't take long for their heads to hit the pillows when they got back. After sharing a hot bath together to soak and warm up, it was straight under the many blankets that they were given, much to Tifa's relief. She could use the warmth, but nothing could compare to him sleeping next to her, their arms around each other, her head on his chest, as they both quickly doze off.
She does wake up several times during their sleep, or maybe she hadn't completely fallen asleep at all. Every once in a while she opens her eyes to check on him... to press a light kiss to the nearest part of him that she can reach, to brush his hair back, to caress his face. To make sure that nothing has come for him in the dark. He is still here, sleeping soundly, and that's as much as she can ask for right now.
But she would be lying if she said she wasn't a little scared, and that's what keeps her up for the most part. She knows that the nightmare energy could put some stress on a person, but what she saw from him in the dreamscape was... different. Not quite like himself. He was irritable, a little aggressive, and that heat that he had tried to warm her hands with... it didn't burn, but it was blistering hot. Dangerously so, and it might have burned her had she not been able to pull away fast enough.
It makes her uneasy, thinking about it, and so she tries to push it back for now, chalking it up to him being tired and all of that nightmare energy that he had to absorb and control... She's going to have to stop fretting so much if she wants to get any sort of rest.
At some point, she does manage to fall asleep again... though how long that will last, who knows...]
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[It didn't take long for their heads to hit the pillows when they got back. After sharing a hot bath together to soak and warm up, it was straight under the many blankets that they were given, much to Tifa's relief. She could use the warmth, but nothing could compare to him sleeping next to her, their arms around each other, her head on his chest, as they both quickly doze off.
She does wake up several times during their sleep, or maybe she hadn't completely fallen asleep at all. Every once in a while she opens her eyes to check on him... to press a light kiss to the nearest part of him that she can reach, to brush his hair back, to caress his face. To make sure that nothing has come for him in the dark. He is still here, sleeping soundly, and that's as much as she can ask for right now.
But she would be lying if she said she wasn't a little scared, and that's what keeps her up for the most part. She knows that the nightmare energy could put some stress on a person, but what she saw from him in the dreamscape was... different. Not quite like himself. He was irritable, a little aggressive, and that heat that he had tried to warm her hands with... it didn't burn, but it was blistering hot. Dangerously so, and it might have burned her had she not been able to pull away fast enough.
It makes her uneasy, thinking about it, and so she tries to push it back for now, chalking it up to him being tired and all of that nightmare energy that he had to absorb and control... She's going to have to stop fretting so much if she wants to get any sort of rest.
At some point, she does manage to fall asleep again... though how long that will last, who knows...]