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⚠️TW:⚠️ nightmares
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Robbie plopped down where he sat while we ate, and turned the TV on. The movie Nova was "watching" earlier came up. "Should we finish this?" he asked us.
"Do you want to finish the movie?" I asked Nova, and she shook her head. "Anything you want to watch then?"
"Something you're in", she mumbled, stuffing her face back into my neck. Robbie smirked at her answer, putting on Age of Ultron. "Not a bad choice Nova", he laughed, knowing I don't really like watching myself.
So yeah, we ended up watching Age of Ultron. Major cringe for me, but for Nova, I'd endure as much cringe as I have to in order to make her happy. During the course of the movie, Nova fell asleep, so with a little struggle, I carried her upstairs.
I then helped Robbie clean up before we also retreated into bed. Worrying a little about Nova, it took a while for me to fall asleep, but Robbie's safe embrace soon lulled me into a peaceful slumber.
A couple hours later, we were both awoken by a scream. I shot up, looking around, slightly disoriented from sleep. Nova. I had to get to her. "I'll go to her, you just stay here babe", I gave Robbie a peck on the lips before getting out of bed, taking my phone with me.
I could hear muffled sobs coming from further down the hall, so I wasted no time. Knocking on the door, I received no answer.
"Nova, I'm coming in", I informed her. My hand found the door handle, and slowly pushed it downwards. Her room was pitch black, and I could just make out the outline of a figure huddled together on the bed.
"G-Get out", I heard a whimper. "Nova baby?" "I'm fine, g-go back to sleep!"
"Aww honey..." I approached her, putting my phone on the nightstand. She had wrapped her arms tightly around herself, with her head in a pillow, clearly trying to muffle her sobs. I sat down on the side of the bed, moving one hand to her hands, gently stroking over her knuckles.
"G-Go back to sleep", I heard her muffled voice. "I'm not leaving until you are okay and calm honey." I tried to loosen her grip on herself, but she just tensed up, and I gave up, not wanting to escalate the situation by using force. So, I decided on talking her down first.
"Can you take some deep breaths for me? I'm not leaving, it's just you and me my sweet girl okay?" I continued rubbing her knuckles with my thumb. "I- I- no", she was choking on her sobs from how hard she was crying.
"Come here darling, you're okay, you're safe", I gently lead her into my embrace. Reluctantly, she allowed me to scooch in behind her so that I was leaning against the headboard with her in my arms. Her grip on her knees and the pillow never loosened, but I didn't do anything about it.
"Focus on the deep breaths okay? I love you so much my beautiful girl." My hands stayed on hers, making sure they didn't make their way up to her hairline. She hadn't pulled her hair in a while, but I didn't want this hard day to ruin her progress.
I felt her chest heave and her sobs lessened slightly. "There we go hun, you're doing such a good job", I smiled. "Just focus on that okay? Just me and you, no one else", I spoke calmly as she calmed down.
Her breathing evened out and her sobs lessened to silent tears streaming down her face. The glossed look reappeared in her eyes as she calmed down. She leaned back into me, slightly turning her body so that she could stuff her face in the crook of my neck.
"𝐼'𝓋𝑒 𝑔𝑜𝓉 𝓎𝑜𝓊 Nova", I whispered to her. "Try to get some sleep okay? I'm not going anywhere." It took a while, but she eventually relaxed enough to fall asleep. Her slumber was restless, with her tossing and turning constantly, but with me holding her and gently stroking her head, we were able to avoid any more nightmares.
I also fell asleep eventually and woke up the next morning with Nova still in my embrace. To someone who didn't know her, you'd think she looked peacefully asleep. Everything but a small furrow in her eyebrows pointed towards that.
She looked more peaceful than last night, but then again, I had no idea how she would be feeling today. I gently shifted my body to a more upright position so that I could lean against the headboard, similarly to how I had been last night, with Nova in between my legs, almost on my lap.
I scrolled through my phone for a while until I heard some soft noises escaping Nova as she slowly woke up. She shifted in my embrace and I put my phone away to give her my undivided attention.
A groan escaped her throat as she subconsciously buried her face deeper into me. "Good morning my beautiful girl", I spoke softly, gently rubbing her shoulder. "M-Morning", she rasped, her voice cracking slightly.
"How are you feeling hunny?" I asked softly. "Better than yesterday, but still not 100%." She opened her eyes, and the set of blue orbs met my green ones. Her eyes were slightly puffy and bloodshot still, undoubtedly from how much she had cried yesterday.
"That's good, do you want me to stay home today as well?" I asked her, not sure if she was ready to be alone. "I'm not sure if I want to stay cooped up here today. I need to do something."
"Would you like to come with me to set? I have a pretty chill day and you could just stay in my trailer if you don't want to talk to people. There's also a really nice park nearby if you'd like to go for a little walk", I suggested.
"Oh, so you have to go to work today?"
"Not if you need me to stay home. You will always come first bubs, know that, okay?" I made sure she knew how much she meant to me.
"But you took yesterday off?"
"So?"
"You'd be willing to take more than one day off work just because I'm not feeling great?" Nova questioned. "Of course hunny! Why would I not? Just like I said earlier, you come before work."
It seemingly took a little time for the new piece of information to sink it, and even when it did, she had trouble believing it.
We eventually decided on her coming to set with me. I'm currently filming WandaVision, but today was a pretty chill day, with only me and Kathryn on set. Robbie had made us breakfast, and we had a nice, relaxed morning, eating together by the kitchen island.
Nova was a lot more like herself today and she was a lot less guarded around Robbie, even giving him a little hug as a thank you for breakfast and for being understanding yesterday. Robbie then had to leave for work, and I mean, we did too.
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