Fandom Imagines

Woflet- Nightmares

Fandom- Lunar Chronicles

Word Count-  2112

Description- Scarlet has nightmares and Wolf helps her through them

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Even the strongest people fall to their knees. Scarlet knew this all to well. She had always been known as the strong one, the person who was strong when everyone else would have been weak. She kept up this facade during the day, but when it came down to going to sleep she was as weak as a porcelain doll hitting the ground. In the weeks after finally leaving Artemisia she began having nightmares. Her nightmares so vivid that when she woke she never wanted to go back to sleep. She even stalled going to bed as long as she could before Wolf came and carried her upstairs to their bed. Wolf caught onto this and the fact that she would sneak out of bed once he was asleep so he would make sure to wrap his arms around her before going to bed.

Wolf helped keep the nightmares at bay most of the time but tonight was an exception. There was other times when the memories of her time in Artemisia came back but tonight had to be the worst yet.  

~~~~~~ Nightmare ~~~~~~

The dream started with her standing in the throne room with the lunars watching her in entertainment as she was interogated by the Queen and Sybil. They stood before her with cruel smirks plastered on their faces as they looked down on her like she was the dirt on their shoes. When she couldn't answer the question they wanted answered she felt a cold presence taking over her mind and forcing her to cut off her pinkie. The pain shot through her in an instant but while she was trying her hardest not to scream out in pain the lunars were all laughing at her punishment. Their faces continued to taunt her as they laughed and laughed as she blacked out partially from pain and partially from blood loss.

As soon as she blacked out her eyes reopened and she found herself once again chained to the little boys floor as he continued to practice his gift on her. She didn't understand how such a young child could come up with all the gruesome things that she saw for those 2 long weeks. It was almost unbearable to go through the same things over again. This time though it felt more real than when the boy was doing it. She felt all the tiny hairs of the insects as they crawled around her and inside of her. She was sick to her stomach but could not force anything up because there was nothing there. The 2 weeks went by all at once as if the boy was giving her all the torture at once instead of spread over a 2 week period. After what felt like forever the dream once again changed but she could still feel the mental torture from the little boy.

As she blinked she was brought to the district where she was infected with the plague. She was truly terrified then because she thought she was going to die without telling Wolf how much she loved him. She was alone here in this district because she didn't know any of the people here. Winter was in a suspended animation chamber and she was basically the only person she even slightly knew. Now she knew she was most likely going to die before seeing Wolf because the disease had evolved and the disease took less time to kill someone than before.

There was no way to stop the disease from progressing in her and she began to accept the fact she wouldn't make it, and instead put on a brave face and helped the others when they began to show symptoms. She grew weaker but she still kept helping because if she was going to die then she was going to die helping the people that needed it. In her nightmare Cinder did make it to her but she was still so weak and could barely fight as the revolution started.

As the fight raged on it seemed like things were going well on her side until more and more of the people fighting for Cinder's cause started falling. Cress was the first to be taken by the guards and Thorne got taken soon after as he was fighting for Cress. Winter was taken off guard since Jacin was knocked out and couldn't guide her. Kai was brought out from the castle chained and Cinder immediately tried to run to his aid but got apprehended as well. The last person to be taken was Wolf. He was dragged onto the palace steps where the others were lined by about 6 guards and was forced to stay in his spot, they all were. From the grand entrance of the palace the queen walked as gracefully as ever to stand behind the group that had led the revolution.