The night was full of nightmares.
Piper first awoke from her own, her breathing heavy as she looked around to ground herself into reality. Sweat covered her skin, stuck to the blankets that covered her and Jason. That nightmare wouldn't ever get out of her head.
"Jason..." she shook her husband awake. "Jason, wake up."
"Hm?" he cracked an eye open to look at her. "What's wrong?"
Piper felt like a child but snuggled into him anyway, wrapping her legs around him just as her arms. "I had a nightmare...it was bad...I'm sorry."
"What was it about?" he leaned against her in a haze of sleep.
"You killing yourself," she whispered. "Just like Will did."
Jason fully opened his eyes to look at his wife in the eyes. "Pipes...I'm not going to kill myself."
"I know."
"Was that all there was?"
"Yeah..."
He wrapped his arms around her. "Then don't worry and calm down. It wasn't anything that will come true."
"But..." her voice died as she remembered it again, remembered how his face looked without life. "I...I..."
"Mom?" the fear died away as she heard Katie knock on the old door. "Can I come in?"
"Yeah, come in." Jason sat up with a yawn of defeat. "What's wrong, now?"
Katie peeked her head into the doorway, her glasses resting on the bridge of her nose in a sloppy way of seeing. Without those glasses or her contacts, she might as well be legally blind. "I had a nightmare...can I lay in here?"
Jason and Piper exchanged a look before Piper reached for her daughter. "Yeah, come on."
Katie yawned as she laid beside her mother, pulling the blankets over herself. "Does dad work in the morning?"
"Yeah, so we've got to get back to sleep." Piper wrapped an arm around her. "What was your nightmare about?"
"Nico..." Katie choked out the old name. "I didn't even remember him until the dream. I saw him...I saw him in the kitchen...and I saw him in the basement...and I saw him as this shadow figure..."
Jason looked down at them, still sitting up on the large bed. "Katie..."
"That isn't good." Piper finished. "That isn't good at all."
Katie shrugged helplessly as she buried herself in her mother.
"My mom's coming tomorrow," Jason reassured Piper. "So let's get through the night. It'll all be okay in the morning. I promise you. She's helped us before and she can help us again."
Katie looked at her father in confusion but before she could ask her questions, Maddie came in the open door with her hands pulling at her old nightgown. "Mom? Dad? Can I lay in here tonight?"
"Nightmare?" Jason asked.
Maddie nodded.
"About Nico?"
Maddie paled dramatically but nodded again. "Yeah..."
"Get Nikki and join the party."
