(Alex's POV)
After dinner, Piper and I had a shower together to get the sea water out of our hair. The salt in it always made our hair gross and matty so we had a continuation of the beach, water included just with less salt content.
We were in bed, spooning as usual and asleep until Piper woke me up. She started to shiver and shake in my arms which I thought was odd considering we were on our island off the mainland of Hawaii and I was holding her in bed. How could she be cold? Regardless of the answer, I slid closer to her and pulled her tighter against me to make her warmer.
"Alex." She softly muttered.
I kissed the back of her head and pulled her hair away from her face so I could see it better and kiss behind her ear and on her cheek. It seemed to calm her down because she relaxed in my arms so I smiled contentedly and resumed sleep. For all of 15 minutes.
"ALEX!" Piper suddenly screamed. What the fuck?! Her sudden outburst had scared the shit out of me so much that I jumped so high I almost fell out of bed.
I leaned over her now, she was lying on her side and from this position, I could now see that she was crying in her sleep. She was having a nightmare.
"Pipes? It's okay. I'm here. You're having a nightmare." I whispered in a soothing voice while gently shaking her.
Her eyes slowly fluttered open and they were glassy with tears so I turned her over to lie on her back as I propped myself on an elbow above her. I used my thumb to wipe away her tears while she sniffled and used the back of her hand.
"You gonna tell me what happened?" I asked in the same soothing voice, my hand finding its way into her hair, weaving it in between my fingers, stroking her hair as my other hand caresses her face.
"We were... we were back in that basement. In Queens... Nicky, Polly and Cal,... they were still being held hostage. Kubra was there... and Danielle this time. Both of them were.... laughing. At me. You...." She started to tell me as she sniffled then trailed off. She was reliving her shooting and I felt helpless and to blame. She also couldn't seem to bring herself to finish so I encouraged her.
"Me? What was I doing babe?" I asked, soothingly and reassuringly again.
A silent tear fell from her left eye which I immediately wiped away.
"You were..... You were in my place. I was..... I was the one being restrained as.... as.... as Kubra shot you." She whimpered and I instantly hugged her so tightly I was starting to worry she couldn't breathe.
"Oh Alex." She whimpered and began to sob into my chest, clutching me as if I was leaving her and never coming back. Which was never going to happen. I held her against me in an embrace for as long as she needed, one hand resting on her back and the other on the back of her head.
"Ssssssh. Babe it's all good. It's all fine. I'm alive, you're alive, they are dead and can't hurt us now. Okay? Ssssssh." I whisper in her ear. Desperately trying to calm and soothe her. I HATED seeing her so upset, just upset in general come to think of it. I brought her to face me, cupping her face in my hands, making her look at me. I said nothing else other than stare at her with what I hoped were eyes that told her everything she needed to hear and know. About how much I love her, how much I care about her and how I'll always be here to protect her. Gun or no gun. She smiled as she got my meaning and two more silent tears fell from each eye of hers which I caught with my thumbs and pulled her in for a tender, loving and reassuring kiss then brought her back to rest on my shoulder as I buried my face in her hair and neck. Inhaling her scent and closing my eyes. We stayed in this embrace until I felt her body relax and become limp as she fell asleep again. I gently brought her back down against the mattress and wrapped my arms around her again. Both of us falling asleep.
Around 2 hours later I was woken up again to Piper squirming in my arms.
"Oh Pipes." I whispered out loud, concerned that she was having another nightmare. I would never forgive myself for the rest of my life knowing I'd put her through this. I turned her on her back again to wake her and ask what was upsetting her this time but she had a lopsided grin on her face and her eyes were fluttering behind her eyelids instead. I was about to go back to sleep until she giggled in her sleep and moaned,
"Oooh Alex."
I looked up and smirked, propping myself on my elbow to get a better view of the show Piper was unknowingly gifting me.
She was arching her back subconsciously as her arms lifted above her head and hands rested on the headboard behind. A moaned gasp then escaped her lips.
I was watching intently.
This time it wasn't a nightmare that she was having at all. Far from it. She was in the middle of a sex dream. About me. I couldn't help the childish, giddy smirk that appeared on my face that quickly turned into a very wide, proud and amused grin. The dream version of me was obviously showing the love of her life a good time.
Piper's lips were parted and it took every ounce of self restraint I had not to lean in and kiss her, wanting nothing more than to plunge my tongue into every opening of her body and take the reigns from dream me.
Using my index finger, I started to draw circles on her bare tummy which elicited more moans from her.
She squirmed again and smiled,
"Ooooh baby, that's nice."
I smirked but continued to watch intently as I made patterns on her exposed stomach, wanting to know what dream me had done that was so nice so I could make it a reality for my beautiful wife. Considering the possibility that it was a combination of dream me and real me. I could see her legs move and cross over the other. That could either mean one of two things. One being that dream me and Piper had our legs intertwined and the other being she was trying to hold in her impending peak. I was proud that even in her sleep, I could get this reaction from her.
Suddenly, Piper reached out and hooked her fingers around the centre of my bra, pulling me down on top of her.
"Don't you dare stop. If you stop I'm going to have to punish you." She scolded but I just found this even sexier.
Dream me had obviously listened because she suddenly screamed,
"ALEX!"
Her sudden scream and my weight on her had clearly stirred her as her eyes fluttered open again to look up at a smirking, pleased me.
"Alex? What're you? Why're you? Oh God!" She asked confused then her eyes widened in realisation that I knew.
"Hello babe. Anything I can do for you?" I smuttily asked, hinting to her that I knew as I continued to smirk.
"Alex? We were just, wow." She panted.
I couldn't resist anymore. I had to be included in this little party. Since I was already on top of her, I bent down and littered her neck with love bites as her eyes rolled back into her head.
Nibbling her ear I purred,
"So, do tell, which one of us is better in bed? Sexy dream Alex or sexy real Alex?"
Piper blushed and smirked at me, pulling me away from her neck to face her and kissed me deeply before breaking it and speaking in a low voice dripping with desire,
"Let's find out shall we? Better bring your A game Vause, dream Alex was goooood."
Challenge accepted.