Waking from The Living Nightmare

Waking from The Living Nightmare

"Raven!  Raven, wake up!"

Raven opened her eyes.  As her vision came into focus, at first all she could see was green.  Then, after a few gasping breaths, she saw green eyes gazing down at her.  "Gar..." she whispered, before pulling him to her, crying.

"Easy there, Rae, easy."  Desperately, Garfield tried to comfort his wife.  "Easy.  It's okay.  It was just a dream."

After a time, Raven managed to calm down.  "But, Garfield...I'm not so sure..."

He smiled at her.  "Rae, remember what the doctor said?"  He placed his hands on Raven's heavily swollen abdomen.  "Your hormones have been going crazy cause of this lately, which means you're going to have some crazy dreams.  I mean, just the other night you dreamed about killer waffles of all things, remember?"

Raven blushed.  She did remember that.

"See?  And after that, you went and destroyed every waffle in the house.  Don't worry about it."  Leaning in, he kissed her on the forehead.  "It was just a crazy dream caused by hormones your body still isn't used to.  Just put it out of your mind, and get back to sleep."  He smiled, caressing her belly.  "It's soon, and you need as much rest as you can get, right?"

"Yeah..."  She nodded.  "I guess you're right."

They curled up again together, Garfield curling and shaping his body around Raven so she could sleep comfortably.  Garfield was right.  There wasn't anything to worry about, beyond the chance of trouble during delivery.  Curling up, she tried to close her eyes.  It's not like she was having visions again.  She hadn't had any real visions since they beat Trigon.  It was only a dream...

...right?