comforting postwar!levi after he wakes up from another nightmare🫠
it’s not uncommon for both of you to experience nightmares especially after what you’ve been through the past month. But sometimes what worries you the most is how bad levi’s nightmares are. He would shoot up in bed in the wee hours of the morning, gasping for air with his eyes wide open and heart racing like crazy. Sometimes you would even wake up to see him with tears streaming down his cheeks.
You’ll stir beside him, quickly realising the situation as you sit up and take his trembling hand, placing it over your heart. It’s your way of reminding him that you’re there and that everything’s alright. Sometimes he just needed to physically feel you to remember it’s all just a dream.
And it always works. You can immediately feel levi become less tense, then ease him back down onto the pillows as you wrap your arms around him and bury your face in his shoulder. “I’m here,” you whisper, “it’s alright.”
“I dreamt that I lost you.” he squeezes his eyes shut and grabs your waist, pulling you close so your bodies were pressed against each other. You close your eyes and rest your forehead against his, assuring him that he didn’t and never will lose you because you’ll always come back to him no matter what.
He’s repeating your soothing words in his head, steadying his breathing as his palms rest on your face. You stroke his dark hair, sweeping the damp strands of fringe off his forehead.
“I love you.”
three simple words that hold such deep meaning. you know levi takes love seriously and for him to allow himself to be vulnerable around you like this..
“I love you too. always. never forget that i’m always here.”
when you look at him minutes later, his eyes are closed again, breathing softly in his sleep with your comfort easing the turmoil in his heart.
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