🦆stubborn duck🦆

I walk into Als office, him following behind, Adam and lute still on the wall.

"What are you going to do with them-?" I turn, "babe-?"

Silence.

I turn back around, still nothing.

"..Al..? This isn't funny.."

I step back out to the hall, a few guests walking through it, otherwise quiet.

Niffty rushes past, heading toward the lobby.

"Niffty-?"

I'm ignored and she disappears out of sight.

I walk down to the lobby, it empty, niffty gone.

Looking back, the hallway now also empty.

"Alastor..?"

Silence.

"Charlie!"

..

"Vaggie..??"

My chest tightens.

What's going on..?

I turn back, running to Als office.

Adam and lute are gone.

My breathing begins to shake, not just from running but from how tight my chest has become.

Tears brim in my eyes, my head beginning to pound.

My breathing now erratic.

"Baby? Baby??..baby!?!"

I gasp, sitting up.

Choking in air as Al cups my face.

"Baby, are you alright..?"

My brain slightly fogged as I look up at him.

"Talk to me.."

"I'm fine.." I mumble, swallowing.

"You're shaking, Lucifer."

I rest my head in the nook of his neck.

"I'm fine."This time I say it more firmly.

Though he still doesn't believe it as my body betrays me.

"What did you tell me earlier? You didn't want me to tell you until I was ready for you to hear it."

"Yeah-..?"

"I'm not ready."

I haven't had a nightmare since I moved here.Never one like that..

It was so real..