by C Kedor

Created on: September 12, 2008

Stay

It took everything that Ann had not to go across the haul and rescue Wesley from his night terrors. Thrashing about this way and that way, Wesley's recent brush with death refused to let go of him; especially at night when he was left alone with his own thoughts.

Sitting up she reached for her robe at the end of the bed. Throughout Wesley and Ann's four year relationship, it had never occurred to either one of them to be so formal with each other. In fact, she had never worn more than an old t-shirt and a pair of boxer shorts; and most of the time she borrowed them from him. Sighing she knew this was the way it had to be from now on. For his recent life altering near death experience hadn't changed the fact that he had asked her for a divorce and worst yet, she was the other woman now. The painful truth was that she was only his wife on paper until their inevitable divorce was final.

"No, not now," Wesley mumbled in response to the one who still terrorized him in the night. "Not now," he called out again his whole body filling with tension causing him to ache from head to toe. For the last three nights he had been in a state of constant unrest as soon as the lights were turned out and the world around him grew silent. At night, the fear that he was afraid to admit that he had felt throughout his five day ordeal manifested itself in his dreams in the form of uninviting, dark shadows. Every time they had taken him back to the place where he had been left to die for five days and forced to relive the horror, the terror all over again.

Ann made her way to the dining room and sat at the kitchen table. Her eyes were immediately drawn to the bright, full moon that could be seen just outside the glass patio doors. Fighting her desire to go just go in, wrap her arms around her soon to be ex-husband and reassure him that he was not alone, was getting to be much harder then she had previously expected that it would. These past few days, had helped her to cast her feelings of anger and resentment aside and strangely enough it no longer mattered to her that he was the one who ended their relationship because he had fallen for another. The thought of losing him had forced feelings to surface that she was even unaware of herself thus causing her to realize that deep down she had always loved him.

Ann jumped to her feet upon hearing her son whimpering down the hall. Wesley was causing their five month son, Jeremy, to be unable to sleep peacefully too. When they were at

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