[ Daryl snorts at that and arches just a little more into the touch of Gabe's fingers in his hair. He'd been starting to wonder if they were going to ever be able to get back to this place with each other and now that it's happening, he's finally able to relax.
It's a deep sort of exhaustion that's come into him and before long, Daryl is sunk into the bed enough and against Gabe enough that it's hard to tell where either of them ends or begins. They're just a warm tangle of arms and legs and Daryl finally starts to drift off listening to Dog snore from the foot of the bed. ]
Mmm.
[ All is right for a long time.
Then he starts to dream.
At first, it's shapeless. Formless. He's lost, or not-quite-lost, Dog is there but he's just out of sight. He feels like he's missing important things but he can't remember what they are. It isn't raining, but he's wet. Then he's soaked. Then he can't breathe and the rain has turned to a downpour thicker than any rain has ever been and the storm clouds he can't quite see through the water look just like her face--
--and that's when Daryl gasps himself awake like he really is being suffocated and starts trying to sit up in a blind panic. ]
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It's a deep sort of exhaustion that's come into him and before long, Daryl is sunk into the bed enough and against Gabe enough that it's hard to tell where either of them ends or begins. They're just a warm tangle of arms and legs and Daryl finally starts to drift off listening to Dog snore from the foot of the bed. ]
Mmm.
[ All is right for a long time.
Then he starts to dream.
At first, it's shapeless. Formless. He's lost, or not-quite-lost, Dog is there but he's just out of sight. He feels like he's missing important things but he can't remember what they are. It isn't raining, but he's wet. Then he's soaked. Then he can't breathe and the rain has turned to a downpour thicker than any rain has ever been and the storm clouds he can't quite see through the water look just like her face--
--and that's when Daryl gasps himself awake like he really is being suffocated and starts trying to sit up in a blind panic. ]