TITLE: “IF ONLY IT WAS A DREAM”
AUTHOR: Doppelganger

TIMELINE: Post-122 or between 122 and 201.

LENGTH: 100 words, 1 drabble.

A/N: We saw both Brian and Justin went through the bashing, but I wanted to explore how Brian dealt with it on his own. This is to parallel Justin’s dream about Chris Hobbs. Please enjoy. This was not beta’d.

One for Kinney.

At night since the tragedy, you’d lie restless in your bed.  And when finally your eyes are closed with the help of some hard liquor, you go to your REM state, unprepared. Sweat seeps through the skin on your weary face rolling down your neck then chest; drowning you as your subconscious repeats the dreadful scene. The sound of a wooden bat cracking Justin’s skull under his blond head makes you scream; blood forming a pool by your feet gives you chills.  And you’d wake up; with tears mixing with your sweat you wish hard it was only a dream…