Connection

"Elias!" Alyssa's voice echoed throughout Elias' head over and over again until his eyes opened.

He was back in the hotel room, panting and sweating in bed once again as another nightmare ravaged his sleep.

He felt Alyssa's hands on him, and he automatically flinched away, remembering how her corpse grabbed him.

"Elias, it's me!" Alyssa said, frowning at him.

Elias drew in a deep breath through his nose, calming himself as he stared at her. She was real.

The nightmare was just another nightmare, or was it? It seemed so real, and he remembered every single detail of it. Alaric had reached out to him somehow.

"Sorry. I'm sorry," he said, knowing that he had freaked Alyssa out once again.

He was tired of having these nightmares that kept growing worse and worse. He couldn't even find peace in his sleep.

"It's okay. What happened?" Alyssa asked him, looking worried as she stroked her fingers through his hair.