I fell deep into the the darkness and the case seemed like an eternity. 
I winced when the body hit against something hard and a pain rushed from the back and out of my toes. I tried to look around wherever I landed, but all I saw was only darkness. I gulped and got up on my leg.

I looked uncertain around before I started moving me around. Sooner or later I have to support a wall or at least a way out of here. Everything felt so real and recalled all the other dreams I've had, just that I fell into a dark abyss, and wandering around alone without looking where I was. 
How far I've come, I could not really say, but I stopped short when a purple light lit up a long way from me.

I started to move towards the purple light. But it seemed like I did not come closer at all. I looked down at the feet that were as black as the abyss. I swallowed again and stopped, listened and tried to hear something. Beyond the purple light, I could hear a voice shouting something I could not hear what was said. My legs were moving forward, and I had started running. The voice came closer and now I recognized it.

- "Emma..." Derek called me. 
- "I'm coming!" I was thinking out loud or answered, I could not entirely answer, all I wanted was just to arrive. More I ran, the closer I realized that I got closer to the purple light. When my hand grace light as it transformed itself to a red light and got up over me. I stopped and fumbled backwards. My elbows hit the ground hard, sending pain signals to my brain. The red light had been given a shape in front of me and it was a big, red demon. Naked and with bats wings. The demon smile revealed a series of sharp teeth, and his laughter echoed through the darkness. The red light around the demon flared up like a wild fire. The demon stretched his hands towards me and the movement turned fingers quickly into long claws.

I screamed through the night. My voice choked and I tried to call for help, but my voice was completely locked. Instead, I tried to stand up and flee the scene but the ground sinking beneath me and my legs were sucked down into a sticky and black quicksand. I screamed again. 
- "Emma..." Derek shouted at me through the darkness and I tried to answer, but I had lost my voice. The only thing that came out was clean air. The demon leaned over me and his blazing hand grabbed my arm and twisted it. I screamed again, but still my voice completely empty. The demon leaned forward and I looked into his black eyes. The demon laughed again and he raised his right hand with three sharp claws was directed at me. I felt I was about to lose consciousness, the demon targeted and put the claws in my throat. I tried to hear my screams echoing through the darkness but heard nothing, even Derek's voice had disappeared. I closed my eyes and fell into a deep sleep.

I woke up that Derek shook me. I opened my eyes and sat straight up and coughed and looked for air. 
When I felt I got the air where I suddenly heavy in the head and I fell backwards onto the sofa against the pillows. Derek sat on the side of me, and his whole face was jumpy and he did not know what to say. 
I put me on the side and pulled the blanket on me and hid me in it. Derek pulled away the blanket and turned me against him. 
- "What happened?" He asked. I shook my head from fatigue and felt again how sleepy I was. 
- "It was nothing!, You need not worry!" I replied cloudy. My voice was hoarse and I did not recognize it.

- "It was nothing, then you scream into depravity, calling my name and then gasping for air. Course I'm worried about you, what happened?" He was upset and scared. No one but me knows about my nightmares because I have not told about them to anyone. 
Then I felt my stomach turned over and I threw my hand on her mouth and rushed me to the toilet. Derek was close on the heels of me and came up to me when I filled up the toilet with dinner leftovers. 
- "Please go," I sobbed and tried to keep away the blonde hair from the toilet. Derek sat down in the already cramped little bathroom and helped me keep the hair away. I sobbed and sat down on the floor and leaned against the wall. His eyes searched the ceiling than to Derek who was still worried about me.

Derek moved and sat next to me and held me. I leaned against him and felt the warmth from him. 
- "You're hot," he felt on my forehead for a moment before he felt later on his own forehead. - "I think you have a fever." I laughed. 
- "You would also have if you had nightmares!" I mumbled and put my arms around his stomach, sleep came back again and I felt I lost the strength to hold me up. Nightmares really sucks the energy out of me. 
Derek stood up and pulled me into his arms and carried me back into the living room. He sat on the edge of the sofa and disappeared into the kitchen. A crane was flushed and he came back with a pain killer and cold water. 
I was receiving and swallowed the pain tablet and drank up all the water. Derek sat next to me.

- "Would you perhaps tell me what your dream?" He whispered. I leaned against his shoulder before I then pointed to my bag and he reached for it. From that, I picked up my notebook and pen. Although I was too tired to write so I started writing down my dream. The only difference this dream had was the abyss, a purple light that transformed itself into a blazing fire demon with sharp claws, but the act was the same as all the other nights. The demon claws cut right through my throat. 

I wrote briefly and then gave it to Derek. 
- "I always write down my dreams and every dream is about exactly the same thing and I can not explain what they mean., I hear your voice all the time crying for me but you are not there. Either you say only my first name or as you say me to run. This dream was different, you called me by a purple light but then my hand touched the small light converted it to red and in front of me a demon step up, "I took a break and tried to keep me awake. - "It was like all the demons did. Their fingers become claws, and pierce my throat usually there I wake up and try to get air."

Derek stroked my cheek and his lips kissed my forehead. I wished that he dared more, but I felt that my mouth was not so inviting right now. 
- "I think we need to talk about this to Avalon, to unless otherwise he can help you and interpret dreams." 
- "No thanks, I do not want to disrupt him with nightmares., I have already asked for soothing tea., I've just forgotten to grab a cup before." I lied and put me down against the pillows. I looked up the brown roof. Derek lay down beside me. I turned to him. 
- "Shall we sleep?" 
- "Sleep you, I stay awake a little longer." I smiled. Derek every insecure and turned around after his mobile. 
- "The time is 02:30 at night. Are you sure?" I nodded. The time of my nightmares had not changed in anyway. Derek lay near me and while we looked into each other's eyes. It was not until Derek fell asleep as I got up from the couch and got dressed and sat down in the kitchen for the rest of the night. Afraid to go back to sleep, afraid to face my dreams again.