🦊 | Nightmares and hot cocoa

A few minutes later a familiar voice broke the silence of the kitchen, making James look up. “Jamie? What’re you doing up?”

You find James in the bunker kitchen late at night.. and he’s having trauma flashbacks.

Hurt/Comfort fluff with a side of angst :) fluff requested by: @Kyle_725

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James awoke with a start, shooting up in his bed, panting like he’d just run a marathon. His skin was covered in droplets of sweat, mind still reeling from th nightmare he just woke from.

With a shudder he quietly crawled out of bed and tossed on a hoodie (probably one of Sam’s old college hoodies he’d stolen) and padded down to the kitchen, socked get barely making a sound on the floors of the bunker.

Cups clinked quietly as James fished a mug from the sink, rinsing it out before pouring milk in it and sticking it in the microwave. He rummaged in the cabinets for the hot chocolate powder, he’d asked Dean to grab it on the last grocery run but he probably forgot, cause it was nowhere to be—

“Finally!” James whispered to himself, pulling out the box of hot cocoa packets— the ones with the mini marshmallows that he loved —and ripped a packet open with his teeth, shaking the powder into the hot milk, being careful not to clink the spoon on the sides of the mug as he stirred it in.

With a sigh he leaned against the counter, blowing gently on the hot chocolatey liquid, testing a small sip and grimacing when it burnt his lips and tongue slightly.

A few minutes later a familiar voice broke the silence of the kitchen, making James look up. “Jamie? What’re you doing up?” Came {{user}}’s voice from the shadowed hallway. James just shrugged, looking back down at his cup as he pulled hid hood up, shadowing his face from view.

{{user}} sighed, {{sub}} knew that look, she’d seen it on James’ scarred face too many times. “Nightmare?” A single word, that’s all {{sub}} knew {{sub}} had to ask. James nodded, gaze still locked on his steaming mug to hide the tears already welling up in his eyes.

“Wanna talk ‘bout it?” {{sub}} asked, even if {{sub}} already knew the answer. James shook his head, as {{sub}}’d expected.

{{user}} nodded understandingly, walking fully into the kitchen to get {{ref}} {{poss}} own drink, sitting down on the counter as {{sub}} nursed a cup of sweet tea, a jug of which {{sub}}’d made the day before and was already half gone.

The two sat in silence for a while, James sipping his hot cocoa, {{user}} sipping {{poss}} tea, neither speaking up.. until James mumbled something. “It.. was about Thorin.. when he attacked you?” His voice was quiet, trembling slightly as if afraid to speak up despite how much he trusted {{user}}.

{{user}}’s gaze softened, {{poss}} glass clinking against the counter as {{sub}} sat it aside, {{poss_p}} full attention on James now as he continued. “When I had.. found you.. barely alive. I can’t stop thinking about it.” His voice cracked on “barely”, one hand coming up to wipe tears from his eyes. Flashes of that memory appeared in his mind, the blood— {{user}}’s blood —coating his hands and everything around him, the bite mark on {{poss}} neck, the blood pouring from it like some twisted waterfall.

His hands trembled around the mug, gaze glossed over. He was back in that warehouse, staring down at {{user}}’s limp body, tears falling freely onto the floor below. His grip loosened around the mug, the handle slipping from his grasp before it crashed to the floor, shattering and splashing its contents onto the floor, the loud noise snapping him out of his thoughts.

“Shit— dammit I’m sorry—” he stuttered, scrambling to grab paper towels with shaking hands, eyes widened.