Danny probably could have stopped them both from falling over, if his brain hadn't been assaulted the second he touched Cai's arm. Instead, he lost all ability to stabilize himself, and he continued forward until both of them fell to the ground in a heap, his hand still on Cai's arm.
-- It was all his nightmares at once, but Danny knew...he knew he was awake.
Oh god.
It was like a slideshow of horror, starting with the first time his uncle lured him into the bedroom with the promise of showing him something great. Of tight hands on his tiny shoulders, shaking him and telling him if he told anyone that Melissa would be next. Of those same heavy hands pressing him into a mattress and roaming across his flesh as Danny tried not to scream out.
"Don't you know I love you, Dan? You're special. I love you and that's why I chose you-"
He can feel himself choked by something he doesn't even want to think about. Something he tries to pretend isn't happening for months and months as he wets the bed in fear almost every night, even at his dad's house where he is supposedly safe. Because how does he really know anything is safe any more? His uncle visits him so often near the end, greedy hand and a greedy mouth- He remembers how it feels to be nearly ripped apart as his uncle thrust into him--
And Danny screamed. He pulled his hands away from Cai as if they had been burned, curling up into a ball there on the floor, his hands covering his head protectively. And there, he screamed and screamed as if he was never going to stop.
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-- It was all his nightmares at once, but Danny knew...he knew he was awake.
Oh god.
It was like a slideshow of horror, starting with the first time his uncle lured him into the bedroom with the promise of showing him something great. Of tight hands on his tiny shoulders, shaking him and telling him if he told anyone that Melissa would be next. Of those same heavy hands pressing him into a mattress and roaming across his flesh as Danny tried not to scream out.
"Don't you know I love you, Dan? You're special. I love you and that's why I chose you-"
He can feel himself choked by something he doesn't even want to think about. Something he tries to pretend isn't happening for months and months as he wets the bed in fear almost every night, even at his dad's house where he is supposedly safe. Because how does he really know anything is safe any more? His uncle visits him so often near the end, greedy hand and a greedy mouth- He remembers how it feels to be nearly ripped apart as his uncle thrust into him--
And Danny screamed. He pulled his hands away from Cai as if they had been burned, curling up into a ball there on the floor, his hands covering his head protectively. And there, he screamed and screamed as if he was never going to stop.