Written by Aebhel
Based on some situations originated by James Cameron.
Rose has nightmares. Two or three
times a month, more often in the spring, she wakes up sweating from a dream of
aching cold and she feels ghostly hands on hers, cold hands with ice crystals
frozen on the blunt fingernails, and the horrible crackling noise when she
wrenches out of their grip.
She wakes up with tears leaving
cold tracks down her cheeks and remembers what it was like to have her hair and
clothing frozen to an ornate wooden door, and how peaceful a man looks when he
freezes to death, all blue, and the sickening idea that maybe, maybe, if she'd
moved over just a little, there would have been room.
She wakes up with a scream behind
her teeth and feels like an adulteress when she buries her head in her husband's
warm shoulder.
The End.