Writing Prompt #40: Bad Dream

Your character is sleep deprived. Why? Is there a newborn baby in the house? Is your character a patient in the emergency room at the hospital and they keep prodding him/her? Is your character under interrogation at the police station/undisclosed location? Is he/she attempting a record breaking athletic attempt such as swimming a great distance? Something entirely different?

Your character is finally able to doze off. And has the most terrifying nightmare of his/her life. What is he/she most afraid of? His or her enemy is using this personal fright item on the one person/animal dearest to your character and he/she is helpless to save him/her.

End the scene.

Your character then wakes up, heart pounding, drenched in perspiration and totally terrified, afraid to open his/her eyes. There is a noise. Something in the room. Someone in the room.