She could tell he was nervous and restless based on the way he just wouldn’t sit still. She had tried to curl up next to him, but his brain proved to be too too loud for him to handle. She didn’t blame him, she knew it was going to be difficult for him to settle down again. As he fidgeted she flickered her eyes open. She went to go and reach her hand out, to calm him down, but he rolled over to face her before she could try anything. Her heart broke for him, this wasn’t fair. No one should be deprived of the ability to do something so simple yet so important. She wasn’t going to sleep unless he did as well. She could hardly see the details of him in the limited moonlight, but she could see the worry lines and stress that his facial expression held. When he asked her to distract him, she simply nodded, leaning forward and pressing a kiss to his forehead In hopes of settling him down. She watched, curious, as he traced the veins in her arm. It seemed to work as a small distraction for his brain to hone in on something other than his lack of sleeping pills.<br/><br/>She thought about his end question, but really, she didn’t need to think about it that much. There were a whole lot of things that she wanted to change, but this very moment? This one instant? There was only one thing. “If I could choose absolutely anything to change, it would be to take your pain away, all of it. Make it disappear, give it to me, I don’t care, but I’d wish you didn’t have to deal with it anymore...” she brushed some hair out of his eyes and kissed the top of his head a few times. “There’s a lot I would change in this world, but I would start with the most important things... you.” She gave him a soft smile.<br/><br/>She adjusted herself so that she was laying more on her side. She scooter closer to Arc, his body heat helping with the chill of the plane. “C’mere.” She spoke softly, moving him gently so he was laying in his stomach. She rested her hand in the center of his back before gently running her fingers tips up and down his body. The way that he had done this for her when she had a nightmare was absolutely magical, it put her to sleep very quickly. She knew that he was going to need a lot more than a warm embrace and some gentle back scratching to get him to go to sleep, but it was a start. Continuing to trail her fingers across his skin, she thought of a story she could tell.<br/><br/>“Okay... one time, when I was little, my mom left my sister and I at home alone when she went to the market. She told us that we weren’t allowed to watch tv until we finished all of our homework, but we thought ‘hey, she’s gone, she won’t know.’ We were very wrong.” She laughed softly as she began her story, her eyes flickering to Arc’s. “Anyways, we were watching a movie and a few hours later we heard my mom come home. We quickly shut off the tv, but then nine year old me was like ‘she’s going to check and notice the tv is warm.’ So, using my nine year old brain, I needed to find a way to cool the tv off. So, naturally, I grabbed a bucket of water and dumped it all on the tv.” She smiled fondly at the memory, her soft laughs filling the space before it died down.<br/><br/>“So that’s my story of the day,” she joked, looking to him and meeting his eyes. She hoped she was calming him, that she was actually helping him to settle enough so he could get some rest, but she didn’t know. He needed a distraction, so maybe she could give him a small one. She moved her hand that rested against his back to cup his face instead as she delicately pressed a kiss to his lips. It was soft, so soft, as if she was afraid he would shatter at her touch. She wanted to give him some comfort in his unease, to give him something besides the pain and the exhaustion. She continued to progress the kiss she had given him for a short while before pulling away, resting her forehead against his. She was beyond tired, she felt like she could sleep for days, but she wouldn’t sleep without him doing so as well. She’d stay awake until the end of time with him if it came down to it, she’d give everything she had to make sure he would be okay.