warnings: reader has nightmares, written in third person, child reader
"That little," Kol took in a deep breath, closing his eyes. He sat down on the couch, composing himself.
Elijah looked over at him, smirking. "What's wrong, this time?"
"Nothing is wrong," Kol cleared his throat. "I just... cannot find her, for the life of me."
Elijah's eyes narrowed.
"Hide-and-seek," he quickly spoke, standing back up.
"Yes. And you're a vampire. You should easily be able to find her."
"Unless," Rebekah said, walking through the room with a laugh. "Klaus found her first and took her to a better hiding spot."
"Is that really what happened?"
Rebekah shrugged, watching Kol groan and vampire speed off to find little [Your name] and his pain in the ass brother.
REbekah sat down across from Elijah and she smiled at him as she did. "How are you?"
Elijah looked at her and rose an eyebrow.
"With [Your name]. I know how much of a handful children can be."
"Right," Elijah sighed softly. He sat down the book that he had been reading and he began to frown. "Her dreams are getting worse."
"Her dreams? Did you not use compulsion on her?"
"We did. Klaus and I both did. Kol tried, as well. But it just wears off after a couple of days and the dreams are worse than before."
"Has she been able to tell you what they were about?"
"You've been around [Your name], yes? She does not often wish to speak much of her dreams. She'll talk about everything else," he chuckled softly. He quickly moved to sit up as he heard [Your name] laugh and run through the hallway.
At this point, Kol wasn't using his vampire speed. In fact, he was taking his time, taunting that he was going to catch her.
[Your name] ran into the sitting room, rushing over to Elijah, giggling the entire time. "Daddy's base!" she quickly exclaimed, climbing onto Elijah's lap.
Elijah let out a soft laugh and he wrapped his arms around the small girl as Kol came over, his eyes narrowed at [Your name]. He points to his eyes, before pointing right at her.
"I'm watching you. As soon as you get up, I'll get you."
"No!" she yelped, laughing as she hugged onto Elijah.
Kol rolled his eyes before he left the room, leaving Rebekah and Elijah there with [Your name]. Elijah was quiet as he listened to [Your name]'s soft breathing.
"[Your name]," he softly said, gently shaking her awake. "Don't go to sleep yet, it's only seven—"
His wishes were drowned out by [Your name] getting comfortable in Elijah's arms. She was sound asleep in the matter of minutes. The nightmares of that evening had yet to plague her little mind.
Elijah looked over at Rebekah with a frown. "I hate to say this. But I wonder if we will have to have a witch's help with her dreams."
Rebekah pursed her lips. "That Bennett witch owes me a favor. Do you think she will help?"
"And have more people know about [Your name]? No. They will not be using her against me or any of us."
"Then I guess we will have to see what else would work."
