Security Breach Nightmare

A Misplacement

Now things had somewhat settled down in Superstar Daycare. Paige was sleeping peacefully in the little bed. No signs of the nightmare that plagued her for weeks so far. But he had hoped she was going to be fine. That her pattern of good dreams after taking one of his candies would take hold and there wouldn't be another screaming fit. He was extremely hopeful of this fact. That the little Moonbeam would be perfectly fine and sleep until her mother came to get her. Which would be in about eight more hours.

If they were lucky.

Though Moondrop hadn't felt lucky in the past few weeks since it started. No matter how hard he tried to ask Monica what was going on at home, she never answered. Or outright ignored his questions when she showed up to check in on her daughter. There was something off about the way she talked about it. How her eyes narrowed when he mentioned the nightmare a few times and looked outright tense. Eyes darting over to her poor little daughter's sleeping form as a look of worry crossed her features. Almost as if she wanted to speak about what was happening at their home but kept silent for some odd reason. Moondrop never pushed her on it as he feared she would pull Moonbeam out of his care. Even possibly quitting her job as security guard for the Pizzaplex, too. It was another thing that he didn't want either.

He needed to get to the bottom of these nightmares.

Figure out what and why they were being triggered. Then when he did, he could possibly offer a solution for her. Or for her mother. Maybe even think up a few ideas for Monica to help ease her daughter's troubled mind. Like possibly having a discussion with her daughter about how school has been? As he remembered her coming to the daycare with a backpack that had a few rips on it along with a note. One that was written by a teacher about an incident that she had during the school day. Paige getting in a fight with another girl and her giving that girl a bloody nose for seemingly no reason. Though Moondrop didn't believe that there wasn't any reason for her to do that. After all Moonbeam never hit anyone for no given reason at any point when she was in Superstar Daycare.

Even when she broke another kid's nose there was a reason.

It wasn't the best reason in the world, but it still was a reason. One that Moondrop somewhat understood when he read Sundrop's note. Using language, he hadn't anticipated the normally upbeat attendant would ever use. Not cursing. But he came close to it when he described how 'bratty' Paige had been about the whole thing. It made him roll his eyes as he sat the note down on the desk. The punishment that she was given was a little bit harsh in his book. Sundrop informed him that he had her sit in the corner for twenty minutes. Then had her help him clean up the entire daycare before she had dinner. It was a little much. Okay so yes, she had indeed broken another child's nose. But if it were the person that Moondrop was thinking of then the little jerk had it coming.

He never stayed in place during naptime and always tried to wake other kids.

Moondrop could understand why Paige broke his nose. He couldn't say that he agreed with what she did. But it wasn't like he could entirely condemn her for the act either. While he glanced in her direction he watched her turn around in her sleep again. Nuzzling her pillow as she quietly snored into the pillow. Poor thing was really tuckered out. Thank goodness she hadn't woken up when that Greggory kid came in. Whoever he was. Aside from being up way past a normal kid his age's bedtime. And for whatever reason was hanging out with Freddy. It made him wonder just what in the world they were up to. Wonder but didn't really have the urge to go seek either of them out to find out what was going on. Leaving Paige alone in the Daycare wasn't just against the rules. But it was also unsafe. Paige was vulnerable to whatever was going on in the Pizzaplex like this. Those missing children he heard Vanessa and Monica talking about.