A scream piercing the air was what woke Suyin from her slumber. She bolted upright in bed, her heart racing, wondering if it had been a part of her dream. She had been having a lot of vivid dreams lately, ever since she had taken Kuvira home. The change in routine was having an affect on her. Frequent night disturbances from her young children probably did not help as well.

Then, another scream resonated through the house, and Su knew it wasn't a dream. Baatar was now awake, too, and with one look both adults were rushing down the hallway. It was not an external emergency. Su could tell from the looks of the guards as she rushed, barefoot and disheveled, past them towards the children's rooms. Over the course of having five children, night disturbances were not uncommon, but these screams were of pure terror, not the usual crying for food or comfort.

Finally, they reached the end of the hall where the screaming was coming from: Kuvira's room. Su pushed the door open and ran in to find the young girl tossing and turning, grasping the blankets tightly in balled fists with tears streaming down her cheeks. Her eyes were still closed, locking the girl in her night terror.

Su and Baatar ran to the sides of the bed, but as soon as Su's hand made contact with the girl's arm, Kuvira began to lash out, the dream and reality mixing together in her mind. Su's combat instincts kicked in, and she grabbed the girl quickly, ignoring Kuvira's hits to her stomach and ribs as she pulled her closer to her chest. Locked in her embrace, Kuvira struggled to move but was pinned down.

"Kuvira, sweetie, you need to wake up," Su said calmly, continuing to hold the girl tightly. "It's alright. Please wake up. You're safe."

Su kept repeating her words of comfort until finally Kuvira began to still. Her eyes fluttered open and she looked around, startled by the unfamiliar position of her body. She looked up to see Baatar's eyes looking at her with a worried expression. Suyin's eyes reflected the same concern. She had begun to loosen her grip on the girl but did not pull away entirely. Kuvira looked around at the messy state of her bed caused by both her thrashing and Suyin jumping into it to calm her.

Kuvira had never seen the two adults so disheveled. It was clear that she had awoken them from a deep sleep as both looked exhausted. Their hair was unruly from bed head and neither was wearing the signature metal accessories. Now that Kuvira was thinking about it, she had never actually seen the two of them in anything other than what they wore during the day. Seeing them this messy and worried made Kuvira feel even worse.

"I'm sorry," Kuvira said with a sniffle. She turned to each of the adults in turn, tears forming again. "I had a nightmare."

"It's alright," Baatar said, placing a comforting hand on her knee.

"You're ok now," Su added. She wiped a tear from the girl's eye before setting her back in bed under the blankets. Baatar took his wife's hand and helped her off the bed, but before they left, Su said, "We're here if you get scared. Try to get some rest."

Kuvira nodded to them, resting her head back against the pillow. Su kissed her forehead before turning and walking out of the room with Baatar, closing the door behind her.

Once again in darkness, Kuvira stared up at the ceiling, studying every mark in the cool metal. Her heart was still racing, but it had begun to slow after Su's embrace. Their concern was touching. That was why she couldn't tell them what her nightmare had been about.

She had dreamt that they had abandoned her, just as her biological parents had done years before. Most children were fearful of animals or the dark or monsters under the bed, but Kuvira was most terrified of a life without family. She didn't know what she would do if they didn't want her, and she felt stupid for her outburst. Waking them up in the middle of the night was no way to make a good impression.

Just then, however, she heard the door open beside hers. Opal must have also had a nightmare or had been woken up by her screams, as Kuvira could hear her small footsteps as she padded down the hall toward her parents' room.

Kuvira felt herself relax. She was just a kid, just like any of the other Beifong children. And all children needed parents to comfort them when they had a nightmare.

~AN~ Thank you for reading, and I hope you enjoyed! I have most of these drabbles written out so this should be updated at the very least every weekend. They've been a lot of fun to write so I hope there are a few people out their enjoying them! They'll all be different with some being light hearted and some being a little darker (like this one).