Hey! Duuudes! I'm, like, totally hyper! Again! I went to this one website and it had Squid SMILING! As in contorting his face to show that he's happy! SMILING! Willa would've LOVED that pic! It was YUM! Well, this chapter's sorta serious. Willa is, like . . . sad. Yep. Poor Willa!

Disclaimer: *sigh* I only own Willa. NO! WAIT! I own Caveman! TAKE MY 25 CENTS! . . . Hold on, I need it to buy bubblegum . . . OKAY! I don't own Caveman! *Pouts*

Pairing: Willa/Squid

Rating: PG13

Her stepmother was holding a butcher knife to her throat. She tried to get away, but found that she couldn't move. She tried to scream, but her voice didn't seem to work. Her dad and stepsister were just sitting at the kitchen table watching. She felt her stepmother start to cut into her throat . . .

"NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!"

"Willa!" Willa opened her eyes to darkness. Someone was holding onto her shoulders. She struggled.

"GET AWAY! DON'T TOUCH ME!" She screamed. The hands did not let go.

"Willa! It's me, Squid! You've had a nightmare." Willa blinked and looked up through the darkness to see Squid looking down at her. Then the terror of the dream sank in again, and she burst into tears. Squid let go of her shoulders and then picked her up and cradled her in his arms. She sobbed into his shirt.

"S-Squid . . . it was t-terrible." She whispered shakily. He kissed her lightly on the forehead to comfort her.

"Sshh . . . it's over now. I'm here." He said. He noticed that she was crying hard. The dream must have been really horrific. A few minutes later she calmed down and buried her face into his chest.

"Squid . . . I don't want to go back to sleep." Willa said, sounding like a small child. She lifted her head up and looked at him.

"Willa, you have to or you'll be awful tired in the morning." Squid said, wiping a tear from her face with his finger.

"I can't . . . I can't! I don't want to have the dream again . . . I don't want to go to sleep!" Willa said, a fresh wave of tears overcoming her. Squid hugged her to him.

"Would it help a bit if you told me what the dream was?" Squid asked gently. Willa looked up at him.

"My s-stepmother was going to . . . kill me with a knife." Squid looked at her, a pain in his heart. He didn't want to see her like this. He wanted her to be the loving, funny, mischievous girl he knew and loved. "I don't want her to get me!"

"She won't get you, Willa. I won't let her." Squid said, kissing her forehead again. A couple of minutes passed and Willa stopped crying. She looked up and met his gaze. She looked down and blushed.

" . . . Sorry." She said. He brushed a strand of hair out of her face. "I didn't mean to get all . . . weepy on your shirt." She said, staring at his chest. He put his hand under her chin and tilted her head up so she would face him. He was about to lean in to kiss her, but she spoke.

"Squid, why were you by my tent?" She asked. She looked at him, her brow slightly furrowed.

"I was . . . I was just walking by after getting some water." He said, although he knew that wasn't true. He had really been watching her sleeping from the doorway of her tent. He did that every night, and was careful to leave before anyone woke up and found him there. He was suddenly pulled out of his thoughts as Willa's lips met his. He hadn't even noticed that she had been leaning towards him. He welcomed the kiss, putting his arms around her and kissing back. Willa smiled and rested her head on his shoulder.

"You know, you'd be in BIG trouble if anyone saw you in here." Willa said, smiling.

"Yeah." Squid said, running his fingers gently through her hair. He was still worried about her nightmare, but decided not to show it. He kissed her gently on the lips and started to stand up, but she stopped him, and pushed him down onto the cot. He looked up at her and smiled.

"Oh, so we're being mischievous again, aren't we?" Willa joked.

"We? You mean YOU." Squid said. Willa leaned down and kissed him. She then snuggled up next to him and rested her head on his shoulder.

"I'm not going back to sleep." Willa said, smiling. Squid looked at her. She gasped. "EEW! Not like THAT! Sick-o!" Squid laughed.

"I wasn't even thinking of . . . THAT!" Squid said. There was a moment of awkward silence. It was rather long. Squid looked over at Willa and saw that she had fallen asleep. He smiled, seeing how angelic she looked when she was asleep. He then frowned, wondering how he would be able to get up without waking her. Rolled over in her sleep, closer to him. He froze. Now this would be even more difficult. Squid tried to edge away from Willa gently, but soon found himself on the floor. Unfortunately, that side of the cot was right against the wall of the tent. The tent gave way and fell on top of both of them. Willa awoke with a startled scream. Squid scrambled up just as he heard voices from nearby.

"What was that?" Someone said.

"Armpit, was that you?" Someone else said.

"NAW! Was it YOU?" Armpit said.

"Hey, where's Squid?" Magnet said.

"Hey . . . maybe that was him . . . being attacked by a lizard!" Zigzag said, his green eyes going big. Squid scrambled around under the fallen tent, trying to find an exit. He heard Willa doing the same thing.

"Okay, what's going on here?" A voice said. Mr. Sir came around the corner and gasped seeing Willa's tent on the ground. He lifted one end of the tent and peered under it. By this time, all of D-tent was peering outside.

"SQUID! WHAT'RE YOU DOIN' IN THERE!" Mr. Sir yelled, pulling Squid out from under the tent.

"Uh . . . helping Willa get out." Squid lied. Willa crawled out from under the tent just then.

"Jewel! Squid here says he was helping you out of your tent. Do you remember what happened BEFORE the tent collapsed?" Mr. Sir said, eyeing Willa suspiciously.

"I must have fell out of my cot and caused the tent to fall." Willa said, going along with the lie.

"Right." Mr. Sir said, letting go of Squid. "Now that you Girl Scouts are up, why don't you go down to breakfast? The others will be up in-AAH!" Just then, the morning trumpet sounded, startling Mr. Sir. Everyone snickered. Mr. Sir gave them a deadly look so they stopped and headed to the Mess Hall for breakfast.

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