Your the youngest gilbert sibling being 5 years old, as of right now it's later in the night almost 11pm. Jeremy is at one of his friends houses for the night and Jenna is at Alaric's apartment so it's just you, Elena and Stefan since he was also here with Elena in her bedroom helping with history homework because he lived during the 19th century.
You just woke up, starting to cry from the nightmare you were having seconds before. After a couple of minutes and a few whimpers immitted from you, you got up and went into Jeremy's room since his was the closest to yours. When you got into his room and climbed onto his bed you realized that your brother wasn't there. Sliding off his bed and landing on your knees you started to go over to Elena's room seeing that the door was cracked open a bit and her light was on. You crept up to her door and opened it a little bit more slowly walking in but soon saw that the person sitting on the bed wasn't your sister but Stefan your sister's boyfriend.
Stefan noticed you, looking up from the text book laying across his knees. "Hi y/n/n. What's wrong, what are you doing up?" He asked seeing the tear streaks on your face and you fidgeting around.
"Had bad drweam" you answered trembling in your voice a little bit.
"Well do you want to talk about it?" Stefan concerned for you since your only a little kid.
You thought about it and slowly shook your head, not knowing how to explain it exactly. There were tears still running down your face and you went over to the side of the bed where he was sitting. Looking up at him with puppy dog eyes you lifted your arms up making grabby hand motions for him.
"Alright hun, here we go" Stefan smiled and moved the text book off his legs then picked you up and set you down onto his lap facing him.
You leaned into his chest and wrapping your arms around his neck, hugging him. Your tears are damping his shirt but he doesn't care and hugged your tiny self back.
Stefan thought how if Damon saw him right he wouldn't let this go for the rest of the month, teasing him.
"Where Lena?" You looked up at him.
"She's in the bathroom, getting ready for bed" Stefan answered and started to rub small circles on your back.
You nodded and leaned forward against his chest again. While dozing off you started to trace shapes on the front of his left shoulder. Stefan softly smiled at your cute actions and looked over to where Elena walked out of the bathroom, dressed in her pajamas. Elena observed how your in Stefan's lap with his arms wrapped around you, and she also noticed the tear streaks on your cheeks.
"Aww this is so cute" Elena almost squealed at the cuteness in front of her.
She picked up her cell phone from the dresser and snapped a couple pictures of you two in one of them Stefan flipping off the camera. Elena sat down next to the two of you by now you were fast asleep and can't hear Elena telling Stefan off for pulling the middle finger stunt.
"Want me to put her to bed Stef?" Elena asked, kissing the top of your head.
Stefan immediately held onto you tighter and quietly growled when Elena tried to take you. She suppressed her laugh at Stefan's protectiveness over you. "At least if you ever look after her than I know she's going to be safe" Elena pointed out and Stefan nodded.
"Oh yeah why does y/n have tear stains on her face?" Elena asked remembering.
"She had a bad dream that scared her to start crying" Stefan answered.
"What could've scared her so much that it brought her to crying" Elena wondered since you usually didn't have any bad dreams.
"I don't know but let's not worry too much, if it keeps happening then we can start to worry. But now I think we should just got to sleep in case we wake her." Stefan nodded down to your sleeping state.
Elena agreed and both of them laid down, Elena turning the lights off and yet you were still fast asleep in Stefan's embrace. Its taking Elena all her might not to 'aww' at the cuteness beside her.
"You know if Damon ever finds out he's never going to let it go" Elena whispered.
"Well let's hope he doesn't and that she doesn't say anything about this to him" Stefan responded.
"That won't be a problem for her, Damon has already scared her enough to the point she won't be in the same room with him alone" Elena said rolling her eyes at the thought.
"If she wasn't scared of him then we could really piss him off by getting him to babysit" Stefan chuckled a bit but stopped not wanting to wake you.
Elena quietly laughed a bit and nodded.
