Living Among Giants

by Monkeygirl77

She was adopted into the fold of Archangels and now she's learning how to be a fledgling again after the end of the war. She's got plenty of older angels to show her the way though. A new set of Guardians, a new home, and a present Parent, she's living among giants now.

115. Nightmare

"Micha?", he woke to the soft shaking of his left shoulder, and turned over in bed, to meet the gaze of frightened young eyes standing next to the side of his bed and immediately felt a sense of protectiveness surge through him. With her master down dealing with things in the underworld, to which he would never have willingly taken the fledgling down with him, he was the next best thing to him when it came to the fledgling waking in the middle of the night from fright. "Micha, can I please sleep with you?"

He nodded immediately, lifting the corner of his duvet up for the little fledgling to climb up under, she quickly did just that, curling in close to his side, and the oldest archangel slowly lowered the blanket back down and curled an arm around the little form in order to pull her up to his chest.

"Did you have another bad dream?"

She nodded against his chest, fingers curling against his bare chest, like a kitten did when they felt comfortable and safe. He rubbed the back of her head softly and hummed, "Do you want to talk about it?" he felt her shake her head this time and sighed softly, scratching at her scalp between the woven braids, "Talking about it helps, though."

"You were all gone, and I was alone, and someone was taking me somewhere and no one would help me."

He hummed again, pressing his lips to her warm little temple, "You know we would never leave you alone, right?", she nodded softly, "But what if you did. What if you all left?"

"As unlikely as it is that all four of us would meet our end, you would go to Nisroc, it has already been discussed.", he pulled her closer "We would never leave you alone, whether we were here or not, you will never be alone again."

She looked up at him with drooping eyes "You did?"

"Of course, if for some reason we were unable to be here, Nisroc would take you. We would never leave you with the possibility of being on your own. Nisroc agreed and Father gave His blessing on the matter."

Akeelah smiled, reassured, and laid her head back down on his chest "I love you, Micha."

"And, I love you, little warrior."