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Anywho on to the next chapter, a nice little Rex Six father son fluff piece. Enjoy!

Nightmare

It was five.

In the god damned morning. And Six had just only returned to his quarters. He and Holiday had been forced to stay in late to fill in mission reports, seeing as their day hours had been wasted to trying to retrieve Rex from his latest breakout from H.Q. And they'd both barely muttered coherent goodnights to each other ten minutes ago, before dragging themselves back to their own quarters.

Six relieved himself of all clothing aside from a pair of dark green sweatpants, and collapsed onto his bed with a sigh. Never again. Next time, the kid could get eaten by an EVO for all he cared; he would finish his paperwork before he went after Rex. Why hundreds of Providence agents couldn't seem to hold a ten year old in a state of the art secured H.Q was absolutely beyond him. Nevermind, it was not the time to think about Rex. Six closed his eyes and waited for sleep to overcome him. And just as he was about to slip into blissful sleep, a noise came to his ears. At first he passed it off as someone patrolling the halls, but when he heard it over and over, he decided to listen closer. And found it wasn't someone patrolling rather it sounded like a knock on the door.

Six frowned. Who on earth would be at his door at five in the morning?

As the soft knocking continued, Six forced himself out of bed and over to the door. He momentarily paused to reach for his sunglasses, but realized he wasn't wearing a shirt either (and there was no way in hell he was going to go through the effort of finding a shirt in the dark and then going to get the door) so there wasn't much point in hiding his eyes. He stood in front of it for a moment, debating on whether he should open it or not. Whether he should just pretend he was asleep and not open, or open and possibly get dragged into a mission.

Six sighed; whoever was at the door didn't sound like they were going to leave him be any time soon. So as much as he didn't want to, he thumbed the keypad next to the door.

The mechanical door slid open and revealed the four foot, ten year old form of Rex. "Hi, Six" the boy muttered wearily.

"Rex…" Six said, just barely holding back a fit of rage "Do you have the slightest idea how late it is?"

"I know, Six. I know" Rex said in a very distressed tone. "But it's really important."

Six noticed the boy's gaze kept drifting to his feet and then to Six, then back to the floor.

"What is so incredibly important that it couldn't wait till the morning?" Six snapped, running a hand over his face.

"I…" Rex hesitated "I had a bad dream…"

Six opened his mouth to speak, but closed it again. Suddenly he felt wrong to have snapped at the boy like that. He had nightmares of his own and knew how bad they could be. Especially when you were young.

"Why didn't you go to Holiday?" Six said calmly. Holiday seemed like the reasonable choice in such a situation. After all she was the sensitive coddling one.

"I-I didn't want to bother her-can I come in?" Rex's eyes were on the floor again.

Six didn't respond, he simply stepped out of the doorway and allowed the boy in. As Rex reached over to close the door, Six turned on the small lamp on his bedside table. It cast a dull amber glow in the large room. Six sat down at the foot of the bed and gestured Rex next to him. The boy (with much effort) hopped onto the large bed and sat down next to Six.

"What was it about?" Six asked with a sigh, knowing Rex would go on to tell him either way.

"You...and Holly too" Rex muttered, twiddling his fingers in his lap. "There were some really big EVOs and I tried really hard to giht and be strong but the EVOs were really big and they beated-"

"Beat" Six corrected almost mechanically. "It's beat, Rex. Not beated" he said in a softer tone. When Rex didn't continue he added "Go on."

"They beat me and hurt you and Holly real bad. And I didn't like it" Rex paused, his eyes glued to his fingers which had suddenly stopped moving. "I don't want you and Holly to get hurt, Six! Ever!"

There was something about the boy's tone of voice that made Six feel uneasy. And it was a while before he realized it was because Rex was crying. Very quietly and calmly, but it was still there. The small wavers in his voice and the occasional sniffle. Some nightmare that must have been.

"It's alright, Rex" Six offered awkwardly "No one is going to hurt any of us. We're safe here at Providence."

"You sure?" Rex looked the agent in the eyes for the first time that night (and in his entire life-he'd never seen Six without his shades before) and sniffled heartbreakingly.

"Yes, I'm sure."

"You promise?" Rex looked up at him unsurely.

"Yes, I promise."

"You'd better keep that. Promises are really valuable. They mean a lot to me" Rex explained.

"I understand" Six said, regaining some of his posture. How a ten year old could even begin to melt years and years of his ice cold personality was completely unknown to him.

"Hey, Six?" Rex said suddenly, dragging an arm across his eyes.

Six simply turned to look at him.

"Can I sleep here tonight?"

"No. Go back to your own room" Six said, only half-heartedly. He hadn't meant for it to come out that way, as a matter of fact he'd meant for it to come out as a harsh demand, but somewhere down the road from his brain to his vocal cords, that demand became distorted into a half hearted statement. So hoping it sounded different to Rex than it did to him, Six moved back in his bed and casually lay down on his side. He closed his eyes and tried to forget the sudden softness that had come over him in the past few minutes. It simply would not do in his 24/7 profession.

But much to his dismay, a moment later Six felt the bed sink lower in front of him and a sudden warmth press up against his chest. He mentally groaned before opening his eyes. Jesus, he was exhausted and he really, really, from the bottom of his heart wanted to go to sleep. But the damn child insisted on-Hmmm, he was actually kind of cute, all curled up like that against Six's chest. It was almost-No, no, no, he had to get to sleep and the kid had to get to his own room. Period.

"Rex" Six called to the boy. But Rex shook his head vigorously. "Please, Six, the EVOs are gonna get me! Please don't let them get me..."

Six sighed for the millionth time that night-er morning. "Fine, fine. You can stay. But just till the morning and -"

"Thanks a million, Six!" Rex immediately lit up "I knew you wouldn't let them get me! I knew you wouldn't because you didn't let them get me all those months ago before you brought me here!"

Well that certainly touched a nerve. A nerve, Six was barely aware was even touchable anymore. The memory of Six's bringing Rex into Providence was definitely a sensitive one that neither of them had really spoken about. Six was almost beginning to think Rex had forgotten, but clearly he hadn't...

"Just, quiet down and go to sleep, Rex" Six said quietly.

"Okay" Rex nodded obediently before curling up against the older's chest again.

Six huffed as short spikes of jet black hair brushed around underneath his nose. Sometimes he forgot why he did these kinds of things. And it was only when he looked down and saw the vulnerable little boy lying close to him, clinging to him for protection and support, did Six remember.

The agent sighed contently as silence reined in the dark room once more. Thank god.

…

"Six?"

"Hm?"

"I'm never going to complain about your suit again."

"Why?"

"Because you look so much worse with just sweats!"

"That's it, out of my room-"

"No, no, sorry!"

"You better be. Now shut it and go to sleep."

"Okay. Goodnight, Six."

"Goodnight."

"Sleep tight."

"Okay, now you're pushing it."

Alright, so that was the second one, hope you guys liked it! I just couldn't help but throw that last humorous little bit in there =D Hope Six wasn't too oc and I sincerely hope you all out there liked the image of Six without a shirt as much as I did ;]

Yay for Six Rex fluff! =D Any suggestions or requests? They're both more than welcome! =] Oh and I forgot to ask in the last chapter, what did you guys think of Holiday and Six's names in this? They're my own original names and I just thought they were very fitting. Let me know what you think!

Reviews are loved to no end! =]