Lorelei nodded, curling into his chest, clinging onto him. Every few minutes she glanced up, double, triple, quadruple checking that it was still Kai.

"It's me, baby. Sleep." He said softly, knowing she needed time to heal. He rubbed her back in slow circles, watching her softly

"Can you just talk to me, please?" She whispered. She just needed to hear his voice, constant reassurance it was him.

"Of course, baby..." He said, thinking a moment before settling on a story from his childhood. "When I was probably seven or eight, my mother had Cody and I at a park. He kept wanting to talk to this girl who looked about the same age but kept chickening out. I kept teasing him and before you knew it, he was setting up a date right then and there for the two of them. He had mud pies with woodchip sprinkles and river water as 'fancy tea' as he called it." Kai chuckled, remembering. "I decided to rain on his parade, pretending to eat the little girl's mud pie and dump her 'fancy tea' out."

Lorelei curled in, drifting off to the sounds of his voice.

Kai noticed her fall asleep but told her another story anyways

Lorelei slept.

Kai slowly fell asleep

Lorelei woke in the middle of the night from a nightmare, screaming and crying.

Kai jumped up, holding Lorelei close. "Baby, it's oay. It's me, Kai. I've got you, you're safe. It's okay, baby." He said, torn apart that she felt like this