Katie POV.
I woke up grumpy, I don’t know why I woke up, but sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night, sometimes all I want is some water, or I need some reassurance to get me to fall back to sleep, but when I called mommy she didn’t answer me right away, sometimes she doesn’t stay in the same room as me, she says she has stuff to do and she enjoys very long baths when I’m sleeping.
We tried to share a bath once, but mommy said it’s like swimming with a shark when I’m in the tub with her, so she does those when I’m sleeping, it’s okay, she doesn’t have to sleep just cause I’m sleeping, I know she doesn’t need as much sleep as me.
She walked back into our room, and I got up, looking at her, but it was really dark, I couldn’t see, and she doesn’t turn the light off usually, but she did, this place wasn’t our home and I’m not sure where the night lights have went.
“Hey, are you okay princess?” A voice asked me, it wasn’t mommy’s voice, it was a man’s voice, I looked at him with fear, shrieking, he turned the light on and now I could see who it was, William was in our room and I was fully awake.
“Where’s mommy?” I asked him, did he eat her? Did he hurt her?
“Downstairs, sleeping, are you okay sweetie?” he asks walking toward me, I rubbed my eyes and looked at him again, I noticed that he was only wearing his bottoms and no shirt on, but I could see his muscles.
“I’m awake,” I say sitting up with another yawn, but he shook his head at me.
“It’s not waking up time yet, lay back down,” he says walking toward me, pushing me down on the bed, but I looked at him with teary eyes ready to cry again.
“I want mommy,” I demand.
“She’s sleeping sweetie, why don’t you to try sleep?” he suggests this time.
“I want to sleep with her,” I say with a big pout.
“How about we let her rest and I’ll sit with you until you sleep?” he suggests.
“How about you leave, you’re mommy’s friend, not mine,” I say hurt by his presence.
“About that Katie, your mommy is going to kill me for telling you this at three am, we should wait until the morning,” he says getting my attention.
“I’m not sleepy anymore, you can tell me,” I say, he has knocked me out of my little space, and if the thing he wants to tell me is that he and mommy are now in a relationship and deciding to kick me out of their life.
“I’m not joking Katie, Evelyn has another face, she’ll tear me a new hole if I tell you anything without her permission,” he says making me giggle.
“Mommy is a badass,” I say nodding my head and he nods agreeing with me.
“How about I tell you but not really tell you, we’ll call it a friendly chat?” he says, and I nod, that works, it’s mostly trying to cheat on mommy to get the words he wants to tell me without him really telling me.
“Okay,” I agree with him, just needing to know what he’s about, what he’s hiding from me.
“I can’t talk about Eve, but I can ask you when you first knew what you’re code is, did you think you want a mommy or a daddy?” he asks me, no one asked me that, well when I got to school, but I didn’t click with anyone.
“I couldn’t pick… Logan said I’ll know when I meet them, and then at school, no one liked me for being too young,” I say with a big pout on my face, is he keeping me awake just to tease me? That’s another kind of bullying, can I kick him out now, I think to myself with a sigh.
“Hey, you’re not too young for a little, they vary in age, and yours is just perfect,” he says kissing the top of my head, trying to make it up for me, I gave him a small smile.
“They didn’t find me as perfect as you’re saying,” I say with a sigh.
“Hey, don’t you think that little of yourself, you just haven’t met the person that’s your match,” he assures me with a wink, and so who’s my match? Evelyn, right?
“But then Evelyn said that she’ll keep me forever,” I say with a small sigh.
“What’s that sigh for? I’ve known Eve for years now and I mean many, many years, and ever since she met you back when we first took over, she said that she’s not going to let you go, don’t you think that she’s forced to be with you, she wants you,” he says making me smile a big smile, I was happy to hear that mommy loves me just as much as I love her.
“I love her too,” I say with a smile, making him smile too.
“Can I tell you a secret little one?” he asks me after that and I nod my head, yes, I’m listening.
“I love Evelyn too, I loved her for so many years, but I was stupid and let her go,” he says, why is he telling me so? Does he think that I’ll leave mommy behind? We love each other, he’s the odd one out.
“I’ll fight you for her,” I say with a firm look, I will do it, I won’t think about it twice, I will do it!
“How about we don’t fight over her, how about we do something else?” he asks.
“Like you leave and I stay?” I ask with a big fake smile on my face.
“How can you be this sassy at three am?” he asks me and I giggle, he’s the one who interrupted my sleep.
“I have my ways,” I assure him.
“I was going to say how about we have a truce?” he asked me and I looked at him confused, what kind of truce?
“Why?” I ask him, not getting what he’s talking about.
“Because we both like her, no we both love her and we’d make her life a lot easier if we don’t fight,” he says.
“But I’m her baby, you’re gonna leave us, aren’t you the boss or something?” I ask him knowing he won’t last long for us, I was worried about getting attached to him and then losing him and I’m worried about Evelyn.
“Why does everyone think that I’m leaving?” he asks sounding offended.
“You’re the boss and all,” I say with a shrug.
“I’m not leaving Katie, not this time, and not ever, if your mommy allows me, I’ll be in her life forever, which means I’ll be in yours too,” he says pointing to me next.
“I don’t mind ignoring each other,” I say with a smile.
“Katie,” he said getting me out of the stupid crib I’d been sleeping in, it felt like I was talking to him behind bars, I yelled as he got me out and placed me on the bed next to him.
“What are you doing?” I ask him still worried, trying to get away from him, he rolled his eyes at me and laid down on the bed, sitting on the farthest end of the bed, letting me have the other side putting as much space possible between the two of us.
“I’m not doing anything, but we can’t ignore each other, I’ll be around Evelyn, and when I’m around… she…” he says and then stops.
“Yes? She?” I ask him, what is he telling me about Evelyn? I’ve been with her for three hundred years, I think I knew her well enough.
“It’s not my place to tell, but she’s special, and sometimes she needs help too, and when that time comes you’re gonna have to let me take care of you too,” he says.
“I can be big,” I say nodding my head with too much confidence.
“You just told me that you’re one of the youngest little out there,” he says, and I didn’t have anything to say back to him, so I threw the pillow at his face.
“That’s not nice, you know you can argue with me with your head on top of the pillow,” he says, and I do that, lying down on the bed, placing the same offending pillow underneath my head.
“Do you think that I’ll be that bad of a daddy?” he says.
“I don’t know, did you go to school?” I ask him next.
“I didn’t, I’m one of the older ones little one, the school isn’t meant for us, but I did approve the classes,” he says.
“So you know about Sir Nicholas’s classes and mommy’s classes?” I ask him.
“Of course I did, where are you going with this?” he asks me.
“They say you don’t decide who’s a good or bad daddy, you watch them and see how they act and react,” she says.
“Have you seen me yet?” he asks.
“Well… nu… so I don’t know,” I say with a sigh, my eyes started to close on their own.
“You hate the dark right?” he asks and I nod.
“I know that a lot of littles hate the dark, and I’m guessing since you’re too young, you’d hate it too,” he says making me giggle, that’s not very hard to guess.
“It’s not that hard to guess, maybe mommy told you,” I say with another yawn.
“She didn’t tell me,” he says in defence.
“Sure she didn’t,” I say ready to get some more sleep, and then he threw another question my side.
“How do you feel about other littles?” he asks.
“Some are nice, I used to work with mommy at the school,” I answer him.
“What about sharing with a little?” he asks me.
“Like toys? Playdate? I like those,” I answer him.
“What about sharing me?” he asks and I giggled, that’s funny.
“They can have you,” I assure him, but my voice betrayed me, I didn’t want them to have him, if he was mine, he would only be mine and mommy’s that it.
I gave him one last look and saw that he had a smile on his face, he knew what he was doing, and he knew I lied, I decided to ignore him and get back to sleep, he’s in the room with me, and the light is on, I felt safe falling asleep now.