{+~TADC~+} *IMAGINES + ONESHOTS*

+~Little Nightmares~+ Caine x Reader Oneshot

Why is he looking at me?

"Anyway's good morning everyone! I hope you all had a nice little nap," greeted Caine as he waved his cane around, showing he was in a good mood. I mean, when is he not?
We all just watched him as we were eating our breakfast that Bubble "lovingly" made for us. He was going on about how the next adventure was going to be a fun maze. The fun part didn't get me.

"Right. Time for you all to get along with the adventure!"

With the sudden click of Caine's fingers, all my friends except myself were teleported to which I would assume is the maze we were going to do.
Wait, why wasn't I teleported like the others?
I looked up from the table and saw Caine looking at me, menacingly as he was floating a few feet above me. I stared back up at him, countless thoughts going throughout my head of what he might do to me. Suddenly, he rushed down to my level and willingly grabbed my hand and intertwined his gloved fingers with mine.
I couldn't help but madly blush. What exactly was he doing?!
He finally then spoke up, looking up at my eyes with what looked to be...sympothy....?

"Hey, I was just double checking in how your holding up here in the circus? Since you've only been here for a few weeks," shyly spoke Caine.

Why did he care about what I felt?

I didn't want to seem rude so I bravely spoke up to him with as much eye contact as possible.
"I'm okay, really. It's no biggie."

The look in his eyes made me want to cry. He looked upset at my answer for some reason, like I had told him I wanted to leave (I sort of want to). Then out of nowhere, he gleamed up back to his usual expression and let's go of my hand.
"Well I'm glad your doing well! I just wanted to check in. Anyway's, time for you to join the others in the adventure, we can't have you missing out can we?" Caine happily said with his booming voice.
Not gonna lie, I miss feeling his warm hand against mine....

~~Time skip~~

The voices were back...

No why? I didn't want to be back here. Why was I here again?!

I tried to make a run for it, even though I couldn't see anything. Suddenly, I was in a dark, gloomy-looking forest. The trees were pitch black, with dark-tinted leaves falling from them slowely and landing all around me. I felt sort of relieved as I wasn't in that dark void anymore. However that relief soon disappeared as I clearly heard those voices again. But as well as a faint figure emerging from the black gaps between the bushes.
Scared out of my mind, I slowly backed up from the emerging figure, only to stop as I recognized who it was...

Caine.....

He didn't look too pleased with me as a deep upset frown was placed upon his, face? I couldn't feel any emotion expect fear and concern. What was he doing here?!
I walked towards him and placed my hand on the side of his top row of teeth. It had seemed to calm him down, as his upset facial expression seemed to soften and slightly leaned into my touch. It felt legit. Like he was actually there and calmly looking into my eyes...

That's when he suddenly turned upset again and violently grabbed my wrist and shoved me to the ground. It hurt like hell. He was stronger than he looks. Caine then got his cane and pointed it towards my body. A sudden pain had crawled through my body, it felt like a truck had just run over my whole figure. I couldn't move not breathe and then the water works started. I didn't want to cry in front him but the pain was unbearable. He continued to stare me down with his weapon of a cane and the pain did nothing but continue.

Why would he do this? What did I do to deserve this??....

That's when my vision got blurry and everything went dark...

My head was pounding in pain as well as my whole body, as I woke up from that horrible nightmare. I could barely move, why could I feel the pain so easily?
As noise could be heard as my bedroom door abruptly opened, with a familiar figure standing by it. Out of nowhere the figure spoke with shock and concern.

It was Caine!

He quickly floated to my bedside. His headerachromia eyes were full of concern, why though?

"Y/n! Are you okay?! All I could hear was crying and screaming coming from your room, " said Caine.
This wasn't like him, to be so worried about another person's problems.
That's when I felt my cheeks, I HAD been crying. Though more were about to be spilt.
My body acted up and I randomly grabbed Caine and pulled him into a hug. My mind fogged up as more tears were being spilt from my eyes. My body was in so much pain and I just needed comfort.
I then felt Caine awkwardly snake his arms around my waist, making the hug deeper. He then rested his 'head' on top of mine, slowly drawing circles around my back with his fingers.
"Woah hey what's wrong?" Caine asked with worry in his sweet voice.
My mind was too filled up of thoughts about pain and the nightmare that I just experienced. I spoke as much as I could.
"I...I'm f...f...fine Caine. I just h...had a re..really bad d...dr.....dream." I felt ridiculous as it was such a childish thing for me to do, over a dang dream. Luckily, Caine continued to comfort me and didn't leave me alone. He then looked at me with sweetness and wiped some tears from my cheeks with his thumb.
"Mind telling me what it was about?" Caine had asked.
This wasn't like him! Usually he wouldn't give two s&/#$ about human emotions, perhaps I was a different story....

After a good, what felt like forever I told him everything that had happened in my previous dreams. He seemed to listen really well and sort of understand what I was saying.

"Oh you poor dear. I didn't realize you were having little nightmares. Why didn't you speak up earlier about it?" Caine seemed generally disturbed.

"I just didn't want to concern you is all, " I shyly responded with, looking down at my arms that were crossed over my chest.
Out of nowhere, he wrapped his arms around my body and pulled me into his grasp. I didn't mind, he was really warm, which was odd, but I really enjoyed his company. Forgetting how tired I was, I yawned and started to doze off into his arms. I've got to admit, he's quite comfy.
Last thing I heard was Caine's voice speaking very soothing to me.

"Sleep well my dear. I'm always here for you...."

"I love you my darling...."

That night had ended with him snuggling with me in my bed. After that encounter, I rarely had little nightmares, and even if I did have them, Caine would be the first one to comfort me.

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