Nights Of A Child Sitting up in bed, back leaning against the head board and knees bent, a PADD resting on them, Caine rubbed her eyes and stared down at the PADD. Already she had met with half the crew but she still had many more to meet with. Sometimes she felt like her job was so tedious, at least now she had someone to help her out, even if Garrett didn?t have the proper training to counsel, he could at least pick up the paper work. Caine wondered about him, not for the second time since the meeting. He was interesting, seemed different from some of the other men on the ship, yet the same as all of the men. He was cocky, self assured and in quite a few ways he reminded her of Javan. Thinking of Javan brought a small frown to Caine?s face; she hadn?t seen him in a while and really hadn?t had much time to talk to him, what with both of the prepping for the new mission and Caine still dealing with the effects of the last mission. A cry interrupted, what could have been, very dark thoughts. Jumping out of bed, she followed the sounds of the crying into the living and to Hannah?s partly closed bedroom door. Trying to be as quiet as possible, Caine opened Hannah?s door the rest of the way and looked in on the child. Hannah lay in a fetal position, tears streaming down her face as she yelled incoherently. The only words Caine could make out for the child?s screams were ?daddy? and ?no?. It broke Caine?s heart, to see this wonderful little girl so tortured in her sleep. Caine moved over to the side of Hannah?s bed and sat down, resting her back against the head board, she wrapped her arms around the child?s shoulders and pulled Hannah into her lap. At first she tried to resist the comforting arms of Caine but soon, even in her sleep, Hannah recognized Caine and began to relax. It took a while before the dreams began to leave, but even while she was fighting her demons in her sleep, Hannah felt safe and comforted in Caine?s arms. ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the Internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!