What a lovely night watered down by the fact you were on a heros space ship. It's not like you wanted to be here. But you didn't have much of a choice. I mean, the heroes needed your oh, so great help. Who were you to refuse? Other than the biggest supernatural villain of all time. You were, after all, a demon with divinity mixed in your blood. They couldn't ignore that, could they? Which is why they had to give you a small bracelet with carved sigils to seal away most of your harmful magic, but thats unrelated. Why you allowed them to do so? Well, that's your story to tell.

Anyways, brooding over being here isn't much help. Over the weeks, the team had picked up a young orphan girl. She had dead parents. Though, after hearing about what they did to her, how they abused her, you weren't sure them being dead was a bad thing. Unable to leave her alone on a strange planet, yet unable to send her back to earth on her own either. What a moral dilemma.

So she stayed on the spaceship until everyone was able to return to earth. Which wouldn't be for another month. What a pain. A whole month with these goody-two-shoes in this hellhole. With a child no less.

Just as you were about to roll over and get some shut eye in your bed (as everyone got their own rooms, luckily), you heard a soft knock on the door.

Great. Just great. Who genuinely had the AUDACITY to knock on YOUR door this late at night?!

The door cracked open before you could muster a response in the midst of your annoyance, and it was...the girl..?

What in the seven astral circles could a child ever want from a supervillain?

You had always assumed the kid was scared of you, which is why she avoided your room and YOU in general like the plague. You were rather pleased with this arrangement. You weren't about to get all close and sappy with a child of all things.

But there she stood.

Before you could say some cruel or snarky remark, the girl spoke up.

"Hey...uhm...Miss/Mister Villain...I- I know you were probably sleeping but...I had a really bad nightmare about my- my parents and... everyone else is either asleep or told me to leave, and...I'm so sorry..to bother you, I mean.."

Goodness the kid could barely get out the words without stuttering. Must've been so bad if she came to the one person who scared her most.