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6:30

For: self-imposed 30-minute fic challenge

Series: Fruits Basket

Word Count: 289

 

Posted: 2004.5.29

 

Tweaked slightly 2004.12.09.

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She carefully sets the cup of coffee down by his bedside then stares at him, torn between shaking him awake and tucking the sheets more tightly about him.  Even in sleep he is effortlessly beautiful.  After a thousand years, here comes our Sleeping Beauty! Shigure loved to say as his cousin came down for breakfast looking rumpled and only half-awake.  Sleeping Beauty needs a kiss before his glass of milk!

 

He turns on to his side and slips his arms around a pillow, cradling it to his chest like a boy with his favorite teddy bear.  He makes an adorable picture, she thinks, but fifteen minutes more and he'll miss his train.  "Yuki-kun?"

 

She gingerly touches his arm.  "Yuki-kun?  Yuki-kun, it's six thirty."

 

It does not work. 

 

Bending slightly, she softly speaks in his ear.  "Yuki-kun, please wake up."

 

Sleeping Beauty needs a kiss before his glass of milk!

 

He turns to lie on his back, eyes half-lidded, unfocused.  Before they could close again, she puts her palm on the patch of bed behind his ear, lowers her face to his, gently kisses his partly open mouth.

 

There.

 

It does not work.

 

She tries again, a bit more firmly this time, then draws back to see his reaction.  She sees his eyes open fully and focus on her face, and even though it is unnecessary, she kisses him again.  After a beat, she feels him kiss her back.

 

Finally.

 

"Morning."  He whispers against her jaw, softly.  "How late am I today?"

 

"Your train leaves in fifteen minutes."  Any other person would nag him out of bed, pull his slack arms, shove him into his clothes, but she would never do it.  "And I brought you coffee."

 

 

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