Title: Candlelight
Author: shallowness
Fandom: Sky High
Rating: G
Characters/Pairing: Layla/Warren
(established relationship)
Summary: Layla helps Warren close up at The Paper
Lantern.
Disclaimer: None of the characters are mine, and I make no profit from this
fan-written fiction.
Author's Note: Written (self-indulgently) for 2009’s Epiphany wishkiss ficathon. French kiss
(300 words).
Candlelight: shallowness
This happened when Layla and Warren were somewhere
beyond the first dates that had officially taken them from being friends to
trying to work out how they fit into each other's life now, both a little wary
from their previous relationships. Warren had suggested she came and studied at
The Paper Lantern while he pulled a shift, and so she listened to music as she
wrote notes for her essay on neglected superheroines.
She couldn’t block her nose though, and Warren was
another distraction, one she welcomed when he came to sit with her during his
breaks – it wasn’t busy enough that Layla ever had to
leave ‘her’ table. They talked about everything, except she never asked when
he, a Senior now, was going to get his homework done.
But she wondered about it, and worried a little.
When it was time to close up, somehow it was left
to just Layla and Warren. She gave each table a final
wipe-down and blew out the last few candles, while Warren checked everything
else.
“You should get a share of the tips,” Warren said.
“No, it's fine. I needed to stretch after sifting
like that so long.”
“Hmm,” he said, and then, deadpan, “I still think
you deserve some reward.”
She didn't know where he was going with that and
watched carefully as he leaned across her to light a candle on the nearest
table with his finger.
“I thought we were closing up.”
“We will.”
“Hmm,” she retorted, and he gave her a definite
Warren smile, the kind that made her feel like she'd just stepped into the
sunshine. But before she’d processed that, he leaned in and kissed her. And it
was summer, the glorious height of summer, in that nearly dark restaurant lit
only by a candle’s flame.
Fin
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