Of Ponies and Puppies

Affirmation

Starting to feel drowsy himself, N pressed a hand to the door of their home. Tossing aside his thoughts over the prior conversation, he greeted Uzi as he walked in. He stopped as he noticed what she was up to.

"More research?", he asked.

"So?", she asked, her body bent over the desk. Manuals and notes spread across the desk.

He blinked. "You're a nerd".

She looked at him in confusion before deciding to retort, "bite me!".

"Haven't heard that one in a while", he observed as closed the door, "being a nerd's cool though".

Uzi hid her fluster by burying herself in her research again, "I can't believe at times that you willingly let yourself get bound to this weird nerd in the bonds of some dumb human religious ceremony".

"...Are you flirting, or are you putting yourself down?", he asked all of a sudden.

"I don't know".

"Are you feeling alright?".

"Dude, I don't know", she said pulling out the drawer of the desk, "I haven't been this hormonal since we were younger".

He looked at her in confusion, "you uh, fell for me that early on?".

She looked at him with such a peculiar look plastered on her face, "what? No? What part of that gave you that idea?".

"I uh, have very human ideas of what you're talking about. But you... uh... haven't had fleshy stuff on you in a long time so I don't know how you're hormonal now", he admitted, hand on his neck.

She looked at him like she was explaining something obvious to a child, "N... it's an expression. I'm not talking about actual hormones".

His face lit up, "oh! Yeah that makes sense".

"If that's settled", she put away her research material, "how about we head off to sleep?".

He nodded, "I'd like that".

Their room was covered in nic-nacs and pictures. Photos and drawings of them and their friends (what few of them at least) covered most of the walls. Framed above their bed was the first drawing N ever gave Uzi. He'd since added an addendum to it, a sticky note adding "girl" before the "friend". Uzi thought it was hilarious and kept the addition on.

The two climbed into their shared bed. N quickly found himself getting used to sleeping like this. Sleeping "normal" at least let them wake up separately if need be. Uzi didn't have a preference because either way she'd be sleeping against him covered by his wing.

"You ready?", he asked, charging cable in hand.

She nodded and slotted hers in, "ready to sleep".

He put his in and immediately felt his systems urge him to sleep. It was a weird thing to get back into the habit of, his systems didn't need outside energy like this until they were both free of their curse. Now, he recharged like any other Worker in here.

"Ready", he said as she wrapped an arm around him. The wing on the side facing up emerged and extended over them. His arms wrapped around her.

She blushed, "every night, huh?".

"If you like it, then why change it up?".

They kissed before falling back into comfort. The two quickly sank into the depths of recharge together.

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"N? Hey, wake up".

N stretched as he became aware of the lack of Uzi in his arms. His wing retracted as he activated his visual input.