TNN: A Collection Of Short Stories

knight in shining armour (mialotte)

An: so based on tonight's 6pm where char is upset because of the harassment situation but then she's happier when she sees Mia. Cute fluffy fic yippee

Chars pov:
"I wouldn't call Reece my knight in shining armour" I say before looking down to the floor.
"I wasn't talking about Reece" Carly said causing me to look up "look whose in the office" I let my eyes follow the path to the office where I see the back of Mia. My Mia is here. This cause me to smile. It feels good to smile.

"Shibby does not look happy though" Carly said
"Mia will be pushing her buttons, trying to get under her skin" I say still smiling.
"Looks like she's getting under someone else's skin too. First time Ive seen you crack a smile all day" Carly says with a giddy sway in her feet. "I think it's love" she finishes.
"I think it's time for you to go home" I say before walking to the office.

I knock twice before entering. Our eyes immediately meet and I feel relief wash over me. She immediately pulls me into a hug which I quickly accept. I feel myself melt into her touch. I don't care if Marjorie and Siobhan's here to see this but Ive been needing this.

"That's my cue to leave" Mia starts "see you later Marjorie, bye shibby" she ends with a flirtatious smile. Marjorie says her goodbyes and Siobhan gives me something that resembles an apologetic smile. Wait what? Siobhan smiling?
"Do I want to know what that was about?" I ask with a giggle, letting our fingers intertwine.
"She's so easy to mess with" Mia says with a giggle.

We walk out to the carpark, all of the children and most of the staff have left now.
"I missed you today" I say wrapping myself in her arms.
"Ive missed you too sweetheart" she says placing a kiss on my forehead. "How have you been today?" She asked.
"So so, tired after last night which probably doesn't help, about the whole Adam thing, I feel so violated that he knew so much about my personal life" I start "Its hard to explain but I want to lock myself in my house and never leave" I finish, I feel her wrap her hand stroking my back.

"Mhmm, I know sweetheart it's awful that he was able to find out so much about you and us" she responds. I feel safer with Mia around. "What do you want to do tonight? Anything you want" she asks making me smile. I lean back separating our hug a bit before kissing her.
"What was that for?" She said with a giddy smile on her face.
"I hadn't kissed you yet. And I wanted to say thank you" I answer with an equally giddy smile on my face.
"I think tonight we should go to yours and cook dinner together." I say in answer to her previous question. It's all I want right now, a night in with Mia where I can just enjoy her presence.
"We can do that, I can't promise I've got food that can be cooked, but we can order a Chinese or something if you'd like? Or we could pop to Tesco?" She asked. I think about it a bit, I don't think I have the energy to go to the supermarket right now.
"Chinese sounds good" I answer.

She leans down to kiss me again.
"Sounds good, here's my phone, order whatever and it should be there when we get home" she says. While we had been away in Italy, we had both actually put our face IDs in eachothers phone.

Mia's pov:
We leave Charlotte's car at the nursery. She's not in the place today to be driving and I'll probably take her into work tomorrow morning anyhow.

It's a short drive back to my place, and the whole car drive consists of Charlotte asking me if I want certain food.
"Whatever you want sweetheart" I say smiling. I rest my hand on her thigh when I'm not changing the gears, I feel her tension disapate when I do so.

The foods about 15 minutes away when we make it back to mine. I open the door to the house for Charlotte and she makes her way into the living room. I stay in the kitchen getting out two plates for the food before pouring out 2 glasses of wine.

I take both glasses into the living room where I find Charlotte scrolling through Disney +, trying to find a movie to watch.
"You know me so well," she says accepting the glass of wine. She nestles into the side of me before continuing the search for a film.

"Ooh can we watch tangled" I say excitedly. She giggles at me before pressing play.

The food arrives not so long after the film starts. I get up to answer the door and I hear Charlotte pausing the film and rushing into the kitchen.
"Thank you" we say in unison to the young delivery driver.
We plate up the food before sitting in the living room and watching tangled.

"Here let me take that" I say noticing her plate is empty. I take both of our plates out to the kitchen before loading them into the dishwasher and sitting back down where we watch the remaining of the film.

She stays mostly silent throughout the rest of the film. This has me worried.
"What's wrong sweetheart?" I ask her at the end of the film. I pick her hand up and place it in my lap before tracing lazy patterns over her palm.
"I just don't know how to react, all day I've been trying not to cry. And I'm not sure if that's directly related to the Adam thing or if it's because I'm tired. I know I should be angry but I'm just upset that someone is able to know so much about our personal life and then try to "fix" me because of it" by the end of her explanation the first tear has fallen.

"It's okay sweetheart, I've got you now, if you want to cry, you can cry" I say pulling her into my lap. She's practically sobbing at this point. I rub her back tenderly while she just lets it out. "You are so strong my love" I coo in her ear. She started to calm down a bit at this point. My heart aches for the girl in my arms. I've dealt with comments about being with women as long as I've been out and ive come to deal with it, this is all new for her.

"Carly's right" she says looking up at me.
"And why's that?" I ask, feeling slightly amused.
"Because your my knight in shining armour" she says trying to stifle a laugh, making me laugh.
"I guess I am pretty cool" I say causing her to start laughing.
"Can I be your princess if that's the case?" She asks still laughing.
"Of course you can be my princess, sweetheart." I respond "I think we need to get you in a nice hot bath before we head to bed" I say stroking stray hairs out of her face.
"Can we watch bridgerton tonight?" She asks excitedly.
"Of course princess."

AN: I will continue writing one shots every so often alongside my other story (which you should totally check out if you haven't already) so leave me suggestions for one shots. :))