Lucy and The Lion

Chapter 3 : New comforts

Lucy softly stroked his head, earning a purr of approval, it made her laugh thinking about what Loke is going to think about all of this when the magic wears off, is he even going to remember all of this? They sat in a comfortable silence and Lucy noticed that morning had already turned into late afternoon, she must have lost track of the time. Loke still has his head on her lap and he is peacefully sleeping.

Lucy glanced over at her hand to see no wound, it's completely healed. She was concerned that it would leave a scar...Looking down again at Loke...Loke, who was Leo The Lion. But none the less she would continue to call him Loke, she met him and saved him as Loke, so the name held a special place to her at least.

Moving very slowly, trying to move Loke's head so that she could get up and prepare dinner along with a bath... Lucy definitely loved her baths...maybe she should go with a herbal bath tonight, she thought. Looking over to see Loke still asleep.

"He sleeps a lot" Lucy whispered.

She now faced the same situation as the previous night... "What am I going to feed him? I can't give him milk again"

Lions...what do lions eat? Lucy sat fumbling over the question... "Meat I guess, I only have fish, but I guess that's alright? I know he's a lion but he's part of the cat family and they love fish" Lucy said with a sparkle in her eye.

Lucy had began to prepare herself dinner as well as fish for Loke.

After presenting the dinner Lucy was so proud of, Loke had greedily gobbled up the fish. Which made Lucy laugh, because she would never imagine normal Loke eating like that, especially in front of a girl, he always seemed suave, now he just seemed clumsy. Lucy found that incredibly cute though. After dinner was finished and dishes done, Lucy had decided to go for her much beloved bath, deciding it would be alright to leave Loke for a little while... right?

Lucy had been soaking and washing her hair, just relaxing in the bath. This was literally her happy place, this and the library. She had decided to get out of the bath, as now she was beginning to feel dizzy, upon getting out she realizes she had left her change of clothes on her bed. Right now she wanted to mildly die of embarrassment "Even if Loke is like this, I still don't want him to see me in my towel" There was always the chance he could remember everything...

Very reluctantly Lucy had wrapped herself in a towel and opened the door, walking fast to her goal : The change of clothes. She wanted to get dressed as soon as possible, not only was she still dripping wet from her bath but she also didn't want Loke to see her. As she got to her change of clothes, she grabbed them quickly with one hand, and the other still holding fiercely onto her towel, her current grip strength could probably rival a demons. As Lucy turned to go back to the bathroom, she was suddenly pinned down by Loke who seemed to have pounced out of nowhere...

"Loke, get off" Lucy pleaded, but Loke just looked at her and began to lick the water droplets off of her arm.

"Eeeek Loke! Enough, let me go!" Lucy said as she was trying to escape him, to no avail, she couldn't get out. Loke continued licking the water droplets, at this point Lucy's face was bright red.

"I'm sorry Loke" As she apologised, Lucy grabbed Loke's tail once again, making him jump off of her. The second Loke was off, Lucy flew into bathroom, bright red and trying to calm her raging heart that felt as if it had run some overly intense marathon.

Lucy had gotten dressed and had somewhat calmed down, she could not let her guard down around Loke. Sighing and realizing how tired she was, she decided it would be best to turn in for the night. As she left the bathroom she found a sleeping Loke on her bed, she wasn't going to fight or struggle, she will just leave it be she thought. She pulled out an extra pillow and blanket and set it on the couch, she had made herself comfortable and was about to go to sleep when she turned her head only to be met with glowing eyes...

"KYAAAAAAAA!" Lucy shrieked as she shot up and behind the couch, to see a very perturbed Loke.

"Don't scare me like that" She said sighing every word, she was definitely too tired for this sort of thing. Loke looked at her again.

Lucy had gotten back into her makeshift bed, ready to drift off peacefully but Loke had decided to intrude by trying to climb onto the couch. Lucy can't sleep next to Loke again, he was a cub before, now he is in his normal form. She gets up and pets Loke almost as if to say goodnight. "Loke you can sleep here." She says as she goes to her bed, feeling bit better having her own bed back.

As Lucy laid her head on the pillow, she noticed that she was once again followed. She was too tired for another round of moving around and changing sleeping arrangements, she allowed Loke to sleep in the bed and she scooted to the edge, keeping some distance between them. Almost instantaneously she had fallen asleep.

At some point in the night she felt Loke snuggling up to her, she didn't mind the warmth. Although her heart was going crazy... She just carried on sleeping trying to ignore Loke's presence.

Loke rested his head on Lucy's shoulder and purred softly, feeling happy that he was allowed to sleep near her again. Gently nuzzling her to convey his affections and gratitude, Lucy had moved in her sleep and softly petted his head, gently touching his ears. They had fallen asleep enjoying the comfort of each other's warmth. Loke fell asleep listening to Lucy's heartbeat, another new comfort he had found.