Fire Emblem: December Prompts

Cozy

Sometime during HSY: 3 Chrom

I was thrown out of my sleepy daze as the bus jerked. I rubbed the weariness from my eyes, peeling my face off of the icy window. My whole body was sore, both from the grewling two-mile parade in the frigid cold and from sitting on a bus for Naga knew how long. Beside me slept my girlfriend, barely an inch of space between us. I smiled, pausing my music and taking the pods out of my ears.

A gust of cold wind brushed over us and I looked up to see that the window was cracked slightly open. I thought I closed it all the way before we took off! Then again, we pretty much passed out the second we sat down. Anna's hair was still in her tight ponytail -- she normally took it down once performances were over.

I was caught between two options: Stand up and get rid of the draft, or stay still and keep Anna from waking up. Eventually, I went with the former, as the chill was a little too much to handle. As carefully as I could, I pushed Anna away and quickly shut the window. However, as I returned to my girlfriend, she was taking out her earbuds and struggling to wake up.

"...Are we," she was interrupted by a yawn, "there yet?" She easily settled back into me as I wrapped my arms around her.

"No, I just had to close the window," I whispered in a hushed voice. "How'd you sleep?"

She took a second to answer, brain short-circuiting. "Fine..." she replied. "My everything hurts..."

I chuckled, motioning for her to turn around; she did so, not being very willing to complaints. I started with her hair, undoing the ribbons tied to the base of the ponytail and placing them into her waiting palms. Next came the pins and the ties. At long last, she hair was now free from her torturous restraints. She hummed as I gently rubbed my fingers along her scalp, leaning back into me.

"You're very warm..." she muttered, a shiver soon following.

"C'mere, I'll make you warmer." I pulled her back in so we were face to face (not for long, though). I tucked her head into the crook of my neck, arms caging her freezing body close. Once she was settled, I started running a hand across her back as gently as I could. "Is this any better?"

She made a noise in the back of her throat, eyelashes tickling my neck. She mumbled a bit, words incoherent except for a single: "--ve you..."

I looked down at her. "What was that?"

She shook her head, nuzzling her face against my rapidly beating pulse-point. "N-nothing. Don' worry 'bout it."

I pressed a kiss to her hair. "Whatever you say, babe..." I wonder what she was saying, though...

Within moments, my girlfriend drifted back to sleep. Smiling down at her, I decided to rest my eyes as well. We'll be home, soon. Right now, all we can do is get some sweet, much-needed sleep.

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