Heart is the Key towards Home (Wynonna Earp)

Chapter 6

Deep into a dream about cheerleading and Sara Lance cosplay, Nicole rolls over in bed. Her arms instinctively move to wrap around her beautiful wife. Hitting only empty space and blankets, her sleepy eyes snap open in confusion. She drags her half-asleep body out of the bed in a quest to find the elusive Waverly.

She walks downstairs to find a very messy Homestead and even messier, yet still breath-taking, Waverly sitting on the living room floor. A headset covers her ears, blaring music. Not noticing Nicole's presence, the tiny brunette continues her task of taping boxes.

"Babe, what are you doing?" Nicole mumbles, her tongue still lazy with sleep.

Unable to hear the redhead through the notes thrumming through her ears, Waverly continues to tape the box in front of her. Her head sways enthusiastically to the music, her messy bun bouncing comically along with the rhythm. Nicole can't stop the smile that stretches across her face. She really adores this version of Waverly, along with every other version of her.

She walks over to the brunette and gently places a hand on wife's shoulder. Waverly jerks a little with the action, being drawn from her music and box taping trance. She looks up to see her very sleepy, yet very attractive wife staring back at her. She loves when Nicole wears that blue tank top. On seeing the adorable sleepy pout on the redhead's face, Waverly smiles and removes the headset from her hears.

"Hey, Baby!" Waverly says, bubbling with enthusiasm, much too awake for this time of the morning.

"Waves, babe, what is all this? Have you been up all night?" Nicole asks with a yawn.

"Yes, I have. I made coffee! Do you want some? Or you could help me with boxes? Wait, what time is it?" Waverly fires in rapid succession, only pausing to look down at her watch. Realizing the ungodly hour that she is still awake, she looks up at her wife sheepishly and says "I'm sorry, babe. Do you want to go back to bed?"

"Baby, how much coffee have you had?" Nicole asks with a sleepy smile and asks her initial question again. "And what are you doing?"

"I couldn't sleep! I'm so excited about moving that I started packing. We have so much stuff! You should see all the things I found." Waverly rambles on energetically. Nicole is still trying to comprehend the madness going on around her, but realises her wife won't be coming back to bed soon. She might as well help her. Giving up on getting much more sleep, she sits down next to the brunette. Her hands slily curl around the warm cup of coffee next to Waverly, and she moves it to her lips to take a glorious sip. She really hopes the brunette doesn't notice that her source of crazy energy has gone missing. It's really helping Nicole's neurons to wake up.

"Okay Waves, show me what you found." Nicole says after placing the stolen cup back on the floor and wrapping her arms around the woman who had stolen her heart.

Waverly practically melts at her touch, completely forgetting what she wanted to show the redhead. she leans back into Nicole's arms and closes her eyes, humming in content.

"I'm so happy we found that beautiful house, we are going to be so happy there." Waverly says at a normal pace, finally coming down from her caffeine high.

Nicole kisses her softly on the cheek and says "You are exhausted, sweetheart. Let's go to bed." As these words leave Nicole's lips, she notices that the tiny brunette has already passed out in her arms. Smiling adoringly at her wife, Nicole proceeds to pick Waverly up bridal style and carries her up the stairs.

Once in their room, she lays the tiny brunette down softly in their bed and covers her with all her many blankets. She takes a moment to take in the beauty that is a sleeping Waverly and kisses her tenderly on the forehead. Smiling like a lovestruck idiot, she ruminates on the fact that someone in the universe deemed her worthy of having this literal Angel as a partner for life. I'm ever grateful to you, Universe person. She thinks.