"Tell me again, why am I here?" Usagi pulled Mamoru's jacket tighter around her petite frame. It was midnight in the dead of winter, and just above freezing as Mamoru tinkered with the telescope on his apartment's patio.
"Do you remember last month when you--" he shifted his weight, and his word choice,"were upset over missing the meteor shower?" He moved the dails on the machine with practiced ease.
Usagi couldn't help the chattering of her teeth even though the warmth of his apartment was only a few feet behind her. "No."
Seeing that she wasn't taking the bait, he began the goading, "and then you pouted and sulked all the way to the movie theatre, and when we got inside..."
"Okay, okay! I remember-rr-r." Usagi entertained herself for a moment watching her breath on the air while Mamoru adjusted the eyepiece. A look of dawning realization spread across her face. "You decided you'd get revenge by waking me up in the middle of the night and locking me out here in the cold, didn't you?" She pushed a finger into his arm. Taking a nervous step closer to the screen door, she lunged for the handle. "Well that's not gonna happen!"
Mamoru laughed, snagging a streamer of her hair before she could escape inside. "Tempted as I might have been a month ago to drag you out of that theatre and bring you back here for some punishment..." He tugged the pigtail before releasing it. "Rewards are far more effective than spankings."
Usagi huffed, watching again as her breath appeared and faded like smoke. "It is WAY too cold, and I am way too tired to be doing *that* out here, right now. Besides, we already crossed public places off our top 100 list." Wrapping an arm around her waist, Mamoru pulled her up beside him.
"I have something else in mind. Just look," He pointed to the eyepiece of the telescope.
Curiosity piqued, Usagi leaned in to peer through the lens before yanking her head back. "COLD! Coooollld" Mamoru nursed his wounded shoulder while Usagi continued to howl loud enough he began to worry about noise complaints from the neighbors.
Leaning down he kissed her eyelid before pointing back to the telescope. "Just trust me, take a peek and afterwards we will go back inside and I will make you some hot cocoa."
Usagi held herself back from an unladylike snort. "You, in the kitchen? Not after last time." Nevertheless, she pressed her face back up against the telescope, this time repressing her instinct to jump away from the chill. It took a few seconds for her to focus on what she was seeing through the small hole.
Her mouth parted in surprise, and she let out a small noise of awe. "Its beautiful..." Mamoru's chest swelled with pride as she continued to watch the comet. His success was short lived.
"Is that Krypton?" she breathed in awe. Sweatdropping, Mamoru wrapped his arms around her waist.
He didn't remark when she wriggled closer to his body warmth without moving her head from the telescope. "Its Halley's comet, a once in a lifetime sight."
"Maybe not anymore, since we're y'know, going to start the Crystal Millennium and all." Mamoru marvelled as Usagi made her typical intellectual leap from a comic book reference to a deep insight.
"Maybe not," he smiled, breathing in the scent of her shampoo. His tone became pensive, "I guess I wouldn't mind seeing it again someday with you."
Usagi pulled away from the telescope with a sly smile. "Don't lie," she twisted in his arms to face him. "You'd enjoy that immensely."
Mamoru just smiled.