The sun worked its way through the cracks in the curtains, and Delphine rolled over expecting for her arms to wrap around her dread headed lover, but her spread fingers landed on a cool neatly folded sheet of paper with her name on the top.

Delphine-

Scott had an accident in the lab early this morning, something about mixing up Dungeon and Dragons and lab materials? I'm sorry, I didn't want to wake you, I'll be home as soon as possible.

Keep warm,

Cosima

Delphine's body slumped over as she sat up in bed, causing the covers to slip off her and cold January air to sweep over her body. The only sound in the cold house was the heater starting up again. Delphine hesitantly crawled out of bed, the cold hardwood floor stung at her feet as she practically hopped toward her bedroom door into the living room where her slippers sat next to the green lumpy couch that Cosima insisted on dumpster diving for.

The fuzzy warmth entangled her when she slipped the blue slippers on, and she found her way into the kitchen, where the sink was filled to the brim with coffee mugs and cups with half drank tea. Delphine rinsed them out and set them into the dishwasher. She reached into the white wooden cabinet for a pot to boil some milk for cocoa. But when she looked into the pantry for tiny marshmallows she came up empty handed. A look of disappointment slipped onto Delphine's face, the blonde woman had a guilty pleasure for the fluffy white bundles of sugar and couldn't stand drinking her cocoa without them.

The store's only a few blocks away, and the snow isn't falling too hard yet, Delphine Rationalized as she slipped on her coat and boots. She pulled open the front door and set out on her journey to the store. Only stopping once, when she saw a shadowy figure that she couldn't quite make out through the now heavy snowfall.

When she reached the store Delphine's fingers were human icicles despite the warm mittens on her hands. She rubbed her now bare hands together rapidly.

"You must be crazy to come out here in a storm like that." Said A stocky man with a face that looked like a half-eaten apple.

"Huh?"

"That snowstorm eh. It's getting bad."

Delphine's face flushed red with the sudden realization, "Oh, I live a few blocks away and I really needed something."

With her head down, Delphine crept to the back of the store, grabbing two bags of marshmallows before heading back to the register.

The stocky man's face full of confusion, he shook his head "Marshmallows?"

Delphine's face flushed red again, "I uh- umm they're for my son, Elliot he's umm-"

"It's okay ma'am I don't judge." The stocky man said instantly.

As soon as the man bagged the marshmallows, Delphine went back into the snow storm. As she swiftly walked back to the apartment, her eyes squinted and her hands clenched she sees the same dark figure she had dismissed earlier.

When Cosima was cured Dyad hasn't bothered them since, Cosima and she were living a normal life, they were happy. If it were not for her love for Cosima she would have fled the country by now, she knew what DYAD was capable of and as a result she feared they would still come back one day, despite the signed agreement.

Fearing this Delphine broke into a sprint and ran into an alleyway.