A/N: this took much longer to get started on then I had originally planned considering the length of the chapter I intended to write, but hey what are you going to do.
Hope that everyone enjoys.
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Histoire Tennouboshi sighed to herself as she climbed the stairs up to her daughter's room after she and her best friend Blanc had scurried up following another of their "adventures" exploring every nook and cranny of the city.
From experience Histoire knew that Neptune would beg her to let Blanc stay over for the night, and she was helpless to resist the puppy-dog eyes of her seven-year old daughter. It didn't hurt that Blanc helped to keep Neptune grounded and out of trouble, which she would never stop thanking the brunette for when thoughts of the alternative slipped into her mind.
Pausing on her way past Neptune's room on the way to the linen cupboard where the family kept the extra futon, blankets, and pillows for when Blanc stayed over, Histoire felt a strange need to poke her head into the room through the slightly ajar door to see what kind of trouble Neptune and Blanc might be getting into.
The mother was surprised to catch sight of the curtains drawn closed across the window to darken the entire room and the overhead lights turned off for now, and a quick glance allowed her to locate her daughter curled up on her bed fast asleep, judging by the soft rise and fall of her sides as she breathed slowly.
What was truly surprising to the parent was the fact that Blanc was kneeling down beside the bed with her focus entirely on Neptune while the violet-haired girl slept, and Histoire could see a small smile upon the normally stoic girl's face as she watcher her best friend sleep.
She would have ducked back out of the room in order to complete her previous plan if she hadn't overheard Blanc begin speaking to her sleeping friend, and mostly curiosity kept Histoire from pulling away.
"Thanks for always pulling me out of my comfort zone you big dummy" Blanc told Neptune with a smile in a surprisingly warm voice for the girl that usually guarded her emotions from everyone's view.
Getting an odd sense of what was to come, Histoire reached down to one of the pockets that she had sewn into her skirt, and pulled out a small camera that she had taken to keeping on hand ever since Neptune was born in order to capture the best moments in her child's life. It had become especially useful considering Histoire's significant other was often out of the country trying to support the family, and she took a certain amount of joy in sitting together with Arfoire Tennouboshi looking through the photo album of pictures starring their baby girl.
It turned out that following her instincts had been a good idea as Histoire saw Blanc leaning in towards Neptune, and Histoire held her breath as her mind rushed to think of what the brunette might have planned.
A mixture of luck and experience allowed the former businesswoman to take a picture at the perfect time, just as Blanc pressed her lips to Neptune's forehead in a chaste kiss that would have made Histoire coo at how adorable the moment was in any other situation.
Slipping the camera away for now with a warm smile on her face and content in the knowledge that Neptune definitely had someone to watch out for her (And maybe a lifelong partner that she just didn't know about yet) Histoire continued towards the linen cupboard to collect the bedding supplies and then go and wake up her daughter to ask what they would like for dinner.
She knew that Neptune would want to tell her all about what she and Blanc had done while they were outside, and looked forward to every minute of it.
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Considering that the length of these will tend to vary but are probably going to be shorter than some other projects I work on, I shouldn't have to worry too much about typing them out after I get an idea for one of these shorts. The only issue that I can see is finding the encouragement to work on them, but I've been dealing with that for years now.
Until later everyone!