Title: Pillow Talk
Fandom: Fruits Basket
Author: kira
Words: 280
Rating: OT
Summary: Ayame loves Mine…
Warnings: mildly spoilerish for the end of the manga
For Jen with love…
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Ayame lay in bed, propping his head up on his hand and watching Mine as she slept. He still could not believe how incredibly lucky he was to have the curse lifted so that he could be free to marry the beautiful woman who had warmed his heart from the minute he had met her, and as he suspected, would keep it warm as they grew old together.
Mine stirred in her sleep. She yawned and gazed at him with sleep filled eyes. "Aya…?" she said softly, reaching out to cup his cheek.
His green-gold eyes twinkled with amusement. "I'm sorry; I woke you, my darling, but I was afraid this was all a dream, a very good dream at that, but none-the-less a dream, and I really and truly did not wish to wake from it…" He grinned impishly at her.
"So you woke me up instead, hunh?" she said dryly, giving him her best mock stern look. She giggled at his expression in the dim half-light of their bedroom.
"Uh, yeah…" Ayame replied, momentarily at a loss for words. No one, but Mine and his cousin Hatori, could render him speechless, albeit for different reasons. He sighed softly, hopelessly and thoroughly in love with her.
Mine leaned in to kiss him. "I promise to be here when you wake up later. Now let's go to sleep." She kissed him again, before rolling over onto her side, facing away from him.
"I'm going to hold you to that, my darling." Ayame lay back down, spooning neatly behind her. He put his arm around her, underscoring his words.
She giggled softly in reply.
They both drifted off to sleep, thinking how lucky they were to have each other…