This fic was written for a guild competition (where I am known as Shinko122). You can find the other entries in "Guild Competition" posted by Captain Cheese. Here are the requirements for the comp.

It was to write a story, descibing a romantic scene between two oftheir favourtie Tamora Pierce characters. BUT it must include a few things.
1. Getting a boo boo
2. Some kind of animal dung
3. Obsession with a vegtable

Disclaimer: I would never share Numair if he belonged to me!

Midnight Snack

"Daine, love. What are you doing?"

"Argh! Ow!Oh! Ow ow ow!" Veralidaine Salmalin unceremoniously jumped away from the stone oven in the wall of her kitchen clutching her index finger on her right hand."Oh Numair, You made me burn myself and now I've probably woken up Sara!" The young woman's face went from pained to upset in a split-second and tears started to stream down her face.

"Shhh. Now come on Magelet, let me see your hand, I'm sure one of Alanna's creams will fix that in a second and don't worry about Sara, I've just changed her and she's sleeping like Kit does after a day on the beach." He took her hand gently in his own two and kissed it softly,"There now is that getting better?" He smiled warmly at her, he knew that she could see him, even in the near pitch darkness, he had seen the glint of her owl eyes.

"I'm sorry 'Mair. I don't know what's wrong with me, I wasn't like this when I was pregnant with Sara, I never got weepy and I certainly never had cravings for roast potatoes every night!"

"I know love, but the healers said that it was all normal and the baby is growing wonderfully fast, it must be all of the vegetables that you've been eating." He turned her so that she was facing away from him and wrapped his arms around her waist, bending down so that his head rested on her shoulder and he could whisper in her ear. "You are a very naughty girl though, getting up in the middle of the night to cook when you have an overly devoted husband in the bed next to you who would be glad for the chance to improve his cooking skills and please his wife all in one."

"Well I needed to get up anyway, I forgot that I was supposed to get you to take some of the horse manure down to the village for that little girl's new rose garden. I was going to make a 'To Do' list for us, we have so much to get done before the baby comes."

"Darling, I brought you to the Tower so that you could relax during this pregnancy. I don't want you to have to go through what you went through with Sara. And it will be months before our next little magelet is ready to meet us, plenty of time for list-making and chores. Now you go back to bed and I will bring you a meal that Thayet would complain was to fancy."

She turned, snaked her arms around his neck and kissed him deeply. " I love you master Mage, and I might just show you how much, after I've finished eating." She grinned mischievously and ascended the stairs to their bedchamber.

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DT