Midnight Dose

Rustle.

I awoke suddenly and lay still, unsure of what I had heard. There had been a noise… What was going on? Cautiously, ever so cautiously, I slid my eyes open a crack and peered in the general direction where I had heard the noise. To my surprise, I saw a familiar person climbing through my window.

"Zelos?" I said incredulously, opening my eyes all the way.

The redhead froze and smiled sheepishly. A shaft of ethereal moonlight illuminated his guilty face, but, man, was he hot.

"Hey, Sheena," he said, and he quietly shut the window and came over to my bed. He stood next to it with his hands in his baggy pants' pockets, looking down at me.

Groggily, I rubbed my eyes with sleepy fists and pushed my hair out of my face.

"Zelos, what are you doing here?" I asked confusedly, feeling sluggish as one tends to feel in the middle of the night. "It's too o'clock in the morning."

Zelos took ahold of one of my hands and squeezed it.

"Sorry, honey," he said apologetically. "I was having a bad day, and I needed to see you."

I raised an eyebrow.

"It couldn't wait?" I questioned tartly.

Zelos chuckled, shaking his head.

"No," he admitted. "I needed my midnight dose of Sheena."

I chuckled as well and smiled.

"We all need those once in a while, don't we?" I joked. "I'm not sure if I should feel flattered or disturbed, though."

Zelos bent down and kissed my forehead lightly.

"I'd personally go with 'flattered,' " he teased.

My skin tingled pleasantly, and I yawned.

"Sorry," my friend said. "Just go back to sleep, okay? And I'll be gone by the time you wake up."

"Oh, okay," I said, though I was still trying to process his words.

I was silent as the man climbed over me to the wall side of the bed, and he crawled under the covers. Smoothly, he snaked an arm around me and snuggled me close into him, and with his free hand he stroked my hair.

"Well," I remarked while I was still partly conscious. "I guess after a month of being with you, I should expect the unexpected."

"Mm-hmm," Tethe'alla's ex-Chosen murmured.

He continued to stroke my cheek, and I gently began to slip away into the peaceful expanses of slumber.

"Zelos?" I susurrated suddenly.

"Yeah?"

I struggled to remember the message I wished to relay.

Oh, yeah.

"You don't have to leave…"

"That's tempting, dear," he replied. "But I have somewhere to be in the morning—I have a lovely date with the His Royal Pain in my A—, the king."

"Oh," I breathed.

"Go to sleep, Sheena," Zelos said softly, and I was helpless to obey as my heavy eyelids blatantly refused to stay open.

But there was one more thing I was curious about.

"Zelos?"

"Yeah?"

"Why didn't you just use the front door?" I asked thickly.

Zelos chuckled.

"That wouldn't be any fun, now, would it?" he joshed.

"Mm…" I breathed.

And, finally, I drifted off to sleep in my lover's arms.

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Author's Note: Thank you for reading. I don't know where each chapter will go since I just want to make this a collection of oneshots about mah two fave characters in the game.

P.S. My computer, at this moment, cannot handle the editing feature of FanFiction, and my stories therefore may contain more smushed-together words than usual, and my title won't always center.

Anyway, bye.

-SC