She tucked her hands softly under pillowed hair as she listened to the staccato thrum of the other woman's heart despite the fear that kept her up most nights when they were together.
Emma was not deaf enough to not hear the Italians who had snuck out again, playing together, laughing like there was no tomorrow, and Lovi would never have to go home.
She could hear the steady breathing from just across the room where her own husband slept and could practically see the way he draped over her brother.
Emma watched as the walls remained as dark as ever and tried to listen for potentially tell tale signs of her 'friend's' husband's footsteps meeting the stairs just to catch the two of them, cradled one on top, just barely hiding how indecent they were.
She longed for the sleep that found Elizaveta easy enough and for the natural ability to rise before Austria despite both of their tendencies to wake up at similar times though Elizaveta always had been the first to pull herself out of bed in the mornings out of her and Austria.
Emma watched the slight movement from the two men on the next bed; she'd convinced them that she wanted the space to lay on the other bed.
The Belgian watched the Hungarian woman beneath her as she pushed those old musings out of her head, just to find a woman curled up comfortably below her and to find the enchanting way moonlight sometimes found a way to light up her addicting skin.
Emma watched the moonlight as she pushed all of those past worries out of her head and watched the way Elizaveta breathed so easily and evenly; she was exhausted and her body felt at its breaking point.
She attempted to relax as exhaustion won the battle against her and made her fall asleep against Elizaveta.
Emma would wake up with her lover out of the room and watched as her husband and her brother slowly awoke from their bed before she shifted to hide her nude body and get dressed eventually.
Still they managed to get by without being caught against the odds; one day that might change but for now, Emma was content to manage all of this with her girlfriend before time would prove that futile.