Ok, so this one is kinda short because I actually had plans, and then I got home and wrote.
When Raffe woke up, he noticed two things.
One: Penryn was in his arms, smelling IMMENSELY distracting, and he decided he would have liked to go back to sleep had it not been for number two.
Two: Paige was standing over his bed with a flashlight and a snarl on her face. She was very disconcerting, but Raffe wasn't afraid of her.
"Hey, Paige. What's going on?" He asked, as though he hadn't just been caught in bed WITH PAIGE'S SISTER. If anything, this direct address, coupled with the fact that her sister AND Raffe were fully clothed (Raffe knew that however innocent Penryn insisted Paige is, the kid couldn't be stupid. She was living in the apocalypse, after all) seemed to confuse and possibly pacify the girl. She turned off the flashlight, although she was still giving him a suspicious look. He didn't blame her. Penryn was worth a few suspicious looks.
"Raffe. Why is Penryn here?" Paige asked in a whisper. "She was supposed to stay in our room."
Raffe looked her in the eye. He wasn't about to start treating the kid like she was stupid. That would probably be the fastest way to ensure he never got to spend ANY time with Penryn. "We were talking about some things, going over our plans, and it was pretty late, I guess we fell asleep."
With that assurance, Paige sat down by the bed.
Is she gonna stay there?
Paige seemed pretty tired...
Raffe carefully untangled himself from Penryn, who seemed to be trying to mutter something under her breath. He shivered as his feet hit the cold ground, which Paige seemed ready to fall asleep on.
"Paige, can you keep Penryn company for the rest of the night? I need to talk to Obadiah, and I'm not sure when I'll be back." He was saying this, of course, so that Paige didn't end up sleeping on the floor, when he was in a nice warm bed with Penryn, who should really be with her sister, anyway. Paige needed her more than he did.
As he bent over to put on his boots, he heard Paige climbing into the bed and snuggling up next to Penryn. He found a spare piece of paper from the stack of maps that Obadiah had given him to draw locations of possible Angel camps, and wrote a quick note so Penryn didn't think he had used her for hugs and then ran.
Went to go see Obadiah, see you when I see you.
~Raffe, Archangel of Awesome
P.S. thank you for the hugs. We'll talk later, I promise.
As he left the note on the corkboard by the door where she would be sure to find it, he turned back to look, and the sight made him feel a sad kind of longing. He knew that someday, Penryn would make an amazing mother. He just wished that she could be the mother of HIS children.
We can't always get what we want, can we? Not while the world is ending, anyway.
