In the morning Eiko was up bright and early, about the same time as Dagger. They were at the breakfast table talking.
"Did you have a good sleep, Eiko?" Dagger asked. Quina was in the kitchen preparing their breakfast.
"I did indeed." Eiko said.
"Did you want to come into town with me today?"
"Of course! What will we do?"
"We could go shopping, just you and me. Zidane has to go to Lindblum today to help Baku and the others with something."
"Oh, that would be lovely!" Eiko exclaimed, almost in a funny accent.
"Here you go!" Quina called out, coming in with a scrumptious plate of eggs, bacon and toast. As they started to eat Zidane came down the stairs.
"Mm, I smell breakfast!" Zidane called out.
"Sorry, there's not enough for you!" Eiko giggled. Just as Zidane thought the old Eiko was coming back she said, "I mean, you may need to ask Quina for more, Zidane."
After breakfast Eiko and Dagger got ready and headed out into town. Alexandria had grown a lot and there were many more shops to go. Steiner of course wanted to go supervise, but Dagger insisted this was a girls-only shopping spree.
Dagger and Eiko walked into a mall-like shop with many different things in it; Clothes, jewellery, weapons and more.
"Dagger, look at this!" Eiko called out. Dagger followed her into a designer clothes shop where Eiko was looking at a beautiful red dress, which looked like Eiko's size.
"I didn't know this was your type, Eiko." Dagger mentioned.
"Don't you know, a princess must always wear the finest!" Eiko stated.
They continued walking and window shopping for a while until they got hungry. They went to the small food court near the centre of the mall. There was a fountain nearby.
"What would you like to eat?" Dagger asked.
Eiko looked around. Dagger could see her looking at the ice cream stand, but she wasn't inclined to say anything at that point.
"Do you want some ice cream?" Dagger teased.
Eiko looked up with big eyes. "If you don't mind, yes please."
Dagger giggled and took her over to the stand. They both got a cone each, and Eiko got 2 scoops. Dagger chose strawberry and Eiko had chocolate.
"Yum!" Eiko cried, licking at her ice cream. "Let's go sit by the fountain!"
A glimpse of Eiko had come back. Dagger smiled and followed her as they both sat on the edge of the stone
"Thank you very much for taking me out today." Eiko said gratefully.
"It was my pleasure." Dagger smiled.
"Hey, what's that over there?" Eiko asked, pointing to a group of people crowing around something. She grabbed Dagger wrist and started walking towards it.
"Eiko, we really-"
"WHOA!!" Eiko cried. She slipped up on a spill near the fountain, hurdling herself towards the edge of the fountain, and incidentally dragging Dagger into the fountain.
"Ahhh!" Dagger cried, falling head first into the shallow fountain. Her ice-cream which had slipped out of her hand had fallen onto her head. Smears of strawberry were slipping down her face.
People started running over, and one person, who was obviously a journalist for the Alexandria times, yelled out "What a scoop! Haha! Get it?"
Eiko put her hands up to her mouth and said, "I'm so sorry, Dagger!"
Dagger got out, wet and dripping with ice cream.
"… Let's go home."
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After the havoc Eiko had caused today both she and Dagger were very tired. Dagger knew their story would be all over the tabloids tomorrow. "Princess Eiko pushed Queen Garnet into a fountain at Alexandria food court…"
Dagger wasn't looking forward to it.
Eiko had gone straight to bed after dinner, tired from her long day. After dinner, Dagger had done some paperwork and decided to go to bed herself. Zidane, on the other hand, had another idea…
Dagger was lying in bed, changed into her night gown that she slept in. She was reading a book while resting her back against the bed head.
"Oh, Dagger?" Zidane asked cheekily, walking into the room.
"Mm?" Dagger asked, not looking up from her book. She was obviously in deep thought and was well into the novel.
Zidane pounced onto the bed and snuck up to where Dagger lay, wrapping his left arm around her waist. "Watcha doin?"
"Reading." Dagger merely said. She knew what Zidane was thinking. And tonight she was going to ignore his antics.
Zidane playfully slipped his hand under Dagger's nightie and onto her belly, tickling her a bit. She giggled and put the book on the bed face down, and said, "Zidane, please."
"C'mon!" Zidane teased. He lightly kissed her on her neck.
"Zidane, we can't." She said sternly, putting her hands onto his shoulders to push him back.
"Sure we can." He kissed her on the lips and rubbed her cheek with his hand, his other hand still on her stomach.
"No. Eiko will hear us."
"No she won't. She's in the guest room."
"She's right across the hall from us!"
"We'll be quiet."
"Oh, sure!"
Zidane smiled cheekily and kissed her again. That smile always won her over, no matter what the problem was. She caved in and started kissing back, then stopped and said "If Eiko walks in you're dead."
"Don't worry, we'll be quiet." Zidane winked, and blew out the candle that was alight on the desk next to them.
They kissed each other passionately as Zidane laid his body over hers. His tail swirled quickly as he started lightly kissing her neck. She giggled and whispered "I love you…" He perked his head up and smiled. "I love you too…"
He continued kissing her on the lips, but this kiss was a lot stronger and passionate. They were throwing everything into this kiss. Zidane slipped his hand back under her shirt and onto her thigh. They continued kissing until they heard a "KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK!!" At the door.
"Whoa!!" Zidane yelled out, falling off of Dagger and onto the floor.
"Excuse me. May I come in?" called out a small voice. It was Eiko.
"Of course, Eiko!" Dagger called out. Before she reached up to open the door Zidane moaned.
"What a mood killer…"
Dagger rolled her eyes and turned to the open door where Eiko was standing. Her hair was down and she looked tired and teary.
"Pardon me Zidane, but what are you doing?" Eiko asked, looking at the bewildered Zidane on the floor.
Zidane changed his stance to a cool pose. "Oh you know, just lounging around."
"What's wrong, Eiko?" Dagger asked.
Zidane hopped back up on the bed as Eiko searched for words.
"Uh… I had a bad dream… can I sleep with you tonight?"
Dagger looked sympathetically at her and said "Of course, Eiko!"
Zidane mumbled something neither of them heard.
Eiko smiled and ran up to the bed, scrambled up and hopped in the middle of the two. She got comfy under the sheets and said "Goodnight!"
"Goodnight, Eiko." Dagger said warmly, ducking under the covers herself. Zidane did the same, but he wasn't happy.
In about 20 minutes Eiko was sound asleep and breathing quietly. Zidane perked his head up and said "Dagger?"
"Mm?" Dagger asked, half asleep.
"Can we still-"
"No."
"But what if we-"
"No."
"Even if we-"
"No."
"Dammit…"
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