Prompt: Everyday

Paring: AyakoxMonk

The Monk and The Priestess

Ayako woke up that morning ready to face the day. Her shift at the hospital was one she was familiar with. She'll see the same patients she's seen everyday for the past week, making sure they are healing up well after their surgeries. Sure, it wasn't ghost hunting, but the miko was happy with doing ghost hunting on the side ever since she met the gang that makes up SPR.

Ayako got out of bed and made her way to the bathroom. She looked in the mirror and smiled when she noticed a small sticky note on it.

Ayako,

Have a good day at work. I'm looking forward

to our date tonight. See ya when you get home!

Hosho

Every Friday, Monk and Ayako would go out to have a nice dinner together, occasionally having a double date with either Mai and Naru or Lin and Madoka. But tonight was going to be a little different. Last week, Monk had told her he wanted to cook for their next date night. She was unsure of how well he could cook, so she had a back-up plan just in case. She hopped she didn't need to use it, though.

Once she was finished getting ready and made it to the hospital, Ayako went through her day as any other. She checked up on patients, asked them how they felt and told them how much longer they had before they could go home. One patient went home that day, but not long after another patient took the vacated bed. But Ayako didn't mind. She enjoyed being with the patients.

With only two hours before her shift would end, a terrible accident happend and she was transferred to the ER to help take care of any patients that did not need to head into the OR. She called Monk to tell him she would be late getting home that night, but it went straight to voicemail. Ayako payed it no mind as she rushed to the ER to help in any way she could.

…

Monk was in the studio with his band having a meeting with one of the top record companies in Japan. If they could impress the representatives, they could get a record deal. And saying that Monk was excited was an understatement. He wanted to prove not only to himself that he could have his dreams come true, but his parents and Ayako's parents as well. He wanted so bad for her parents to accept him like Ayako had. He just hoped being a signed musician would be enough for them… well, for now.

Just before the representatives walked in, Monk and his fellow band members turned their phones off. They didn't want anything to distract them from this meeting.

The band played a few songs and talked with the representatives before they went to go discuss in private the band's future. Monk and his bandmates sat in agonizing patience for what felt like an eternity before the representatives came back in. Monk knew that how their future was going to play out all depended on the men in suits sitting across from him and his band. He just hoped it would be good news he would be telling Ayako tonight at dinner.

…

It was four hours later when Ayako was able to leave the hospital. She was exhausted and just wanted to go home and sleep. Her mind and body were frazzled with the last few hours trying to treat as many people as possible from the accident.

Once she got home, paying no mind to a sleeping Monk or the dying candle light on the table, she went straight to the bedroom and changed into her pyjamas. After tying her hair up into a high ponytail, she walked out to the kitchen to grab something to eat when she noticed Monk slumped over and asleep. She rolled her eyes at his bad posture and shook him awake.

"Hosho," she said as she shook him.

"Huh…?" Monk said groggily as he regained his bearings. "Oh, Ayako, hey."

"Hey?" Ayako said, a little frustrated with him. "That's all I get is 'hey'? I get more than that in the mornings. Hell, I get more from my patients than I do from you!"

Monk's eyes wet wide. He stood up and placed his hands on the angry red-head's shoulders. "Woah, Ayako. You alright?"

"Fine," she snapped.

Monk rose an eyebrow at her. After knowing her for so many years and living with her for the past two years, he had learned her different emotions easily.

"You sure about that?" He asked her.

Ayako shook her head as she hung it. "No." She looked back up at Monk. "I'm sorry."

"Long day?" He asked.

Ayako nodded. Monk wrapped his arms around her tired frame.

"Why not you sit down and I'll warm up dinner."

Ayako nodded into his chest.

A few moments later, warm food was sitting in front of Monk and Ayako. They ate in silence for a while until Monk decided to break it.

"I got your voicemail. I hope everything ended up alright."

"A multi-car accident happened just minutes before, so they were transporting everyone to the hospital and they needed me to help tend to patients with non-life threatening injuries. Luckily there were not too many that needed to head into the OR."

Monk nodded as Ayako retold her day. Once she was finished, she asked, "How was your day? And why did I get your voicemail automatically? You never have your phone off."

"Oh.." monk laughed as he rubbed the back of his head. "About that, sorry. I forgot to tell you it would be off. We had that big meeting with a record company today."

"That was today?" Ayako asked as her eyes grew wide. She forgot. How could she forget? It was all Monk could talk about the past week!

"Yeah," Monk chuckled.

"How'd it go?"

"Great," Monk said with a big grin on his face. "In fact, you are now officially dating a signed musician."

Ayako gasped as she smiled. She got up and ran over to Monk, giving him a hug. But with all the momentum she had, she ended up knocking Monk, and in turn herself, on to the floor. They laughed at their situation.

It wasn't everyday a night would end in laughter like that with them, but the Monk and the Priestess wouldn't want that night to end any other way.

A/N: So, I had planned to write one part for Maru, one for Ayako and Monk and one for Lin and Madoka, but I've been working on this one all day and I actually don't have any good ideas for the others. But I'm very happy with this. It seems a little not like the typical Ayako and Monk, but I guess that was the point of this one. Hope you liked it!