8. Girl Talk

Fandoms: Card Captor Sakura, X/1999;
Characters: Daidouji Sonomi, Kasumi Karen;
Rating: T;
Warnings/Notes: Rated for talking around a topic which I don't think anyone can find agreeable. References to Song of Solomon, Ch. VI, v. 10. EDIT: Now with more adjectives!

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Sonomi hated everything about pregnancy: vomiting, cravings, insomnia, incontinence, waddling... But in the teashop outside the gynecology clinic she found she could agree with Ms Kasumi: Doctor Akechi did have nice warm hands.

Ms Kasumi leaned stiffly forward for her cup and narrow, severe dark clothes rearranged like dawn coming out of night, revealing sunbright hair and moon-fair limbs - a hint of dark lace. She glanced sideways at Sonomi's hands, "You're not married?"

"Not for much longer," Sonomi snarled.

"Ah."

Sonomi couldn't keep from glancing at the other's flat stomach, but stifled the question. Some things you didn't ask about. Still, she was answered.

"I go to war." Ms Kasumi's amber eyes dropped to her tea, as if it were the most interesting liquid in the world.

Sonomi yanked Ms Kasumi's hand onto her kicking belly. "Then be terrible."

Ms Kasumi spread her fingers. "As an army with banners."

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(150 words)