Warnings: a tiny bit of smut.

Songs used: Slide by The Goo Goo Dolls

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"Could you whisper in my ear

The things you wanna feel?"

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She likes the way he looks when he's just woken up in the morning. He scratches his face where a beard is steadily growing and he rolls over, burying his face deeper into the pillows, hiding from the light.

He's always up late, casing another job, shooting up or getting drunk, and Kate is always awake before him.

She showers twice, before she goes to bed and when she wakes up in the morning. He thinks it's crazy, but it's not his water she's wasting. He likes to watch her, too.

She emerges from the bathroom in a cloud of water vapor with her hair wrapped in a towel, and she goes to the windows and yanks back the shades, some days she'll even open the door. After the Titty Twister, Kate isn't too fond of the dark. She's at her happiest when the sun is in the sky, Seth's noticed that. She's noticed that, if he can, he usually requests a room facing the East.

Seth pretends to be asleep, something he's gotten good at over the years, while she stares at him for a moment, the light from the windows morphing around her, making her look like something ethereal and angelic. For five seconds of every morning, Seth believes he's shot up one time too many and he's gone to heaven.

But then reality sets in and Seth remembers who Kate really is, who he is. She's an angel all right, but she's falling fast, and he's coming down from the high of his lifetime.

She turns away from him and, if she knows he's awake, she gives no sign of it. She goes back to the bathroom, yanking her hair out of the towel and putting on some mascara. Unless he's taking her on a date, that's the only makeup she wears.

It doesn't take long for him to fall asleep again, staring at her.

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He wakes up to the smell of fried eggs. She tosses a greasy bag at him and plops down on the other side of the bed, munching on her own breakfast.

Kate isn't too fond of fried food, so she gets an omelet.

Seth sits up, moving to settle in beside her. Subconsciously, she leans into him. A couple minutes later she places her hand on his thigh and Seth can't help himself, he tosses his untouched eggs onto the floor and climbs on top of Kate, watching her eyes widen with surprise.

She grins as she yanks his shirt off and Seth tries to be gentle, to avoid ripping hers because the last time he did that he got an earful. It turns out to be okay though, because Kate helps him. It doesn't take long for them when they're with each other, and the extensive foreplay that existed the first couple of times is no longer necessary.

He starts at her lip, kissing down her stomach, nipping at her belly button, before setting himself on top of her.

Seth plunges into her, and she doesn't cry like she used to. This Kate is different, harder - she's still his angel, still good, but in a different way now. His princess grips his shoulders as he rides her, her sharp nails leaving marks on his back, but neither of them last long.

They're huffing and puffing as they finish, both their bodies slick with sweat. Seth reaches for his eggs, and Kate finishes off her breakfast.

She won't look at him, keeps biting her nails like they're going to bite back, and her body is rigid.

"Did I hurt you?" He asked, his voice still heavy from sleeping. It's the first words they've spoken all morning, and it's fitting.

There's a pause, and then he hears her sniffle.

He reaches up, trying to hug her, to touch her, to pull her into him. She resists.

"I'm pregnant," She mumbles, her eyes shut because she doesn't want to see his reaction. "I took a test this morning, while you were still sleeping."

Seth can see her angel wings falling to her feet.

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"What you feel is what you are

And what you are is beautiful."