Whaaat? I have this uploaded at a decent time? Astonishing (Seven pm is still not as decent as it could be).

I'm supposed to be finishing my math and chemistry homework, but hey, I wanted to upload this next prompt for you guys because I care about my readers (totally not because I just don't want to work on my projects I mean what).

Day Ten: Watching the Other Sleep

Before he met Taylor, Saguru had a strict schedule. It was a schedule that was kept after he started dating her and was still kept on the days she didn't sleep over.

At six-thirty exact he would wake up and take a shower, and then he would go downstairs and watch the news- though he wouldn't fully pay attention to it- until the water would be ready for his morning tea. He would have breakfast at seven and be out the door at seven-thirty to make it to his job at eight. It was his schedule for years and it worked for years.

Then Taylor spent the night.

His schedule had to be changed to include her into it. Instead of waking up at six-thirty he would have to wake up at six to make sure she would have enough time in the bathroom. He would watch the news for a longer period of time until he could start the morning tea so he could still have warm tea for breakfast, which she didn't eat because it made her feel nauseous. Then he would have to leave at seven-twenty so he would be able to drop Taylor off at school and make it to his work on time.

If her father just let her use a car then this would be much easier on both of them. But they had to make it work, he supposed.

Then everything got pushed back two minutes and thirty seconds when Saguru found out he liked to do something every morning. Something that was found by complete accident, but was only his to do that no one would ever find out about.

That morning at five fifty-seven Saguru turned off his alarm and turned to the woman who shared his bed that night. Taylor slept facing him, her blonde hair spilling out over the pillows and a peaceful look on her face. The sheets lay on her waist, moved when he sat up, showing her bare body to him. She was breathing evenly through her pink lips; her eyelashes long and dark against her slightly tanned skin.

This, he told himself, as he did every morning, was the reason why he decided to wake up early. All day long he worked on cases of murder or missing people or sometimes thieves that showed him the horror of the world. But Taylor's sleeping face was one of the few things that reminded him that there was innocence in the world as well.

I could get used to this.

Saguru frowned as soon as he had that thought. He had no doubt that it could work between them. But for how long? His job would sometimes make him travel for days on end- especially if he was trapped at some house with no way to leave. That seemed to happen quite a bit. Would he be able to take her with him on those trips? Would she be able to wait for that long if he couldn't take her?

Taylor shivered and he pulled the sheets just a bit higher for her. She shifted and moved them herself before getting comfortable again with a soft sigh. He reached out and brushed a strand of hair out of her face, letting his fingers linger afterwards.

He thought about the Sleeping Detective and how he always seemed to bring along his daughter and that kid. Then again, he thought to himself with an amused smile, he didn't really bring them to the deaths as the deaths seemed to come to him. But either way, both children were brought into dangerous situations and seemed to make it out okay. Taylor is smart and fully capable of handling herself in hazardous situations. She has helped him on same cases as well, so it would be a benefit.

But she couldn't just step away from her own work. She was studying to be an English teacher and enjoyed studying to do what she wanted to do with her life. She wouldn't be able to come with him whether she wanted to or not. No doubt she would be disappointed that she couldn't come, but she would get over it.

...Right?

She had expressed multiple times about how much she hated that her father was always gone and was never around much. If they do end up getting married, perhaps having children, what would that be like? Having a father that has to leave early and wasn't around as much as often as anyone wanted them to would be awful for anyone to deal with, especially a child. He thought about his father and how he was often out of the house through all stages of Saguru's life. His father was still a major part of his childhood, though. And Taylor's father was the head of the police too. Saguru himself was still only a detective.

A very popular detective in more than one country.

He stopped and had to give a small laugh at his thoughts. Marriage? Children? What was he even thinking right now? They haven't even moved in together, for Christ's sake!

He pulled his hand away and got out of bed. He was just too tired and needed a shower to wake up, is all. That's why he was having these absurd thoughts.

But no matter how many times he told himself that, he could never fully convince himself.

I feel like I relate to Saguru a little. When I'm older I want to be a scientist- a biochemist to be exact. I'm going to set my hours high if I can to keep myself occupied, and I'm afraid I would prioritize my work over family. I do that now as a high schooler as well. What will that do for my marriage? Not children because I don't want children, but still.

I think this is one of my top prompts too. I really enjoyed writing and rereading it and I hope you did too. :)