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Word Prompt(s): WitchxWarlock Spring Prompt – 'Shopping' and 'Rain'

Shopping and Rain

"Why did you choose a rainy day to do the shopping?" C.C. sighed, wrapping her coat tighter around herself in effort to keep out the chill.

Lelouch peered out of the bus stop they were sheltering in and examined the grey clouds above them. He flicked open his cell phone and started searching online for the day's weather forecast as he answered his partner's question, "C.C., I always do the shopping on a Friday regardless of the weather. You didn't have to come along if you disliked the rain so much."

"Hn, it was clear weather earlier," was her only reply as she sat down on the shelter's bench, throwing her share of shopping bags onto the seat beside her and hugged her coat whilst Lelouch paced the length of the bus shelter for a spot with better reception.

She didn't need to come with Lelouch. He can handle shopping by himself but she waited a week for the Cheese-kun pillow to arrive and she refused to wait a day longer. Her warlock was pleasantly surprised when she followed him out of the house and into the car but didn't complain – instead, he took utmost advantage of the situation and bought even more groceries since there was now an extra pair of hands to help him carry the bags.

She glanced down at her new Cheese-kun pillow and smiled in a most pleased fashion. It was larger than she expected and did not fit into the bag they provided but it was worth all the coupons she saved up.

Lelouch held up his phone experimentally, still trying to find a good reception to check the weather with.

"Don't bother, the rain wouldn't stop for a few hours."

He looked up from his phone to give her a raised eyebrow. "You saw the weather forecast for today?"

She leant forward and peered past the edge of the shelter's roof to the clouds in the sky. "Whatever made you think I would pay attention to that?"

"Then how would you know?"

"Boya, I have been working out in the elements way before your grandfather was born. I should know how to read the clouds better than some overpaid weather channel presenter."

"Very well, then what do you propose we do?" he asked, setting his bags beside hers on the bench. "We're parked further away than I would have preferred and the rain isn't going to be stopping any time soon. We can't wait here for a few hours since part of my shopping will melt or go off by then.

"I will be missing my T.V. show at this rate."

Lelouch's eyebrow twitched once. Apparently melting groceries wasn't listed in C.C.'s list of concerns.

"We can run to the car," Lelouch suggested but instantly knew it was far from a feasible plan because:

A) His stamina is unbelievably poor even now when he is immortal. Running to the car whilst carrying shopping may as well be running track with weights for him and he was fairly sure he'll end up keeling over with exhaustion somewhere around the first set of traffic lights.

B) C.C.'s new pillow cannot fit in the bag they were given, thus a good half of the pillow was sticking outside the bag without protection. Immortal or not, Lelouch's taste buds and stomach refuse go through another month of nothing but pizza to save up enough pizza coupons to swap for another pillow to replace a rain-ruined one.

C.C. eyed him up and down then smirked, "If you think you can make it to down the street without dying of exhaustion then go ahead and try, my warlock."

"You never miss a chance to tease me, do you?" he asked in a noting voice.

"Never."

They waited a minute longer, during which Lelouch sidestepped thrice to dodge incoming waves of rainwater created from cars driving through puddles and C.C. took her Cheese-kun pillow out of the bag to give it a test-run by pressing it into the side of her head.

"I should have parked closer."

"You should have indeed."

He gave her a quizzical raised eyebrow. "Are you not suppose to fulfil the loving wife's role and comfort me by saying 'it's not your fault, the closest car-park was full. There's nothing you could have done.'?"

"Ara, I was? Though playing the nagging wife role suits me so much more."

She smirked and he chuckled then cupped his hands to his mouth and tried to warm them with his breath.

Another car swept past and Lelouch sidestepped another onslaught of rainwater threatening to tidal wave onto him.

"Well, my genius warlock, have you thought of a solution?"

He looked around then dug into his pockets to check how much money he still had after the shopping trip. "I'll be right back."

C.C. watched as he lifted the collar of his coat to cover his head. It looked horrendously foolish but it kept him dry long enough to skip across the road and into the shelter of a small shop she had failed to notice until now.

Several minutes later, he returned with an umbrella that could barely fit the both of them under. She eyed it with distaste. "Was there not any larg-"

"It's the only one they have left."

"We can't both fit underneath that without my pillow getting wet."

"What do you propose then?"

"I propose I take the umbrella with my Cheese-kun and you walk in the rai-"

"Not happening."

She glared at the umbrella and he lowered it for a split second to shield himself from another mini-wave of rainwater from passing cars.

After a few more seconds, she sighed loudly and he gaped as she pulled the pillow from its bag before stuffing the fluffy thing under her coat.

"It will not get wet if it's like this," she muttered and quickly started picking up her share of the shopping. She stepped to the edge of the bus shelter, turning back to stare at him with one eye. "Are we going or not then, Lelouch?"

"Aa... um… coming," he said, snatching up his bags and stepping beside her with the umbrella. "You look like a pregnant woman with that thing stuffed in your coat."

She gave a bark of laughter as they stepped out into the rain. "Pregnant? With Cheese-kun as a child?"

"Your dream child, no?"

She grinned, "possibly."

He switched all his shopping to one hand and wrapped an arm around her shoulders to pull her closer so that she was nearer to the centre of the umbrella.

Halfway down the street and when the corners of their plastic shopping bags were dripping with rainwater, Lelouch's grin slipped.

"Lelouch," she said in your normal monotone voice as they continued walking, his gaze occasionally flicking to the bulge of her coat. "You're not alone."

"Neither are you."

"We'll never be."

END

I actually liked this piece…. A lot! (Except the ending – it doesn't sit as right as I wanted it to sit) I makes me feel like my old style and I would almost readily abandon my new style for my old one.

Devi: Glad you like the pairing because it's the only one I write! XD Thanks for reading!

Anymouses: I did not even realise it was exactly 15000 words until you pointed it out. I still couldn't believe it was exactly that too. Couldn't have hit that target even if I tried. ^^ Thanks.

KiKi Hayashi