Stargazer

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Notes: Mid- or post-OAV. Written for 101kisses theme "starlight". Cutesy fluff, not so much with the silly. Okay, maybe with the silly, too. XD

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"What on earth are you looking at?"

She didn't hear him come up behind her, was half-asleep in the soothing quiet of his office, back early from a mid-night rest break made necessary by pressing concerns that could not be left until morning, and jumps a little before she sends him a blushing little smile over her shoulder.

"Just the stars."

He peers out the window, coming close enough that she can feel his breath at her hair and he can smell the faint sweet scent of raspberry and vanilla in her shampoo.

"Wishing on a star?" he asks teasingly, and laughs when she blushes again.

"Maybe."

When she peeks over her shoulder like that, she becomes sweet, childlike, alluring, elfin, and mocking all in one, and with the care and hesitation of affection deeper than friendship recently realized, but the firmness and confidence of years of trust deeper than love, he turns her by the shoulders.

After a quick glance back over his shoulder, old habit, to ensure that no one else is roaming the building at this ungodly hour, he lifts her chin and lets his lips find hers softly.

A long moment later, as they break apart breathless and overjoyed and embarrassed, he smirks a little.

"I'll leave you to your stargazing now."

"That's alright," she says shyly, reaching hesitantly for his shoulder again. "I already got my wish."

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