( …it wouldn't surprise her at all.. )
Title: Unwanted Expectation
Theme: Senshi/Shitennou: Day 25, Sacrifice, sm_monthly, January 2009
Genre: Angst
Rating: PG13
Of course he woke up first. When she found out, it wouldn't surprise her at all. She would smile sleepily and murmur something in the pillow about being too satisfied to wake up and how she would wake up first next time.
Kiyoshi quietly slipped into his jeans and pulled his button down over his shoulders. Running a hand through his tangled hair, he looked around for his socks.
He put them on while standing. Sitting would give him an excuse to linger and take his time, to wait for her to wake up. Sitting would hurt more.
Finally, he stepped quietly into his shoes and patted his pockets to make sure he his wallet, his phone, and his keys.
All of this had taken five minutes.
He didn't even glance over his shoulder and his slowly unlocked the door. He eased the door open, seeing her in his mind's eye: naked and laughing, moaning and panting, staring dreamily through half-open eyes, sleeping peacefully sated with closed ones.
Lying diagonally, she took up the entire bed: her limbs spread in angles and her head spilled molten gold rivers onto the sheets, that poured over her in their own ripples and waves, covering some parts and revealing others.
That last image of Minako propelled him through the door.
When she found out, it wouldn't surprise her at all. She might cry; she might even understand.
This life wasn't about his second chance.
It was about hers.
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