Title: Before Dawn
Theme: # 8 -- our own world
Warnings: a couple not-so-random dragons and a little tiny bit of hinted at lime. I'm not good at that stuff...
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Zane glowered at the thin swath of light coming from the two-inch space of curtain he'd neglected to close. He blinked as a petite dragon popped out of nowhere and tugged the curtain shut before settling herself down to sleep on the night stand.
"Chazz?"
"I know Zane. I told her too."
"I didn't know you were awake."
"Half wishin' I wasn't," was the mumbled reply.
Zane smiled. Now that the disturbance of the early morning light was gone, he was quite content to lay half awake and savor their current position.
"Useful little trick you've taught her."
"Isn't it though? Now shut up. 'm still tired."
Momentarily hushed, Zane buried his fingers in Chazz's hair. The two lay tangled together beneath the covers, and Zane marveled how he'd never felt so warm before in his life. And it wasn't so much the presence of another body. It was something else, something that Zane couldn't quite place.
He decided to think about it later, his brain too complacent with the knowledge that Chazz had apparently gone back to sleep, and that there was at least another two and a half hours or so before they had to get up.
This was Zane's favorite time really. While the world outside basked in the pre-dawn light, Zane similarly basked in the comfort of his own little world; one that he shared only with Chazz, and the occasional duel spirit or two. He smiled to himself at that, sleepily noting the thin form of a cyber barrier dragon curled on the floor by the bed.
"Zane?"
Perhaps Chazz was more awake than he'd thought.
"Mmm?"
"What are you thinking about?"
"I'm thinking about how nice this is, the two of us wrapped up in our own little world."
"It is nice," Chazz agreed softly.
"Although," he continued, "it might be a bit nicer if it was just the two of us."
The petite dragon chirruped a light disagreement from the night stand, and the barrier dragon rumbled softly, but neither moved.
"Or not."
Zane chuckled quietly at Chazz's easy acceptance of defeat.
"Thought I told you to hush," Chazz murmured.
"You're the one that started this conversation," came the gentle reminder.
"Then I'll end it," was the matter-of-fact reply.
It was Chazz that first pressed their lips together, but Zane took the initiative to deepen the encounter before breaking away to flutter kisses down Chazz's throat to his collarbone.
The two dragons reveled in the emotions spreading throughout the room. It was familiar and well-worn by now, a comfortable feeling seemingly meant for the early hours of the morning and well suited to their masters' slow, easy loving.
They liked this pre-morning world, before all the hustle and bustle of the day. A time they could just curl up and enjoy existence, when they didn't have to be in their soul cards, because no one was around to see. A peaceful world of only four individuals, all wrapped together in a warm blanket of emotion.
And as lips met once more, each soul wished time would just stand still.
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Aseret Kitsune: Thanks for the review. I'm glad someone liked that chapter at least.