Sportacus awoke with the sun the next morning. He looked over at Robyn's bed and could tell that neither Kit nor Robyn had moved at all during the night. Deciding that leaving the two to sleep was better than waking them up he did his usual morning exercises on the ground. During his exercises Sportacus spotted the Mayor and Bessie at breakfast and decided to discuss Robyn's birthday plans with them. He ran over to the house but not before grabbing a piece of sports candy on the way.
"Good morning Sportacus, what brings you here so early?" The Mayor greeted Sportacus and motioned that Sportacus was welcome to come in and sit down.
"I wanted to discuss what we're doing for Robyn's birthday tomorrow. We don't have to worry about being disturbed because Robyn is still asleep in the airship and I'm sure Kit will keep her occupied." Sportacus explained taking a seat at the table.
"Kit? Oh, you mean that handsome young man I saw with Robyn yesterday. Surely you know better than to leave Robyn alone with a stranger and a boy at that?" Bessie interjected.
Sportacus shook his head, "I trust them. They were both still sound asleep when I left and I won't be here for too long."
"I suppose that's ok then," Bessie relented with a dismissive wave of her hand and then she turned back to look at Sportacus, "so what are your plans for Robyn's birthday? Are you going to invite this Kit?" she asked changing the subject.
"Well I see no reason why he shouldn't be invited; he and Robyn seem to be quite attached to one another. For the birthday I was thinking we could perhaps have a dinner or something, Robyn doesn't like all the ceremonial type stuff we usually do for everyone's birthday. I don't think she likes having a big fuss made over her. She also hurt her arm last night so I doubt she'd be in the mood for anything too big." Sportacus explained.
"Oh my, what happened?" The Mayor asked with slight concern, Robyn very rarely suffered injury much like her uncle.
"Erin landed on her arm and she didn't have her falconer's glove on. Erin's talons dug into her arm and went in quite deep. She didn't have time to put the glove on because she was trying to rescue Kit's dog Skip, Erin was trying to attack him."
"Is that the three legged dog I've seen running around the town? He wasn't hurt was he?" Bessie asked.
"Yes that's him. Skip was unharmed but I had to take Robyn over to the Greentown Hospital to see a Doctor. I've never known a Doctor there who's had a bedside manner as bad as the one we saw."
"What was the Doctor's name?" the Mayor asked intrigued by this.
"I think it was Doctor Palley."
The Mayor nodded recognising the name. He'd been treated by Doctor Palley when his leg was broken after tripping on Stephanie's skateboard. He recalled Doctor Palley as a rude, overbearing blowhard and had been very off put by the man. It was amazing that he was still practicing medicine despite numerous complaints about his behaviour.
"How's Robyn?" The Mayor asked when he'd done reminiscing over Doctor Palley.
"Her arm's been bandaged really tightly to stop it bleeding. The wounds were deep as I said before and the Doctor said that gauze would leak too much. I haven't spoken to Robyn since last night but I guess her arm will be pretty painful for the next few days. She has painkillers for it so things aren't too bad I guess. I have to take her back in a few days to get the wounds inspected again and her arm re-bandaged if it's needed." Sportacus replied.
The Mayor, Bessie and Sportacus then began to talk over plans for Robyn's birthday dinner and compared what they'd gotten for gifts so as to make sure no one had gotten the same thing.
Kit had woken up shortly after Sportacus had left and it had taken him a few seconds to remember where he was. The one thing he knew for certain when he opened his eyes that Robyn was still in the bed with him, he could smell the sweet scent of her hair and feel her soft, warm hand holding his. He shifted himself so he was resting on his elbow and looked over Robyn's shoulder; he smiled when he saw she was still asleep. Gently he lowered his head and kissed Robyn lightly on the cheek before whispering, "Morning princess," and lying back down again.
Robyn stirred when she felt the kiss on her cheek and heard the whisper. She knew instantly who was behind her and smiled in utter contentment. Kit sensed that she was awake and gently stroked her hair which was as soft as her skin and ran through his fingers like liquid silk. He could hear Robyn almost purring as he ran his hand through her hair and watched as the light ran across it when it met with the sunlight. He didn't want to get up but thought in terms of prudence it would be a good idea, he didn't want to give Sportacus reason to think his niece was or had been taken advantage of.
"Come on princess," kit began injecting enthusiasm into his voice despite not wanting to leave the bed, "we better get up and breakfasted. Getting changed and all that might not be such a bad idea either."
Robyn sighed inaudibly and tried to inject the same enthusiasm into her voice, "I guess your right. I doubt Sportacus is too far away wherever he is and will most likely be back soon."
Five minutes later Robyn and Kit sat breakfasting in a semi awkward silence. Neither of them had wanted to cut short their innocent intimacy but had done so for the sake of ease of conscience as far as Sportacus was concerned.
Once he'd finished his breakfast Kit gave Robyn a chaste kiss on the cheek and left the airship to give Robyn some privacy whilst she showered and changed her clothes. They'd agreed that Robyn would come and find him when she'd done so he could change and shower. Once Kit had done changing and showering if he wanted to shower he was to meet Robyn in her flower garden.
Sportacus had just left the Mayor's house when he spotted Kit looking for something; he went over to see if he could help.
"Are you ok?" Sportacus asked coming to a halt next to Kit.
Kit scratched the back of his head and continued looking whilst he answered, "Skip's run off with my bag. I'm trying to find the cheeky mongrel so I can grab some clean undies."
"If you can't find them you're welcome to borrow a pair of mine until you can track down Skip and your bag." Sportacus offered.
Kit looked up at Sportacus in surprise at this offer; he'd never been offered anything like that before, "Thanks, I'd like that. If it's ok with you I'm going to nip in the shower when Robyn's done and ready. She said it was ok but it's your airship so I thought I'd ask you."
Sportacus shook his head dismissively, "It's as much Robyn's airship as it is mine and you can use the shower. If you want I can show you where things are and while I'm doing that I can also grab that underwear for you."
Kit nodded smiling, "thanks."
Sportacus was about to answer when he spotted Robyn climbing down the ladder. Once she'd reached the ground she greeted Sportacus with a hug and stood in front of Kit, both unsure of what they were and weren't allowed to do. Seeing the evident uncertainness between the two Sportacus left them making some excuse about hearing someone calling his name. Once Sportacus had left Kit took both of Robyn's hands in his and found himself lost in her eyes again. Robyn giggled when Kit looked around suspiciously before tilting his head and kissing her on the lips. The kiss seemed like it was over in a second and with a wink Kit climbed up the ladder to the airship and was soon joined by Sportacus who showed him where things were as promised.
Robyn traced her index finger along her lips and sighed in blissful happiness before making her way to her flower garden. She'd never felt so happy.