Title: Complacency
Word Count: 231
Summary: Noin worries that their relationship has become complacent.
They woke up at 0500 without the aid of an alarm as they did every morning. They dressed in silence as they did every morning. They ate their breakfast while watching the news as they did every morning. They hurried out the door with mugs of coffee as they did every morning.
And as he opened the car door for her as he did every morning, Noin began to wonder if they had become complacent in their life together.
It seemed that they ran their lives in the fashion of a military regimen. They did things spontaneously, yes, but it was planned spontaneity. They didn't have time for anything else.
"I love you's" were exchanged as a common greeting or goodbye, and it wasn't that they didn't mean it. They just didn't think about it.
He drove past the gates of the Preventer HQ, and when they parked, he started to get out of the car when she caught his arm. He met her eyes in questioning, and she held them there.
"I love you," she said seriously.
Whether he was thinking the same thing or he simply understood her that well, she didn't know, but he seemed to know exactly what she meant.
He leant over and kissed her deeply before meeting her eyes and returning her declaration.
Unlike every other morning, they walked into the building hand in hand.