Title: Sleeping Arrangements

Characters: Lina, Gourry, Zelgadis, Amelia, Pokota. Brief mention of Radok, Abel, and Ozel.

Pairings: Lina/Gourry, Amelia/Zelgadis

Rating: PG

Timeline: Between Evolution-R 6 and 7.

Summary: All Gourry really wanted to do was get a good night's sleep, but it seemed like everyone else was determined that it wasn't to be. A tired party is not a happy party.

"This is where we're sleeping?" Lina asked, twitching. After convincing Zelgadis that staying in an inn by himself after a mazoku attack was a bad idea, several rounds of healing (Gourry had been hit in the arm, Zelgadis's throat was bruised from nearly being strangled, and Amelia had several fractures from the mazoku's attempt at crushing her), and an unsuccessful attempt at getting information from Xellos, they had finally made it back to Radok's mansion.

After getting chastised for leaving without informing Radok, he sent Ozel to take them to the place they would be sleeping. To Lina's horror, it was a rather cramped storage room.

"Radok-sama has indicated that these will be your quarters for your stay, yes," Ozel nodded formally, and left.

Lina grunted, "Stingy bastard... not even giving us beds... There are like a million rooms here!"

"This is probably better, anyway, Lina," Gourry said patiently. "If Zuuma or one of the mazoku comes, it's better that we're all in one place." All Gourry really wanted to do was to sleep. The trip to Vezendi, the fight in the inn, and the confusion of the aftermath had tired him out.

"Gourry, this is a storage room," Lina growled.

"It doesn't bother me," Amelia yawned.

"Fine. I guess we'll just use our bedrolls," Lina grumbled. She dropped her pack on the ground and started rummaging through it.

"Actually," Zelgadis muttered. "Most of my stuff was destroyed at the inn..."

"Absolutely wonderful!" Lina snarled sarcastically. "Share with Amelia, or something. She wouldn't mind, I'm sure." Pokota, Amelia, and Zelgadis began to talk all at once.

"WHAT!?"

"Lina-san, what are you talking about?"

"What are you insinuating, Lina?"

"Well it's not like you're very subtle-"

"About what?!"

"Lina, you sleep at that end," Gourry pointed, not acknowledging the argument. While the others had been arguing, he had managed to lay out all of the bedrolls as best as they could fit in the cramped room. "Pokota on the other side, because you'll fight otherwise. Amelia next to Lina - try not to toss so much, Lina. We just fought a mazoku today - and I'm next to Pokota. Zel, you get the one by itself, because there's not room. It's the only way we'll all fit." Not to mention that, with Pokota's crush and Zelgadis's badly-hidden attraction to Amelia, as well as the numerous things between Lina and Gourry that nobody would admit, it was the only way he could be absolutely certain that nobody would wake up in an awkward situation. Things had been awkward enough after the fish incident.

They all froze, blinking at the swordsman as he tiredly pulled off his armor and clambered into the large mass of bedrolls, he was asleep in moments.

"I guess... that works..." Lina mused. "Though it would've been funny if Amelia and Zel had to share. It would serve them right after the fish thing."

"It's not like it was Amelia's fault that your guy picked fish people over you," Pokota pointed out.

"Just go to bed!"

A/N: Episode 7 of Slayers Evolution-R was just plain adorable, starting from when the group wakes up. Apparently, they're sleeping in some kind of storage room, all close to each other, and I found it really sweet. There's a big long discussion of the sleeping arrangements on livejournal. From left to right on the bottom, it was Pokota, Gourry, Amelia, and then Lina, and Zel had one above with his head towards the others (specifically, his head was right above Amelia's). There was much musing about those arrangements, and I randomly decided that it was probably Gourry's idea.