Morning Song
Song: Jewel

"Let it ring," I tell her as she tries to untangle herself from me. "Let's just go back to sleep."

"But," she starts to say.

"Let the world spin outside our door, yer the only one that I wanna see today," I tell Hoshi as I wrap myself around her to keep her in bed.

She sighs.

"Just a minute," she says as she gets up. I hold my breath a little as she reaches for the communicator, but then she shoves it in one of the drawers before coming back over slowly.

"Hurry, get back in. I'm gettin' cold."

"Don't you like what you see?" she asks as she saunters her way back to the bed, still nude.

"Sure I do," I say. "But it's kinda cold all by my self." she laughs but doesn't come over any faster. When she finally does get over here, she steals a sheet from the bed and wraps it around herself.

"Come on," she says. "It's beautiful outside." I groan and wrap the last sheet around my waist before following her out to the small balcony.

She's already there, sitting on one of the steps with two mugs of something. She hands me one as I sit myself down behind her. She leans back against me and sticks her feet out so the sun will warm them as we watch the streets below come alive.

"Where were you two yesterday?" Malcolm asks me the next morning as I walk over to him while Hoshi went off to talk to Liz.

"None of yer business," I say with a bit of a smile.

Truth be told, we only left the bed four times, the coffee on the deck included. Malcolm bows his head and blushes a little and I smile again.

"What about you two?" I ask about him and Liz. "You seem pretty comfortable with each other."

"We are," he says. "It's nice."

"'It's nice'?" I repeat. "What do ya mean nice?"

Malcolm thought about this for a moment. "I really like her. We have fun together," he says.

"That's better," I answer. We both turn as the women laugh and look in our direction. We both swallow hard. "Should we just go back to bed?"

"I think so," he answers as we turn to leave, but the girls catch us and drag us off to be the bag carriers while they shop.