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Little Things

Moment Seven

Their spots in bed were often fluid by necessity, whether by someone getting home late or needing to get up early, but they each had their own "spot" that they typically went to by default. Conner would take the left side, Kaldur the right, and Kagome would snuggle down in the middle. This usually worked out well for everyone. Usually.

Kagome wasn't sure exactly what it was that woke her up, but she quickly noticed that she was uncomfortably hot. The air around her was almost suffocating. As her mind continued to clear, she realized that she was sandwiched tightly between two bodies much larger than hers, and she was trapped with the body heat of all three of them. Kagome sighed and began to wiggle in an attempt to get a little space between them.

It wasn't rare for this to happen, but it was always just a little irritating. She wouldn't lie and say she didn't like being in the middle of the bed, but it had its drawbacks at times. Most notably, the occasions that Conner and Kaldur ended up trying to cuddle in their sleep and she didn't pose enough of an obstacle to stop them.

When she still couldn't free up a little space to breathe, Kagome decided to fall back on the one thing that always worked in these situations.

"Kaldur," she whispered as she lightly patted Kaldur's arm. "Kaldur, I'm too hot."

As the lightest sleeper of the bunch, it wasn't difficult to wake him up if either of them needed him. That still didn't mean that he was completely aware of going on immediately after being woken up. "Hm?" Kaldur wordlessly questioned, not quite having caught what Kagome had said.

"I'm too hot," Kagome repeated. "And you guys are squishing me."

"Sorry," Kaldur mumbled as he tried to roll onto his back to give Kagome some breathing room only to be stopped. His mind immediately focused in on the strong arm reaching over Kagome to wrap around his waist and back, keeping him firmly in place. When he tried to pull away again, this time with a little more force, Conner made a disgruntled noise in his sleep and tightened his grip to pull Kaldur closer.

"Okay," Kagome wheezed from in between them and now fully awake. Reaching behind her, she tried to swat at Conner's stomach to wake him up. "Seriously can't breathe now."

"Conner," Kaldur said with a shake to the other's shoulder. While he did mutter something under his breath, Conner still didn't wake up, so Kaldur tried again with a firmer shake and louder tone, "Conner."

"Mm what?" Conner asked with a deep sigh, not bothering to open his eyes.

"We need to find a different way to sleep," Kaldur told him. "I think Kagome would appreciate living to see morning."

Far from it being the first time he'd been told they were smothering Kagome, Conner easily let go of Kaldur and rolled onto his back to try and fall back asleep. It seemed like the issue was resolved for a few seconds, until Conner groaned and sat up to swing his legs over the edge of the bed. Walking around to the other side, he slid under the covers behind Kaldur as he said, "You guys move over. I still wanna hold Kaldur."

"I like this plan," Kagome agreed as she slid into Conner's old spot and Kaldur took the bed's center space. Turning over, she also wrapped an arm around Kaldur, much more comfortable than she'd previously been.

Everything in the room was quiet and peaceful for almost a whole minute before Kaldur propped himself up to break the holds on either side of him. "Kagome is right," he said as he shook his head. "It's too warm to be between two people, and even this much heat is uncomfortable for me."

"Right," Conner sighed as he was once again pulled away from the edge of sleep. "The heat thing."

"Okay," Kagome said as she flipped the covers off of her legs and didn't even bother getting out of bed. Crawling over the legs of the other two, she pushed against Conner's back as she told them, "Scoot over one more time."

With Kaldur in Conner's original place and Conner now in the middle, Kagome slipped back under the covers and rolled over to wrap an arm around Conner's waist and spoon against his back. Once everyone seemed settled, Conner half-wrapped around Kaldur and simultaneously filling the role of 'little spoon', Kagome asked, "Is everyone okay with this? Are you going to be too hot, Conner?"

"No," Conner answered, already settled into his new position and halfway asleep. "The heat doesn't bother me like some people."

"Yes, yes, you're the most heat resistant of us, congratulations," Kagome rolled her eyes as she tightened her hold on him and pressed her cheek to his back. "Let's just go back to sleep before the alarm goes off."

The two men made varying noises of agreement as they all went quiet once again and were finally and comfortably able to doze off once more.

They each had their usual and preferred spots in bed, but sometimes, for many different reasons, their sleeping positions had to be fluid.