Sorry for the delay everyone. This one is a little AU in that Philip is dead with no hope of coming back. Thanks for reading and please review.

Day Three: Kiss

Aurora woke up in Mulan's arms like she had been doing every morning for the past month. For the past week, they had been alone. Snow and Emma had made it back to their world, and Mulan had put Aurora's heart back. What was different about this morning was that Aurora had woken up before the warrior. This had never happened before, because Mulan was always up at dawn. Aurora took advantage of the situation to watch Mulan sleep. She looked so calm and peaceful asleep. Although Aurora had always thought Mulan was beautiful, she look positively gorgeous in the early morning light with her hair down and wearing only simple breeches and a cotton undershirt.

Aurora had become comfortable with Mulan very quickly, but her realization that she was in fact in love with her had taken a few weeks. She had loved Philip, and he still had a special place in her heart, but he was dead. Aurora knew that her best chance at happiness was to try to move on. The only person she wanted to try a new life with was Mulan. Her only problem was that Mulan did not know how Aurora felt. Aurora propped herself up on her elbow to get a better view of Mulan. Her focus settled on Mulan's lips. She wondered, not for the first time, what it would feel like to put her lips against the others. She decided that that would be her new goal.

Slowly, Mulan's dark eyes fluttered open.

Mulan could feel the sun on her face and knew she had overslept. She had not fallen asleep until very late the night before because of the woman sleeping next to her. In fact, Aurora had practically been on top of her. Mulan had realized her feelings for the princess when she had replaced her heart back into her chest. It was the closest she had ever felt to anyone. She could not help but to be overflowing with joy when Aurora looked at her, heart newly restored. It was then she realized how much she loved her. Of course, Mulan had no idea what to do with these emotions. Mulan opened her eyes to have her entire field of vision filled by Aurora's face. In Mulan's mind, there was not a better view to wake up too.

"Good morning, sleepy," Aurora greeted.

"Hey," Mulan replied, smiling. "How long have you been up?"

Aurora smiled back. She loved Mulan's smile and had been seeing it more often since she had gotten her heart back.

"Oh, not that long, perhaps ten minutes."

"And what have you been doing in those ten minutes?" Mulan asked, curious to know why Aurora hadn't woken her up or gotten up herself.

"You looked so content, and I didn't want to wake you."

Mulan thought she was going to say something more, but when Aurora closed her mouth, Mulan realized just how close they were. She needed to move away from Aurora before she lost control.

"Well I'm up now. We have to move on."

Aurora snuggled closer. "We don't have to do anything. We don't have a destination or anything to do. What's stopping us from staying here, at least for a little while?"

Mulan could think of a perfectly good reason she wanted to move on. Too much idle time with Aurora could lead her to do something she might regret. "Fine, we should move on. It is dangerous to stay in one place for too long."

Aurora sighed, she didn't like how sound Mulan's logic was. It was going to be hard to reach her little goal if they were constantly on the move. She stood up and started to walk away.

Mulan inwardly cursed herself as she saw the princess stalk away. She scrambled up and called after her. When Aurora didn't turn around, Mulan ran after her and grabbed her from behind. Aurora whipped around and the next thing Mulan knew was that she was on her back with a very content princess sitting on her stomach. Mulan then remembered the hours of self defense she had put Aurora through. Beyond that, every other thought had left her mind.

"Yes Mulan, what is it you wanted to say?" Aurora asked in her sweetest voice. She knew as soon as she saw Mulan stuck under her that this was her best chance to get her kiss. She just had to build up the courage.

Mulan had yet to regain the ability to think. All she could do was stutter, "I, umm….. well. Ugh…." All of the sudden, Aurora surged forward.

Aurora didn't know what happened. Mulan seemed unable to speak. She thought it was quite adorable, actually. Maybe it was to get Mulan to stop trying to communicate or to put her out of her misery. All she knew was that she had quickly leaned in and given Mulan her kiss. It wasn't more than a peck on the lips but she remained laying on top of Mulan after. It was effective. Mulan just stared at her, all attempts at speech forgotten.

Mulan looked at Aurora, their faces still very close. It took her a minute to comprehend what just happened. If Aurora seemed content before, she was positively prideful now. Mulan realized Aurora had wanted to do that for some time now. Finally she was able to put a coherent thought together.

"I decided you are right." She said with a sly smile.

Aurora looked at her surprised. "About staying here for a little?"

All Mulan did was nod.

"What's the catch?"

Mulan placed her hand on the back of Aurora's and pulled her in for a longer, but still chaste kiss. When they separated, she said, "We do that more often."

Aurora was ecstatic about Mulan's idea and leaned in for more. Passion chased chastity out of their kisses as the battle of the tongues ensued.