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Balthier woke up to find himself on the floor.

'Why the hell am I down here?' He wondered to himself. He was sleeping right next to the bed, he had a pillow and the sheets, so what was he doing on the floor? He started to rub the sleep from his face and in doing so disturbed Ashe, who was curled up next to him.

"Hey, good morning." She smiled at him and kissed his shoulder, snuggling a little closer and trying to get some more room on his pillow. She seemed a little more awake then Balthier, who made a disgruntled noise.

"Hardly." He grumbled. "Ashe, what are we doing down here on the floor?" He yawned and stretched, and began to rub his neck to work out some of the kinks that had formed. Ashe watched all this with an intrigued smile.

"You really don't remember? Did you also hit your head when you fell out of bed?" Balthier cast her a quick look for her rhyming. So, he had fallen out of the bed. That would explain why his backside also felt sore, he must have landed on it. He let out a loud and tired groan. Still smiling at his confusion, Ashe kissed his shoulder again and stroked his chest, comfortingly.

"I fell out of bed." He reiterated, looking at her for confirmation. She nodded, kissed his shoulder for a third time. Her actions were not helping Balthier to concentrate but he did notice that Ashe was blushing a little as she explained.

"I'm surprised you don't remember, last night we, uh, got into a bit of a power struggle about…well, about who got to, um, 'take control'…" She was turning really quite red now, and was shyly tracing circles on his skin, unable to look him in the eye. Balthier laughed to himself at how this woman, who could be such a vixen and almost shameless at times, could be so timid now. "…Anyway, it got a little more out of hand then usual and we… Well, we fell off the bed." She finished, finally meeting his eye.

There was a moment of silence before Balthier burst out laughing, Ashe joining in. He had remembered as she recounted their actions, and he had recalled the feeling of the air being knocked from his lungs as he landed on his back with Ashe still on top of him.

"Hmm, yes and if I'm correct I let you win that little battle." He said, flashing her a wicked grin. Ashe propped herself up her elbow and looked at him, eyebrows raised.

"Excuse me, you 'let me'?" There was disbelief in her voice but a smile firmly on her face. "I do believe I won that fair and square."

"Well, actually if I remember, we were both winners there, Princess, but anytime you want a rematch I'm always game." Ashe just shook her head and wrinkled her nose at him before settling back down beside him.

Balthier let out a heavy sigh. "So, that how we got down here, why did we stay down here?" Ashe had resumed her tickling of his chest and he absent-mindedly began doing the same thing on her arm and back.

"You said you'd get back on the bed once your legs had regained feeling but you fell asleep before that happened." She used his shoulder to smother a yawn and Balthier rubbed his face again.

"Well, fair enough but why did you stay down here also?" Ashe gave him a look.

"You had all the sheets." She said, as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. Balthier shook his head and then let out a long yawn, stretching out his body as it continued. When he finished, he let his arms flop back down heavily and shut his eyes, tired. Ashe had sat up on her elbow again and watched all this with amusement, noting Balthier's irritable countenance as he relaxed. She smiled at him and tapped his nose.

"You're going to be unbearably grumpy all day today, aren't you?" She said, and he made a non-committal noise. "I thought I was the one who was supposed to be grumpy in the mornings." She teased.

"You're always grumpy." Came the muttered response and he received a light slap on his body for that.

He dozed for a moment. It was too early to be awake, the alarm from the clock he had made Ashe hadn't even gone off yet. He knew he should really get up off the floor and actually get into bed but he just couldn't be bothered. He then suddenly felt Ashe's fingers trailing on his skin again but this time they were flittering down to the much more sensitive areas on his stomach as well as his chest, and he felt her kiss his shoulder once again, a bit closer to his neck this time. He felt a smirk come to his lips as he realised that his Princess was evidently in a frisky mood this morning. Perhaps she really did want a rematch after all. He cracked open one eye to look at her and he just caught sight of a playful smile before a loud noise cut through the room and shattered the mood.

They both groaned at the interruption that was coming from Ashe's alarm clock on her bedside table, just above Balthier's head. They'd have to get up soon. It wouldn't be long before breakfast would arrive, closely followed by Aria, Ashe's assistant, to go through the day's schedule. However, all thoughts of getting up were quickly removed from Balthier's mind as Ashe had to reach up over him in order to turn the alarm off, and essentially putting her exposed breasts directly in his face.

"Well, if that's not a sight worth waking up for, I don't know what is!" He exclaimed, wearing a huge grin. He heard Ashe sigh from above him as she rested her weight across him. He just managed to tear his eyes away and up to her face to regard her weary, but entertained smile before she flicked her hair back and it became more suggestive.

"Well, if this stops you from being in a miserable mood all day then I guess it's worth getting up a little later for." She bent down and kissed him slowly, as she shifted her legs over his body so she was sitting on his waist.

"Worth it indeed, my love." Balthier said, through kisses. "But I do have one condition to make." And with a squeal from Ashe, he quickly flipped them over before giving her a wink.

"This time, I get to take control."