Title: Clocks

Rating: K

Pairing: KyoyaXRenge

Prompts: clock, sleep, business trip, marriage

Renge absolutely loathed sleeping on her own. As a child she would crawl in her parents' bed and as she grew older she would play those dating games of hers to keep the sleep at bay. But this wasn't the case now. She had long ago gotten over those silly human imitations. Renge was older and more refined, definitely wiser and a whole lot more grounded.

At sixteen she would go to sleep thinking about Miyabi and she would wake up wishing she could find him somewhere in the real world. So she wasn't lonely. Then she met Kyoya and he turned her life upside down. After that there was that brief episode when she thought Haruhi was a boy but it was still Kyoya that attracted her most. He finished high school one year before her and by the time he was in his second year of college Renge was leaving for France.

The next two years, until she turned twenty, Renge filled with studying in her beloved France. She did have a couple of boyfriends but it never lasted more than two-three dates. This was either because Renge compared them with Kyoya every time, and in consequence found them lacking, or because they mistook Renge for something she was not. She had just started dating a sweet college classmate of hers when she met Kyoya again. They were at a social gathering, the boyfriend having offered to escort her, and they just bumped into each other. For a second Renge forgot how to breathe. Kyoya gave her that polite smile of his and Renge had the urge to smack him. At that exact moment her escort calmly walked next to her and looped an arm around her waist. Renge suddenly wanted to hit him too. She was about to excuse herself when she noticed the guys were having some sort of staring contest. So instead of saying anything the young woman left in a huff.

Fifteen minutes later her third relationship was over. Two days later her father told her she would be getting married shortly. At first Renge had protested, she still hat to finish college and date at least one man for love. But her father was unyielding. Instead he told her she could finish her college in her soon-to-be husband's country and that in time she would surely grow fond of her life partner. The matter was closed. Renge did the only thing she could do; she started packing although she had no idea who this fiancé was. One week later she found herself on a flight to Tokyo, harbouring some strange feelings. She almost fainted when she saw the Ootori's bodyguards waiting for her at the airport.

Twp months later, through which Kyoya kept complaining that it was too long, they were married and Renge was stuck with him, quite literally for Kyoya rarely left her side if it could be helped, for life. And that childish fascination for him grew into love; Renge found that she didn't mind him sticking close to her. Eventually she grew so used to him always being that that by the time she was twenty-one she could no longer sleep without him.

So now a twenty something Ootori Renge was sitting on the bed just watching the seconds crawl by. She silently cursed the clock and then started praying that Kyoya would come back soon. This was the only disadvantage of marrying a businessman; they were prone to taking a lot of , stupid in Renge's opinion, business trips.

Because imaptience is so much more beautiful on Renge's face. I may have had an overdose of 'evil'...or maybe not.