Summary/disclaimer: Time for another chapter of Water and Earth. Enjoy the 1000-word chapter. I don't own DM, Coolkyoushinja and a few others do.

(Arthur's home, Sunday, 1 day before Arthur's work day.)

Arthur watched Elma eat a bag of potato chips while she continued to practice the coding that Kobayashi had showed her.

"I have to go to work tomorrow, I won't be here until later." Arthur said, Elma turned to the man before he patted her on the head.

"Stop babying me, I'm over 100 years old!" Elma said before she realized what Arthur had said and looked at him sadly.

"You won't be here all day? Your job is really that long?" She asked, Arthur nodded.

"Yes, I leave in the morning and come back at night… Why, worried about food?" Arthur asked, Elma tackled him and he slammed into the ground.

"I am not all about food… And I'm worried about you, I'm your roommate, it's my job to protect you…" Elma said while Arthur sighed.

"Please get off me unless you want me to joke about this." He said with amusement while Elma huffed and then realized she was sitting on her friend.

"Sorry!" Elma yelled while Arthur chuckled and sat up.

"I'm fine, your fine…. My point is besides the joke? You're be fine, you need to fight Tohru because I doubt, she's going to stand guard over Kobayashi at work… Besides, you're the one who I'm worried about, you're a super strong Harmony Dragon and yet you don't know the laws of many things… You're going to be bored all day… I don't know what to say and do…" Arthur said while he sighed and looked at the sad Elma.

"Elma, you can call me if you need anything, you remember how the phone works, right?" Arthur asked, Elma looked at her cellphone which Arthur had used a large amount of his money to buy for her.

"Yes… Are you sure you're be ok? I can…" Elma started to say before Arthur looked at her.

He opened his arms and slowly hugged her, she blushed and gasped.

"What are you…!?" She yelled before Arthur gently rubbed her back to sooth her which she slowly did.

"Em, I'll be fine. I said I'm more worried about you…. If I need you, I can call you and I know your come… Relax, my uncle is going to send me more money in a few days and I don't work on the weekend… Trust me, I'll be fine… We can go somewhere you want when we're done… Even though I only have like 50 dollars in… Well the money they use here, I might have to go to the bank soon." Arthur said while Elma looked at him, he was slightly taller than her, being 5ft 10 to her 5ft 5.

"Trust me, I'll be fine, Em… Just stay here tomorrow and we're go out to get ice cream… And you can't eat the entire pantry… If You eat all the food we have before a few days go by and we can buy more food? We're not going to be able to get some more… Unless you want to ask Kobayashi who I'm going to guess isn't going to stop Tohru from mocking you… Plus I guarantee you're going to bulldoze her through a wall and your end up making me owe Kobayashi more money…" Arthur said and then he went to turn off the tv.

"I'm going to sleep soon; I'm getting used to sleeping out here… It's better than sleeping in a dark room looking at the ceiling…" Arthur said before Elma noticed something.

"Do you have a problem sleeping, Arthur? I heard some people have trouble sleeping… I don't know the name for the disease…" She stated before Arthur sighed and nodded.

"I have night terrors and insomnia… Or used to, sleeping was nearly impossible, Em… And I still tend to have bad dreams… I've had less of them with you around and that's just another reason I like your company. Your funny, your sweet and nice, your resourceful, you are protective…" He said, not noticing the blush that Elma had that grew with each compliment.

"Elma, are you going to leave at any point? I've heard you say you want to bring Tohru back… It doesn't sound like she wants to go anywhere… And if you can go home, why not just grab her and teleport home?" Arthur asked.

Elma looked at him and sighed, she trusted Arthur enough to at least tell him her problem.

"I… Can't go home, I don't have the spell to make a portal back home… That's why… And back home is just war… I came here a while ago to bring peace to the humans…" She said and Arthur went to open his mouth.

"I don't want to talk about me and Tohru, not yet at least… I'll mention it sooner or later, just know I can't go home… And I didn't expect a human to take such kindness on me… It's the same type of kindness I've seen with Tohru and Kobayashi from the little I've seen of them." Elma said while Arthur sighed and opened his arms.

Elma hugged him and blushed before she slowly began to smile.

"Em, if you can't go home, you can stay here as long as you want… I like having you here… I'm going to go to bed, but after work, we can do anything you want…" Arthur said before he laid down.

"Thank you." Elma said before she laid down to sleep and closed her eyes.

Both slowly drifted to sleep a few hours later.

Author Note

Phew, another chapter done! I'd like to point out I'm not trying to rush things, but I did want Elma to point out she can't go home. Next chapter will be on Saturday or so and will show Arthur going to work and dealing with work along with Elma doing stuff at home. Until then, Lighting Wolf out!