Early in the morning. (I'll go patrol the house because I'm paranoid)

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Atin paused in the kitchen of the sleeping house, then looked out the window at the stars and wondered, briefly, what stars his brothers were under tonight.

Frowning, he shook his head and pushed the thought away, not wanting to disturb his sleeping wife. Instead, he wondered how Jav could so resemble a rock as he slept on the couch curled protectively around Jeimu. He'd even pinched the hyper clone's nose shut and gotten no more than a snore and a half-asleep hairy eyeball from the man's wife.

For his part, he was awake and ready to start the day (it beat fighting with the nightmares), but rather lonesome.

Sighing, he looked at the handful of sweetpeas that he'd taken from Mrs. White's fence and then walked upstairs to he and Vanya's room. Soft breathing greeted him as he entered and he blinked as he realized that his wife was hugging the pillow that he'd been using, a content smile on her face.

He quirked a small smile of his own, then shrugged out of his jacket and kicked off his boots before walking around the bed and snuggling next to her, flowers ready to offer should she stir.

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Her eyes slid open; the smile she wore in her sleep not faltering as she focused on him. She'd felt him leave, and now he had returned to her.

Which was something she still never expected. Part of her kept thinking one morning she'd wake up and he'd be gone for good. And then the other part was treated to sights like this: early mornings where he'd be awake (she didn't think he slept much; while she, still in the process of becoming not so nocturnal, slept a good ten hours a day) and ... with her.

Vanya didn't speak, she just snuck her hand around his neck and leaned over to kiss him.

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He sighed deeply, the hand holding the flowers going around to her back as the other one took the pillow and moved it up to where it was supposed to be. -Good morning cyare.- His thought was full of utter contentment at being with her again.

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If she had had the power within her to do nothing but kiss him for the next little while, she would have done so.

But she leaned back only very slightly and looked at him. She could see him clear as day, spotlighted in the moonlight that was coming in from the bedroom window. She could read his thoughts, yes, but she still thought it rude to not converse. "Good morning," she whispered, her voice very soft.

She was still close enough that more kisses were possible.

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"You're my wife." His face screwed up with pain as his hand came up to touch her hair and his heart felt like it was breaking. All his feelings were open to her, and his thoughts were on things they'd done together and wondering how she could think he'd leave after that.

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She nodded, then frowned as she picked up on his feelings. "You said I was your world," she whispered, voice breaking. "I just..."

Nobody had ever gone that far before.

"I never got around to telling you that you're becoming all of mine, too."

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He stirred and murmured softly in Mando'a, turning his face toward her hand without waking, then sighed and fell silent again.

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She kissed him on the mouth softly, just once, before settling down beside him, her eyes still locked on his face.

She wanted him - wanted to be with him - for all eternity, if such a thing were possible. But she had this perfect thing going on right now... Eternity was too far away to even think about.

Adjusting the sheets around herself, she snuggled in as close as she could, waiting silently for him to awaken.

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"It's alright," he murmured, pausing to rub her back before moving his hand to her hair and starting to brush firmly but carefully.

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She arched her back slightly. "I know. I'm just not used to it."

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"Ah." She paused, then turned fully around to look at him. "So they are red."

It wasn't that Vanya didn't have a reflection when she looked in a mirror; she did. To others. She couldn't see herself, though. She knew what she looked like thanks to a collection of black-and-white photos Hellsing had taken for the purposes of keeping records.

"Interesting."

When she'd last been truly alive her eyes had been green.

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He nodded, his dark eyes gazing into hers quizzically as he put a hand on her cheek. "Like your coat."

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"Yes." He sighed and clung a little more, but then got to his feet and offered her a hand. "She was one of the training sergeants. One of the ones we liked... even though we were all scared spitless of her."

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"Why would you be afraid of her?" Vanya asked, getting to her feet and deciding she wasn't even going to bother with socks. "She's tiny."

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He blinked with surprise, but then remembered when Sam and Cassie had brought him food when he was sick and reached to take the cup. "No.... Thank you."

"Ewwww, that's rank, b'y." Jav examined a chunk of blood sausage, then took a bite.

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Vanya smiled and set the last few essentials in front of Atin, and then noticed what Jav was eating.

"Are there any more of those?" she inquired, voice low.

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He looked up at her from where he was draped over the wall on his belly reaching for an interesting beer bottle cap, squinting as a stray sun ray found his eyes. "I've been paying some rent. That's why I was out in Jav's boat."

Or he'd been trying, anyway.

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She stooped down beside him, leaning over to look him in the eyes. "Really? When did you start... Well. That makes you a better guest than me."

Vanya had no money. Up until now she hadn't much use for it.

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He rubbed her back and sighed, his touch and expression suggesting that it was a lot more than a crush.

Then he leaned back so that he could see her eyes again, his own caressing her. "You're beautiful."

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Her eyes went wide when she caught his thought process and she was forced to look away for a few seconds to get herself under control.

"Thank you," she said once her eyes were back on his. "You're... well, not beautiful, but... something close."

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He stroked her hair and smiled into her eyes, then turned and ran toward the house.

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She just sat on the wall, watching the ocean and the cars, waiting for him to return.

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He grinned that shy grin, then offered her the handful of bills he'd brought. "You probably know more about this than I do."

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She smirked. "Possibly," and took the money from him as they walked down the road and onto the ramp.

Then Vanya decided that would take too long. Her smirk became more pronounced. "Atin?"

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"I'm alright." He put his arm around her shoulders, then gently rubbed her arm as he looked toward a crew member who'd stopped to frown at him with confusion.

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She took the tickets from the person and walked with him to the shuttle-bus stop outside the terminal.

"So."