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[scribblemyname]

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[scribblemyname]

Person A watching person B sleep and feeling like there is nothing wrong in the world.
+ Person B knowing that they’re doing this but letting them anyway.

Aubrina and Dyre

[etchedinjade]

A/N: So it's mostly hinted that the one part happens, as this is mostly the idea of person B being aware and allowing it.

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Aubrina's eyes fluttered open, chasing away the remnants of the dream memory that had haunted her, and she bit back a moan, not wanting to give it any more power than it already had. She was tired of being trapped by her own past, though it was only now that she saw its hold for all it was, and for that she supposed she could blame him.

She shifted her head, casting her eyes across to the other chair where Dyre had awkwardly succumbed to his own fatigue. He was taking this protection thing too far, hardly ever leaving her side, but she would have gone insane without him, cracking under the weight of all the duty, the things she never wanted but could not escape.

Blaming him wasn't fair, though had she never worked with him, she might not have seen all of what she did for what it was. He'd shown her just how much she hid, calling them her layers and somehow managing to see past all of them.

She should hate him for that.

She closed her eyes again, knowing full well she didn't. Dyre was one of few people she knew that had no other motive in being with her, even if that motive was a case and not her company, and she knew he was trustworthy in ways no one else in her life had ever been.

She should tell him not to watch over her in her sleep, rare as it was, since he was always up too late waiting for her to rest first, and she couldn't always pretend to sleep to let him get any rest. She knew if she moved now, he'd wake. While on the one hand it would be good to get him out of that chair, he would not return to sleep if he knew she was awake, so he didn't get to know.

Everything else could wait a while longer. He needed his rest, and she'd already figured out that he slept better around her, probably only able to relax in doing that dutiful thing at her side. It should be irritating, but it wasn't.

She took some small comfort in it, even if she knew that it, like everything, would end soon enough. All of her freedom was as good as lost, and she would have to let him go back to the agency, since she'd picked him to restore it, not to babysit her.

She would be fine without him. Absolutely fine.

Re: Aubrina and Dyre

[scribblemyname]

Awww! This is lovely in so many ways!

Re: Aubrina and Dyre

[etchedinjade]

Thanks. :)

I'd noticed they have a habit of wanting the other around when they sleep, not that either of them would admit it, even to themselves, so they seemed to fit well for this one.