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Part 2 of Year of the OTP 2025 , Part 9 of Multifandom Double Drabbles
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2025 - Year Of The OTP, Zia's Prompt Event Works
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2025-02-24
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Awake in the Night

Summary:

Vlad wakes up in the middle of the night.

Notes:

I wrote like 15k in less than two weeks across two fics and now my brain is refusing to do long. So double drabble for this month it is

(See the end of the work for more notes.)

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Vlad woke suddenly in a panic. There was someone in the room with him. He sat up ready to fight.

But a fight wasn't waiting for him. No one stood in the shadows waiting to attack. There was no sign of anything nefarious going on. Not a single sign of the most likely people to attack him.

No, there was only the quiet sound of his lover breathing. She was the one whose presence he had sensed.

Talia hadn't so much as stirred at his sudden movements, her subconscious knowing that he was not a threat to her. It was impressive what she managed to sleep through. But if he even dared try to touch her she would awake.

It was different to him, sharing a bed with another. It had been years, decades really, since he had shared a bed with another person. And never had it been the same person night after night.

It was almost enough to convince him that maybe there would be more to their relationship than working together to defeat a common enemy and the physical.

He risked running a hand gently down Talia's face. She didn't wake up.

Maybe she felt the same.

 

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