Problems in Paradise ((Kazuma))

[Teneile]

He asked for her hand, and for a moment she thought about it. Normally it wouldn't be a big deal but lately especially after that last episode she couldn't help but hesitate. Slowly though her hand reached out and he slid off the counter and pulled her up off the tub and led her out of the bathroom. She could tell immediatly where they were going as he took her across the hall and to the large bedroom. The bed had not been slept in, she was catching cat naps here and there but nothing that was worth any real sleep. He lay her down gently and carefully her blue eyes watched him as he came around the bed and got on it. She kicked off her shoes and tore her jeans off quickly, se couldn't be comfy on the bed with them on. He lay beside her and scooped her up laying on his side he pressed her gently to his chest and for a moment she tensed.

But then she relaxed. Her eyes slid closed of their own accord and she snuggled up tightly in his arms, she didn't want to move, or lose him ever again. He asked her a question and she opened her tired eyes for a moment.

"Always." she would answer. Closing her eyes again she finally fell asleep. Bu it was not the peaceful sleep she had always had, but something plagued by nightmares, her face would show when she was in the throws of one. It would happen that she would be so peaceful in his arms, sleeping like the woman he had always known, and then she would suddenly furrow her brows and shake her head for a bit before she would settle back to sleep once more.

[Kazuma]

‘Always’ a tear leaked from his eye as she snuggled up in his arms. Normally he would kiss her let his hand play with her now bare legs but all he could do was look at her and that giant bruise on her face. He had turned the angled face woman he had fallen in love with the one that had played the sugar plump fairy in her ballets production of the nut cracker to a walking bruise and he could only imagine how her arm had looked or the rest of her.

He would watch her in her sleep inhaling her scent. He had not been on anything these past four days and so he was in slight control for the time, but his nerves were shot. He could not sleep even with her lovely scent filling the air he breathed. He would watch her brow furrow and his hand would stroke her hair lightly, she had nightmares now and he knew it and he had a horrible feeling he was the cause of them, it was more then a feeling to be exact he knew it to be sure

He would let her sleep for as long as she needed, he would close his eyes but he did not sleep, he could just not look at her, this perfect angel he had beaten. He pray she wouldn’t leave him, he pray divorce papers wouldn’t be sent to him while he stay at the clinic, he prayed that she would let him be the man she had fallen in love with and maybe even trust him again one day.

[Teneile]

Teneile only slept for two hours. It wasn't long, it wasn't enough, it didn't even touch the circles under her eyes. But soon her eyes opened and she sighed, Kazuma was still there, and she burrowed into his massive chest. It was hard to be without these arms, the way he held her tightly, and yet gently at the same time, the way his breath ruffled her hair, and the way his scent filled the room. She inhaled his scent and sighed, wishing she could feel the skin of his chest against her. But she wouldn't ask, because he would likely want to feel her own skin, and he wasn't ready to sow him that bruise. The doctor said it would be a month or more in healing, it went bone deep, and there wasn't much he could do, though he gave her pain pills and salve, she didn't use the pills, because of the pregnancy but she used the salve it helped releive some of it.

She looked up at her husband and rose a hand gently stroking his cheek. She saw his left eye open but not his right. She leaned up and kissed the right eye, as she always did to remind him to open it before she lay her head back on the pillow and looked into his eyes her thumb stroking across his cheek lovingly. She smield softly at him, she couldn't help it, her heart had belonged to him since that night he picked her up for their first date.

"Kazuma." she whispered softly. She turned onto her back and pulled up the sweat shirt, allowing her stomach to show, she took his hand and placed it on her stomach so he would rub it like he had done with Zea. As his hand moved over her stomach she sighed softly and relaxed further.

"we can beat this Kazzy." she whispered. "We can do it together." she whispered as she looked over at him with a gentle smile.