#Ajak can already smell the bullshit but she's like okay let's see where this goes

[softquietsteadylove]

For the Thenamesh Proposal AU

Both of them have to sleep in the same bed to keep up their fake engagement.👀

Of course there was only one bed.

His mom thought they were together, after all, why would she give them a room with separate beds? Gil had offered to let Thena have the bed and he would sleep on the floor (or something). She had told him that was stupid and that they could share a bed without being weird about it.

But he did feel weird about it.

Maybe weird wasn't the right word. But he felt a little nervous. They were friends, of course, that wasn't the issue. He told Thena he hadn't slept with many women and then turned bright red from the slip-up. She had laughed more heartily than he had ever seen in their years of working together.

She said it wasn't a big deal. It was a queen sized bed and they could put a few of the extra, decorative pillows in between them just for safety's sake. It would be just fine.

Gil woke up with Thena curled right up against him. He stared up at the ceiling, hoping he was wrong about it, but Thena was tucked right into him, face on his chest, arms folded in against his ribs like a bird's wings.

He got the impression that Thena wasn't that sound a sleeper, but she was practically drooling right now. He moved as slightly as he could to look at her, but the angle just wasn't conducive for it. He tried to nudge her gently; he didn't think she would take too kindly to discovering herself in such a position.

She groaned at him, only moving closer. He never knew she had trouble getting up in the morning (that was kind of cute).

"Thena," he whispered, trying to reach for his phone on the nightstand.

"Hm," she groused again, pressing her face into his t-shirt and inhaling.

Usually, he slept shirtless, but it hadn't felt right with Thena right next to him.

He chuckled at the behaviour very unlike the Goddess of War. He shimmied in the bed so he could at least look at her. "Wakey-wakey."

She growled at him this time, but he took that as a sign that she was awake.

"Rise and Shine," he prompted again, now just enjoying annoying her.

"No," she grumbled, not at all freaked out by their proximity. If anything, she didn't even move away from him at all. She moved her head just enough to blink her bleary eyes at him.

"Hey," he smiled. It was possible she looked even more beautiful than normal when she had just woken up.

"Hey," she replied just as softly, even in her current mood. She blinked, "what time is it?"

"Sun's up, which means my whole family's probably already on a run or something."

"Family of maniacs," Thena bemoaned, trying to turn her eyes away from the sun again. "It's far too early for you to be waking me up like this."

"Well, I'm sorry to interrupt your beauty sleep," he snorted, to which she slapped his arm. "But I have things to do for my mother, since this family reunion that's happening is now also our wedding?"

"Right, yes, the big day," Thena mumbled, obviously not listening to him.

"Okay, okay," he sighed. It was easy to give in when she looked all soft and cozy and kittenish. "I'll tell them you're sleeping in."

"Tell them anything you want," she yawned and burrowed right into his spot as he started shimmying out of the bed. "And that I will see them later."

"Got it." Gil stood and stretched, ruffled his hair and tugged at his shirt. He had to get a start on breakfast even before he started prepping the many, many items he would cook for their 'wedding day'. He looked back.

Thena really did look like an angel. He knew she was pretty - it was pretty impossible not to - but that was far from his favourite thing about her. But at times like this, it was really hard to ignore (let alone resist).

"Hm?" she opened her eyes, having felt him staring at her.

He knelt down with a smile, leaning on the edge of the bed, "nothing. Just...admiring my fiance."

Thena rolled over, refusing to give him the satisfaction of an answer.

He laughed, though; that was just like her. He stood again, brushing his hand over her hair as he left to get dressed in the attached bathroom they would be sharing as well. "You go back to sleep. I'll call you when I'm done breakfast."

"My phone is on silent."

"Then I'll come up here and hand deliver it myself!"