Brian woke the next morning, seeing Saturday morning sunlight streaming brightly across the bed. He stretched his arm to drape it across Khaat's soft shoulder, when he felt nothing but sheets beneath his reach. It startled him and he turned quickly to see her side of the bed empty. Then it came back to him. He remembered. And relaxed. He had been awakened, well, sort of, when Khaat had gotten up and had slunk out from beneath the sheets, had grabbed his bathrobe from on top of the chest on the end of the bed and had disappeared down the hall. He had merely drifted back off to sleep, wondering in his half sleep if any of the guards had come in during the night and would see more of Khaat that he wanted them to as she wandered off carrying his robe rather than wearing it. The thought had been outweighed by sleep and he'd dozed back off.
He woke now finding she still wasn't back. He frowned. He got up, looked to see that indeed his robe was gone. He was not going to wear her handpainted silk one, so he slipped on a pair of shorts and went to find her, wand in hand. He went from room to room, listening for her, and heard nothing. As he reached the ground floor, he half expected to smell French Roast. But nothing. No fresh brewed coffee smell wafting through the house this morning.
He continued to walk through the house. And then he found her. He couldn't resist laughing out loud. There she was, skinny dipping in the new lap pool in the gym. "I sooo hope that Steven or Jack don't find you in here," he said.
"They're both married. They've seen it before," she shrugged. "You coming?"
"Oh, what the hell. Why not? It'll be a little crowded...."
"You have do have a wand," she sighed.
"Ok." He flicked his wand and the little lap pool morphed into a proper sized pool, the room morphing with it into a proper pool room.
"Oh much better. Now, come swim with me."
He joined her in the pool and they got in a good workout. For all she had been through, she was still in, basically, good shape. She tired a lot quicker, and she had a lot of damaged muscles still, so he found himself being watchful of her, ever again the trainer. When he decided she'd had enough, he coaxed her out of the pool and lured her back upstairs with the promise of a shower for two.
He brewed coffee when they finally were ready to face the day, and he left breakfast simple. a bowl of fresh fruit and some scones that he sent to Sparks for. Brian put her wand firmly back in her hands and made sure she was comfortable using it if she had to, and then he went out to feed the animals in the barn. Khaat decided she was going to do some heavy fall cleaning. She began to set spells in place all over the house to start the house cleaning itself. That sure beat all that foul, heavy hard muggle style of cleaning all to heck.
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