Title: Sunrise
Author: J. C. Way
Characters: Marian/Djaq
Challenge: 26B
Rating: 12
Notes: A little morning vignette, set before season two.
“It is dawn.”
“Mmm?” Marian acquiesced reluctantly to the first shades of wakefulness. She drew in a breath, stretching. Her muscles ached.
“Dawn. The sun is rising.”
She was warm. Light pressed gently on her closed eyelids. Tentatively, she reached out an exploratory hand. When she found nothing, she yawned and opened her eyes.
At first she didn’t recognise the figure standing in front of the window. The pale dawn light highlighted the curves of their body, glancing over dark hair and bare skin. “Djaq?”
Djaq turned her face to Marian, and the light licked over her smile. “My lady.”