AU: Oakville, Texas; for Gene Hunt.

[ikissdhimbck]

**NOTE: This is part of a plot arc that was meant to occur in Milliways over the Spring/Summer of 2011 in Bar Time. It has since become an AU, and should be treated as a standalone plot not associated with any game, and not fitting into Kate's continuity.**It's still dark outside when Kate wakes. The room is bathed in warm lamplight from the oil

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[themanclion]

He wakes about four hours later, when the room gets too hot to allow for comfortable sleep any more. He turns over, on to his back, the sheets sticking to his legs, and takes a brief inventory

[ikissdhimbck]

She glances up from nothing in particular. Her thoughts have been wandering all morning, though she feels marginally better after soaking the aches out of her muscles. She smiles, and then it falters as her eyes dart around to see who else is in the room.

"Good mornin'."

Her face molds into something a touch more politely reserved.

"Sleep well?"

(Never mind that spark of laughter dancing in her eyes.)

[themanclion]

'Eventually.'

The corner of his mouth is just slightly turned up, as he sits down opposite her.

'You? Restful night?'

Heh.

[ikissdhimbck]

"Slept like a rock."

There's something just this side of wrong about the way her tongue forms the word 'rock'.

She absently stirs her coffee. She has already eaten in the time between her bath and now, but tea just wasn't cutting it this morning.