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It had to have been around four in the morning when a knock came to Byleth’s door.
The professor, however, had been too deep into sleep to even notice. A long day of being scheduled in battle after battle had knocked Byleth out cold. His snoring completely drowned out any sound in his room, including the attempts from the persistent knocker.
Defeated, the mystery knocker had given up on getting Byleth’s attention, the knocking coming to a stop and leaving the night silent once again.
Well… for a short while.
BAM BAM BAM BAM.
The sudden commotion made Byleth jump out of his sleep. He found himself back in his dorm again, a hand clutching onto his drumming chest and mind scrambling to gather its thoughts as he frantically searched for the source of the noise in the darkness of his room.
BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM.
He takes in a deep breath to ease his still startled heart before swinging his body towards the edge of his bed to slither into his house shoes. From there, the teacher had howled a powerful yawn before reaching for his night robe to tie around his body. Byleth slumped over. His eyelids were still so heavy with sleep, it forced him to squint his eyes at the blurry alarm clock numbers on his nightstand; 4:15 a.m.
Byleth stands tall and forces his muscles to wake with a small stretch before approaching his door, groaning irritably from the aggressive banging that continued on the entire time and began to work his nerve.
‘Who on Earth could be up at this hour?’ he couldn’t help but wonder. He gives the door knob a twist and it slowly creaks open, the knocking finally coming to a stop.
“Yes?” Byleth’s voice had dragged from a second yawn. As he fully swung the door open, the sleep in his eyes blinked away after seeing who stood in front of him.
It was none other than the Sarasaland royal and Byleth’s team battle partner, Princess Daisy. A teal robe was wrapped securely around her waist, covering the night garments she had worn underneath, and her sleeping mask acted as a headband to her chestnut hair that was riddled in bedhead. Though, despite her appearance, Daisy looked to be wide awake.
With a huff, the princess cocks her hip and places her hands on her sides. “Finally you’re up! I thought my arm was gonna fall off!”
Quickly Byleth shields his partially exposed chest with his night robe. “I apologize for not hearing your knock earlier, but Daisy, it’s four in the morning…”
“Did you need me for something?” He then thought to ask. Why else would she be beating on his door at such an hour.
With a grin, Daisy answers, “Yes, as I matter of fact I did!” Byleth feels her hands grab hold of his free hand, catching him completely by surprise.
“R-Right now?” The brunette gives a nod, bringing him outside of his dormitory as he reaches to shut his door. As she turns to Byleth she presses a finger to her grinning lips before bringing him along with her down the hall.
“May I ask what it is?” Byleth asks, to which Daisy only responds with: “You’ll see when we get there!”
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With Byleth’s house shoes and Daisy’s rubber duck slippers silencing their footsteps, no one could hear the two sprinting down the halls and flights of steps of the Smash Manor.
The darkness of the night consumed the mansion. It was hard to even see the path ahead of them. It only left Byleth wondering what Daisy could even request at such an oblong time such as this as opposed to doing it in the day.
In the midst of his pondering Byleth felt himself run into Daisy’s back, as she had suddenly stopped running. He quickly grabs a hold of her shoulders to stop her from falling from his sudden weight.
“Daisy? Why did you stop?”
“‘Cause we’re here!”
Byleth looked ahead of the two of them. The only place in the manor that had been illuminated, and it being... The kitchen?
This being their destination left Byleth even more confused. Continuing to follow Daisy further in, he saw that the fridge cabinets had already been swung open and the kitchen island had a box of cereal, two glass bowls and two sets of spoons prepared.
He watches the princess rush back to the still opened fridge to rummage through the cluttered shelves of foodstuffs the Manor provided for its residents. “You like soy milk right?” she asks.
Byleth disregards her question at that moment. “Wait. Daisy… you brought me down here… to eat cereal?”
“Yeah,” she answers.
“May I ask why?”
“Well… since you were busy with matches all day, we didn’t have a chance to hang out so I thought to invite you to have some cereal…”
“In the middle of the night…?”
“‘Cause there’s no matches in the middle of the night. And that means you wouldn’t be busy with any,” The princess turns to look at Byleth, a sheepish look on her face, “I guess… It was just me wanting to spend time with you,”
Her answer stunned the professor. Who would’ve thought that waking him in the dead of the night was only to want to spend time together. It was a strange request, but it was… cute. It made him smile. With an innocent intention like that in mind, Byleth supposed it couldn’t hurt to indulge. “…Yes, I do like soy milk, thank you,”
Daisy flashes a smile at his answer, glad and relieved her reasoning didn’t lead to an angered teammate. “ And you're a Coco Puffs person right?”
Byleth nods, seating himself in the stool next to the one he assumed was Daisy’s. The princess readies his cereal of choice in front of him, but before she gets the chance to pour the chocolate puffs, Byleth objects, “But not too much. It’s still late, after all,”
“Aw boo! Learn to live a little!”
Byleth laughs softly as he watches Daisy sprinkle a light helping of the chocolate puffs into his bowl, then dump an overflowing pile of Cinnamon Toast Crunch into her own bowl shortly after.