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As the dark of the night ceased to be, various rays of sun started to appear. The golden hour had hit The Lookout, or Justice HQ, who were getting ready to start their normal day to day. Several alarms were heard from different rooms. From the slow classical music sounding ones to the extremely loud ones made to wake someone up. Apart from the ever growing pairs of footsteps heard across the building (which shouldn’t necessarily happen, they really need to check the state of The Lookout), conversations could also be heard.
“GI MURIIIN CECE!!” an overly excited voice coming from The Chaser Gigi Murin could be made out within The Lookout
“Good morning to you too, Gigi.” a not so excited voice that came from the Ancient Automaton said, still half asleep. Though she was, as her title suggests, an automaton, she still needed basic human functions, her favorite being the one of sleeping, although she still didn’t get used to the waking up part.
“You look pretty tired Cece, haven’t you slept at all? Or were you thinking of me all night?” Gigi winked while nudging her with her elbow.
“Gigi, it's too early for this. I stayed up too late trying to improve some things on bird_prototype_11.1.” she said tiringly, eyes half shut, back slouched and everything.
“But I know you still thought about me.” Gigi giggled. “Also you really need to give the bird a name someday.” The automaton smiled, but suddenly changed her expression as her key started to spin.
“I wonder how Elizabeth is doing.” Cecilia pondered. “Why do you say that?” asked Gigi.
“Well, before I went to sleep I wanted to get something across the floor and I saw her office lights still up. I tried taking a peep, but I could only see a ton of papers on her desk.” Cecilia’s key kept winding faster and faster.
“Don’t worry my dear Thinker, I bet Raora has taken care of her. Y’know how she gets when Liz doesn’t get much rest.” Gigi comforted the worried automaton.
“I guess you’re right. Then again, if she oversleeps again for today’s meeting, it means we get to do anything we want!” Cecilia went from being worried about their leader to smirking and praying she oversleeps again. “We can finish that game together if you want.” suggested the gremlin, who was starting to go back to her room. Cecilia thought about it, and ultimately decided to follow the smaller girl.
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Various rays of light made their way inside the Artist with the God Eyes’ room. A groan and a roar-like yawn was suddenly heard.
“Mmm… Liz… I think it’s time to wake up.” said Raora Panthera, taking off her eye mask, while speaking to the Scarlet Queen who was snoozing on top of her chest. As the redhead didn’t budge at all, the artist started to lightly tap Elizabeth’s head.
“Five more minutes please… I’m so tired…” Elizabeth moaned, digging her face deeper into the panther’s fluffy chest. Raora giggled at the sight of her exhausted girlfriend.
“Well, that’s what you get for staying up late doing paperwork. I told you that you need to rest more!” the panther scolded the queen, but still gave her headpats and small kisses on her head.
“I know… but I wanted to be free for today and…” the queen stopped herself, it was too embarrassing. “And what?” Raora definitely knew what she wanted to say, but she wanted to hear her say it.
“I wanted to spend my day with you.” Liz hid her face on her partner's shoulder. “We haven’t been able to spend time together due to work, and since I knew you were free today, well…” she mumbled, but clear enough so the panther could hear her. Raora giggled and her tail, that was stuck between the two women, started to wag excitedly. As Liz separated from her beloved’s shoulder, they locked eyes. Elizabeth was growing redder and redder as more time passed.
“You’re so cute, Liz!” Raora couldn’t hold herself back anymore and started to pepper kisses on her queen’s face. The redhead couldn’t fight back and just took them, not like she wanted to avoid them. Finally the panther cupped both of the queen’s cheeks with her hands and enveloped her in a big kiss.
“I guess I forgive you if those were your intentions. But we still have a meeting, y'know?” Elizabeth’s eyes, that were half-shut due to still being tired, widened at the realization, and got up immediately.
“Oh frigg, I forgot about that:” Elizabeth started to pace around the room as Raora giggled because of her sudden awakening.
“Well, you better call Gigi and Cece before they slip away.” Elizabeth suddenly stopped. “You’re right RaRa, they won’t take advantage of me oversleeping again! Those cheeky children!” Elizabeth said decidedly while getting ready to leave the room.
“You are still wearing pajamas, at least change before getting to them.” Suggested Raora, holding in her laugh. Elizabeth again stood still, turned around and shyly changed her clothes as the artist, again, couldn't hold it anymore.
“You’re sillier than usual, Liz.” said Raora wiping the tears of her eyes after laughing. “Oh shut it, there’s been a lot going on today and the day hasn’t even started properly.” said the queen as she was putting on her uniform.
Raora was waiting outside her room as Elizabeth finished cleaning herself up.
“Putting these clothes on while in a hurry sucks by the way” said Elizabeth while adjusting her one and only right white tight. The panther smiled at her girlfriend as she remembered their conversation from earlier. A nice day was ahead of them.
“I’ll grab the kids. I’ll see you in the meeting room, okay?” Raora nodded. They parted ways but not before giving each other a kiss.