#david powers

David jolted back slightly, as if awoken from a trance, and turned towards them. 

‘Quiet,’ he shushed them in a whisper, tilting his head towards your sleeping shape.

‘Aww, and he’s even worried about us waking her,’ Paul commented, resting his elbow on Marko’s shoulder, his voice lower but just as teasing. ‘Our leader has become such a softie.’

‘I said quiet!’ he repeated, vamping out.

The others didn’t even flinch.

‘You’re not fooling anyone,’ Marko shrugged. Then, he raised an eyebrow: ‘Also, sleeping in bed?’ and he tutted before turning towards Paul. ‘Remember what he told us, that time we fell asleep there after having sex with those chicks?’ 

‘How could I forget? He said “It’s against nature for us to sleep like that”.’

David returned to his human-passing features and rolled his eyes. ‘Go sleep upside down, then, before I send you up there myself.’

The other two kept chuckling as they flew towards the back of the cave. 

Dwayne echoed them for a moment but then managed to stop. He walked up to him and placed a hand on his shoulder.

‘Don’t listen to them. It’s good to see you happy. I mean it. Especially after… you know.’

After Star, first, and then Michael.

David took a deep breath, looked at you, and then at Dwayne again. He stayed silent, a part of him begging him to protect himself by keeping his usual guard up. The same part that kept trying to prepare him for the impending hurt—because this was all too good to be true, and surely, you would have left him too, eventually.

‘I think you can trust her, you know?’ Dwayne went on, as if reading his mind. ‘We all do. They wouldn’t be teasing you like that, otherwise.’

David threw you another glance as you kept sleeping in his arms. Then, after studying the genuine look in the dark eyes of his second in command, he eventually let out his breath and nodded. ‘Thank you.’

Dwayne lifted the corner of his lips and squeezed his shoulder before joining the others.

David went back to looking at you and caressing your profile. 

You twitched and opened your eyes.

‘Is everything alright?’ you asked in a sleepy voice, looking around.

‘Everything’s okay, dove. Go back to sleep.’

You put on a childish voice. ‘One more goodnight kiss first?’

He made a big show of rolling his eyes to distract himself from how fast his heart started to beat.

Then, he lowered his head to press his lips against yours. As you smiled, he felt himself do the same.

You placed your head back against his chest and closed your eyes. ‘’Night, David.’

‘Goodnight, dove.’