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Only one bed?!

It's cozy, warm and very, very narrow; you're stuck sleeping in a single bed with someone else and have to endure/enjoy the situation until morning. Snuggle-time?

2 person, single-bed bunking

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01) FRIENDS you know the other person well.

02) LOVERS is this really such a bad place to 'sleep' together?

03) ENEMIES try not to stab each other in the night.

04) STRANGERS super awkward or getting along like a house on fire.

05) AUTHORITY higher/lower social status.

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[Matt can probably (definitely) hear the beating of a frantic Kryptonian heart going a mile a minute, paired with Kara grumbling to herself while pacing back and forth in the bathroom:]

It's fine! It's going to be absolutely fine! Keep it together, Danvers!

[What were the odds that a story Kara was chasing and a client Matt needed to defend would coincide like this? A company specializing in providing medical technology was rotten on the inside (another cog in the Cadmus machine), and an innocent office worker setted up to be the fall guy when the corruption was discovered. Snapper Carr practically pushed her into the assignment for once.

She had met Matt Murdock a few times to get more information on the case and the defendant. He had been helpful and quite charming, which has been doing a number on the Kryptonian's heart. She had been awkward and nervous around him, trying to get through her assignment without any hitches (even though she had been crushing really hard, Kara still had to be professional!). There was a sense of relief when the series of interviews had been finished. But at the same time, she didn't want their time together to end yet.

She got her wish though, by some miracle or stroke of luck, CatCo had sent her at the same hotel where Matt was staying at before the trial. And then a clerical error by their computer system made it that they had to share a room that only had one bed.

If Kara learned anything, you cannot out argue a lawyer. There had been some back and front on who'll take the bed and the floor. It ultimately ended with them sharing the bed anyway.

Hence her little freakout in the bathroom.]

... He's going to think I'm doing something else in here, isn't he?

[Matt, however, is well past the age of being flustered over sharing a bed with either a colleague or friend. Or anyone else, for that matter. He's woken up in too many strange situations, and when you add blindness on top of it, you learn to deal very quickly or you become a mess.

He couldn't adequately judge Kara on her looks, but there was certainly something about her that triggered his senses to dig deeper. She seemed... denser. Physically. Something about her reminded him of the time Thor had flown overhead during the Incident. Then there was her scent. It was just a little different, enough so that he kept trying to figure it out.

Either way, nothing she'd done had been with malicious intent. She was a reporter and she'd seemed relatively earnest in trying to get to the bottom of the story regarding his client. Not a waver in her pulse when she'd answered questions, other than the slight flutters when they stood a little too close.

He hadn't had the heart to ask her how old she was, because she reminded him of some of the junior associates at his old firm who'd gotten flustered around him. It was adorable, but also humbling. If he was the older party here, he had to be the responsible one. Including trying to calm her down, since she was about to wear a hole in the bathroom floor.]

I've tried sleeping in the tub before. It's never a good idea in hotels. Their drains are questionable and I'd hate for you to wake up with a friend.

[The funny thing about Kara's age is that she is both older and younger than Matt at the same time. She looks and acts like a 26 year old, but if her actual birth year is taken into account (1966), Kara is 50. Her ship getting stuck in the Phantom Zone when she was 13 had made her not age for 24 years. It took her a while to let go of the fact that she's now younger than her baby cousin Clark, that she missed almost all of his milestones growing up. She didn't mean to keep it a secret, but it's just a complicated thing to explain

She also has been hiding her Kryptonian physiology for the past 13 years. Yet it seems that are things that Matt's enhanced senses might catch. The rhythm of her pulse is different, the strange shift of the wind around her when Kara moves (super speed being used), her body heat being warmer than a human's (possibly making whatever perume she would have on more potent than usual), things that add more to the mystery Matt is trying to uncover.

Her being flustered around Matt wasn't only because of nerves being around a crush (although it was the contributer). In spite of Matt being blind, Kara still feared that somehow she'd do something to blow her entire secret.

Her job covering the trial for CatCo Magazine is a cakewalk compared to this]

What—Ew! [She snort laughs. His words made her stop pacing. The bathroom floor has been saved.

And then she realizes something, immediately popping her head out of the bathroom door to look at him. He can't see how apologetic she is, but it is definitely expressed in her voice.] I mean—Oh gosh, n-not you sleeping in the bathtub! That's not— The drain! Drain friend—

[Oh, Rao, please stop talking!

She groans at herself, her face flushing pink.]

Got it. No sleeping in the bathtub. Ehehe.

[He could almost feel her flustered reaction from here, and he put a hand over his mouth to keep the laugh in. He was already sitting on the side of the bed, wearing sweatpants and no shirt. He preferred to sleep in just his underwear, but he hadn't expected to have to share the bed, so he hadn't brought a shirt that wasn't for work. He just hoped she didn't get too upset about it. If she did, he could put his dress shirt back on, but the sheets were going to be torture enough for his sensitive self.]

The night's not getting any younger, Kara. Nor is the bed going to split and become two. The sooner you get to bed, the sooner you can wake up and flee. But if you're worried about me doing anything while you're sleeping, I can swear on a bible for you, if you'd like. And since I'm actually Catholic, that's pretty binding.

I-I know! [She laughs genuinely. It's that dang charm again.] I won't eith—

[Whatever Kara wanted to say next just died in her throat when she got a good look at Matt, being shirtless. She blinks, her mouth ajar a few seconds before she catches herself, gulping.

There are sleep masks in this hotel room, right?

RIGHT?]

I, uh, yeah! [Ehem.] I'm com—

[Thump.

That was the sound of Kara (gently) hitting her head on the doorway (on purpose!). Just enough force that she doesn't wreck it with her forehead.]

I-I'll be right there! [Awkward chuckle here.] I just need to brush my teeth and wash my face.

[Again. And with cold water. She pops back inside the bathroom to do just that, mumbling to herself that she could just brush her hair when she was done here.

This is going to be a long night.]

[His brows lifted when he heard the thump, wondering exactly why she'd seemingly decided to take up nailing boards with her head.]

Ah, you okay? I'm pretty sure you're about to take the enamel off your teeth if you brush them again.

[A sigh, and then he moved to slip under the covers, wondering if she was as unused to being around men as she seemed to sound. God, if he was sharing a bed with a virgin, he could suddenly understand her flustering. But a pretty girl her age? It didn't seem likely.]

Kara... get in bed.

[She has been putting her foot into her mouth during this entire conversation. Kara just stopped herself from saying something that could be misconstrued as something risqué.]

I-I'm fine! [She heals fast.] I do need to wash my face though.

[The next sound coming from her is Kara turning the faucet on to splash cold water on her face in an attempt to cool down. After turning that off, she could be heard exclaiming, "YES!", before the sounds of drawers being closed followed.

She found the eye mask she was searching for, thank Rao above.]

... Sorry! Ehehe. Going there. [Popping her head out again after she dried her face and taken out both the mask and her hair brush, making her way to the bed, sitting on her side making the matress shift a little to accomadate her. She put the mask down on the side table while she starts brushing her hair, wafting the scent of roses in the air. He's not aware of what she's wearing but she is out here in a tank top and pajama shorts that showed off her legs (she thought she was going to be in a single room, okay?)

She's not a virgin (the mere concept of it confused her a little when she was new to Earth. Kryptonian things.), and she has had relationships where she had been intimate with her boyfriends. But Kara is just really shy in general and an awkward person at that. That was just a recipe of being a flustered mess around a person she started to really like.]

I'm here.

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[There's differences in the fiery outline he can pick up from her, deviations in how much heat is getting through, how much is trapped around her by her clothing. She's not covered head to toe, which he supposed was better than her still fighting to sleep on the floor. He was hardly going to attempt to molest her, but he also didn't know her background, and there could be a valid reason she didn't feel comfortable in this scenario.

It wasn't ideal for him either, since marks that he didn't like to remember getting were on display without his shirt, but she hadn't mentioned anything, so he hoped she just chalked it up to him being clumsy.

He heard the sound of hair moving, then the silky swish of a brush being pulled through it. His head tipped a bit.]

Are you... brushing your hair?

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Only one bed?!

Let me know if this is OK!

S'all good <3

<3

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Matt, you're killing her XD

He hasn't even started

Oh boy XD

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