.. It wasn't me.

[Arlian]

Arlian popped yet another chocolate into his mouth. At the rate he was going he would clean out the entire box of 'celebrations' in under three minutes. Maybe that was his plan.. After all, the chcoclates that he had found weren't his, they'd just been lying on the sofa innocently with an empty video case besides them.
Anybody who lived in the cubby hole should know by now that if you leave anything sweet in the communal hall then it will disappear by the time they go back to retrieve it. Especially now that Arlian was back.

The little wereleopard dug his hand into the box, rooting around for a nice choccie, a look of concentration upon his face, "oh," he whined quietly to himself, "come on.. I can't have eaten all of the malteasers already." But alas, he had done so.. And he'd finished off the topics, and the fudges and every other except for the bounty chocolates. Because nobody likes coconut in their chocolate.

He pouted upon realising that no decent chocolates were left and he sealed the box, closing it and placing it back where he'd found it. Right beside him on the couch. Now all he had to do was sneak out and hope to God the chocolate scent wasn't upon his breath too much.
It didn't really help that he had just a teeny smudge of chocolate upon his chin..

[Nathaniel]

Nathaniel could smell chocolate...He was half awake, in the twilight of the day's morning, he could think of nothing better than that tempting box of celebrations in the Communal Hall that he'd found the other day....He didn't know who's they were, but he was planning on eating them anyway...

Unfortunately, it seemed as though he had been beaten to it by Arlian, who, on his arrival in the doorway of the Hall, was curled in the sofa right opposite him, in plain view with the cutest smudge of chocolate on his chin, licking his lips as if to get every morsel of the cocoa from his lips.

A smile quirked at Nat's lips and he stole across the carpet to slip onto the sofa next to Arlian, making no attempts to be sly as he picked up the discarded Celebrations box, surprisngly heavy for something he had assumed to be empty, and looked into, making himself comfortable by rubbing his cheek across Arlian's shoulder as he curled up against him.

"Missed me?" he asked with a soft tone in his voice, more caring than usual, he really hadn't seen enough of Arlian of late, as he poked throught the remaining candies. The sod! He had taken all the milky ways! Resigning himself with a sigh, he pulled out a snickers chocolate, and unwrapping it with a twirl of his wrists, popped it in his mouth with a heavenly sigh.

[Arlian]

Arlian was completely unaware of the chocolatey smudge upon his chin, otherwise he probably would have tried to hide it or lick it all off. As he had no idea whatsoever then he was quite happy to try and play innocent on the couch and just hope to God that his breath didn't smell like milky ways.

So when Nathaniel grabbed the box of chocolates and made himself comfortable upon his shoulder he thought he'd gotton away with it entirely. Anyway, if they turned out to be Nathaniel's chocolates then he was in no trouble. Even though the other wereleopard was more dominant that Arlian, he certainly didn't act like it.

"Missed you? Give me a second to think about that," he said, trying his best to look thoughtful. His voice alone gave away the hidden glee that he felt at having his fellow leopard curled up beside him. He waited for a moment, watching as Nathaniel peered into the box and didn't bother complaining. Maybe they weren't his choccies afterall...

He grinned widely suddenly, twisting his body to be able to wrap his arms around Nathaniel, effectively pinning him to the back of the couch underneath the weight of an overly happy wereleopard, "I did," he nodded, his tongue flickering out quickly to lick at Nathaniel's cheek, "i reclaimed my room!" He added happily, "it has two of my own duvets in it and everything!"

[Nathaniel]

"TWO?" asked Nathaniel, sounding suitably shocked and amused all at once as he twisted like a cat falling from a large hieght to wrap his own arms round Arlian's slim frame and nuzzling his neck, "you're rather greedy aren't you?" he asked in amusement, "almost as greedy with your bedding as you are with these chocolates you've scoffed, I can't believe you took all the truffles!"

He gave a slow smile, and it spread across his pale freckled face like ripples spreading out on a pond and it made his lilac eyes sparkle brightly, like amethyst gems in amost the auburn bangs that fell round with the slightest smattering of the familiar finger print rosettes of leopard prints shimmering in the half light through the waves of his long long hair.

How he had missed his dearest Arlian, it had been too long since they had last seen eachother, and the whoel time it had felt like something was missing...Two people he missed the most Arlian, and Aidrean, his Master, his all...They were his all, with Zane and the Pard he felt more at home than he ever could at any point, even playing House Wife for Anita in his pink apron couldn't ever really fill the gap that had been closest to his ehart, his need for control over him, which aren gave, and the unconditional, so easy, love that came with something truly perfect, those strange tribulations of getting muffins at half three in the morning and shelling out money to placate all the people Arlian pissed off was strangely soothing, a sercurity to it knowing that this was good, and right, and what you did for the people you loved, who loved you back, and then, at the end of the day when you couyld curl up in their arms, suddenyl it all really seemed alright, no matter how much time had passed, and it would always be so...