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Set in the early hours of the morning after the training session. Hard work deserves a reward, as Marius finds out.

Catseye purred to herself in satisfaction, neatly curled up in her half-aware doze, paws stretching and relaxing in a slow, even and lazy beat. Everyone deserved a reward for a job well done though of course, any reward from Catseye tended to take a... unique, catlike form.

Although Marius usually had no complaints about a girl using him for a pillow, there were some circumstances he found less than ideal. Which he discovered when a shift in position slid Catseye off his pillow and onto his face.

With a pleasant sounding mrr of affection, Catseye instantly reacted in the most natural way of all. Curl up around him (or in this case, his head), purr loudly and snuggle down for a nice, lovely nap.

It was a testimony to the success of their session that Marius automatically clamped down on the contractions of the mouths on his hands. It was a testimony to his sense of self-preservation that Marius did not then attempt to throw her off his face. Panicked, suffocating and only half-awake he may be, but experience told him this was a very, very bad move when your opponent was in a position to secure her place by grabbing your eyelids.

Instead, Marius rolled over -- slowly. The cat stirred irritably, but allowed herself to be redeposited on the pillow. Marius sighed in relief. He could breathe again.

Well, he reflected as the purring resumed, it was better than a 5 am attack. Probably he should be honoured. Now all he had to do was build some kind of protective wall out of pillows without disturbing her, and maybe he would actually get some sleep.

Do a good job, get smothered by your classmate. Oh yeah. Welcome to Mutant High.

Any pillow fort building attempt was blocked by Catseye wriggling a bit closer and resting her chin on his shoulder, the purring increasing as she settled once more into the warmth of the bed, one paw sneaking up to rest securely on his chest as the cat fell right back to sleep without any fuss.