Eros had been a near permanent fixture at Mercy's place since having been taken by his great grandfather. She hadn't kicked him out, even though he had his own place, and her cat didn't like him. He didn't understand why her cat didn't like him, but, it just was how things were. He'd woken up that morning with a cat butt in his face. It was just something he was getting used to now. Maybe one day the cat would like him.
The previous day, he'd gone into work; something he'd been doing very little of and felt horrible about it. He even recorded a couple of episodes of his podcast to get into editting. He'd been posting older ones during his absence. He said it was vacation, or something, he didn't remember. But, he'd given a reason for the older episodes. He still felt bad about it. He felt bad about a lot of things.
One of those things was having just moved in. She had other shit to deal with. She really didn't need his crap. He'd brought dinner and a nice bottle of wine home. It was a night of food, drinking, snuggling, and a lot of touching. While they hadn't had sex, they had done just about everything else. He felt bad about that too. He really needed to get over that, though. But, things were still good, and nice, and he enjoyed touching her.
But now he was asleep. Or was until a cat decided to walk over his face to assert dominance or whatever. "Reginald.. get off me." He grumbled a little and nudged the cat, who made a grumpy noise at him, and he just rolled over. He was fully intent on going back to sleep but he saw something shiny on Mercy's nightstand that he didn't remember being there. "Ps..Mercy. What's that?" He gave her a little nudge to wake her up.