TORCHWOOD FAIRY TALES

Princess and the Pea

Summery: Tosh is a sensitive sleeper and she swears there's something under Owen's mattress.

Pairings: Tosh/Owen

Tosh rolled over onto her stomach and bashed her head against the pillow, snuggling her face deep into it trying to get comfortable.

No such luck. There was now something pressing up against her belly button.

She rolled over again to her side, to the very edge of the bed only to almost topple over. Her very well Torchwood refined reflexes made her roll back quickly. And punching her bed mate in the nose.

"Oh fucking hell Tosh" Owen grumbled clutching his nose.

"Sorry" Tosh said sitting up quickly. "Are you all right?"

"Do I look bloody all right?" Owen retorted turning the bedside lamp on. The room was illuminated by the small light and Tosh could see Owen's nose looked rather red but luckily not bleeding. "What the fuck is wrong with you? You're not usually this restless"

Tosh mumbled something under her breath while blushing.

She and Owen had been dating over three months now and had a better understanding of each other's sleep habits than anyone else including them. Tosh knew that Owen liked to sleep either on his back or on his side, snoring loudly mostly due to his drink and occasionally gropes depending what sort of dreams he has. Owen knew that Tosh usually curled up and fell asleep quickly after energy draining activities in the bedroom unless she was thinking to hard then she would lay on her back and stare at the ceiling. Tosh never snored in her life but she had a habit of mumbling equations in her sleep.

"I'm sorry I didn't quite catch that" Owen said raising an eyebrow.

"I said I can feel something under the mattress" she said loudly. "A lump or something"

"look Tosh I know my bed isn't as fancy as yours with your stupid satin silk whatever it is sheets and bloody expensive mattress but my bed is a descent bed" Owen said defending his bed, one of the few things he loves most. "It's comfortable, it's cheap and I've never suffered a back problem before. Also you never had a problem with my bed before, I believe you once said you enjoyed being in my bed"

"Wasn't the bed I enjoyed" Tosh muttered darkly.

"What was that?"

"Nothing!" Tosh said immediately knowing full well if Owen knew what she said he would not let her live it down for days on end. The man was too smug for his own good. "But I'm sure there's something under the mattress, can't we just check quickly. I promise I'll go straight to sleep afterwards" Tosh pleaded while widening her eyes.

"No Tosh" Owen snapped rolling over to turn the lamp off.

"Owen Harper you will let me look under the mattress or I won't ever stay at yours ever again!" Tosh snapped. Owen shrugged, unbothered, he can merely just stay at hers instead. "And when you stay at mine you'll sleep on the sofa" Tosh added knowing exactly what Owen was thinking.

"Bugger" Owen grumbled climbing out of bed. "All right Tosh have it your way but don't ever accuse me of not asking properly"

Tosh blinked in confusion but leaped out of bed and hauled the heavy mattress up, causing pillows to fall onto the floor. She bent down and peeked under the mattress. She gasped at what she saw; she slowly picked it up and held it up into the light to examine it properly.

"It's not much" Owen said nervously. "But you always said you hated flashy jewellery and I w-"

Tosh interrupted him with a long hard kiss, her hands gripping onto him tightly before she pulled away and slipped the ring on her finger. "Yes, yes, yes, a million times yes" she squealed before kissing him again.

Owen walked her back to the bed and the pair collapsed onto it in as they continued to kiss passionately. Tosh then squirmed as she felt something crumple beneath her back and pulled away.

"What else have you got under your mattress?" she asked gasping.

Owen looked away suddenly finding his headboard a lot more interesting. "Nothing" he mumbled.

Tosh pushed Owen off of her and scooted off the bed, she pulled the mattress on Owen's side up and peeked underneath, she then dropped it and glared at Owen.

"You got porn under your mattress as well?"

"Tosh I-"

"Sofa now!" Tosh snapped before climbing back into bed on her side and sighing in bliss when she was once more in comfort.

Sleep came easily after that.

The next morning everything was squealing and hugging and congratulating Tosh and Owen. Gwen and Ianto getting all excited at the idea of another Torchwood wedding while Jack was just pleased to see his two dearest friends finally together.

Owen yawned catching Jack's attention. "Spent the whole night celebrating I take it" Jack grinned.

"Sadly no"

"Why not?"

"I rather not talk about it"

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