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Title: Dawn's Early Light
Characters/Pairing: Am/Can
Rating: PG-13
Warning: Implied Stuff, Human names
Summary: Alfred loves morning light.

Morning was one of Alfred's favorite times. Not only was it the start of a new day, with new promises and all the potential in the world, but if he timed it right he got to see the sun rise on Canada. As dawn broke across the man made mountains of the city they were staying in, he watched with delight as the delicate fingers of warm morning light crept into his apartment's bedroom and steadily moved towards the bed.

Alfred propped himself up on one elbow and studied his lover. The light illuminated the shoulder length curls, turning pale blond into molten gold. There was a sleepy grumble and then Alfred fondly stifled his laugh as the other nation burrowed beneath the pillows in an attempt to escape the morning.

He didn't mind much. This way he could watch the sun creep across the valleys and plains of his lover's land; the dips and heights of muscles and bones a substitute for the land. Matthew twitched and curled up tighter. He was paler then Alfred, always had been and would always be. But sometimes, if the morning light was just right like it was this morning, Alfred got a glimpse of what Matthew's would look like if they were to trade lands.

He still didn't get how his brother, lover, twin and othersameself never tanned. Matthew could spend all day under the midnight sun of the Arctic regions they both shared and he'd not only not tan, but he wouldn't burn. He'd stay as pale as the winter snows.

Matthew shifted a bit more, and the bedspread slipped down past his hips, creating mysterious shadows and caves that drew Alfred's eyes down past the his twin's back. Suddenly Alfred was incredibly thankful Matthew loved sleeping in - and was a heavy sleeper.

Oh yes, he loved mornings.

But the real reason Alfred loved mornings, he thought to himself as he curled up next to Matthew, intending to wake him for a round of sleep, sweet morning sex, was something rather selfish.

It was that no one but him was allowed to see Matthew in dawn's early light.