Slender hands ran though his hair as he let his head fall back against his wife with a deep groan, electric eyes sliding shut as feminine arms wrapped themselves around him. "Hmmm. When did we start playing this game anyway?"

"When you said Adrian Marx was King."

Her voice was light on his ear, and smiling, he chuckled. "And Timmy didn't get it. Right." He shifted to gaze at the warm, winter fairy curled beside him. She was a sweet, gentle creature when she favored him with such compassion, it lingered in her eyes like starlight visible though a storm. Helen of Troy would have such eyes.

"Wishing you hadn't?" A wistful tint blending her words.

"No," his brow creased, unfocused eyes danced forward, "I was right to insist Adrian Marx was King." He glanced back at her, then forward again with, "Elvis Presley, bah!"

Though," this time the ceiling found him, "no, I don't. I'm a fool anyway."

"Oh, Cosmo." Soft lips cradled the bridge between his cheek bone and eye, her breath tickling the fine hairs on his skin. "You're no fool."

Lifting her arms, he turned, pinned, and kissed her, releasing her to brace one arm by her head as the other led his hand in patterns up and down her arm, their breath a warm bubble between them. "I'm a fool for you, baby," the playful grin fell moments later, "and for."

"I know, sweetie, it's okay." Her palms cupped his face. "It's okay."

They pretended they didn't have a baby that night, nor charge of a young boy caught between worlds, there on that couch. If for a moment, that single salt free tear drop in the ocean, they were themselves drifting apart in memories kept alive by faith alone that this is who they are.

This is incredibly short considering the rest of what I've written for this series, but the plot bunnies latched onto this like they were starving. Coming in at 301 words it's by all accounts a drabble, but I do have more floating around in my head that I left off because it wouldn't fit the tone at all. Inspiration was a FOP review I read by neoyi over on deviant and her thoughts on the husbands in the show, which made me think of the Oh Yeah! Cartoons pilot episode and the stark contrast between who Cosmo was and now is.

Adrian "Groucho" Marx has played a king. It was awesome.