The ferry you guys were taking to the next city would arrive this evening, which meant you guys had an entire day for yourself to do whatever you wanted. There weren't a lot of days like this so you would enjoy it to the most.

But until what you had wanted, you had woken up way too early. The bed next to you still felt a little warm and Iggy was still snoring at your feet; the room was only slightly lit up by the sun coming up. You knew Polnareff liked to get up early, but this was ridiculous. And he had roused you with doing so.
You turned onto your other side and tried to get some more sleep, but to no avail. As you lay awake in bed, you can hear Iggy's snoring, the shower running and Polnareff humming and singing along softly to a French song. It was the same song he always seemed to sing or hum when he was happy or light-hearted since you had heard him do so multiple times during your journey.
You were still enjoying the warmth of the bed when suddenly you heard the bathroom door open. Polnareff walked out, still humming the song, in only his boxers, running a towel through his hair to dry it.

"You look like a totally different person with your hair like that," you commented and Polnareff looked at you a bit shocked that you were already awake right now. "Oh, you're awake," he said; suddenly very aware of the facts that he wasn't wearing anything but boxers.
"How the fuck do you get it up like that anyway?" you asked. Polnareff briefly looked down but then realised you were talking about his hair and he shrugged, happy that you didn't mention the fact that he was wearing so little clothes. "I just use a shit ton of gel and hair spray and it stays up," he explained. "It really needs a trim soon though, so I'm thinking about looking for a barber once I find one and we have some time..." he started muttering to himself about how he longed for a nice, clean shave after that.

You got up then and called out to him "I'm gonna take a shower now, do you need anything from the bathroom?" you asked and he shook his head as he continued towelling his hair to get it dry.

At noon, you all met in the restaurant to eat together and Joseph said "Our ferry departs at 10PM, so make sure you all are back at the hotel by 9:30 so we'll be in time. Till then, you guys are free to do whatever you want for today," your grandpa concluded the information and you all finished up your meals. You went out together with Jotaro and Iggy, only to quickly lose them in the busy city's market place. So now you were walking around on your own through the streets of the Egyptian city. You know what Joseph had said multiple times to you and Polnareff about not walking alone now that you were so close to Cairo and enemy stand users could be everywhere but you couldn't do anything about losing your brother in this crowd, right?

Just when you were about to turn around and start searching for Jotaro and Iggy again, you heard some sort of commotion going on. You popped your head through the crowd, getting closer to see what was going on when you suddenly heard "You think you can really trick me into thinking this is real Papyrus? What do you think I am, some dumb tourist from France that doesn't know the different!? Even a kid could tell the difference between this and real papyrus!"
Upon hearing that familiar voice saying 'some dumb tourist from France,' you had almost turned around and left Polnareff on his own, when you remembered how mad your grandpa got the last time you had arrived back at the hotel alone and you also remembered that you had told yourself to give Polnareff another chance if he kept up his non-flirty behaviour; which he had done.

You sighed and walked through the crowd towards the French man and pulled him away by his ear. "I'm sorry for my friend, I'll take care of him now," you told the vendor as you bowed in an apology and pulled Polnareff down with you to excuse himself.

"Ow," he said as you finally released the steel grip on his ear when you had gotten far enough "What did you do that for? And did you call me your friend just now?"
"Don't take it personal Pol, I'm just saving myself from the wrath of grandpa if he knows I was walking alone again..."
"Pol?" the tall man asked with a sly smirk "You really are starting to like me, aren't you?" he asked and you blushed brightly upon realising what you had just told him. "N-not at all!" you yelled in your defense and were already regretting taking him of all people with you.
But as you started walking though the marketplace with him, you got less and less annoyed by him. He actually seemed to know what he was talking about as he showed you several things on the market and you listened interested as he told you everything. As the evening started to fall though, you figured you should have taken a jacket with you since it was getting very chilly very fast.
Polnareff noticed you shivering next to him and he looked down at you "Are you cold?" he asked and you nodded a little. "But don't worry, I can handle a bit of cold,"

Polnareff shook his head and hesitantly wrapped an arm around you. He was tense for a bit, scared that you would hit him for the move he had made just now, but when you just put your head against his chest/shoulder, he relaxed a bit and started walking again.
Just a little bit later, he found a nice stall which sold silk scarves. He pulled you up to the stall and said "Here, choose one you like. I'll pay for it," with a huge smile. You scanned the stall and chose a pink one with gold details "Do you think this one would look okay on me?"
"Cherie, I think everything would look perfect on you," he said as he handed the money to the vendor and wrapped the scarf around your neck.
You blushed as his hands touched your neck while doing so and were surprised when he still wrapped his arm around you when you two started walking again. How had you two suddenly grown so close to each other, you were still constantly at each other's throats just a few days ago...

"That bastard, taking advantage of my granddaughter like that!" Joseph said as he gritted his teeth. When Jotaro had found him and Avdol and told them that he had lost you on this market, he had used his spirit photography to find you and they had found you walking around the market with Polnareff's arm around you and smiling as you talked to the French guy.
"To be honest old man, I don't think that if she really disliked it she would even allow him to touch her," Jotaro mentioned and Avdol agreed with him "I agree Mr. Joestar, I've known miss y/n only for a short while now but I know that she is a woman that lets people know what she wants and doesn't want. Especially when it comes to Polnareff. And the two of them have been getting closer ever since we had to leave Kakyoin in the hospital... Perhaps something beautiful is growing between the two of them..." Avdol suggested and Joseph shook his head "Still, I never expected her to fall for him of all people. She hated him so much when we just started off..."
"Nothing has happened yet old man. But do we really need to keep following them like this?" Jotaro asked "I'm sure they'll be fine. Polnareff's abilities as a stand user far exceed even mine and his Chariot is certainly strong. And y/n can easily protect herself as well. I'm sure they'll be fine."
"I have to make sure nothing happens, so yes. We have to keep following them."

After a while of walking, Polnareff proposed to get some food and you agreed, having grown quite hungry after all. You sat down on a bench as Polnareff went off to get you two some food. After only a little while of waiting, he returned with two crêpes with strawberries and cream. "I'm surprised by the amount of different kinds of food they have here. Seems like they are very multicultural here for the tourists." He said as he handed you one of the crêpes he was holding "I hope it is to your liking y/n. I figured that since they had this in France and Japan it couldn't be too bad,"

You happily took the food he handed you "You made a great choice Pol, these are amazing!" you exclaimed as you happily dug into the crêpe. Polnareff smiled as he watch you eat the food and started on his own crêpe as well. The two of you ate in silence until you suddenly stopped eating for a bit and told the male next to you "You didn't have to pay for everything today, you know?"
"Oh I insist. I can spoil you a bit, can't I?"
"It just makes me feel like I'm in debt when you pay everything for me..." you told him and you couldn't read the look on his face as you started eating again.

"How can she be so dense," Jotaro mentioned "Even I would have noticed he's trying so desperately to flirt with her and make this feel like a date..."

'Damn' Polnareff thought 'How dense can she be. Can't she read the atmosphere and say that I'm trying to make this like a date? But I can't say it out loud cause she doesn't like it when I try to flirt with her! Argh, this is frustrating!! Calm down Polnareff; just keep trying, she'll notice eventually. She already got this close to you, just a little bit more!" he told himself and mentally pumped his fist in excitement.
You ate in silence, just enjoying the surroundings and the scenery. How beautiful the sun reflected on the water of the Nile as you two ate away from the crowd down on the marketplace. Polnareff occasionally looked down to how you were eating with adoration in his eyes. It had taken him a while to admit for himself that he had completely fallen for you. He acted like he couldn't stand you but in reality he just wanted to be with you whenever he could and was more than happy when you two were once again paired up for a hotel room or as a pair to walk around the town. And back then when you guys had been at the hospital for Kakyoin, what you had told him had given him hope again that you might not completely hate him. And changing his flirty behaviour was something he could easily do.

After you guys had finished your crêpes, you started wandering around through the town until you arrived at some ruins. You decided to walk around the ruins and take a look at them before you had to leave towards the next town again. You were just walking around and looking at the ruins in awe when Polnareff suddenly stopped you. You turned around, maybe he had spotted an enemy stand, but he just told you "Y-you have some cream on your face. Should I get it off for you?"
You nodded with a blush on your face as Polnareff wiped the bit of cream from your face. As if this wasn't already embarrassing enough.
But as Polnareff was doing so, your eyes met and something clicked inside both of your minds. As if an invisible barrier had been taken away, you two suddenly started leaning in for a kiss. But just as your lips were about to meet, Polnareff turned his head away. You had never thought you would feel disappointed because Polnareff of all people didn't want to kiss you and were surprised as you realised that this time it hadn't been you friend zoning Polnareff, but he had done so to you.

But at the way he was looking around, you could tell it wasn't because he had wanted to friendzone you that he had pulled away. Something was wrong!

"Pol, what's wrong? Is it an enemy?" you asked as you started looking around as well, bringing out your stand so it could protect you if something were to go wrong. The enemy quickly showed itself and Polnareff told you to stand back while he did the fighting. You hated the fact that he told you not to fight and let him handle this himself. But you were also relieved and happy that he would do this for you. Polnareff really had turned out to be a nice guy. You wouldn't even have hated it if that enemy hadn't showed up and you ended up kissing with Polnareff.

Then suddenly you were snapped out of your thoughts by Polnareff getting cut by the enemy. Polnareff, getting cut by an enemy swordsman? This couldn't be right! "Polnareff, do you need help!?" you called out but he discarded your help and fought on alone.
He might have discarded your help, you couldn't leave it with this and had your stand jump right in front of Polnareff right when he would have been getting in a pretty hard blow on Polnareff. He looked back and smiled "Thanks! I owe you that one," he yelled as he continued fighting. You walked towards him and said "We'll be stronger if we fight together Jean Pierre. You don't always have to protect the girl. Sometimes, she is strong enough to protect herself," you said in a teasing manner, making him smile and say "All right then, I'll be counting on you, y/n"

You two fought side by side as if you had always done so, perfect in sync and giving the enemy a seriously hard time fighting against the two of you. But just one wrong step caused you to trip and before Polnareff could send his Silver Chariot towards you, Chaka had already moved close enough to you to easily cut your ankle. You screamed in agony as blood started spraying from your ankle. He had most likely hit an artery and the bleeding wouldn't be stopping that easily so you ripped a piece of fabric from your skirt and pressed it against your ankle to make an effort to stop the bleeding.

Eventually Polnareff won the fight by using his secret technique and he ran over to you to look at your wound. You had managed to slow down the oozing of blood out of your ankle but it was still pretty bad and you looked pale from blood loss. You would need to get to a hospital soon.

Polnareff rushed over to you and picked you up bridal style as he started carrying you to the small hospital in the town where they had left Kakyoin as well "y/n, you gotta stay with me now, okay? You're gonna be okay. I'll make sure of it!"
Through your blurring vision, you thought you could see tears lining up in his eyes but you weren't sure of it. You didn't think you had ever seen him cry before and you smiled as you brought one of your hands up to his face to cup his cheek as he hurried you to the hospital so you wouldn't die from blood loss "Don't cry now Polnareff. It'll be all right...," you said weakly, not being able to bring out more strength to talk as you were concentrating on not passing out.
It seemed like you had done so at one point though, cause you woke up in a dark room again. You tried to move and noticed the pain in your ankle and the pulling on one side of the blanket. You looked over to that side and saw Polnareff asleep with his head on the side of the bed. His hair was all messed up as he slept and he looked so cute...

You softly ran your hand through his messy hair and he stirred as he slowly woke up by the touch. He looked up tiredly and as he saw you were awake and sitting up, a smile immediately appeared on his face and he immediately threw himself on you in a hug. You were a bit taken back by this but accepted the hug nonetheless and patted his back to comfort him.
"We thought you were gonna die. You've been out for three days! Luckily there was a doctor present on the boat who wanted to perform a small blood transfusion to get you back to normal sooner."
"Jean, did you..." you asked but Polnareff started waving his hands in front of him shaking his head no. "No! No. Our blood types don't match so Jotaro was the one donating blood for you..." he told you.
Suddenly, the two of you were surrounded by silence again and just looked at each other awkwardly. Just as you wanted to say something, you noticed Polnareff leaning in for what you guessed was a kiss. You remembered that this was actually where you guys had left off before you got wounded and passed out. You could still clearly see the tears in Polnareff's eyes as he carried you to the hospital in his arms, scared that you would die because he wasn't strong enough to protect you.
As if Polnareff suddenly discovered what his body was doing on its own, he stopped leaning in towards you and awkwardly looked down. He hadn't even asked permission to do so. What if you didn't like him the way he liked you?

But a hand was placed on his cheek and he looked down into your eyes. You once more drowned into the deep blue colour of his eyes as you started slowly moving your face towards his. He quickly caught on what you were doing and started moving as well. Finally, your lips met and the two of you shared a kiss filled with tender love for each other.

Jotaro had seen everything happening through the little window in the door as he came here to get Polnareff so he could get a decent amount of sleep in a proper bed, but decided to just let them be after seeing this. After all, even though he wouldn't allow himself to show it, he was just as happy that you had woken up again...