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* "Wednesday Morning, 3 AM" by Music/SimonAndGarfunkel is about a man on the run after robbing a liquor store, who narrates his last night in bed with his lover. He deeply regrets this crime, which forces him to leave her for good.

* Subverted in Franchise/HarryPotter SlashFic ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4842696/1/Reparations Reparations]]''. When Draco tells Harry that he should go home, Harry asks him to stay but then falls asleep before Draco can reply. So when Harry wakes up to an empty bed, he naturally assumes that Draco left anyway. That is, until he finds a few of Draco's things, as well as his trousers, on the bedroom floor. Turns out Draco is having a cup of tea in the kitchen, [[SexyShirtSwitch wearing nothing but one of Harry's shirts]].
* Subverted in ''[[FanFic/ThingsWeDontTellHumans Things We Don't Tell Humans]]''. Wheeljack wasn't supposed to stay for breakfast, but he does, much to everyone's brief embarrassment when Prowl finds him asleep on the couch with Ratchet.

* ScottPilgrim wakes up one morning after (rather seriously) fighting with Ramona to find her missing from bed. He freaks out, [[SubvertedTrope then hears the shower running]] and breathes a sigh of relief. [[spoiler: Then gets a text and runs out without Ramona hearing the reason, only to return and [[DoubleSubversion find her leaving him]]]].

* In ''[[Film/ThreeColorsTrilogy White'', Karol does this to Dominique the morning after he finally gives her a night of passionate, satisfying sex [[spoiler:as part of an elaborate scheme to get her thrown into jail for his murder and hence get revenge on her for divorcing him with his inability to consummate their marriage as her given reason]].

* Both subverted and played straight in ''{{Hitch}}''. Sara wakes up, sees the other side of the bed empty, starts getting emotional about it... and Hitch walks in with breakfast. Earlier, though, her friend slept with sleazy Vance, who played it straight.

* In ''Film/IronMan1'', [[HotScoop Christine Everheart]] had sex with Tony and woke up to find Tony gone and Pepper kicking her out of the mansion with clean clothes, a waiting cab and a snide remark.

* ScottPilgrim wakes up one morning after (rather seriously) fighting with Ramona to find her missing from bed. He freaks out, [[SubvertedTrope then hears the shower running]] and breathes a sigh of relief. [[spoiler: Then gets a text and runs out without Ramona hearing the reason, only to return and [[DoubleSubversion find her leaving him]].]]

* Subverted in [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4842696/1/Reparations this]] Franchise/HarryPotter fanfic. When [[HoYay Draco tells Harry]] that he should go home, Harry asks him to stay but then falls asleep before Draco can reply. So when Harry wakes up to an empty bed, he naturally assumes that Draco left anyway. That is, until he finds a few of Draco's things, as well as his trousers, on the bedroom floor. Turns out Draco is having a cup of tea in the kitchen, [[SexyShirtSwitch wearing nothing but one of Harry's shirts.]]

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' Angel leaves Buffy the morning after -- because he turned evil. This happens to Buffy again in season 4, and she does this to Spike (although they didn't have sex that time. They literally just slept together.) in the last season. In Season 4, we have the "went to get coffee" version where the lover is just out of the room. However, it is played for drama as it is a direct reminder of Buffy's previous (and only) time. When she sees the coffee, she's greatly relieved, which makes the following reveal - that the guy was really just in it for sex - much more cruel. Additionally, the fact that Riley ''doesn't'' leave is taken by Buffy to be immensely positive.

* Subverted in the Season 5 premiere of ''Series/{{Castle}}''; Castle wakes up alone in his bed. Enter Beckett, [[SexyShirtSwitch wearing his shirt]], a cup of coffee in each hand, ready for round two(or technically, round four).

Also known as ''"F*** and [[{{Pun}} f*** off]]".''

* In ''LotteNoOmocha'', [[spoiler:Queen Mercelida]] does this to [[spoiler:young Naoya]]. They don't meet again until three years later, [[spoiler:when she presents him with their daughter]].

* Dom does this to Letty in the fourth ''Franchise/TheFastAndTheFurious'' film when the increasing heat forces them to split up. Not surprisingly, he comes to regret this decision.

* Dom does this to Letty in the fourth ''Franchise/TheFastAndTheFurious'' film when the increasing heat forces them to split up.

* Dom does this to Letty in the fourth ''Franchise/TheFastAndTheFurious''film when the increasing heat forces them to split up.

* One episode of ''TheCloser'' had the victim who did this for a reality TV show. He'd pick up drunk women for a night and leave before they woke up. Then find them again and show them the video of the said night and film their reaction. He did this eight times, which led up the the line: "He did this eight times and was only shot once?"

* Played with in different ways in ''SexAndTheCity''. Features everything from really making them breakfast, to finding a break-up post-it note the morning after, to the girls themselves fleeing the beds of various guys right after for different reasons.
* Subverted in SixFeetUnder. Nate gets together with a woman from his daughter's creche. Having recently lost his wife and in need of emotional support, he stays, only for her to snub him and tell that she hoped he would have left because she was just after some quick shag.
* Brennan in ''{{Bones}}'' made it her policy never to stay at her lover's place overnight or to let her lover stay with her overnight after having sex, as she didn't believe in romantic entanglements. This changed obviously when she and Booth finally became an OfficialCouple.
* Subverted in the Season 5 premiere of ''{{Castle}}''; Castle wakes up alone in his bed. Enter Beckett, [[SexyShirtSwitch wearing his shirt]], a cup of coffee in each hand, ready for round two(or technically, round four).

* In the ''Series/BabylonFive'' episode ''Divided Loyalties'', Talia (in Ivanova's quarters) wakes up and is surprised to find the other half of the bed empty. The next scene is an attack on Lyta Alexander, who has arrived at the station to deliver a warning about a Psi Corps sleeper agent. [[spoiler: This turns out to be a bit of misdirection; after an episode with many clues pointing to Ivanova, the sleeper agent turned out to be Talia.]] The scene also serves as a [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar deniable]] indication of the characters' [[HideYourLesbians possible relationship]]. WordOfGod has since confirmed that they'd slept together in more than the strictly literal sense. On another occasion, Ivanova invokes the trope in her "[[Funny/BabylonFive sex]]" scene with the Lumati ambassador:

Two characters make love. Upon waking the next morning, the woman reaches out for her man. The camera follows her hand to the empty pillow; he has flown in the night.

* Happens twice in ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'': [[spoiler:after having sex with Shiki, Arcueid leaves to fight Roa alone to not endanger Shiki; similarly, Kohaku drugs him and leaves to confront Akiha on her own]]. The former scene also makes it to the anime adaptation [[hottip:*:here the sex is implied though embracing and nakedness rather than being overt.]]

* In the film ''{{Heat}}'', Neil Mc Cauley is shown leaving Eady in the night, after making love. Neil is a professional thief, and has vowed to have no attachments as to be able to walk out of his life in thirty seconds if the heat turns up. [[hottip:*:A sad detail is the glass of water he leaves for Eady, wrapped in a carefully folded napkin.]]

* ''JamesBond'': James is a veteran lover and leaver.

* In the film version of ''Film/{{Stardust}}'', Tristan leaves Yvaine after they make love. He fully intends to come back that same day, leaving only to disillusion his former not-so-true love in swashbuckling-hero fashion, but upon waking up alone Yvaine mistakenly believes he has abandoned her (thanks to PoorCommunicationKills).

* Quagmire from ''FamilyGuy'' repeatedly follows this trope, when he isn't just saying "Hey, are you still here?". Unlike most of these examples, Quagmire's just being his {{Jerkass}} self.

* Subverted in [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4842696/1/Reparations this]] HarryPotter fanfic. When [[HoYay Draco tells Harry]] that he should go home, Harry asks him to stay but then falls asleep before Draco can reply. So when Harry wakes up to an empty bed, he naturally assumes that Draco left anyway. That is, until he finds a few of Draco's things, as well as his trousers, on the bedroom floor. Turns out Draco is having a cup of tea in the kitchen, [[SexyShirtSwitch wearing nothing but one of Harry's shirts.]]

* In the ''Film/IronMan'' movie, Christine Everheart had sex with Tony and woke up to find Tony gone and Pepper kicking her out of the mansion with clean clothes, a waiting cab and a snide remark.