[ It feels good, to be like this. Close and warm and joking, after everything. The suit can latch on to hopes and fears, that's what Kolivan had said, and that hologram - it had walked away from Keith, like it was easy. Like he was nothing.
Shiro sits back on his heels for a moment and just... looks up. At Keith. Beautiful, brave, strong, but also skittish and easily wounded, when it comes to his heart. It hurts, to know he fears that - but it's also a comfort to know that the thing Keith fears most from Shiro is something Shiro will never do. He leans in to press a soft kiss to one pale thigh, then stands and pats Keith on the butt. ]
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[ It feels good, to be like this. Close and warm and joking, after everything. The suit can latch on to hopes and fears, that's what Kolivan had said, and that hologram - it had walked away from Keith, like it was easy. Like he was nothing.
Shiro sits back on his heels for a moment and just... looks up. At Keith. Beautiful, brave, strong, but also skittish and easily wounded, when it comes to his heart. It hurts, to know he fears that - but it's also a comfort to know that the thing Keith fears most from Shiro is something Shiro will never do. He leans in to press a soft kiss to one pale thigh, then stands and pats Keith on the butt. ]
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