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takashi shirogane ([personal profile] earthshine) wrote 2021-03-28 05:02 am (UTC)

[ krolia. a lot to catch up on. met my mom. keith doesn’t quite finish in connecting the dots by outright saying it but shiro hears it all the same. krolia must be mama keith. shiro’s breath catches on surprise and then he softens on the exhale, the whole of him gentling from his expression to the set of his shoulders as he smiles through a: ]

Keith… that’s great.

[ hushed in his happiness, his voice doesn’t carry beyond this closed space of theirs. it’s just -- he doesn’t pretend to know what it must’ve been like to never know one’s own mother or how difficult it had to be growing into your own person without some understanding of one’s own history. he doesn’t even rightly know much of keith’s take on it either: did keith want to know his mother? did he blame her? did he forgive her?

they didn’t talk about it much at all at the garrison. shiro was busy trying to get into keith’s good graces in the beginning and even when he managed to weasel under keith’s defenses, it never seemed right to corner keith into dredging up his past. outright asking hadn’t been shiro’s style back then. he’d focused more on simply assuring keith that he was there to listen and talk any time he wanted, about anything he wanted.

keith never took him up on the offer, at least not about this.

but now they’re here and the fondness is hard to miss, even when keith’s voice changes slightly with a clearing of his throat. makes sense is the immediate justification. shiro came into keith’s life at a critical point and in recent times, he became the catalyst that led to keith in the desert, in the blue lion, and then in space. of course shiro would come up. ]


Yeah? [ he tips his face up a little more, making sure the whole of his grin is on display. ] I hope you told her all about the records of mine that you beat. [ it’s too easy to twist the subject around, to bring the focus back on keith. ] She ought to know her son is a special kind of amazing.

[ the grin keeps for a moment longer and then it weakens in its wide stretch, his expression turning sweetly endeared all over again. ]

But I bet she figured that out pretty quick.

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