2020-02-22 - Sweet Dreams Are Made of This

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Sweet Dreams Are Made of This

Summary: Everybody's having nightmares! Shiro and Adam talk a bit, Shiro tells Adam a little about what happened to him out there in space, and Adam has to confront the fact that he still has feelings. Not that he's telling Shiro that, mind...



Who: Takashi Shirogane, Adam Weissman
When: February 22, 2020
Where: Integra's Arms - Takashi Shirogane's Apartment


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It's been a few days now and Shiro's feeling a little releived about how Adam's coming along in his healing. However, all of this thinking about how he's coming along is making him realize that he has to think of HOW to tell Adam what all happened... That, in turn, is making bad thoughts roll around in his head, and that's making it hell on him getting any good sleep. He's got his light out and is trying to sleep as he starts squirming about in his bed uncomfortably.


As it turns out, Adam's actually up and about too. His nightmares aren't nearly as bad as Shiro's -- he got woken up by a dream of getting his plane shot out from under him; unpleasant but not anywhere near what Shiros' dealing with. The problem is, this made him gasp, andthe deep breath made his ribs hurt mightily. So, with his ribs aching, he gets up to find a painkiller. It's always better to deal with pain when it's at a lower level, after all. That way it doesn't take so much product to control. These would knock him out too, so he'd get more sleep.

However, as he passes by Shiro's door to head to the bathroom, he hears the shifting around. And it doesn't sound like THAT kind of shifting around, no... it sounds like there's something wrong. Adam pauses, looking at the door. He pauses a moment, wondering how to handle it. The painkiller can wait; he's worried.

He takes a step nearer to the closed door to Shiro's room and hesitates. Should he just open the door? No, of course not, that would be rude. So instead he raps on the door with a knuckle, quietly but firmly. "Takashi? Are you all right?" he calls through the door, just loud enough to be heard.


Takashi Shirogane doesn't respond but eventually offers what sounds like a moan and a little thrashing as well. "Ghh....s-stop..." he murmurs into his blankets.


The murmur is probably too muffled to hear behind the door, but he heard the sound. And it didn't sound good. He frowns, hesitating again, propriety warring with concern. Eventually the concern wins out, after another of those pained sounds, and Adam's brows draw down. He's going to look at this like Shiro helping him bathe -- it's not like he hasn't seen it before. So he reaches to open the door and peeks in cautiously. "...Takashi?"


Shiro's laying in bed, looking fine as far as things like his illness or any injuries go. However, his hands are gripping near his throat as if he's trying to get something invisible off of it.


Adam frowns again, and quietly enters the room to check for something there at Shiro's throat. He'll sit down on the side of the bed nearest Shiro, and place a hand on Shiro's shoulder, with a gentle shake. "Takashi." He says it more firmly this time, hopefully loud enough that it'll break through whatever it is that's got hold of him, figuratively speaking.


There's nothing there, not even an invisible something. However, the shaking does seem to cause him to stir some, as his hands seem to relax while his eyes start to work open.


Adam speaks up again, "Takashi? Are you all right?" He leans a little closer, less upset that he might get hit by Shiro flailing around. So that might be the first thing Shiro sees when he opens his eyes. Adam's missing his glasses, so through the frown of concern, there's a nearsighted squint. Though the burns, nicely healing into scars on his face and neck, and the altered color of his left eye might be a bit shocking if his conscious mind takes a bit to catch up with his unconscious mind.


Takashi Shirogane blinks a little, taking a moment to become more concious before shaking out the cobwebs a bit. "Nhh....Adam," he wonders as he sits up, "...do you have anything for those burns? They look like they must be uncomfortable to deal with...."


Adam sits back as Shiro sits up, suppressing a wince. The burns are mentioned, and Adam notes, "They're fine. The skin is mostly healed, I just need to keep putting that ointment that I have on them. More importantly... are you all right? Were you having a nightmare?"


"That's good," Shiro answers as he tries to finish waking up, "Yeah I'm fine...sorry....yeah. I don't have episodes anymore but well, there's this..."


Adam nods. "If you've been through as much as you've said, it's little wonder it comes back at night." He draws in a breath to sigh... and then winces. "...Ah." A pained sound. But he forges on nonetheless, "I know you don't want to drop it all on me while I'm still injured, but if you do want to talk, I'm here." Sure he's not with Shiro romantically anymore... but if Shiro's hurting, Adam's not going to just LET him hurt...


"That's actually what brought this on tonight," Shiro admits as he rubs the back of his own neck, "I've been trying to think of how to tell you about everything..." he states, "I...when we were on Kerberos, we were captured and Sam was sent to do science as a prisoner, while me and Matt were sent to the arena. I saved him from having to fight in the arena by attacking him, injuring him so he couldn't fight, and making out like I was too blood thirsty to wait my turn...after that I spent...I'm not sure how long, having to play that role while fighting people to the death in the arena."


"If you don't want to talk about everything, just what you feel comfortable with," Adam offers. "I won't push." For once! Though he pauses to listen as Shiro admits this part. The drawn look is one that's half concerned and half disgust. "Why would someone put you through that?" It's rhetorical, he doesn't expect an answer. "Thank you for saving Matt from it, though. I didn't get the details -- I didn't have the clearance."


Takashi Shirogane nods in reply. "He got sent somewhere else and we found him later...but I was an arena slave until I managed to escape...but the crash the escape caused gave me a bit of amnesia and it took me a while to remember how or why I escaped... Keith, Lance, Hunk, and Katie all 'saved' me from the quarantine and then we ended up caught in the space war between the Galra and Alteans..."


"That's where you spent all the time in space?" Adam inquires. "Before the Galra came to Earth?" He's starting to put the pieces together and get an overall timeline of what happened. Minus all those... really bad bits, mind. He still has no reason to suspect that Shiro's nightmares are any more than his pretending to be evil and bloodthirsty for so long doubling back and trying to 'kill' him in his sleep.


Takashi Shirogane nods in reply. "And...um...well I still don't feel right giving full detail yet...but stuff happened where I got replaced by a clone for a while, but we managed to fix it and got me into it's body. That's why I'm sure I'm not sick anymore....also why I've got the white hair."


There's something there. Something horrible. And it's right there in those details that Shiro's leaving out. It's staring him in the face and Adam knows it. But at the same time, he promised that he wasn't going to push, that he would just listen. So he does that. "I guess that would explain that. What about your arm? I've never seen anything like it before." Which makes sense, since it's Altean technology. And of course Adam just has to poke at it, though he's cautious. He doesn't know if that will ruin it.


"I originally lost it in the arena and got a galran robotic arm," Shiro explains, "but in the situation with the clone, the robotic arm was lost too and I got a new arm that was made by Hunk and Princess Allura when we got back to Earth...before that though, we defeated the emperor of the Galra and his son, but that just left a power vaccum that his right hand tried to take advantage of. HE is the one that attacked earth, and after ending up in a time dilation, we learned of it all too late to stop it. We stopped it from getting any worse by taking Sendak out though...and then we went on to finally take out the queen of the galra as well because she attempted to attack Earth right after and almost took out all of reality as well..."


Adam is listening, just trying to take it all in. "So you... literally saved all of reality?" He's just... trying to let that sink in -- that they literally stopped someone from destroying all of existence. And in the end, all he can say is, "...Now I'm glad you did go on that mission." He's not falling over himself to apologize for what he did or said before Shiro left, or for breaking up with Shiro, mind. Because he does still stand by it -- it was killing him to watch Shiro push himself until he was half dead all the time.


Takashi Shirogane nods in reply. "I know it sounds crazy, and that isn't even all the details...but sadly that's what happened...the galran queen and Princess Allura both were sacrificed in order to undo the damage the galran queen had done...but now all the universe (and realities) are saved..."


"That's unfortunate, that it took death to undo," Adam replies quietly. "That said, I'm sure they would do it again if they had to..." He trails off then. There's so much loss and sacrifice in this story, and it feels like an ongoing theme. How much had to be sacrificed, overall, to reach the end goal, for everyone to just... be safe...?


Takashi Shirogane frowns and nods again. "That's most the story...with some details left out cause they're a bit too odd or worrying..." he states, "But well...now you know most of the big bullet points..."


Adam nods. "Seems like it. I missed so much." He sighs -- lightly this time, so he doesn't hurt his already-aching ribs. "I'm just sorry I couldn't have been more help, to you or the Earth. We were all just... shot down effortlessly. I suppose someone has to be the first to fall in any charge, but... that doesn't make it easier..."


"It's not anything you could help, don't worry that much about it," Shiro insists, "You did all you could and you don't have ESP..." He frowns a bit and tilts his head slightly. "I didn't say anything worrying in my sleep did I?"


Adam shakes his head. "No. You just were telling someone to 'stop', and since you were reaching for your throat, I can assume you felt like someone was strangling you," he replies. He'll leave the issue of his feelings of inadequacy for another time. This is about trying to help Shiro.


Shiro nods. "That's not so bad...ok...I can deal with that..." he replies, "Thank you for waking me up..."


"I just got up to get one of those painkillers," Adam explains. "Ironically, I had a nightmare too. Nothing like what you were having. I was seeing the one-sided dogfight again, remembering getting shot down. I suppose I moved wrong and strained a little too much, because I woke up with my sides aching."


Takashi Shirogane frowns a little more. "I wish I had some way to help...and sorry I worried you," he replies, "I imagine you thought I was having an episode...and after I just told you I got over it...I probably sounded like a complete liar."


"I wouldn't say a liar," Adam replies. "Maybe... understator? Even if you hadn't honestly thought you were free of them, you probably wouldn't have wanted anyone to worry about you. But I know you weren't doing it out of malice or intent to lie." And truth be told... that was actually part of why Adam agreed to staying here. Just in case Shiro's NOT over his condition, Adam will be close by. That said, if he's literally in a cloned body, it's likely that the cloned body didn't have that condition.


Takashi Shirogane says, "Well, yeah...that too..." He chuckles a little, "That's still a bad habit, but I was being honest about it... Nothing left of that."


Adam nods. "I believe you. I haven't seen you take any medicine since you've been here, and you remember how bad it got when you didn't take it," he points out. "If you did still have it, you probably would have had at least one episode. Since there's been nothing, I can conclude whatever happened to you at least got rid of that."

...Not that he's not still going to keep an eye on Shiro...


Takashi Shirogane says, "...but I guess I should let you try to get back to sleep," Shiro states, "...that'll take a while for me to do."


Adam opens his mouth, rather automatically, intending to offer to stay in there with him, like he would have done in the past... and then freezes. No. No no no no no. That is so very not appropriate now. And suddenly he looks sheepish. "I don't mind, er... staying up with you a bit, until you feel like sleeping again," he offers. He's blushing a little though.


"If you're sure..." Shiro replies, "Keeping my mind distracted would probably help a lot..."


Adam nods. "I'm sure," he confirms. "I was just going for those painkillers because I thought they'd get me back to sleep without issue. We have others I can take. Do you want to go out into the living room for a bit?" he asks. "Or..." he trails off again, because... there's really no way he can ask 'or do you want to just hang out in your bedroom' without it sounding awkward!


"If you don't mind sitting up in bed while I stay layed down, we can just stay here," Shiro states, "If that's too awkward I can get up..."


Adam blushes slightly, but nods. "That's fine," he agrees. "Let me go take an aspirin or something first. My ribs still ache a bit, and I don't want them to get worse." He stands -- slowly, and with a quiet grunt -- and heads to get an aspirin. And also a bit of a snack, too, since he returns with a plate of grapes. "I didn't think it was fair for me to eat and not bring you some too," he notes. "But I needed to eat something so the aspirin wouldn't be on an empty stomach."


Takashi Shirogane smiles a little. "Thank you for being thoughtful like always," he replies, "I'm not hungry, but I really do appreciate it... and thank you for staying up with me..."


Adam smiles, placing the plate between them, and sitting down on the edge of the bed again. "It's almost like those times when I'd stay with you in the hospital after you had an episode. You remember? I'd stay until visiting hours were over and then they'd kick me out?"


Takashi Shirogane chuckles at that. "Yeah...you never think that memories of hospital visits would be fond and nostalgic, especailly after being stuck in them for so long, but here we are."


Adam also chuckles. "Yeah. Though I guess after it all that's all there really was," he notes. "You got really sick, and started having them more often, so we started spending more and more time there."


"That's true...sorry about that..." Shiro murmurs, "That's part of why I felt like I had to leave, the whole thing didn't feel fair to you. You had to keep constantly stressing out about me. I can worry about you now."


"Maybe... but I can't help thinking it was more than that," Adam replies. "You were driven then... moreso than I'd ever seen you before. I thought it was because you knew you didn't have much time left, but... Now I wonder if that mission, out there in space, wasn't... 'calling' you." He sighs. "Besides, I still worried about you, even if we weren't together."

It's a moment more before he finally acknowledges, "...I do appreciate the help. I just hate that I need it so much." Not only with his ribs, but he's lately been starting to walk into doors and miss things he's grabbing for...


Takashi Shirogane furrows his brows a little. "Yeah, it seems a little worrying how things are going," he states, "You HAVE been resting like you're supposed to and not sneaking something in , right?"


"How so?" Adam inquires, to the mention of things being worrying. As for whether he's resting? "Usually. I've only snuck out at night a couple of times." At least he has the grace to admit it, so there's that. "And I usually don't go too far."


Shiro gives that sort of face that looks like something a father would make in disaproval. "Don't think I haven't noticed you running into things," he points out, "Though that makes me more worried about your eye than the part you were on rest for... And come to think, I don't even know if this place has taxis or anything else that would have made getting around any easier on you."


This is a switch! Shiro's the one making the disappointed face, and Adam's the one scrunching his neck into his shoulders and chafing under the look. "I always come back when I start to hurt," he reassures. "If I just sat around in here, I'd go stir-crazy." Adam's always had a tendency to overthink, and there's just too many variables that he wants to think about that... really would be pointless to start planning out now.

AS for his eye? "Yeah, that's... got me worried, I admit," he agrees. "The doctor did say something about that before I got out. That there was a possibility that the vision in that eye would start to go. I'm going to go see him soon and get his take on it. See if he can prevent it, or whether I should just resign myself to losing the sight in that eye." He doesn't sound too worried about it, but there's a frown floating around his features that says quite the opposite...


Takashi Shirogane frowns and nods again. "I guess you're right too...I can't just expect you to stay cooped up for that long, especailly when we don't really have much to keep your mind off of things..."


"Part of it, yeah," Adam agrees. "I can't really exercise while I'm healing, and even I can only read for so long. I think I've gained ten pounds as it is." The latter sounds like a joke, but he still reaches to pinch at his waist. He's full of it, he still can't pinch more than an inch. He hasn't been sitting around for THAT long. "Besides, I'm supposed to be resting my leg... but if I don't make it do some work, it'll stop working entirely. I don't want the muscle to get weak."


"Pffft...you're still a stick," Shiro states, "You could use 10 pounds. Unlike some parts of me."


Adam starts to laugh here, and moves a hand to hold his sides so they don't shift too much. He's figured out how to do that. "Oh good Lord, are you still on about that?" he asks, amused. He does remember Shiro had a hangup about his own rear, deciding it was too big. In the past, a considerable amount of Shiro's dismay was aimed towards not being able to lose as much weight there as he would have liked. He doesn't reassure Shiro there's nothing wrong with his rear, though. It's... not really his place to do that anymore, is it? Aaaaaand yeah, he blushes a little bit, because he wants to reassure him!


"It hasn't gone anywhere...even in a different body..." Shiro says with a slight pout. This is followed by a small yawn and a chuckle. "Looks like you're already helping..."


After a moment, Adam squirms a bit, and finally manages to allow himself to offer, "...The opinion I have on... that particular issue has not changed." He's not going to look at Shiro when he says it though. And it's only partly because he wants to hide the blush. "I mean... I don't... really mean anything... inappropriate by it, you know? I just meant that... it's... in proportion, and I don't think it's bad..."

He shuts up, before he can stick his foot FURTHER into his mouth. ('Stupid! Now you look ridiculous!') That said, how many 'appropriate' ways are there for a man to tell another man that he was a fantastic ass without it being meant in an 'inappropriate' way?

The yawn almost gets a sigh of relief. Good! Something to distract from the awkward! "A-are you getting tired?" he wonders. "I don't want to keep you up." His mind finishes, ('With my complete idiocy!')


Shiro blushes at the commentary and gives another chuckle. "Hn...yeah...but you aren't keeping me up, you're helping me get back to sleep..."


Still, a distraction! "True enough, I suppose." Adam pauses. "You said things settled down, right? Did you have an opportunity to settle down a little before you came here?" he inquires. "To at least enjoy the peace you brought about, a little?"


"Hmmm...I suppose," Shiro states thoughtfully, "I mean I spent most the time after over seeing what I was allowed to in helping with recovery efforts. ...they kinda didn't want me doing much after all I'd already done."


Adam nods. "If you did all that, even with help, I can understand why," he agrees. "I'd like you to be able to rest too. I'm sorry I'm having to rely on you so much. Hopefully I'll be able to return the favor once I'm recovered. And hopefully that won't be too much longer."


"Well I'm kind of forced to rest some now, so it's not so big a deal," Shiro states, "I don't have an actual job yet, so at most I'm doing little favors I find someone needs doing while I do my looking for work for us."


Once more Adam nods. "I'm not sure what there is to do here yet," he admits. "I don't really think there's much call for pilots here, but I did see a school while I was wandering around. So once I recover, I might be able to do something with that. Seems like it's a high school and an elementary school, so all kinds of students would be there."


Takashi Shirogane nods in reply. "I'm really not sure what I should do now," he states with a chuckle, "I've been at the whole fighting a war in space thing and recovering from that war in space enough that it's hard to think of just...normal jobs anymore."


"And really, what could top that?" Adam remarks, with a chuckle of his own. "Though... maybe that's why you were brought here. Maybe something -- maybe someONE -- wanted you to just... take a break, and took the drastic step of bringing you here?"


"Maybe...but if that's the case they must have brought you here to glare at me when I'm over doing it," Shiro says with a grin.


Adam smirks. "I doubt it." He waves a hand dismissively. "I figure I only ended up here because of some weird wormhole effect that those alien crafts' weapons had in interacting with my plane's engines," he reasons. He didn't save not only the whole universe, but every possible reality of it.


"Eh, it's about as likely as someone having done it for me," Shiro points out, "But well it's hard to know what not to belive might exist after all that."


"Admittedly I didn't see everything, so I couldn't say," Adam admits. "But if there was some intelligence behind it, it does seem more likely with you than with me. You did save literally every permutation of our universe that exists. If there are 'gods', or anything like them, I'm sure that got their attention." He smirks a little. "Good job, by the way."


Shiro grins at that. "Thank you, but I still feel like I was more along for the ride than performing the deed by the end of it..." he admits, "Being a base style leader was NOT a comfortable feeling while it lasted, but at least I ended up getting back in the fight by the end."


Adam gives a quiet sound of agreement. "You never were the type to sit back and let others take care of things," he observes. There's a bit of a fond tone there, but he's looking forward, at the wall there. He looks like he's... thinking about something. But there's a small smile on his face. A moment later, though, he realizes his mind is wandering, and he shifts a bit. "Sorry, I'm just sort of... daydreaming. At night."


Shiro chuckles at that. "That's a good thing, don't worry," he states, "I'd think it means we're both relaxing more..." He cuddles into his pillow a little deeper, but smiles up at Adam as well.


"That's true," Adam agrees. "It's just... I don't know. Everything just feels so... surreal. If I wasn't injured and wasn't feeling actual pain I'd swear I was dreaming. Or that I'm actually dead and this is some kind of afterlife. I'm starting to wonder what's real now..."


Shiro tilts his head. "If you're dead then I must have died some how," he states, "It would explain my not even remembering how I got here, but I certainly don't feel dead."


"Not necessarily," Adam counters. "Though the alternative would be this is a hallucination and you aren't real. And of course you wouldn't KNOW you aren't real, or even if you did, you wouldn't tell me." He doesn't sound particularly upset about this possibility, though. Which may seem a little odd, given Adam.


"And I definetly don't feel fake," Shiro says with a laugh, "But like you said, what kind of proof is me saying that?"


Adam nods. "Though I don't think it's a bad thing," he decides. "Particularly since, what would the alternative to being here be?" He's not going say it, no. But between being here and being dead, he'd much rather be here.


"I'd certainly prefer you not being dead," Shiro states, "...if I'm dead I'm only really concerned about what killed me and what it might mean for the others."


"Besides, you've already been dead," Adam points out. "Well, quote-unquote 'dead', and then later 'really most sincerely dead', if I understood correctly. I think you've passed your allotment for dead-ness," he comments with a wry tone.


Shiro looks a little startled. "So I was too obvious about dancing around that," he wonders. Well, it's not like there are that many ways you'd 'have something happen' that causes you to be put into a diferent body.


"A bit, yes," Adam replies. There's a small smile. "When have you ever really been able to hide something bad from me for very long?" He is, after all, quite good at reading between the lines. So if Shiro doesn't want him to eventually figure out the really bad things? He'll have to be very careful...


Shiro nods and sighs. "I should have known you'd get it before I could tell you," he states, "Yeah...I kind of died. I was still alive but I was being held inside a robotic ship that had chosen me as it's pilot while my body ceased to exist."


Adam pauses, trying to process this. It's not so hard now, after being here for a little while. And seeing people with rainbow hair and people who could leap off of buildings barefoot like they just stepped down from one stair onto the next. "...That's... I'm not sure I know what to say about that," he admits. "Just that I'm glad it protected you from whatever made your body disappear."


"It was in the fight with the Galran's king...I fought him on the astral plane and ...never really got back to my own body after...I'm not sure what happened to it, but it was gone and I was stuck in the lion until the princess managed to take me out and put me into the clone's body," Shiro explains.


"So if not 'dead', definitely an extreme out-of-body experience," Adam reasons. "But... I'm sorry I never had a chance to thank her." Or to help out, but he's already said that, and it would be pretty damn pointless to repeat it. Suddenly he looks thoughtful again... Could it be possible that the princess could come here too? Adam himself came here when he died... so maybe she could too...?"


"Yeah, I got to see everything through the Black Lion for a while," Shiro says with a slight grin, "It was really weird...but...well here I am now...and it's why my hair's all white."


Adam is trying not to seem too interested, so he looks at the wall in front of him as he notes casually, "I don't... really think it looks bad on you." Yeah, that's casual... so dang casual. So casual it might have hurt him to say! Not really.


Takashi Shirogane blushes slightly. "Huh, really," he wonders, "...I was worried about the fact I'm white before my year..."


"I do wonder why it happened... but there's not really any point in worrying about it now," Adam points out. "You could start dyeing it if it really bothered you. But I don't think it looks bad." Pause. Should he say it? He doesn't want to seem like he's trying to... well, get back together. It was years for Shiro -- he doesn't even know how long it was! But on the other hand... that white hair really bothers Shiro, doesn't it? So... Adam take a chance. "...I think it makes you look distinguished. And I don't mean that as a nice way of saying 'old'."


Shiro blushes some more at that. "Well thanks...it is honestly good to know I don't look like an old man before I've even reached 30," he states, "...As much as I am worried by your appearance, I can't say it's because you look bad. You look kind of cool like that..."


('Don't blush. Don't blush. Don't blush.') He's blushing, and he can feel it. ('...Dammit.')

But that's also why he's looking at the wall. Because he can't really blush too well on the left side of his face, so it won't embarass him so much! "Thank you. It... did kind of bother me. I'd thought about trying to get it taken care of, but... well, the skin will have to heal before I can think about that. In the meantime..." Pause. "...It's good that it isn't... really that bad, aesthetically..."


"You look like you...came from...some kind of...movie..." Shiro murmurs into his pillow, obviously starting to flag more to his tiredness, "Thank you...for being here."


Adam allows himself a small smile here, and honest smile. "I didn't really have a choice but to come here," he points out, amused. A pause here, and he decides to let himself admit, his voice quiet, "Though... that said, if I'd known I was coming here instead, I wouldn't have been so scared. And thank you for being here. I appreciate everything you've done." More practically, if Shiro hadn't been here, Adam's not sure how things would have turned out with his injuries.

And yeah, he knows Shiro's going back to sleep. So Adam stays quiet. Except for... well. Humming a quiet tune. It's probably a tune that Shiro remembers, mainly because that's why he started humming it anyway. That's the whole point after all... to comfort Shiro.


And with that humming Shiro doesn't take much longer to be dead to the world. Having Adam around really did help with him getting back to sleep, as much as he fought it a little to talk with Adam some.


Adam sighs a little, finally relaxing. He doesn't mind talking with Shiro, honestly. It's not something he ever expected to do again, even if he didn't expect to die. When Shiro went on the Kerberos mission, Adam was sure Shiro would die in space, before ever coming back. So it was less that he didn't expect he himself wouldn't be there... but he didn't expect Shiro to ever come back. The whole thing just got so turned on its head.

But... on the other hand? This. This... is fine. And now that Shiro's asleep, he can watch him a little while. Creepy? A little. But cut him some slack, he didn't think he'd ever see Takashi again.

('...What am I even doing?')

Confusion starts to set in, and Adam frowns. He doesn't like being confused. Particularly when the logical solution is staring him in the face. He needs Shiro's help, at least until the ribs heal. Maybe longer, if there are more issues with his recovery. After that, he can just get his own apartment at this place, since it seems to be a fairly accommodating place, at least temporarily. Then he sees about trying to get a job at the school to make money, and with that, he's stable, out of Shiro's hair... and away from confusing feelings.

Adam turns his gaze over to the sleeping Shiro again... and can't help but smile. And at the same time, ('Ugh. Dammit, Takashi. Stop being cute!') And then a quiet, wry chuckle. Sighing slightly, Adam picks up the plate that he'd left there on the bed between them (in case Shiro wanted any grapes), and heads into the kitchen just to wash it and put it away. Yes, he's going to wash one dish. Then he heads to bed himself. Hopefully he'll be able to sleep better now.



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