fall apart and start again
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“Shiro,” Keith says cautiously, “what’s it like to be in love?”
Because what else might it be? Something so big that his chest feels like it might burst when he thinks too hard about it, a feeling that makes him smile even when it aches, that strange comfort that washes over him and steadies his heartbeat when Lance is near, even when it stutters for the same reason. That roaring pain when Keith thought he’d lost Lance, and that searing relief when he realized he hadn’t. Their idle conversation. Lance’s palms on Keith’s cheeks, gentle and kind as he searched for injury, infection, pain.
“Hang on to it, Keith,” Shiro says, “it’s always worth seeing where it goes.”
And Keith thinks, as if I could let go of it in the first place.
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- Part 1 of fall apart and start again
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"Let's review; you have had feelings for Keith—"
“I just! I thought it was just jealousy! Or I— admired him, or something! And then I just! Bam, realize it's him!” Lance drops his hands to his lap, “and now… And now, Hunk, I think…”
He thinks, I love him.
And he supposes that's it; that's all it's ever been. Because all Lance can think about is the hand at his neck, those nebula-violet eyes spilling starlight into his soul, the ring still in Keith’s ear.
He wants to say, you’re beautiful. Aches to say, I want to be worth your love. Worth you staying.
If there is one thing he will take with him from this life, it will be the face of the boy he has only just found he has come to love.
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- Part 2 of fall apart and start again