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“Hey Senku-chan?”
“Yeah?”
“Do you remember that time when we made Kinro-chan and Ginro-chan help us with the electric generator?”
Senku raises an eyebrow at Gen, his partner would often ask him strange questions but lately he’d been asking if Senku remembers this and that and ‘Oh that was a nice memory’ and Senku can’t figure out why. He doesn’t answer immediately, instead he pours himself a coffee (god he was grateful to have that again, he doesn’t know how he survived so long without it) and pours Gen some tea.
“Well it was you who used your mentalism to trick them into it, but yes I remember.” He brings the two cups over to the table and sets the tea down in front of Gen while taking a seat with his coffee in hand next to him.
“It feels kinda insulting to say I used my professional skills to trick them.”
“Why?”
Gen sits and lets the steam from the cup fan his face for a moment. “I didn’t exactly need to use any of my mentalist tricks against them. Honestly I think you with your terrible lying skills could have even tricked them.”
Senku huffs “I'm gonna tell them you said that now, mentalist.”
Gen hums and takes a sip of his tea. “They were so gullible back then.”
“Back then?”
“Yeah, I don’t think they would fall for it now.”
“No way.”
“I’m serious!” Gen pushes Senku playfully. “I think they might have actually gotten wise to a couple of my tricks.”
“So?”
“Nothing…It’s just that they’ve grown so much.”
“What are you, their parents? Of course they've grown, we all have.”
“Not you, you're still just as insufferable and childish as when we first met Senku-chan.”
Senku shoots the grinning Gen a look before staring down into his black coffee and saying. “Rude.”
“Do you remember that? When we first met?”
Senku starts grinning slightly also. “How could I forget?”
“What's that supposed to mean?”
“It means that you were and still are an absolute idiot.”
“Wha-Hey! Where did that come from?”
“Common, what the fuck was that whole ‘shallowest man in the world’ bullshit? Do you know how hard I cringed every time you said that? You sounded like a 12-year-old edge lord.”
“Well, excuse me for wanting to be cool and mysterious while I had the chance.”
“I’m sorry, mentalist but you lost your coolness factor as soon as I noticed you were bare-footed.”
“What has that got to do with anything?”
“Here was the supposed number one mentalist in Japan, a prime spy for the enemy's side, a potential threat to the entire kingdom of science…aaaaaand he has no shoes.”
Gen and Senku stare at each other before bursting out laughing at the thought of it.
“Heh…alright I’ll give you that Senku-chan but you’re no better!”
“What?!”
Gen stares blankly at Senku and then at his hair and then back at him. “Do I need to spell it out for you, bok choy man?”
Senku opens his mouth as if he's about to retort but shuts it. He thinks and then says “In my defence, I wasn’t trying to look cool in the first place. I was kinda in the middle of trying to save ruri, fight a war and oh yeah, not die.”
“Do you ever miss it?”
“What, the threat that I could die?”
“No. Unfortunately, that threat stuck with you for years, dear.” Gen says quietly.”I meant do you ever miss the stone wars era?”
“Why would I?”
“Oh common, you're telling me you don’t miss the rush, the excitement, the thrill? It was just us, our small kingdom of science against the kingdom of might and yet we still found ways to best them together.”
Senku thinks about it and then smiles at the memory. “Those were indeed fun times… but the kingdom of science has gotten so much bigger and more powerful.I’d say we've come pretty far since then, wouldn’t you mentalist? I mean we only launched a whole rocket a couple years ago.”
“I know darling.” Gen sighs and takes a long sip from his cup. “I guess I just miss the sense of togetherness we had back then. It felt so homey and comfortable an-”
“Is that why you keep asking me if I remember this and that?"
"What?"
"For the past couple weeks you keep asking me if I remember the old times…is it because you miss them?"
"Maybe a little."
"Why?"
"I… don't know."
Senku tilts his head in confusion.
"I don't know!" Gen sighs exasperatedly "I don't know what it is, you're right we have grown so much and the kingdom of science is so much bigger and more advanced and Everything is better… "
"But?"
"But it's hard not to miss the simpler times, you know Kohaku-chan scolding us and saying how annoying we were-"
"You actually miss that?"
"Mhm, though I could do without the threats to my life, I also miss picking flowers with Suika-chan, and telling Chrome-chan all about the old world…" Gen finishes his tea and says quietly. "I also miss watching the stars in the observatory with you."
Senku looks at Gen trying to catch his eye but fails. "What about now?"
"Hmm?"
"How do you feel now about everything?"
Gen stares into his now empty tea cup. "It feels a little lonely… and yet we have hundreds of more people in the kingdom of science since then. Silly isn't it?"
"..."
Gen looks at Senku who looks like he's deep in thought before taking the empty coffee mug from his hand and silently walking to the kitchen to put them away.
"Would you like to get married?"
Gen blinks and suddenly hears a loud crash at his feet.
He blinks again and realises he dropped the cups.
Senku leaps out of his seat. "Shit are you okay?! Hold on, stay there." He leaves and rustles in the next room for a few moments before coming back with his slippers on and Gen's slippers in his hand.
He makes his way over to the still stunned
Gen. "Here put these on."
The mentalist does nothing but stare at Senku wide-eyed, mouth agape.
"Oi!!"
"You…wanna get married?"
Senku sighs and furrows his eyebrows. "Stupid mentalist almost gave me a heart attack."
That seems to snap Gen back to his senses. "I gave you a heart attack?! What about you?? Seriously, asking me that, out of the blue…" still Gen puts on the slippers and begins helping Senku pick up the bigger glass pieces.
"You didn't need to make a scene. It was just a question."
"Just a question?!"
"Alright, alright sorry I was just thinking okay?"
"Did you mean it though?"
"Yes, I wouldn't have asked otherwise."
"Why would you wanna do something like that though?"
"It makes sense."
"To you."
"You said you were lonely, even though we spend practically everyday together…"
"Senku-ch-"
"Look, you're my 'partner in crime' so to speak and it feels insulting for you to say that you feel lonely even though I'm right here, I thought indulging in the silly rituals of 'holy matrimony' will get it through that your head of yours that your not alone and you never will be…plus I just thought maybe you would like something like that."
Gen feels that if he were holding another cup he would have dropped it again. And then he starts chuckling.
"What's so funny?"
"We're not even boyfriends, don't you think we're missing a couple of steps dear?"
"Who needs anything like that? I think this way is more efficient. Plus I'm not trying to be romantic or anything like that-"
"That much is clear, darling."
"I just thought the fact we would be 'married' would make you feel less alone… I don't know, I'm not the mentalist here."
Gen hums as he picks up the last pieces and puts them in a bag."I guess you're right."
"So what'll it be? Just say 'no' and move on if you don't wanna alre-"
Gen suddenly pulls Senku into a tight hug. "Oh you silly scientist, of course I will."
Senku takes a second to process before returning the hug loosely and smiling softly.
…
“Ughhhhhhhhhh”
“Stop complaining. You’re the one who asked for this, remember.” Gen says not looking up from his notepad, he and Senku (well more him, now.) were drawing up plans on what to include in their wedding.
“But do we have to be so…extra?”
Gen rolls his eyes at Senku. “First off, being extra is literally my thing. Second, all I said was we should set up a nice venue for the wedding. How is that extra?”
“It just seems like so much.” The scientist pouts. “It’ll be loud and crowded and annoying and It just seems like a waste of time. Do we have to have a wedding? ”
Gen gives his soon to be husband (wow) a look that translates to ‘Yes we do.’
“...fine.”
“Look, if you want it doesn’t have to be big, we can just have a small party with our closest friends and that's it. Does that sound alright, Senku-chan?”
“Mhm.”
“Good now then-” They hear someone knocking on the door. “Wait here for a sec dear.”
When Gen comes back, he has a small, black velvet box in the palm of his hand that has some gold lining on top that says ‘courtesy of Kesaki and Joel’ in cursive.
Senku knows immediately what he’s holding but still smiles and asks. “What's that?
Gen raises an eyebrow. “I know that you know what it is.”
“Nuh uh. I haven’t the slightest idea.”
“Yuh huh.” Gen’s expression softens as he sits in front of Senku and opens the box. Inside are two rings, one black and one silver with a single matching diamond decorating each of them.
Plain and simple.
It's so perfect for them and Senku’s soft smile has turned into a warm grin. But then he notices: “Hey why do they have chains at the end of them?”
“Well they’re actually double as necklaces, Senku-chan.”
“That’s not conventional.”
“And tell me dear, what part of our relationship is conventional?”
“I guess none of it… but why?”
“Your hands.”
“My hands?”
“Yes dear,” Gen puts the rings down and gently takes Senku’s hands on his own, they’re covered in tons of cuts from experiments which make them rough, but they're still so warm and familiar.
“I know that your hands are sensitive. So I asked Kesaki to attach thin chains to them so when they became uncomfortable on your hands you could wear it as a necklace instead.”
Senku stares slightly wide-eyed at Gen for a second, he looks as if he might speak but instead opts to stay quiet. Instead he squeezes both of Gen's hands which earns him a warm smile from the other.
“I know, dear. I know. I love you too.”
…
The wedding wasn’t at all as bad as Senku thought it would be, it was actually nice.
Dare he say, he enjoyed it.
But that doesn't stop him from finding a space away from everything and taking a breather.
“Hey.”
Of course Gen finds him immediately.
“Hey.”
“Are you doing alright?”
“Yeah, I was just taking a break, mentalist.”
“Can I sit with you?”
“Why are you asking when we just got married.”
Gen hums as he takes a seat next to Senku and observes the rest of the party around them. He sees Yuzuriha comforting Taiju who’s reeling over the fact his best friend got married. Next to the bar, Kohaku is still scolding Chrome who accidentally interrupted the ceremony while Francois pours drinks for everyone. And way off in the corner, Tsukasa, Ryusui and Ukyo are talking amongst themselves. Well it’s more Ryusui who is talking, but still.
“So how did you like everything, dear?”
“It was nice.”
“Yeah?”
“Yeah…But did you really have to go around calling me your husband every ten seconds?”
Gen puts on a smirk and sing-song voice. “I haven’t the lightest~say idea what you are talking about.”
“Oh shut up, I heard you. ‘My husband Senku-chan’ this and ‘My husband Senku-chan’ that and ‘Oh have you met my husband Senku-chan?’”
“I can’t help it, it just feels so nice to say.’My husband Senku-chan’” The mentalist giggles at that and Senku can’t help but smile. “Hey, I wanna hear you say, ‘My Husband Gen.’”
Senku rolls his eyes. ‘You already know you’re my husband why do i-”
“I know but please just say it?”
The scientist furrows his eyebrows in annoyance. “Ughhhhh fine. My husband Gen.” But then Senku’s eyes flare a little and he says a little more contemplatively this time. “My husband…Gen.”
All the while Gen feels his heart might burst.
The scientist seems to find it more satisfactory this time and says more confidently “My husband Gen.”
He then turns to find said husband with the biggest grin on his face. He returns the grin with a warm embrace which earns him a kiss to his temple.
“This feels so cringey.” Senku mumbles into Gen's coat.
“I know right? But just remember you asked for this.”
“This feels like a mistake.”
“How so?”
“Feels like I'm signing a deal with the devil.”
“Don't act like you didn’t know what you’re getting into, we were going to hell together, remember?”
Senku chuckles. “Obviously.”