Keith gets a pass because he's half human

Ouch

Your portraits with the watercolor style splash are beautiful 🥺

Thank you for your kind words ❤️

Open temporarily that is. I'm not sure who is genuine and who's a bot so forgive me if I tread carefully 😩

That makes me so happy!! I love F1 and I love sheith it was so fun to mash them together 🥰

I kinda want to pick up my sequel wip again 🫣

Keith reaches for his hand and smiles and it's so beautiful. Shiro knows his answer without words and he huffs a small laugh at the way Keith's face transforms into something soft.

Keith squeezes his fingers and quirks a smile, his eyes still damp.

"Took you long enough."

"I love you, Keith," Shiro says quietly, laying his heart on the table. "I always have. If there's anyone I want to go on a date with... It's you."

Keith sits with that for a moment, but as the shiny dampness in his eyes grows, the heavy weight Shiro had been carrying around lightens.

He meets Keith's gaze steadily, unflinchingly, like he has a million times before, but this time he doesn't keep his emotions locked behind a door. He allows it to shine in his eyes, the love, the gratitude - and Keith, as in tune with him as always - inhales sharply, his eyes widening.

"No," he shakes his head. "No, Adam and I.. you remember how it was before I left."

There's a flash of fire in Keith's eye and Shiro knows he's remembering his front row seat to his break up with Adam. It hadn't been Adam at the launch. Only Keith.

Shiro doesn't know where his thoughts go until Keith's expression turns sympathetic.

"Oh," he says softly. "Adam."

For a moment, Shiro freezes, waiting for the same familiar surges of guilt and pain to wrap their tendrils around his heart, but they don't come. He's put those ghosts to rest now.

"I'm not," Shiro finally says, and for a moment he has to pause and sit with the new emotions unfurling inside his chest. How had he been so blind for so long? Keith's been here all this time. "He's not the one I want."

Keith's surprise quickly dies behind a sobering realization.

& Keith's eyebrow raises a little higher, his smile is wry even if something is clouded in his eyes.

"That bad, huh? He seemed nice enough. Sorry it didn't work out."

The last part Keith says with genuine feeling. It's Keith all over. Wanting what's best for Shiro no matter how much it hurts him.

He loves him so much, he always has, but now he wants him to. He wants to hold Keith's hand and kiss the scar on his cheek, brush back his hair and stare into those violet hued eyes the colour of galaxies-

For the first time in his life, Takashi Shirogane's words get stuck in his throat.

Shiro doesn't speak immediately but Keith watches him warily in that quiet way of his.

"I thought you were on a date?"

There's no accusation in his tone, it's measured and mild and Shiro experiences a flash of pride at how far Keith has come over the years.

And god. Shiro loves him.