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The teen blinked wearily as the door opened, eyes going wide as he saw the detective. He turned so that his back was to the Hakuba, hoping the other hadn’t seen the wetness on his face…. Though he most likely had…
“…I had nightmare,” he said, wincing at the hoarseness in his voice.
Hakuba smiled and nodded, relaxing back against the bed, though he had no intentions of sleeping in it.
“He really is. he’s honestly the opposite of myself. He’s friendly to everyone he meets, where as I’m polite. He likes to find the good in everyone, he’s always smiling, laughing. He tries to make everyone feel as happy as he does.” Hakuba placed his hands over his chest, folding his arms. “I don’t know what I would have done without him. He’s my support.”
Hakuba raised a gloved hand to his mouth, yawning softly, and then looked up at the ceiling. “He gave me a reason to keep moving forward.” He closes his eyes. “I’m sorry, I kept you up later then I should have,” He sits up straighter. “I apologize.”
“No, really, it’s fine," the magician was quick to assure, a small smile tugging at his lips, "It was probably going to take me a while to get back to sleep anyway, and it’s nice to hear that you can talk about anything outside of your actual work.”
A slight tease at the end of that. The worry and curiosity loomed in the back of his mind, but they weren’t pressing, so he was trying to fall back into something more normal….
…For all of a few minutes, as the smile fell yet again and he looked over at the other teen.
“…Hakuba? Could you…”
A pause, as Kaito realised what exactly he was going to ask. He probably wouldn’t normally… but, just for tonight…
“Could you come and stay in the bed with me?” And another pause, followed soon by a slight blush and embarrassed hiding of the magician’s face in his pillow at how that might have sounded.
“I mean… not sleeping together or anything. You could even just sit like you were earlier…. …Just until I fall asleep?”
He would be happiest if the other would actually sleep in the bed, for many reasons, but that wasn’t why he’d really asked. He just wanted to feel the weight of the detective there. Knowing that Hakuba, at some point, had to be pulled up before he died… even if the other was fine now… it made that worry swell some. Having the detective stay with him right now probably wasn’t a necessity for dealing with it… but it would help to have the small reassurance.
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