“Where were you?!”

themoonlightthief:

themoonlightthief:

My muse has been missing for several days. Send “Where were you?!?” For mine to suddenly show up at your muse’s doorstep, in rough shape.

Kaito flinched, just barely managing to stop himself from taking a step back, his gaze shamefully, guiltily, darting off to the side and towards the ground. Maybe this had been a bad idea after all. He knew there would be questions – of course there would be – but he’d hoped against hope and prayed that his other self would, at the very least…

…He wasn’t quite sure how to finish that. And, in all honesty, it didn’t really matter at the moment anyway, did it?

Swallowing thickly, he opened his mouth, then closed it again, hesitating, before glancing back up towards the thief again. And the expression that met Kaito only made the guilt and utter selfloathing grow to the point that he felt like he might just throw up.

“Ah, I…”

A thin, weary smile curved at the corners of his lips and a bloody hand selfconsciously tugged the equally bloody and dirty sleeve down his other arm and Kaito chuckled, quietly, tired indigo eyes flickering away once more.

“I went to buy chocolate and got lost on the way home…?”

“Would…”

He swallowed, the rest of the words suddenly feeling like they were stuck in his throat. His gaze awkwardly dropped to the ground and his face tinted a faint pink in embarrassed uncertainty. Don’t. He could do this. Deep breath. Calm down. It’d be alright. It would be.

“Would it be alright if I…” Kaito tried again, quietly, unable to bring himself to look at his counterpart. “…If I took you up on it?”

The thief waited, patient and watching, as his double formed the words, pausing when the question finally came out. His head tilted slightly, having to push down the urge to laugh a little. He honestly wasn’t sure how it’d be taken, though he did still smile wider.

“…I wouldn’t have offered in the first place if it wasn’t alright, magician-san.”

The hand on the knob pushed the door further, as if to close it, but Kid didn’t shut it quite yet, just faced the magician.

“I would be happy to stay, if you’d like me to.”