meitantei-cowlick:
The thief was always welcome to stay longer, that would never change. He enjoyed his presence a lot and it helped to keep him grounded. But then he also wasn’t sure if it was the thief himself or just having someone around.
Enjoying the presence of said thief, despite his previous joking aside. He moved into the mindset of making them coffee once it was finished, a large black cup for himself and one for KID. Though he would let the thief fix up his own coffee however he wished, as that was something else he had yet to learn about the white clad magician.
“Yes, yes, I understand” he replied absently with a wave of his hand, taking a large drink of the coffee he’d poured himself. “I know it’s not good to only live on coffee, and lord knows you aren’t the only one after me to eat better.”
If he was bothered by the slight scolding he showed no signs of it. Even his tone seemed unbothered and casual about it. “I have gotten better about eating during the day, if it makes you feel better. But I really don’t have time or energy to cook or shop with how much I do in a day.”
He glanced up to the thief and smiled. It wasn’t a particularly strong smile, after all he was still a bit raw from opening himself up some to him. “I’m fine. I promise.”
He wasn’t really but KID had his own problems to worry about this the added problems of an unstable detective.
Kid was of half a mind to just take the coffee black, as awkward as he still felt being here, casual manner aside. However, he eventually decided he wasn’t going to sacrifice his taste buds just because he wanted to keep up thief appearances. Not when he really didn’t have to, especially after all that had happened.
So when Shinichi raised his cup to start drinking, he moved to get creamer and sugar, as well as a spoon, all of which he’d come across in searching for any signs that the other actually did have something he could subsist on, and brought them over and put them next to his cup before taking a seat. Of course, he was still listening as he mixed in enough of the two into the dark drink to make coffee purists sick with how sweet he was making it, though he really would have been happier if he had milk or honey to use instead, since they worked better for him.
Yeah, though he could drink practically any type of coffee, if given the choice, it quickly becomes obvious he has a bit of a sweet tooth.

He did look up while he was stirring, returning the detective’s smile with a soft one of his own. Years of Poker Face let him be able to show it, though it wasn’t as though there was no actual warmth to the grin. The part that wasn’t as genuine was just being used to hide the concern he still had over Shinichi’s eating habits, since that could be addressed later…. but he did make a mental note to at least get some food that could be stored for long periods of time to fill up at least some of the space. If only to make himself feel a bit better about it.
Though… he did worry that the eating habit wasn’t simply limited to being busy with detective work. Shinichi might be saying he’s fine, but…
No. Mental head shake. Some people actually mean when they say that… Just because I don’t doesn’t necessarily mean anything…
…But he wasn’t even believing his own arguments that the detective was okay. Kid knew he probably shouldn’t be drawing on their similarities to make the assumption that the other was lying to him right now….
He just felt like something wasn’t quite right. Probably because he’d said those exact words last night.
’I’m fine.’
The thief stopped stirring the bitter-gone-sweet drink and stared at it for a while before finally removing the spoon.
“…Tantei-kun. Do I need to repeat your own words back to you?”
He took a small a sip from the cup, small smile never quite leaving, though it did turn slightly more sad. No, he wasn’t actually going to wait for an answer to that. Kid may have been wanting to avoid mentioning anything that had happened, but he really didn’t want to have Shinichi possibly trying to shut him out like he had tried to do.
A sigh. He really shouldn’t think so much about things. Especially not this early.
“I doubt you’re fine. …But I’m not really one to talk, I suppose…”