#( dave & shiro tag tbd // )

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Dave's lips parted the moment Shiro began to shake. The motion - so subtle, at first - it took him half-a-second longer than usual to realize the other was really starting to panic. He pulled his arms back and froze, mouth opening and closing like a Nutcracker - for a moment they both just existed together without moving. Then his brain kicked back into gear.

"Oh, I- I'm sorry. I thought-" That there had been something lingering between them for so long? The idea of kissing Shiro had popped into his head so suddenly, he had just - well - acted on it without thinking. "I didn't mean to upset you. I can- leave?" Do you want me to leave? When the other man fell against him, his body froze.

Dave wasn't used to this. Comforting... other people. Yeah, sometimes his roommate needed to talk, and he was there for him, but he never could come up with the right thing to say. Very slowly, he wrapped his arms around Shiro's body, holding him like he was a glass vase. "What do you need me to do?" He asked in a whisper, resisting the urge to run a hand through soft, dark hair.

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“ i have cleared my calendar for you ! ” for dave as if he has anything else to be doing given dumbass got no job

The new addition to their world-saving wizard team was... interesting, for lack of a more appropriate word. A man from, supposedly - space - who had shown up out of nowhere and stumbled into Dave’s already weird life. Not that it really bothered him, exactly. Shiro was very... nice. It was just. Baffling? Unusual? Another “hey Dave, you want to try to figure this out?” surprise on top of the whole “by the way, you’re the Prime Merlinean” thing.

So when said new acquaintance showed up at his apartment on a Sunday morning, he’d been half-expecting it. The knock, knock, knock on his apartment door shaking him from his broken sleep.

Dave was used to dreaming of wizards, goblins, knights, science, magic, and awkward younger-self scenarios. That night, he had dreamt of a spaceship inhabited by aliens - and that was, uh - not normal. They had given off an aggressive vibe, but, luckily most on the ship hadn’t noticed him watching them (almost like he’d been observing from a different dimension). The one who had noticed him, though - at the very end of his dream?

Dave couldn’t seem to shake their glowing eyes from his brain.

“Alright, alright, I’m awake,” He whisper-shouted at the second round of knocks, before one hand fumbled to open the door. The excitement in Shiro’s voice made his eyebrows rise, and he took a step back to let the other through. “Oh... thank you?” Dave responded, one hand sliding across the top of his head. “How did you... Did someone, uh... let you in the front door?”

The one downstairs. That was locked. Unless someone a) buzzed you in, or b) let you in with their own keys.

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