#can you tell I'm having fun with my salute emoji

[orange-imagines]

a five-year-long romantically charged pining phase you say……. heh. well.. would you happen to have any thoughts on how Leonard would act during that?

Relationship: Romantic

A/N: One hot plate of mutual pining coming right up o7

God help him, tbh.

As previously mentioned, he's not used to the presence of strong, long-term romantic feelings, especially those directed at one of his best friends. It would take him a while to even realize that the things he's feeling aren't platonic (he just thinks you're a really good pal for a while), but once they click he starts acting very weird.

Len: I always act stupid around people I like. You: But you act stupid around me all the time? Len: Yeah. Don't read too much into that.

Not to be dramatic, but he basically goes through the five stages of grief. And he's stuck in denial for a long time.

He doesn't like the idea that things could change between the two of you if his feelings came to light, or, even worse, that you might think less of him because of what he feels. So he represses all of his sappy romantic urges for literally as long as possible, as bad as he is at keeping them hidden.

Danny and Mick pick up on it very quickly. They know their friend and know when he's acting weird for no reason, and after about five seconds of interrogation, Danny immediately calls him on being into you ("That's all this is? You like Y/N? Fuck's sake, I thought you were dyin'!" "I AM. FUCK OFF").

You'll definitely notice him being a bit more abrasive and standoffish toward you for a few days, similar to the way he was when you first met- not that he wants to, it's just his natural defense. If you ask him about it he'll apologize and try to manage himself better, and if you press him he'll end up venting about "his head feeling all screwy lately". He won't give you any details because he'd rather saw his own leg off than admit he has a crush on you, but he appreciates you listening to him regardless. It does make him feel better.

As much as he tries not to let his feelings get the better of him, they often slip through anyway. He'll end up looking out for you without even thinking about it, taking extra steps to make sure you're alright during missions, shielding you with his body if things go wrong, insisting he patch your wounds up himself afterward. He also lets you borrow his jacket whenever it's raining. Yeah. The ultimate show of affection (Dan and Mick were SHOCKED when they first saw you leave with it. Leonard doesn't even let them touch it, yet he's fully letting it out of his sight with you. He's down bad).

Any flirting you attempt will send him out of his mind, even if he seems to take it in stride in the moment. He enjoys bantering with you and maintaining a snarky back-and-forth, so a lot of times he'll start on something like that, and it'll end with the two of you hardcore flirting. He can be suave when he wants, but when there's obvious romantic tension in the air because of it he chickens out every time, usually clapping you on the back before going off to join the others. He's not oblivious to how much he fumbles moments like that with you, and he overthinks it all the time whenever he's alone.

He doesn't know what the right answer is when it comes to you. It used to feel natural, and in most cases it still does, but he's largely out of his element when romance is involved and second guesses himself every time. You might think he's sending you mixed signals or leading you on, but I swear he's not, he's just bad at this. He wants so badly to be near you and to feed into the feelings he gets from it, but it's really hard for him to shake his fears. Abandonment, deceit, and betrayal have all taken their toll on him, and although he knows you've never given him any reason to doubt you, sometimes his worries just get the better of him. He doesn't want to get his hopes up for something like this that feels too good to be true, but eventually all his feelings are going to become too much for him to stomp down. They'll explode on him, and you, and when he finds out that you wholeheartedly reciprocate it'll be one of the happiest days of his life.

[crackheadintheclouds]

ANONYMOUS

[02] | criminal minds

ANGUS:

Wait what?????!!!! He's not Drex? 

JIN:

Not surprising, I had a hunch it wasn't him

There's no way Drex would behave this way 🙄

ARLAN:

Ah shit I added a wrong person 

JIN:

You definitely did

SKYPE:

Ehem. Angus it could be a SHE too. 

ANGUS : 

🤩🤩OMG I DIDN'T THIKN OF THAT HOW AWESOME IT WOULD BE IF WE HAD A GIRL HERE

SKYPE: 

Hello beautiful~

are you a girl? 

YOU:

Hah! As if I'm going to tell you👁️👄👁️

ANGUS :

Wtf is that Skype you could be flirting with a freaking guy tooooo

YOU:

I'm a girl|

I'm a g|

Im a boy 👦

ANGUS:

Haha Rip Skype 

SKYPE:

Shut up angus

You sure sweetheart? Because you don't sound like a boy 🤨

YOU:

Excuse me are you questioning my identity? I'm a freaking boy 🤨 dude and stop flirting with me or I'll whoop ur ass

ARLAN:

...... 

So he's a boy :D welcome 

SKYPE:

Ajsvsgshsbbsj

Arlan you innocent kid 

How could yoh believe it so easily 

ANGUS:

Yeah he could be faking it 

I've seen a lot of girls behaving as boys sometimes for fun. 

YOU:

Damn|

JIN: 

FFS you 3 monkeys this is a problem weren't we discussing somthg?! 

ARLAN:

Oh yeah we were planning someone's murder :D 

JIN:

🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

Arlan did you really Have to say that out loud ? 

ARLAN :

Ofc ^^ now we have a new member , he should know

JIN:

🤦‍♂️🕳️🚶‍♀️

You guys can't understand my fucking point

ZAID:​​​

Guysss Drex's getting a little cranky here

JIN:

Add him Zaid or my brain will freaking explode trying to handle these guys

[ZAID added UNKNOWN6]

#UNKNOWN6:

Fucking Finally! 

Wtf was wrong with you MFs 

And wheres that Bitch who's pretending to be me 

I will fucking kill him 

Or her

[UNKNOWN6 saved to contact as DREX]

JIN:

Yes we have to kill her  

She knows about our plan 

We need to clean her off for our own good

YOU:

Oh please don't speak bullshit

You guys can't even come up with a good plan to kill  from the past 2 hours and now you're threatening me? 

Tbh All of your schemes sucked

Also you don't even know me Or where I live

There's no freaking chance you can kill me but there's 110% I will kill you all without you even realizing it.

JIN :

Well you've got a point 

But don't underestimate my smart ass, I can find out who you are 

SKYPE: 

How? 

JIN:

I have my ways

SKYPE:

Stfu I'm asking how do you know he's a she? 

ANGUS:

Ni-Nice question skype

DREX:

Fucking bastards 

Why do you guys leave the important thing and start asking dumb questions? 

JIN:

🤦‍♂️Because she used this  💅emoji earlier you freaks 

I agree with you Drex these guys are fucking insane

SKYPE:

Thanks for the compliment

JIN:

Shut Up ! 

YOU:

Um Well

btw you don't have to kill me dude

JIN:

Pfft another dumb question

Why would I do that? 

YOU:

Because I can help you with the killing too

I can suggest you ideas

also I'm not as dumb as you think of me 🙄

DREX:

I fucking doubt that

YOU:

Oh yeah? Go ahead doubt me, don't come crying to me later when your plan fails

DREX:

I fucking won't need to do that too

SKYPE:

D: 

Who said you were dumb 🤡

YOU:

🙂 it's the vibes I'm getting from y'all

ZAID:

Can ya'll stop bickering? Honestly it's irritating me

SKYPE:

That's because you're a saint Zaid 

ZAID:

Say that to my face again 

SKYPE:

You. Are. A. Fucking. Saint. 

ZAID:

That's it you're dead 

YOU: 

What is he going to do to him? 👀

ANGUS:

Prolly throttle him 

ARLAN:

Nah Zaid is too pure to do that 

He'll probably make him do push ups in the gym again

ZAID:

:D that's not it 

Illl make him practice until he can't 🚶

YOU:

Ohh that's brutal

ZAID:

What he said was brutal :'( 

YOU:

😶

JIN: 

Can ya'll keep your mouth shut and speak SENSE for once? 

SKYPE:

Define SENSE plzz

ANGUS:

SENSE IS COMMON SENSE 

BUT IF COMMON SENSE IS COMMON

WHY DO  PEOPLE CALL IT RARE? 

YOU:

Bruh I salute you

🙆🙇‍♀️

JIN:

Becoz ppl like you exist :D

DREX:

You assholes ugh

Can't you all ugh 

What am I even saying ugh

YOU:

UGH 👑

Wait where were we? 

Oh yeah you were about to kill me

SKYPE:

I don't have the guts to kill a beautiful girl like you

(˵ ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°˵)ﾉ⌒♡*:･。.

YOU:

Eww  barf

How do u even know I'm beautiful

Dude u haven't even seen me

Like I bet you will turn blind when you see me

JIN: 

Alright alright let's get back to the point

we won't kill you if you suggest a scheme and might as well include you in our plan. 

YOU:

That's sounds good 

Well honestly whatever you guys were trying earlier won't work at all, I can write it up and give u that as proof 

But if you're planning to do it secretly without much attention 

I would suggest you poison them

SKYPE:

:0

Poision that's evil 

JIN:

And how exactly will you do that? Go at their freaking home and put it in their food? 

YOU:

Honestly, do you have a brain?A few minutes ago you yourself spoke the cons of it. 

You're smart but you're stupid Jin -_-

JIN:

Then how are we suppose to do it? 

YOU:

Haven't you heard of drink switch? 

You can lure your prey in a party or buffet and then change the drink 

You can also secretly add it but cautiously so that no one sees you.

You can even stuff it in normal food and slide it into their food slyly in the cafeteria which wouldn't raise much suspicion and also get rid of them. 

DREX:

Well that sounds good tbh 

It can work

We can lure her in the celebration party at school

JIN:

Well that was astonishingly creative. 

ARLAN:

But where do we get the poison from? 

YOU:

You can leave that to me :D

SKYPE:

Does that mean we spare her??? 

JIN:

we need her so yeah

YOU:

Oh man thank youuuuuuhh for not killing me <333333

SKYPE :

Yay! :D 

Welcome to the killing gang

DREX:

Jin we're making a mistake 

we can work it ourselves we don't fucking need her

JIN:

Drex don't, just don't

You don't have any idea after how much struggle we finally got ourselves a plan 

So just keep ur mouth shut

YOU:

Yes keep ur mouth shut T rex 🦖

SKYPE:

LOL

T rex  is a good nameee 

YOU:

Ikr 🤩 sounds awesome right

Also suits his fucking personality

DREX:

I swear to God if you speak that one more time–

YOU:

What will you do T-rex 

┬┴┬┴┤( ͡° ͜ʖ├┬┴┬┴

You don't even know me haha

DREX:

I will kill u when this is over

YOU:

I'll kill 🔪 u before that ty

Wait so who are u killing anyways?

ANGUS:

A fucking Bitch 

ARLAN:

Big mouth bitch 

SKYPE:

Acts all smart and good but is an ugly witch

YOU:

Woah woah stop the poetry cut the crap and get to the point

What's her name

JIN:

Ruth

DREX:

Ruth Anderson

YOU:

Fuck

Just consider there's a girl called Ruth and she's your cousin lol.I was going to write [Your cousin's name] but i thought it would sound lame So yeah :')  I know I'm a crappy writer lol don't judge me 🛐 but i assure you I'm trying my best to write this. lol (≖ ͜ʖ≖) last but not the least I'm really sorry for my broken sense of humor. 

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[starrysmiling]

(threateningly) all the numbers

i have been threatened.

How many words have you written this year? published total on ao3 is about 33k, but if i add all the unpublished stuff the total is just over 70k! i sure wrote a lot of stuff i won't publish this year LMAO

How many works did you publish this year? 4 (salute emoji)

What work are you most proud of (regardless of kudos/hits)? finishing steps v2...! it adds a lot of canon exploration and also fern character study which was fun to write and really satisfying to get out!

What work of yours has the most hits? from this year it's steps because i didn't publish anything that wasn't unbound but is it cheating if like half of its 600 hits were from last year. haha. haha

What work of yours got more feedback than you expected? i actually didn't get that much feedback at all from anyone who wasn't already a friend so i guess i'll have to work harder for that. nobody new commented on anything that i published this year and i didn't get a single reblog note so... (shrugs) but there was a nice comment i got about steps taking liberties with the post-canon which made me very happy...!

Favorite title you used i'll post this later this month but 'one step at a time' as a half-companion piece to steps... if i can finish it in time.......

If you use song lyrics, which artist’s songs did you pull from the most? let's just take a moment to listen to acacia by bump of chicken the fucking song ever the everything the fax essay

Pairing you wrote the most for this year?

Favorite pairing you wrote for this year? 8 and 9 are the same. fax. i only wrote fax. fax the ever

What work was the quickest to write? respite took me about a day, which is insanely fast actually

What work took you the longest to write? steps took me like 8 months to rewrite. it turned out pretty damn good so we're winning here

How many WIPs do you have in your docs for next year? surprisingly not a lot... i have bodyguard to work on, which is pretty much a constant, but otherwise i think i'm done most of my wips. i want to take a writing break once i'm done with my current fics because i'm just. tired. but i have a bunch of ideas (some basic ideas and aus, some about aros with jax... i have reincarnation sitting in my notes... promised to do something w crime boss and syndicate too...)

What’s your longest work of the year? stop making me say steps BUT it's 38.5k baby!!!!!!

What’s your shortest work of the year? actually this unpublished micro study of fern which i find really sexy. i'll put it at the end so you guys can read it too!

What WIP are you taking into next year with you? bodyguard (fernsleep) it's always bodyguard. augh

What’s your most common “Additional Tags” tag? pov 2nd person because it's so fucking sexy but to be real it's probably fluff

Your favorite character to write this year? i literally only wrote fax. so uh. i guess jax ? he's easier than fern

The character that gave you the most trouble writing this year? SEE ABOVE. FERN IS HARD

What’s one pairing you want to explore next year? not really pairing but once i get up to khux i have something in mind w ephemer! and also maybe some khml things because i can't just be faxing all the time (i can absolutely fax all the time and i will continue to if left unchecked)

Which work of yours have you reread the most? probably steps again but i think hook, line, sinker gets privileges too

How many kudos in total did you get this year? ao3 is telling me 27 on the fics i've posted this year of which like. 10 are from steps being from last year. let's do better next year. otherwise i get a ton from my old prsk works and occasionally from enstars but i haven't posted anything new for either for a while

Which work has the most comments? please i literally wrote only for a ridiculously obscure fandom. please give me a break (it's steps.)

Did you do any collaborative works this year? no :( i think it'd be fun to try but i'm kinda bad at working with people because of my specific vision and vibe for whatever i do (also perfectionism). i also literally don't have friends into the same things as i am

Did you write any gifts this year? mage i know you're here. i hope you enjoyed your 13k of porn

Did you receive any gifts this year? no. i don't expect to get any though

What’s your most common category? what does this mean . umm. m/m G-T usually i think releasing porn this year was a bit new but it was good and i liked it a lot so ,

What do you listen to while writing? whatever song i'm addicted to recently! this is how you get me listening to catchy idol pop while i'm writing about fern getting his sanity fucked out of him. the vibes don't really matter because the music is just there to stop me from getting distracted at everything

Favorite work you wrote this year? this ask game really wants me to say steps again but it's literally my pride and joy. i hope you all play unbound so you can read my 38k monster oneshot

Favorite line/passage you wrote this year? "It's cute, in a way, how his dishonesty betrays everything he wants to say."

Biggest surprise while writing this year? i actually quite liked a lot of the things i did this year. they're not bad and i don't mind rereading them and i hope that means i've gained a bit more confidence in myself... also i wrote 13k of straight up porn that's new. i've never wrote that much goddamn porn before lmao

anyway that bit from (14) because i think it's really sexy thinking about fern in terms of his relationship with intimacy and how that relates to sex and romance in his view of things... y'know......

[miraakulous-cloud-district]

For the Skyrim OCs ask! Tell me about Ravonna! Answer two or three of your faves from the list in her voice.

Link to the ask game can be found here <;3.

Oh my God, this is brilliant! I've done an ask game a few months ago where I let Ravonna respond and she's been itching to talk again, so I'm letting her take the lead (don't mind the emojis, she is fascinated with them). Also, sorry for taking so long to get to this! I guess Ravonna got a bit shy?

🔮🔮🔮🔮🔮🔮🔮🔮🔮🔮🔮🔮🔮🔮🔮🔮🔮🔮🔮🔮🔮🔮🔮🔮

Greeting and salutations, it's me again, ready to run my mouth. Thank you for the ask game and for giving me the opportunity to speak here again. You may live to regret it *she laughs*. Here, have a pint, we may be here for a while. I'm a bard, and let me tell you, we like to talk. A lot.

One of the questions that sparkled an interest on this one over here: Do they believe the College of Winterhold caused the Great Collapse? If no, what is their theory?

I am a mage, and I've also been to the College in Winterhold, and let me tell you: that place was where I felt the most welcome in all of Skyrim. I wasn't delusional when me and Lucien planned the trip to Skyrim, I knew the people aren't the most welcoming, but I'm one of them, a bloody Nord, and all I got was shitty remarks, growls and weird looks. I even got to jail once because I almost got into a fight with this guy. *she huffs a laugh*. There was a huge giant, and I rushed to help! Mind you, I had just escaped Helgen, I was having the worst day of my life (narrator's note: this wasn't the 'worst day of her life', she is just exaggerating) and then this Vilkas guy comes in and he starts preaching about how he needs none of my fancy magic and that this is his city and I'm not welcomed there. I just know that my '''''fancy magic''''' would kick his ass into oblivion and back! ANYWAY, I deviated form the subject a bit, but The College of Mages is my safe space in Skyrim, and there are some of the nicest, most fun people. So I don't believe that they were responsible for one bit! It was probably the flying whales, or the Kraken! Or just nature, which can be scary as fuck. Or an army of giants? I don't know, I wasn't there, but I will defend the mages! And this brings me to my next question: Do they believe in snow/sky whales? Yes. I've seen stranger things. Besides, Hjaldir saw some. he even hunted some, but they're extremely tricky to catch, but the meat on those things? DELICIOUS. EXQUISITE! I need to go back to High Rock and eat an entire whale right now! *she laughs, but her smile is filled with nostalgia and sadness. She misses Hjaldir and her old life a lot. She finishes her pint of mead in one big gulp.* (the author is trying to get her to stop, but she wants to answer the other magic question)

AH, how can I resist this one: If they are a magic user, what is their favorite school of magic? Do they have a natural talent for magic, or does it require diligence and study?

But here's the thing, I don't know! Magic is so amazing and it can be used in so many ways! I love to combine the schools of magic, it's really effective! But of course, nothing compares to destruction! I am a master destruction mage, and I've worked with this school of magic for as long as I remember. This is where I feel most comfortable! And one school of magic that I find really useless is restoration. *Miraak, the ultimate healer, raises an eyebrow from somewhere* I mean, I can just buy the potions! I have no need for it, really!

[wittywallflower]

For 2024 in review!

2, 7, 20, 30!

2. What’s something new that you tried in a fic this year?

(not IN a fic specifically but whatev) This year i did a holiday fix challenge (Catwinter) and while I have written holiday-themed fic collections before, and used prompt lists before, I've never really done the actual challenge as part of a fandom event where i actually follow the prompt list and post the stories during the designated time with the special hashtag, I'm usually just doing my own thing on my own time and not tagging the event/prompt because i wasn't following the 'rules' after all. I'm always hesitant to commit to events like that cuz like, what if i have no inspiration and motivation to write when it comes down to it??? then i feel the lowgrade anxiety/stress of not turning my homework assignments in on time. even tho I'm a fucking 40 year old woman with a bachelor's degree who is voluntarily writing fanfic just for funsies. I fucking hate the way brains work sometimes...

Anyway the event was fun and I made myself write just the scene(s) that came to me instead of agonizing about building up some backstory to the scene, building perfect bridge scenes between disconnected bits, and fleshing it all out 'properly'. Because that tends to lead to me not finishing/posting things because it never feels like enough. But the fact is that sometimes my story was meant to be only 1.2k words and Thats Okay.

7. Did you write for any new fandoms or ships this year?

I wrote the Catwinter fics mentioned above plus a few others for Dead Boy Detectives, a show brand new for 2024.

I also wrote my first Ted Lasso fics this year, though i have been a fan of the show since pre-2024.

20. Share your funniest line

got distracted from answering this by rereading several things, lol. no particularly good one-liners that will make any sense out of context. which is surprising to me because usually every fic has at least one line that is witty af. but here's two fun excerpts of a chapter from my Ted Lasso fic where Roy and Jamie get ready for a road trip and I think this bit is hilarious but maybe that's cuz its semi-based on semi-true events...

(for context, a minute before Jamie was joking about Roy having special mind powers):

“ Busier than usual, there’s a queue,” read the text from Roy. “Might be a while. ” Jamie grinned.  “ bet u can tell me exactly how long it will b ” he typed back “ Fuck off, I’m not clairvoyant. ”  Jamie needed to take a second to google that. Jesus fuckin’ Christ, Roy, just say ‘psychic’ like a normal person.  “ Go on n guess. If u get it right ill give u 2 song skips on the playlist ” “ Who are you, fucking Spotify? We’ll skip whatever the fuck I want to skip. ” A second later came a rare Roy Kent double text. “ Fucking fine. 24 minutes. ”  Jamie was delighted that Roy had given in and decided to play along. It wasn’t impossible to get the stodgy fucker to be silly sometimes.  “ its a bet. honored 2 b best mates with a superhero ” was accompanied by a salute emoji, several wink and silly tongue-out emojis “ Fuck off. ” Roy predictably responded.  (.............)

“Okay, now are we ready?” Roy asked again. “Yup! Oh, wait! Alllllmost, ooone sec-” Jamie stalled as he unlocked his phone and gave it a few taps. “Okay.” Jamie held up the phone where Roy could see it as a video clip began to play. The voice of Optimus Prime gave a rallying cry of “Autobots, roll out!”. And Roy had to work really fucking hard actually to resist joining in Jamie’s demented giggling.  “How long have you been waiting to do that?” Roy tried to ask as deadpan as he possibly manage. Ice cold stoicism. Jamie’s giggles continued, so Roy probably wasn’t very successful at that.  In that precise moment, an alarm went off on Jamie’s phone and that muppet face of his fucking lit up even further with glee and wonder. He started slapping Roy excitedly on the bicep and shoved the phone right up in Roy’s face, pointing at the timer app on the screen. “Psychic Grandad” was the label on a 24 minute countdown that now read 00:00. “ That’s how long i been waitin’! Oh my god, Roy!” The giggles escalated into cackles until Jamie had to take a pause and gasp for a breathe a few times before he got enough wind for another round of laughter. 

30. What would you like to write next year?

I would like to make some fucking progress on my OFMD multichaps which have languished largely untouched since 2023. Really any of my unfinished multichaps I would love to give them some attention.

The Big AmbitionTM project is the 42k words i have written (zero of these words are published anywhere) of a Modern AU Good Omens Beelzebub/Gabriel fic I wrote long before GO s2 was even a thing that might possibly exist someday. honestly its a fairly complete and pretty damn okay fic as-is, but its not Great yet, and the overachiever in me is like "you know what would really put this story over the top? Inserting some quoted lines and easter eggs and direct references to GO s2 up in this bitch." cuz it already has a bunch of similar references and lines from s1, and s1 didnt even have canon Ineffable Bureaucracy! I can't write that many words for the ship and not even mention their fucking song! but finding the lines and the more subtle references to use will require watching s2 again, probably more than once, and I've just been busy fixating on different shows

[kiwibirbs-library]

Hello!! I saw you in my feed and followed right away with your event hehe, I pick keith from voltron for the event! The emojis shall be ⭐🍊🍁 you can ignore this if you want to ;)

a/n: and why on earths surface would I ignore such a wonderous ask????

300 followers event

Pairing: Keith Kogane x reader

Warning: none I think?

Summary: doing his make up made both of you reflect on some things.

⭐️ - “Why in gods name are you the only one that makes me… not… mean?!”

🍊 - “oh my god no.” “What what’s wrong?!” “I’m in love with him…. HIM of all people???”

🍁 - “can I do your make up. You’d look better than everyone and you can strut in the halls.” “You had me at ‘better than everyone.”

Not read through

You would be lying if you said you didn't think this bet didn't sound fun.

"Lance I'm telling you right now, I might be agreeing but if I die it's on your hands," you told him, raising your brows at him. He gave you a salute before joining a snickering Pidge and Hunk who was trying to tell you to not do this in hand signals. You gave them an awkward thumbs up before turning to the door in front of you. You took a deep breath and knocked on the door. It took a moment before it slid open, revealing Keith looking down at you confused.

"um hello?" he questioned. You smiled and batted your eyes, knowing nothing would help you if he thought you were weird for this.

“can I do your make up. You’d look better than everyone and you can strut in the halls,” you rocked on your heels, really wanting to see what he would look like with it on.

“You had me at ‘better than everyone," you froze at his words, not expecting him to agree so readily.

"wait is that an actual yes?" your eyes widened and a wide grin grew on your face. He took a second to react to that, moving his head back a bit at your disbelief.

"I wouldn't have agreed if I didn't want too, so ya, it's an actual yes," he looked confused slightly but none the less walked into his room and let you in. You smiled again, looking to the others and giving them an enthusiastic thumbs up and ducking into the empty bedroom.

"You don't have much stuff in here do you?" you hummed as he pulled a chair up to his bedside.

"mmm no not much," he nodded and sat down on his bed, motioning his head to the seat in front of him. You sat down, setting the small bag you were carrying next to him and grabbing a few things. You hummed happily as you patted some base onto his face. He seemed stiff at your touch. "that's cold," he flinched in slight shock and you let a laugh out lightly.

"Sorry," your breath fanned his face as you spoke. He gulps as you put your hand on his leg and leaned over him more. "you'll fall backwards if you keep leaning away like that," you said quietly. He didn't even notice how he subconsciously was pushed by the brush in your hand. He didn't respond, only trying to move forward without messing you up.

His movement made he realize how you had abandoned the chair and were basically on top of him now. And then his hand slipped and he did fall back. Your eyes widened as you followed, brush falling from your hands as you pinned Keith. His eyes widened, mirroring your own as you stared at each other. Your hair fell around your face, causing a halo effect from the likes on the ceiling. Keith felt his breathing stutter when you moved slightly.

"I-um..." you stopped for a moment. "well I'm done! So um strut to your hearts content!" you scrambled off him, packing your small back and sliding out the door. Keith stayed down for a few minutes, his barrings completely shaken. You went straight to Pidge's room, surprising the crap out of her, Lance, and Hunk who were in the middle of a round in a video game.

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"are you ok?" Hunk questioned when the door slid shut, your eyes wide and almost vibrating as your breathed heavy.

"What does it mean when you think of someone and you start hyperventilating??" You gasped, sliding down to sit against the door.

"uhhh whats hyperventilating?" Lance asked quietly.

"breathing unhealthily fast," Pidge answered. You put your head in your hands, already having an idea of what was happening to you.

"did something happen?" Hunk asked you, offering a hand to you and pulling you up to sit with them. You groaned and flopped onto the large boys shoulder. He patter your head while Pidge and Lance snicker.

Keith looked different than how you alway saw him when you fell on him. It wasn't like he was mad or frustrated, but not happy. You couldn't place the glint in his eye. You paused. How could you even know the difference between the looks he gives.

Ok sure you do stare a bit when it comes to him, but you never thought you did that much. When were you able to tell the difference between annoyed and indifferent when his face never changed. You stiffened on Hunks shoulder when it hit you. All three of them noticed and turned to you in confusion.

“oh my god no.”

“What what’s wrong?!” Lance questioned, setting his controller down.

“I’m in love with him…. HIM of all people???” you groaned a flopped back onto the floor, landing on Pidge's old jacket. You took it and shoved it into your face, trying to suffocate yourself. Pidge snorted and slapped your leg.

"oh lord, guys she finally noticed," she laughed loudly, pushing her glasses up as she leaned forward.

You sighed. God what was happening.

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Keith had been cleaning the same spot on his blade for the past 10 minutes. He could see even the most detailed parts of his reflection now as he removed the cloth.

Even staring at himself he could only think about you.

You were the only person he can remember other than Shiro that he respected this much. Was respect the word to use? Honestly he didn't know.

He wanted to listen to anything you said without an argument half the time you spoke. He wanted to be around you constantly. The way you would space out when looking at him made him freeze. The way you would try and hide your laughter at some stupid joke Lance made made he want to hear your laughter more.

The paladin sighed, throwing the blade to the side and dropping down on his bed.

“Why in gods name are you the only one that makes me… not… mean?!” the thought echoed through his head. He groaned and punched his pillow.

Maybe he should go talk to you? No that wouldn't help. It would just be weird. He groaned and stood, pacing around his room. Then he looked up and into a mirror. He paused and looked at himself. Thats right. You did his makeup.

There was smoke around the rims on his eye, fading out to the end. You put red and black into it, making it a combination of his lions. He smiled at himself.

Maybe he would strut, just a little wouldn't hurt.