#keith mourning adam and taking his anger out on curtis go brrr

[adashulaz]

Keith hating Shiro and Curtis being together because he thinks that Curtis is trying to take Adam's place. It causes a strain in Keiths and Shiros relationship because Keith will start fights with Curtis in hopes of causing him to leave. To Keith, it's necessary because he doesn't want Adam to be forgotten.

So Keith tends to avoid going anywhere with the others if Curtis will be there. He doesn't like fighting, he doesn't like the way the others look at him with such pity. So he just decides to decline if he knows Curtis is there. If Curtis ends up there while he's there then he'll just leave. This routine continues on until Shiro or one of the other Paladins manages to convince him to go to Shiros house.

Keith doesn't want to go but Shiro wants him there due to it being Adam's birthday. Keith went, expecting to have to avoid Curtis so he won't fight with the man on Adam's birthday. It goes completely off track when Keith sees it. It wasn't something that was there before. Keith's knows that it's new, not that new but still new. It made him want to break down in tears.

It was, at least Keith was assuming it is, an alter for Adam. It had a photo of Adam in the middle, a photo that Keith was familiar with. Adam wasn't smiling in the photo but he wasn't upset, he was simply trying to read a book but he looked up when he noticed Shiro taking the photo. Around the photo were candles and flowers, ones that Keith remembered Adam getting every single time they went shopping. The flowers were new, fresh while the candles were a bit older. There was some wax missing and Keith only held back his tears when the lingering smell finally hit him.

Adam wasn't forgotten. Curtis wasn't taking Adam's place. If anything, Curtis was helping keep the memory of Adam alive. Keith couldn't take his eyes off of the alter. Even after Shiro put a hand on his shoulder, squeezing it to say that it's going to be ok. Keith only looked away when he heard something fall in the kitchen. The kitchen made him want to cry even more.

Curtis was there, making two different cakes. One of them were meant for Adam, he could tell by the frosting. Curtis wasn't trying to replace Adam. Curtis wasn't trying to erase Adam from the family Keith clung onto. Curtis was only joining it. Adam was important to Curtis just like he was important to Keith and Shiro.

That fact caused the tears to spill. Adam wasn't going to be forgotten, he wasn't going to be replaced. Shiro wouldn't be with Curtis if that was true.