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Whatever happens, we’ll remember this space. Every little piece of it.

[He pauses, considering the wooden rabbit currently a work in progress in his hands.]

...Yeah.

Thankfully... it's a lot easier to remember the moments I spend with you. So, it shouldn't be hard.

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[ moving the small bunny light under… ]

All moments that you had a hand in making. Man, without you… I dunno where I’d be.

[ he doesn’t want to be anywhere without yoshi anyway. no yoshi, no deto. he hasn’t thought in detail about what that actually means, but it feels… true?

and anyway, it won’t happen because they’ll be together. that alternative universe died elsewhere ]

This is probably the scariest thing that’s ever happened to me. But also, the very best thing.

Those are two pretty big extremes... But I think I get what you mean.

[Finishing up the black one first! He'll hold it out to Deto to arrange with the sheets.]

[ extremely true, he means

it’s only right to put aki-usa on the side of the fort corresponding to the side of the bed deto’s usually on ]

No matter what, all the moments I make with you will be worth everything.

[Working on the second bunny, a little smaller than the first.]

...Yeah. I can't really tell what it would be like in that other world, but...

If all of this hadn't happened... If I hadn't met you... Even if it would have been safer, I don't know if I'd have ever learned just how happy I'm allowed to...

...Just how happy I can be.

[ he catches the shift in yoshi’s phrasing and smiles slow and blazing. he’s happy - and it’s all because of this boy. the only difference is he’s never had to struggle with allowing himself to feel anything

but this, this is so much progress ]

I never knew either. It’s kinda crazy because I’m happier everyday with you.

...Yeah. Being with you - feels like the first time I was really happy in a long time.

[That soft smile persists even as he continues carving that white rabbit figure.]

You know - your face lights up just so perfectly. I think… you were made for smiling.

[ in other words: you were meant to be happy ]

[And now that face is blushing.]

I-I do smile a lot in general, too.

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[ anchoring the lower half of the sheets in different areas so the bottom opens up a little more. he looks up from his task and catches yoshi’s blush ]

Blushing at that when you already know how I see you?

No one's ever said it like that before... It caught me off guard.

[Adding a couple pink touches to the ears and paws and nose and - done!]

[ 100% would sulk if someone else did ]

Very cute, just like the real thing.

We'll have to keep them together - just like the real thing.

[Scooching over to see how the fort's looking!]

[ for now they’ll have to stare at each other across the draping bridges of fabric before they can be with each other

deto turns on the bun lamp, adjusting until the light mellows into warmth. the tent stays relatively dusky, enclosed twilight and pillows ]

What do you think?

-! Looks great!

[He doesn't spend too long admiring it from the outside, though - opting to crawl in and flop on some of the non-load bearing pillows.]

You're like a pillow fort pro.

[ he lays down, too, turning toward yoshi ]

How does it feel? When I was a kid, it was a safe space. Like my own space for once.

[ also a game that didn’t cost any money ]

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Feels nice. ...You needed space before?

[It's hard to imagine, given how often he seeks out time with Yoshi.]

Don’t remember how often, but sometimes, probably. That’s the most familiar feeling. Safe, but mine.

...Do you ever need time alone here, too?

[ … ah ]

To be angry, yeah. Not too much or anything - and not often. Just - you know, it needs to go somewhere.

[ and it seems to upset yoshi if deto gets mad about anything unfair happening specifically to bun ]

...What kinds of things make you mad here?

[He's got a bad feeling...]

[ he sighs quietly to himself, then reaches out to touch yoshi’s face. not a caress yet, just the corner of his eye, the curve of his cheek - how many times has he done this? he’s lost count already ]

Here… well… [ he trails off, but his eyes don’t drop from yoshi’s. dark with affection, he hopes, and not something else like… the frustration he feels sometimes ] I’ll put it like this: I just think it’s okay to not be okay, even here.

[ so basically today made him mad ]

And - you can love all of someone even when they’re not okay. Doesn’t mean they immediately have to be okay to prove themselves for that love.

[He automatically tilts his head into the touch - lays a hand gently over Akira's.]

...

After today... are you going to need time alone, too?

[He knows - it's not his fault. Or at least, Akira swears up and down it isn't. But... was there really nothing he could have fixed about himself so it wouldn't have happened in the first place?

...The thought of Akira having to go out on his own, just because of the anger he feels on behalf of a boy who can't feel any such thing by himself...

...He doesn't apologize. But his gaze drops, and he bites down lightly on his lip in an effort to make sure one doesn't slip out in spite of himself.]

[ need… eh ]

I want to be here - with you. For you, if you need me, but just… with you whenever I can.

[ and if things get worse and he gets thirty mins of spare time, then he’ll take it ]

If I get to pick, that’s my number one choice.

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