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The bell rung above him, the last time for a long time—
"Huh... Kid, wait!" Sojiro held up a plain envelope from his stack. "This one's addressed to you." He flipped it around, squinting. "No return address, though."
He took the offered envelope, looking it over.
The handwriting…
Akira viciously smothered the hope, because it was impossible. No matter how similar it looked to case notes and essays seen in brief, upside-down flashes across the counter before his attention was drawn away by gloved hands wrapping around a coffee mug and the glint of wine eyes.
His heart beat a staccato rhythm against his chest despite himself, uncaring of how devastating this would be if he was wrong.
He slid his finger beneath the envelope's lip, gently tearing it open. Inside was a small piece of paper. It held one sentence, scrawled in blue ink.
'Hold onto my glove.'Series
- Part 3 of The Inherent Intimacy of Sleep
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"I'm… having trouble sleeping," Akira admitted lowly, kicking at a pebble beneath his shoe. "In general."
He glanced up as the silence hung a moment too long, ready for his dismissal, and saw an internal war taking place behind Akechi's eyes instead.
Finally, "Come with me." and Akechi turned on a heel and marched away.
Akira blinked, caught off guard. Akechi didn't turn to check Akira was doing as tasked, so sure that he would. Akira smiled fondly. Akechi's choice surprised him, but it was far from unwelcome.
He jogged to catch up, settling at Akechi's side. He didn't even think to ask where Akechi was leading him, just… content to be at his side again.
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- Part 2 of The Inherent Intimacy of Sleep
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He never fell asleep around other people. Especially not in a cafe attic that didn't even have a door, let alone a lock, with
the boy he was to killhis rival singing just feet away. People weren't safe. Kurusu wasn't, couldn't be, an exception.Goro's book fell from his hands into his lap. He barely noticed, lashes fluttering shut with the determination to stay that way. He tilted sideways, head far too heavy to hold up a second longer. His descent slowed by pillows until he was flat against the bed, the world fell away.
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- Part 1 of The Inherent Intimacy of Sleep
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He screamed his agony in time with the roaring thunder, felt his heart creak and break with each blinding-bright lightning flash. Tears did not fall with the rain. Perhaps he had ran out.
Perhaps crying meant accepting the truth.
He did not cry.
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Akira and Goro trip their way through trust, intimacy, and love by falling asleep with each other.
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Goro pads forward, telegraphing his movements as much as he can, and, when Akira doesn’t stop him, wraps his arms around Akira’s waist from behind.
“Don’t worry about that,” Goro says into Akira’s shoulder.
Akira’s pace stutters, knife pausing right over the taught red flesh of the tomato. “Let me take care of you,” he responds softly.
Goro tightens his grip, pressing his chest to Akira’s back. “You always do.”
“I—”
“Let’s eat later, Akira.” Goro noses at the nape of Akira’s neck. “I need something else right now.”
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- Part 8 of After Hours at Leblanc
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Joker is the disappointed dad of the team.
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He mulls over it for a few seconds, flexes his fingers around the frame of Akira’s glasses that have been sitting obediently on his chest since the moment he’d stolen them.
Darling.
Goro himself isn’t as embarrassed as he thought he’d be - probably because Akira teased and called him honey plenty of times beforehand. It’s only inevitable that he’d retaliate at some point in time, his pride unable to bear such one sided teasing.
But Akira is embarrassed.
or: Goro calls Akira a bunch of different nicknames.
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Soulmates/Dancing/ Terms of EndearmentSeries
- Part 1 of soft joker love week │summer 2021
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Somewhere along the road, the Phantom Thieves have failed to realise that no one ever actually told Sumire their past with Goro Akechi.
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The gloved tip of a finger starts to caress the rim of the money jar, running in smooth circles. Not unlike how Akechi sometimes traces the cup of his coffee in Leblanc.
It takes all of Akira’s willpower to not follow the hypnotic movement.
“You seem to have gotten a lot of customers,” Akechi says, demonstratively knocking at the jar twice, never breaking eye contact.
or: Akira agrees to run a kissing booth for the culture festival because he thinks he'd get little to no customers anyway. Turns out he's wrong.
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Status Ailment/ Jealousy /Mythical Creature AU/Series
- Part 3 of soft joker love week │summer 2021
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