Anonymous: hi! I loved your lovestarved s/o w the paladins (it hit me hard man aaaaa) can i ask a scenario w a love starved s/o and keith? Maybe like both of them realize they're super pining for each other or something like that. Thanks!!
Omg thank u so much! I’m so sorry this took so long!
Something just felt-different .
Love is wierd-it creeps up in your heart, makes it race, and ache, and feel like it will never be felt that way towards any other person.
You didn’t understand-why did fate cruelly make you fall for him? The strong willed, quiet boy who seemed to never show anything towards you? Why him?
Unknowing, he felt the same way for you. That heart racing painful emotion. But-fear kept creeping in. What if you reject him? What if you leave?
So, both of you went your seperate ways. You moved on, forced yourself to love someone else, even though every time you saw your lovers eyes all you aches for was for his. His heart hurt, it eating away at him,as he believed the lie that you didn’t feel the same for him. Both of you were Garrison pilots, you the good student who desperately tried to achieve while he sat back as his talent did the work for him. Until he snapped one day and just-left.It hurt. Quite a lot but-What can you do? How can you change his mind when you broke his heart? You let him go, always thinking of him.
Until one night-the night explosions hit the Garrison. You woke in a frenzy, your heart racing as you slipped in your shoes, running even though the speakers told you to stay in place. You shoved guards, knowing somehow, for some reason, it was him.
What other person would bomb a government facility?
You made it just in time, seeing a tall lanky boy with a green jacket lug your old teacher, Tadashi Shirogane, with a boy you knew too well.
You jogged toward them, ignoring the blatant stares of the group. Keith looked at you-raw shock in his eyes lifting them for a split second, until they hardened like rocks.
“What are doing here?” Keith said, his voice like cold steel.
“I’m coming with you.” You matched his expression, staring into his blue purple eyes, trying to show you cared for him without words.
His eyes softened slightly, knowing too well that you wouldn’t listen to him. He sighed, shaking his head as you climbed onto his bike.
Now it was morning, a nights sleepless rest making you feel groggy. Your heart pumped with anxiety, remembering the events of the night and Keith’s eyes. The eyes you’d been wanting to see for months, but not with that expression-one full of hurt. It tugged at your heart with guilt. You climbed out of your make shift bed, crawling out to go outside and breath in fresh air. Maybe that would clear your head.l
The morning sun hit your face, burning your eyes. Your eyes adjusted to the sunrise, a presence in front of you making you jolt.
Red filled your vision, a boys frame coming into shape
“Keith,” you breathed out, your chest clenching out all your air.
“Y/n,” he said curtly, as if he couldn’t talk to you. Like it hurt him to much. Seeing you like this, your hair hitting the sunlight’s light like a halo, your clothes rumpled from sleep, made him love you even more. You were beautiful even barely awake and it hurt him he couldn’t be as close as he wanted to be with you. You had made that clear.
He tried to walk away, his steps quick and deliberate. A rush of anxiety poured in your stomach-he wasn’t going to leave you again. He wasn’t going to shut you out.
You grabbed his arm, turning your body to face him. A small gasp escaped his lips, the feel of your fiber tips sending goose bumps up your arms. “We need to talk,” you said, your voice soft and commanding. Your searched his eyes-hoping for a glint of softening, but there was none.
“What is there to talk about?” He asked, his voice aggravated and hurt.
“A lot actually,” you replied, dropping your arm, but your body still close to him, small sparks flying between the two of you.
“Like-“ you paused, your heart elevated a little bit, “you and me. What happened?”
Keith laughed, sarcastic and hurtful as it ringed in your ears. “You and me? There was never a ‘us’ if that’s what you mean.”
“But Keith, don’t you see...I wanted a ‘us’!” You explained, your voice soft as you tried to reason with him, show you did care, show you two could still be something even through the confusion and past you two endured.
“Then why did you go off with someone else?” He tried to say with anger, to show he was strong, but it came out like how he truly felt-broken.
Anger instead filled inside you-anger for leaving him because of your own fears. You decided That never was going to happen again.
“Keith...” you whispered, your voice shaking with pain that tugged at Keith’s beating heart, “I was scared. Scared you didn’t want me back like I wanted you. So I...avoided it. I just told myself you didn’t like me.”
You reached out, grabbing his hand gently, feeling the calloused skin against your own.
“But now I know I was wrong and you did have something towards me, like I did for you.
I love you Keith Kogane. And if you don’t feel the same way..” you sighed, looking down at your entertwined palms, “it’s okay, because I’m happy if you are.”
Keith stared at you, hoping this wasn’t a dream. Before he felt inadequate to you, not feeling good enough to be yours- but those feelings seemed to dissolves in a few sentences. He put his hand through you hair, pushing away the strands gently from your face.
You waited anxiously for his reaction, not knowing how he was taking it.
Instead of him walking away like you thought he would, he wrapped you ina a hug, his body warming you in the early morning sun.
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