#ship: kira scott#(: i hate myself for making that connection -queerhawkeye
so I kept reading this quote in increasingly depressing ways, so you get to be tagged in this mess :)
them realizing around kira’s thirtieth birthday that she really isn’t aging, and it stops being a funny joke that lydia tells and becomes a reason they can’t stay in one place for too long
kira feels so guilty about it, her photography stuff might be easily moved, but scott’s vet stuff isn’t- and she asks her mom how she aged and for the first time noshiko doesn’t have an answer for her and it’s terrifying, she thinks it might have been triggered by her first pregnancy with kira but it’s only a guessÂ
and kira doesn’t even want kids, isn’t ready to be a parent and she doesn’t know if she’ll ever be prepared, but she really thinks about it because she hates how they will have to move every decade or so- hates the idea of making scott pick up his life so often, of their growing pack having to move too- scott assures her it’s okay, but it’s hard not to wonder if his life would be better if he loved someone else (she can’t think about the logistics, the facts make her uneasy, the idea of still looking twenty when scott’s old, of what people will whisper not-so-discretely)Â
scott keeps aging, every day a day closer to his death and the rest of her life without him (she swears she was never so negative, but she can’t stop looking at his new wrinkles, can’t stop the heavy pit of dread- she almost misses the days in beacon hills where every day survived was its own miracle)
kira and scott completely devoted to their pack and not taking enough time for themselves - malia asks, but they both tell her its fine- neither of them are good at putting themselves first, and together they end up living a great life, but not the dream they had back when it all began
mason is the one that pushes them to take weekend trips away from home, because he’s been an emissary for ten years and there’s nothing middle of nowhere kentucky has that’s half as scary as a beacon hills on a friday night
scott makes peace with his death long before kira does. his asthma’s gotten worse with age, and while his body still heals itself, it’s slower, frailer- he can feel himself growing closer to death, hears lydia’s old scream echoing in his dreams. kira has mason try spell after spell, but nothing works, and scott tells her not to worry- he’s been dead before, every day since has been luck (he dies in her arms and surrounded by their remaining friends and packmates, their family- it sounds romantic like that, like kira wasn’t biting back screams, tears blurring her last vision of scott)
(kira keeps telling herself that it’s okay they never got their vacation all around the world, but she still wants it- and after scott dies, she goes to all the places they swore they’d visit, and beautiful as they are, none of them make up for the fact that he isn’t there, she doesn’t stop traveling until she can say scott without crying)
(she goes to beacon hills because maybe she’s a little bit of a masochist, but she heard of a new true alpha, great-granddaughter of tracy stewart, and she wants to meet her, help her, know her)Â