bitter baby & it's very sweet

This was stupid. This isn't Keith's scene. He hasn't been to a club in…God, it's probably been since Matt and Allura dragged him out for his twenty-first birthday. "You here with anyone, gorgeous?" --- Keith goes out, trying to forget about Shiro and his new boyfriend. Just as he's getting in over his head, he meets Lance. And Lance is more than Keith ever dared to hope for.

"You ready?" "Ah -" Shiro gasps as Curtis kisses along his jaw, tugging at his earlobe with the slightest hint of teeth. "Yes, I'm ready." Curtis licks the curve of Shiro's ear and sucks a kiss to the soft spot beneath it. "I'm gonna take such good care of you, Sir," he breathes. --- Or, Shiro needs to take his mind off things in the aftermath of Clear Day. Curtis is happy to help.

It would be so much easier if the ghost haunting Shiro's eyes was a dead man. Curtis falls in love despite knowing the truth: Shiro is everything to him, but he isn't everything to Shiro. It's someone else's name on Shiro's lips when he wakes up screaming, and Curtis is so in love that he stays, picking up pieces of both their hearts. His love can be enough for both of them. It has to be.