STAR STRUCK

❛   I don’t think we’re going to win.   We’re kids, Shiro.   We’re suppose to be freaking out over pimples and panicking about exams.   Not wars and aliens.   ❜

@umbraform

there would be this awkward silence whenever pidge would be alone with the black paladin. mostly, they would talk about simple things but sometimes if the situation was tense, they would just be silent with each other, not minding their business. pidge was not a person who’d initiate into conversations easily— and even though it was shiro ( someone who knew their brother and was friends with them ), they wouldn’t sometimes initiate at all. 

just as right now, they would screw on a device just to put it apart and then together; only to check their tech and maybe grab one or two parts of it for later. it was something they would do if they were bored or if they’d need a distraction. they were mostly minding their own business and forget about their surroundings— until they’d get shiro’s voice in their ears.

 ‘ not really ’, they answered quickly, not looking at shiro at all, keeping their mind on the device.

    he was clearly bothering    pidge , he could notice as much .    they had better things to do than answer shiro’s stupid question -- he spoke up just to avoid the elephant in the room .    was it only nagging at his mind?    perhaps that’s for the better , although it confirmed that it isn’t a topic to be handled easily .

    it was starting to bother him too , how it never left him .    pidge was far more calm and collected , they truly did what they could in order to find matt and their father and they didn’t give up on their search even for a moment .    the fact that shiro was aware that he could’ve tried harder , that he could’ve moved to prevent their abduction had been eating him alive , it was a sensation always present , ready to grab his head and make him lash out .