#THEY DID IT THEY KISSED

[gay-otlc]

And They Were Roommates- 3

Gay people finally communicate! By a gay person who does not communicate.

No content warnings that I can think of, but let me know if I should add any.

AO3

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The good thing about being in close proximity to Keefe is, well, getting to enjoy Keefe's presence. Getting to live with him. Sharing meals and seeing his face right after waking up. When he first moved in, his only goal had been to avoid Alvar, but living with Keefe was... surprisingly domestic. And sweet. And Fitz is finding it increasingly hard to hear him say something endearingly stupid and not think I want to spend the rest of my life with him.

The unfortunate thing is that Keefe is now significantly more difficult to avoid. And uncomfortable conversations with him are also more difficult to avoid.

It's not that Fitz doesn't like talking to him. He does. He really, really does. He likes Keefe a little too much. Maybe if he liked him less, he would be less terrified of saying or doing anything to risk disturbing their shaky friendship. And that makes every conversation seem almost like a minefield.

But he still likes Keefe too much. So he can't stand silence between them for too long, even if talking is... potentially dangerous.

"Do you think he'll seriously still be there? The whole six months?"

He's clearly talking about Alvar, even if Keefe has refused to say that name the two weeks Fitz had been staying with him. Like just the mention of his name would be the thing to break Fitz. As if he wasn't long past broken. He snorts. "At least six months. My parents will probably just let him stay forever. I've called them a few times, and it's been full of, oh, Alvar seems so nice now, I think you'd like the new him, he took Biana out for ice cream in Atlantis, we wish you were here to spend time with your brother. Bullshit. As if they've just forgotten about all of the, I don't know, kidnapping and torturing and murdering. Just because he seems nice now doesn't mean he didn't spend years in the Neverseen. That's not exactly something to just forgive like that!"

He stops yelling, and the room comes back into some clarity after blurring into red fury. He sees Keefe, hugging himself and taking several steps back from Fitz. "Sorry. Sorry, I- I'll just go. I'll give you some space. Sorry."

Stay.

"Wait, it's- it's not your fault my brother's awful."

Keefe scratches his arm, leaving long red marks along his skin. "No, but you said being in the Neverseen wasn't something to- to forgive easily. And I get that. You have every right to feel that way. So I will... leave you alone."

Realization dawns on him; he's disturbed their shaky friendship. Badly.

"No, I didn't- Keefe, I didn't mean it like that. I wasn't talking about you."

Keefe laughs. Most of the time, Fitz would kill to hear another second of that laugh. This time it's cold, humorless. "No. You were thinking it, though. You're still upset. I understand. But please don't... lie to me and tell me it's okay when it's not."

He's right. Fitz can't fully reassure Keefe in a way that's honest.

So he lets Keefe leave. 

That night, Keefe sleeps on the couch.

In the morning, there's a sheet of paper lying on the dresser. Fitz looks at it, and his face stares back. A drawing of Fitz mid sentence, gazing off at something- or someone- with affection in his eyes. It looks like he's in love. 

Probably because he is.

There's a note attached, in Keefe's terrible handwriting.

Fitz,

That's the drawing I was working on. You can finally see it, congratulations I guess. I hope it lived up to all your expectations.

So we should

We need to

I think it's time we got over ourselves and actually talked about the problems in our relationship rather than just pretending they don't exist. But if you're not ready to talk, that's okay. Just let me know when you are.

Love, 

Keefe

Fitz clutches the paper so tightly it crumples. Keefe wrote love. He crossed it out. But he wrote it.

And, annoying as it is, he's right. They do need to get over themselves and talk.

That was, quite frankly, homophobic. 

"You saw the drawing?" is the first thing Keefe says when Fitz sits on the arm of the couch.

Fitz nods. Words don't seem to be moving past his tongue for a moment, and then he says "It was really good. The note, not so much."

"It's much easier to not acknowledge things, but that didn't seem to be working great." Keefe looks down and pulls a loose thread out of the couch. "I'm sorry. I've said that already, but I'm sorry. Running away was stupid and it hurt a lot of people and I just- I'm sorry."

"For what it's worth, I don't hate you like I hate Alvar. He joined the Neverseen to hurt people. You joined to help people, in your idiotic messed up way."

Keefe slowly moves his hand across the distance between him and Fitz, but waits for Fitz to make the decision. He rests his hand on Keefe's. "I'm glad you don't hate me."

"I'm not sure I could hate you." He moves down from the arm of the couch, sitting so close to Keefe their shoulders nearly touch. "I l- I care about you, a lot. That hasn't changed. But trust is important to me, and it's... it's hard for me to trust you, now. I'm trying, but it... it's going to take time."

Keefe lifted their tangled hands and softly pressed a kiss to Fitz's. Fitz tries very, very hard not to explode. "I'll wait. As much time as you need."

"And you won't run away from me again?"

"No. Never again. I thought it was the right decision, I thought you would be better off without me, but then it was-" his voice breaks. "It was awful. For both of us. So no, I won't run away. You're stuck with me."

Fitz rests his head on Keefe's shoulder. "Hmm. I can think of worse fates."

Keefe puts an arm around him. "So, if we're stuck together, do you think we can try to actually communicate about... whatever mess we want to call our relationship?"

"Ugh. Fiiiine. As for what we want to call this mess, how does boyfriends sound?" That was... surprisingly smooth for him.

"Yeah. Yeah, boyfriends sounds good."

"Well, that's settled, so... may I kiss my boyfriend?"

Keefe turns bright red. I did that. I made him flustered. "Yeah," he chokes out. "Yeah, I might like that."

Fitz turns his head, and-

Wow.

Yeah. Yeah. He might have liked that. 

---

"You kissed him!?" Biana screams.

Fitz blushes furiously. "Not so loud, Bee! I don't exactly need Mom and Dad to know about this!"

"Actually, I forgot to tell you- I'm staying with Linh now."

"Okay, well, shut up anyway so Tiergan doesn't hear. I really don't need my telepathy mentor hearing all about my love live from my annoying little sister."

"Fine, fine, whatever. You kissed him. I owe Linh five dollars-"

"You were betting?" 

"Yeah, I thought you wouldn't get over yourselves until at least next month."

"I hate you so much."

"Love you too, Fitz."

Fitz sighs heavily. "Anyway. Fine. Yes. We kissed. We're boyfriends now. This did not magically make our relationship great and uncomplicated but we're working on it."

"Keep me updated!" She waves enthusiastically before hanging up.

Keefe laughs. "She seems happy about this."

"Ugh. Yeah."

"Hey, I'm happy about this too."

Fitz kisses his boyfriend's cheek. "Yeah. So am I."

[camilleflyingrotten]

[hinamie]

surprise it's yuri!!!in 2024

[hansoeii]

when 2022 me thought it would be fun to draw stede with a beard and a silly little curled up mustache and start calling him steard for the fun of it

AND NOW IT'S REAL

THEY DID IT

MY CREATION.

IT IS REAL. HOLY FUCK

[pommegrantaire]

Au lit, le baiser by Henri de Toulous Lautrec but make it Aziracrow

[ash-and-starlight]

humble contribution

[thespermdonorstorylineisstupid]

[somehow-a-human]

DO NOT ASK NEIL ABOUT FAN THEORY

Michael babygirl, I apologize now for the close-up screenshots of your mouth I am going to put on the internet. Call Neil if you have issues with it, it's his fault. Brain-rotting brought on by the lovely @melbatron5000!!!

Honey, why are you chewing on a ball bearing? I was going to be lenient and say it's a glint off of some saliva but nah she's suckin on a damn pie weight. I didn't see her take a bite of any dippin dots, did you? Who let her near my stash of Buckyballs that I was hiding from the Consumer Product Safety Commission? Just because you are bbgurl doesn't mean you get to eat bbpellets.

[redundantz]

Smooches*

[ruporas]

kiss of the divine

[eddie-redcliffe]

[wispscribbles]

you know the art you made of Soap "accidentally" giving Ghost a kiss before going on a mission? (before they started dating) what do you think happened when Soap came back from the mission? :3c

follow up to this post

They start dating of course! <3

[usereddie]

hilarious to me that the first thing ryan does upon being released from pr jail is tell everyone that eddie actually loves buck so deeply down to his CORE and he sees more than a friend in him and it’s like okay……. i understand why he was behind bars now

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

[hansoeii]

this one's for you, edwin paine

[sunclown]

“If you want to be saved, a strong but gentle lady sailor is best!” 🍊🌸