💝- A memory that made them feel loved [MEMORIES]
A gloved hand sweeps through his hair, a movement that makes him shiver. Touch. He was so unused to it. She had loved him, but kept her distance, as she knew that he’d often end up simply jerking in reaction and injuring anyone close to him.
X, however, was a completely different story. A kind of platonic love he almost never experienced, the other hunter seemed to have quickly adopted a fondness for Zero’s locks, which were currently crusted with at least five different types of oil from five different robots veins. X’s fingers gently swipe threads of black out of a sea of gold under the soft flow of water, and the weight of his partner is pressed against his back. Warm. Secure. Comforting.
He had never much liked being touched, but here, covered in oil and debri in a maintenance shower with the other, he couldn’t bring himself to care. Especially when, despite his normal hatred for affection, X made it so nice. So soft, and sweet, and he was murmuring sweet nothings into Zero’s shoulder as he traced a finger along where his spine might be if he was human. Zero leaned back into him and just for a moment, he was safe, next to the person he trusted more than anything in the entire world.