your first eiichi headcanon post was very wonderful and charming, I was wondering if you could do the next step after that? Like him admitting to his crush that he likes them and how their relationship starts? Thanks!
☾ Thank you so much! For your kind words and your patience!! I’m actually in the middle of moving YET AGAIN right now, but unlike all those other times: I have time to myself! Claps my hands together like I’m at the head of a large table.
- First off, there’s nothing to ‘admit’.
- ‘Admittance’ implies a level of shame, or secrecy to his feelings. And while your relationship up until this point has been characterised by arguments and mutually respectful annoyance, he’s never been one to shy from his true feelings. Especially his passions.
- He just doesn’t say anything aloud.
- So what actually happens is a subtle shift in the dance you two have. He compromises without Eiji’s pushing and mentally folds you into his considerations of HEAVENS’ future. You respond in kind by asking for his input on certain things. The blow-out arguments mellow into bickering at best and when you stay over at the HEAVENS mansion, up into the small hours of the night, poring over documents and scheduling and contracts to the point of trance, you’re invariably snapped out of it by a mug of coffee set pointedly at your elbow. Eye contact and a single nod is all the interaction that comes of this usually, but after the second or so time you shift slightly in your designated seat at the kitchen island and tilt your head in such a way that says ‘come here and look at this’.
- ‘Coming here’ requires him to cross the kitchen and ‘looking at this’ requires him to bend down so his head is roughly level with yours. Usually this wouldn’t make his pulse pick up–after all–the two of you invade the other’s personal space with reckless abandon for far lesser reasons and usually with a smirk, but since his 'realisation’ he’s become uncharacteristically respectful of a safe distance and you’ve seemingly not noticed.
- And, to be honest, you’ve kind of missed it.
- So when he does get close, you sling a casual arm over his shoulders once he’s at your height and point at various parts of the contract you’ve highlighted to get rewritten before you let them sign it.
- To his credit, the tensing in his shoulders is fleeting and he reciprocates the gesture as per usual, his arm loosely around your waist as he reads the contract and tries to not start reading into body language instead. After all, nothing’s changed. He’s certain of it.
- When all is sorted and done, however, your lips press a fleeting kiss to his cheek and suddenly he’s aware that everything’s changed ever since you threw yourself into the line of fire with his Father before he could. But it’s not….for the worse.
- He drops a kiss to the top of your head in response, inhaling with his eyes closed, committing the scent and feel to memory. He intends to keep this…whatever you have, the leader of HEAVENS will assuredly raise Hell if Raging tries anything with you.
