[Trace] Trace my muse’s scar purposefully // the thigh scar/mark or any on the lower back/abdomen bc...Intimacy 👁
@alnaari prompt ! He feels no shame in splaying himself out, taking up most of the bed because a) it was a big bed, and b) Keith always managed to find a way to comfortably fit against him and in comparison to Shiro, took up much less space. His head is resting on Shiro’s stomach, cheek pressed to his ribs, seemingly unbothered by the slow rise and fall of his breaths. Shiro has a hand in Keith’s hair, tracing over and over again the hairline that travels behind his ear.
Keith’s own hands have been wandering along the lower half of Shiro’s body, the thin shorts he’d donned for bed not covering much. Somehow, the light streaming in through the window seems to catch and highlight all the different shades of Shiro’s body, bring to life the myriad of scars and tattered marks he’s accumulated over the years. Of course, it had been a joint effort between him and his clone --- a fact that Shiro still struggles with, years and years on. The marks are nothing Keith hasn’t seen before, but they always seemed to fascinate him, and Shiro’s more than comfortable letting him touch and wander, though he does wonder what he’s thinking.
A thumb brushes over the large patch of paler skin that takes up a lot of Shiro’s left upper thigh, the pigmentation having never quite returned to what it had been even though it’s been years since his clone had gotten the burn. Shiro couldn’t be sure of what had exactly happened, but it wasn’t hard to fill in the pieces with what Keith had told him about how he’d first found his clone . . . and the distinct hand shape of the mark tells its own story, so much so that Shiro can almost feel the heat, like his body remembers the day it had happened. Keith’s thumb traces around the scar, the calloused print registered slightly differently by new and old skin, other prints following delicately in its wake. It’s always surreal to see Keith soft in moments like these . . . or maybe it’s these moments that make him soft. Every now again, the appreciation he has for this man erupts inside Shiro, flooding his entire being with warmth and an urge to yank him close and kiss him within an inch of his life.
He doesn’t want to interrupt Keith, though, so he stews quietly in this burning adoration, as Keith, none the wiser, trails his touch up to Shiro’s lower abdomen. There are a litany of scars across his torso, front and back, many which he knows are from the Arena, vague recollections of slashing swords and axes, close calls and mistakes that he’d never make again. There are also a couple of darker, small spots near where Keith’s head is from when Shiro had tried to cook bacon without a shirt on, and the splatters of hot oil had burned him. Another mistake he won’t be making twice but those marks would be gone by the end of the week. And as Keith’s finger eventually traces up to them, Shiro holds back a laugh, waiting for Keith to realise where the seemingly new marks had come from. ‘ Are these . . . ’
Shiro sniggers, and he’s been patient enough, letting Keith explore, so he gathers him up and drags him up, letting him lie pretty much on top of him. ‘ Yeah. Bacon oil scars. Pretty badass, huh ? ’















