pairing: itaru hashida / daru x gn!reader x okabe rintarou
summary: okabe notices the way you smile at daru and decides to tease you a little bit about it!
"why don't you smile at me like that~?"
just moments ago, you had been talking to daru, but the second he went back to his computer, okabe had sneaked up behind you.
"what…?" you turned to face the boy in the lab coat and raised an eyebrow. "what's that supposed to mean?"
okabe had a smug grin on his face, as he glanced towards daru, then back at you.
"your face lights up whenever you talk to our superhacka–"
"hacker..!" you corrected okabe, whose grin only widened.
"and then there's that. since when did you start correcting me about that? are you doing this to get on his good side~?"
you hesitated to reply for a moment, then rolled your eyes and tried to squeeze past okabe.
"if you leave now, i'll tell daru you have a crush on him–!!"
okabe grabbed your wrist and as soon as your head whipped around, you were met with his smug grin once more.
"i have no idea what you are on about! i know you're not genuinely jealous, so stop playing around, hououin kyouma!"
okabe huffed amused.
"this is the first time you called me by my real name. you really must be desperate for me to keep this secret of yours, if you'd even debase yourself like this…"
you gently smacked your friend's arm, though enough for him to wince a bit.
"if you tell daru about any of this, i'm going to do unspeakable things to you, got it kyouma~?"
you stared at okabe, who had to swallow. you really looked serious and he didn't want to anger you any further, so he decided to drop it.
summary: you got ereased from this worldline. or at least that's what the message okabe got from you says. not like he could actually remember you...
okabe was well aware of the different timelines and how dangerous it was to mess with them. he had learned first hand what could happen if you try to change the past and how much he could mess up the future. but this time, he wasn't the one that had messed up…
you were the one who had changed the past and therefore your own future. though okabe wasn't even sure who you really were. all he had to go off was a video that he had been sent. a video that he thought was just a prank at first, but that he had been unable to forget for the last few days.
"if you're seeing this, i'm no longer here. it means there's a timeline where i have never even existed. you won't remember me, but i'll always remember you, okabe. i don't know where i'll be or who i'll be… but i know that i love you! please, find me…!"
okabe had never seen your face before. at least you were right about that: he didn't know who you were. but he couldn't help but believe you were telling the truth. that tearful voice of yours sounded too real to brush off as a joke.
if he believed your words, then that meant you had changed the timeline and nobody but you was aware of it. it also meant that you and him had been in love with each other… or at least you were in love with him. if you had truly been a couple, how could he have forgotten about you? then again, you didn't even exist on this worldline…
to say okabe was confused was an understatement! still, he believed you. he couldn't help but believe in what you said. which meant he had to find a way to get you back! and maybe then he'd get his memory of you back as well…
