flinging a transfem keefe keefitz concept at you.
fitz and keefe dancing together in everglen’s ballroom as practice for their inevitable winnowing galas and fitz pauses after he spins her around at one point and goes, “gimme a second”, and then pulls out a clumsily handmade #1 ribbon and pins it to her top. tries to get her to keep dancing after he explains that the system will never match them as it is but she’s his #1 on the lists in his head of people he’d want to romantically spend his life with. but she’s too busy melting into a teary puddle.
so they just sway back and forth for a bit. and maybe try and tell each other improv poetry back and forth and keefe wins like really fast. and fitz says something super dumb like “well i could hum more love songs than you so check mate” like he’s winning when he’s just losing harder (he doesn’t mind)
YESS THEM! They're so sweet. Cutiesss <33
something something it started with them hanging out at Everglen together, and they passed by the reception hall, and Keefe got this look on her face and Fitz immediately knew she was thinking of everything they could never have. and Fitz went I Need To Fix This Now, and impulsively grabbed her hand and asked to dance
and they start joking about what it would be, were they allowed. about how they think they'd decorate, and how Keefe would sneak elixirs into the drinks, and what ridiculous clothes they'd wear, and how they'd ignore everyone else at the gala and sneak away together. to some private spot on the grounds no one would find them
and it starts out joking, and they get quieter and quieter as they go on, and it becomes less and less of a joke. until they barely even dancing anymore, just standing there, close, holding each other, thinking about this bittersweet future they want but can't have. not like everyone else
until keefe says all that pomp is stupid anyways, shoving fitz and saying she bets he can't beat her to the kitchen for the last slice of mallowmelt, which, unbeknownst to fitz, has been tampered with to turn his hair pink <3













