{"id":2345,"date":"2014-10-26T07:58:19","date_gmt":"2014-10-26T07:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/2014\/10\/26\/terminal-affirmation-11\/"},"modified":"2014-10-26T07:58:19","modified_gmt":"2014-10-26T07:58:19","slug":"terminal-affirmation-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/2014\/10\/26\/terminal-affirmation-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Terminal Affirmation"},"content":{"rendered":"

smokebombsandmirrors<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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As Kaito watched him his over enthusiastic grin fading into one that was personal and meant just for Hakuba to see. \u201cYou didn\u2019t think I\u2019d just let you leave with out seeing you one last time?\u201d<\/p>\n

He sat up and leaned on to his knees. \u201cI \u2026..\u201d<\/p>\n

I wish you weren\u2019t going. I wish I didn\u2019t open my big mouth and sent you off. I wish we had more time. I wish \u2026 I wish \u2026 There were so many of those that were fluttering about his mind and clogging his throat his didn\u2019t know what to say. \u2018I like you\u2019 was to cliche and would bring too much pain to both of them. \u2018I\u2019ll see you soon\u2019 was say too much of the unknown. \u2018I\u2019ll miss you\u2019 was a given. \u2018Don\u2019t fall for any other thieves while your over there\u2019 was just highly inappropriate.<\/p>\n

He scrunched his brow and stared at the carpet. He was so lost at what to say. With his mother she was usually gone before he could wish her a safe trip. It wasn\u2019t like he didn\u2019t want that for Hakuba but he also wanted the damn plane to break down before the detective ever got on the monstrosity. \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The trailed silence earned a small, meaningful smile from the detective in return, who wished for all the world that he could offer a hand in reassurance. If not to hold Kaito’s, at least to put around him. If they were in London, it wouldn’t even be a question; he’d kiss him right then and there, hold him tightly, nuzzle into the crook of his neck. But there, in Japan, all he could do was attempt to not look quite as wistful and lovesick as he felt.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Shoulders hunched, he, too, glanced down at the carpet after a moment. Societal convention forced so much to be left unsaid, and while it wasn’t fair and he certainly didn’t agree with it, there was nothing, really, that either of them could do.<\/p>\n

“We’ll call, text, email, and send photos,” Hakuba said, forcing his voice to stay quiet and even. “I’ll be busy with campus tours and Scotland Yard, you’ll… well, I\u00a0know<\/em> you’ll be busy causing all sorts of mischief. We just need to be careful so that we’ll be reunited in one piece in just… a couple of months…” \u00a0It wasn’t as accurate estimate as he liked, but he feared that the actual number would sound far too despairing. “And I’ll be back before you know it.”<\/p>\n

He paused, then, struck by a sudden, terrible thought. “…a practice run, if you will, for… long distance…"\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

smokebombsandmirrors: As Kaito watched him his over enthusiastic grin fading into one that was personal and meant just for Hakuba to see. \u201cYou didn\u2019t think I\u2019d just let you leave with out seeing you one last time?\u201d He sat up and leaned on to his knees. \u201cI \u2026..\u201d I wish you weren\u2019t going. I wish […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[76,75,234,1412,77],"class_list":["post-2345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ic","tag-rp","tag-smokebombsandmirrors","tag-terminal-affirmation","tag-thread"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}