shattermelt | xp log: kippei and shinji (Reply)

Kippei woke up slowly, reluctant to leave the warm, easy comfort of sleep. He'd slept well for the first time in what seemed like forever, deep and dreamless and permeated with that sense of warm contentment. He woke up with his face buried in Shinji's hair and sighed deeply, smiling a little to himself without bothering to open his eyes. Shinji was snuggling in his arms, limbs all tangled around each other like they used to do, and it was....wait. Like they used to? Kippei woke up fast and went very still as an ice cold chill swept over him. Dammit. He should have know better than to try to sleep next to Shinji, should have known this would happen and at least thank god Shinji wasn't awake yet and freaking out. Kippei didn't think he could move without waking him, either.

He closed his eyes again and stayed where he was, breathing into Shinji's hair and trying to pretend that he wasn't awake, that nothing was wrong, that everything was just as perfectly right as it felt like it should be. Maybe if he let Shinji think he woke up first, that would be easier, because for the life of him he couldn't move away.