tp5 kippei and shinji
Apr. 24th, 2006 06:29 pmApparently Shinji wanted to go for a walk. Kippei wasn't sure if that was all he had in mind, or if there was some kind of purpose behind it, but he figured it didn't matter much. A walk would be nice. It had been a long day, and a chance to relax and spend time with Shinji was always welcome--it didn't really matter where they went.
He paused for just a minute outside the door when he got home, because no matter how many times he did this, he never got over the fact that Shinji was actually waiting for him, there, every day. As soon as he went in. He couldn't help taking a moment just to realize how amazing that was before he actually opened the door, smiling as he went through.
He paused for just a minute outside the door when he got home, because no matter how many times he did this, he never got over the fact that Shinji was actually waiting for him, there, every day. As soon as he went in. He couldn't help taking a moment just to realize how amazing that was before he actually opened the door, smiling as he went through.
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Date: 2006-04-25 12:12 am (UTC)"Welcome home."
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Date: 2006-04-25 08:02 am (UTC)"Are we in a hurry?" he inquired curiously, because Shinji was practically vibrating with suppressed excitement.
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Date: 2006-04-25 08:05 am (UTC)"Mmm...maybe you're leaving home but I'm not. Kinda hard to leave something that's walking right beside me."
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Date: 2006-04-25 08:19 am (UTC)"You look happy," he observed, and a bit...nervous? It was cute.
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Date: 2006-04-25 08:46 am (UTC)"I worked hard today. My hands are sore. I think you should kiss them better tonight...but not here because we have to get on the shuttle now and I dont want people to get curious. Has to be a secret..." He tugged Kippei onto the shuttle headed for Brown and they blended in well enough with the evening crowd headed for the Casino, just as he had planned. He pushed Kippei down into a seat at the back of the carriage and sat close, watching Kippei a little dubiously, at a loss now for what Kippei might actually think about this. He really didn't want to be broke, with a ship he wasn't sure he could fly and a boyfriend mad at him for building it.
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Date: 2006-04-25 01:52 pm (UTC)Maybe Shinji didn't mean them. He tilted his head curiously at Shinji, who was looking doubtful and worried again. Something was up, then. Not just a walk. He rubbed the back of Shinji's hand with his thumb, soft and reassuring.
"What has to be a secret?"
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Date: 2006-04-25 10:23 pm (UTC)"It's a secret." It has to be. Because if anyone found out what he had done every other nation would want his head on a platter. So not thinking about that right now.
"Was work okay?" Mundane conversation was the name of the day.
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Date: 2006-04-26 12:14 am (UTC)"Work was fine," he said absently, his mind still working at the puzzle of the secret. A secret like that had been a secret? A sudden connection made in his mind, Kippei glanced sideways at him.
"Does this have anything to do with you sneaking out of Inanna's while you were supposed to be recovering?" he asked idly.
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Date: 2006-04-26 08:21 am (UTC)"Yeah. It has everything to do with that." He smirked then, because even coming home to get Kippei, after the test runs, had been hard. He hadn't wanted to leave it alone for even that long. It was beautiful...in a mechanical way, which was the fastest way to get Shinji's heart pounding short of putting one Tachibana Kippei anywhere in the vicinity. The thought of Kippei in it was enough to give Shinji a hard on.
"You better like it."
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Date: 2006-04-26 02:01 pm (UTC)That was an incredibly strange feeling.
"I will," he said simply, if only because it was Shinji's and Shinji was still alive and hadn't killed himself finding or making or doing whatever it was. Knowing Shinji, probably making something. Kippei studied him out of the corner of his eye.
"You sneaked out to do something for me?" he asked, slightly disturbed. "What if..." And he didn't know how to say that without sounding ungrateful, but it made him shudder to think of something happening to Shinji because he'd pulled a stunt like that doing something for Kippei.
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Date: 2006-04-26 09:52 pm (UTC)"I didn't actually do anything that day, I just went and asked someone something and you guys got all badass pissed off on my arse. You shoud have been nicer, I was doing something for you."
Actually, it had really annoyed him that they got so upset over it...but it had also made him feel important, and that was good too.
"I wouldn't do anything dangerous because you might do something stupid then."
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Date: 2006-04-26 10:01 pm (UTC)"You could have told us, what you were doing. At least in general." The frown was puzzled, now, thoughtful as he tried to figure out what Shinji could have been doing for him that he would have wanted to keep a secret.
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Date: 2006-04-26 10:03 pm (UTC)The shuttle came into Brown and Shinji damn near leapt off it in his eagerness to take Kippei to see it, his fingers still wrapped tight around Kippei's, his free hand shoved in his pocket and wrapped around the key as he stalked toward the hallway that led to the shipbuilders.
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Date: 2006-04-26 10:28 pm (UTC)It made him smile faintly all the same, catching Shinji's enthusiasm for whatever it was, the feeling of anticipation. "I can't believe you did something for me," he murmured, still slightly surprised that Shinji had thought of doing it at all. Whatever it was. He really wasn't used to people doing things for him. It felt weird.
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Date: 2006-04-26 10:33 pm (UTC)He was hoping that since there werent any signs on the outside, that Kippei wouldn't recognise the shipbuilders, since it was dark and Kippei didn't know Brown that well, but maybe he knew those sorts of things, Shinji wasn't sure. Either way, he pulled the key out and opened the door, tugging Kippei in, leading the way through the dark, down to a small worshop through the back, positioning Kippei, then leaning up to kiss him on the side of the neck.
"I love you. You better remember that." And then he took a deep breath and turned on the light.
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Date: 2006-04-26 10:47 pm (UTC)Kippei didn't recognize the place, but that wasn't all that strange, since he didn't come down this way very often. It looked like a mechanical shop of some sort, so it made sense that Shinji would be familiar with it.
He found himself almost holding his breath as they went inside, and the words only made him more worried, because of course he remembered that, and what had Shinji done if he was afraid that Kippei wouldn't? And then Shinji turned on the lights.
"Jesus," he breathed, staring. "What IS that?"
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Date: 2006-04-26 10:52 pm (UTC)"A fighter," he murmered, moving closer and wrapping his arms around Kippei's waist, holding the real fighter; the real pilot for his baby. "It's a fighter, with instincts,and its made entirely from products only found on one planet." Our home; its made from our earth.
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Date: 2006-04-26 10:59 pm (UTC)"You..." He was going to say, you found this? But that wasn't it. This had never existed, no one had fighters like this. Shinji had made this. This must have been what Shinji had been working on the last few weeks.
"You made this?" he whispered finally, his voice tinged with awe as his eyes tracked over the smooth lines of it, checking and reading and evaluating it. It looked sharp and slick and hot, and Kippei's fingers itched to touch it, to fly it.
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Date: 2006-04-26 11:06 pm (UTC)"I wasn't going to let you go back out anywhere in those stupid pieces of shit they call fighters on Fudomine. I wanted...I wanted to help you, and I knew I could do this so I did. It's the best there is. It's better than a Rikkai fighter, and while its not stronger than a Hyoutei fighter...we dont have anything stronger than what they have to build it from...but they can't hit us. This ship immediately dodges anything that comes at it. Like the cat." That was the best bit. He hadn't been sure it would work, but all the tests they had run were successful. They hadn't been able to beat the instant reflexes of the system.
"Now you can be both. The Ambassador, and the pilot."
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Date: 2006-04-26 11:39 pm (UTC)Shinji's words brought him back to earth with a solid thud. He sighed, a slow deep breath and exhalation. "I'm not a pilot anymore, Shinji," he said quietly. "I mean I am, but I'll never fly for Fudomine again. Unless by some miracle they find someone else who wants to do this job, here." His mouth twisted in a slight grimace. That wasn't going to happen. All they had were diplomats, and Fudomine couldn't risk sending one of them to a place like this again, unless something in the political situation changed drastically.
He took a deep breath and studied the ship again, looking at it this time with less of a pilot's eye and more of a strategic one. It didn't really matter if he never got to fly it himself, as long as they could give the rest of Fudomine's pilots the edge they so desperately needed. "You said it's made out of parts from one world... what world is that?"
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Date: 2006-04-26 11:41 pm (UTC)"Fudomine."
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Date: 2006-04-26 11:48 pm (UTC)"What?" That... didn't make sense. Kippei didn't even know how that was possible. The war torn planet was as low on resources as it was on everything else, and how could he possibly have built a fighter that looked like that, using materials from Fudomine alone? "How?" he demanded. God, if that was true... Shinji had just handed him the first real chance Fudomine had ever had in this war.
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Date: 2006-04-27 03:53 am (UTC)"You just have to mix things the right way...and then forge it the right way...I wasn't sure it could be done, but Kikumaru did it." He spoke softly, almost afraid of what Kippei might say next. "It wouldn't have been any good, if we couldn't make it at home using what we have."
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Date: 2006-04-27 04:26 am (UTC)"You are amazing." Just incredible, that he had thought of this and done it and done it so spectacularly. Something tight in his chest that he hadn't even known was there finally relaxed, some small knot of worry or tension. He put it aside to examine later, since he was quite sure he didn't want to discuss it with Shinji.
"When can I fly it?" he asked, some of his anticipation returning, because maybe he would never fly for Fudomine again, not in combat, but this ship was Shinji's and Kippei could fly it here, just for the hell of it. Shinji had built him a fighter. He couldn't get over that. And a sexy perfect awesome one at that, with Shinji's fingerprints, literal and metaphorical, all over it. He wasn't sure he could fly it without creaming his pants.
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Date: 2006-04-27 04:32 am (UTC)"It has to pass an official check...Kikumaru is arranging it through Seigaku. Figured they were least likely to tell the world about it, so to speak. That's first thing in the morning. After it passes, Kikumaru will deliver it to the Fudo-dock, where I should have by then installed a new security system...with your permission, which you will give me, and then you can take me for a joyride." Not that Shinji thought Kippei would pay him much attention once he was in the pilots seat, but he wanted to watch Kippei fly from right behind him.
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Date: 2006-04-27 04:37 am (UTC)"Sure," he said absently, "whatever you need." Of course he would give permission to set up security for his ship. Nobody was going to touch her, ever. Except Shinji, of course, because it would be fun like hell to take Shinji up with him.
"Can I look at it now?" he asked, because his fingers were still itching to touch it, to run his hands over the control surfaces and try out the pilot's seat and see if it was as beautiful from the inside as it was from out here.
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Date: 2006-04-27 04:41 am (UTC)"It's even environmentally friendly. A zap of electricity is sent into a lightening conductor, and it creates its own energy. Also means..." He fiddled for a bit, then hit a button and the noise disappeared. "It can run on silent, though that halves your speed. Still, silent!"
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Date: 2006-04-27 04:46 am (UTC)"It's own energy?" he asked, blinking. "No fuel?" Or minimal fuel, maybe. That was pretty incredible all on its own, if that was what he meant. Kippei reached out to run a hand over the side of the ship as he stood by the hatch, feeling it smooth and pristine under his fingers and suppressing a shiver. It wouldn't stay that way for long of course, not in space, but at the moment it was brand new and shiny and gorgeous.
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Date: 2006-04-27 04:49 am (UTC)"All aboard?"
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Date: 2006-04-27 04:58 am (UTC)"God," he whispered, though the reverent tone in his voice was not for any deity. He set his hands on the controls, flexing his fingers and molding them around the shaft, reaching to adjust one of the screens and stroking the panel beside him. "Just a little while," he murmured to her. "Just a little while longer, and then we're going to fly, 'Shi-chan." Arashi, she named herself in his head. Storm. The engine was purring at him, as if in answer.
God, what a ship. He laughed aloud, a soft delighted sound. "How the hell did you think of this?" he called back to Shinji, still stunned that this was even happening. Maybe he was dreaming.
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Date: 2006-04-27 05:02 am (UTC)"Someone had to think of it. I cant stop you fighting...I wouldn't want to. But I can protect you...'Shi-chan? Mm...Shi-chan can protect you for me."
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Date: 2006-04-27 05:13 am (UTC)"I'm not going to be fighting like this," he said quietly, sighing a bit. Time to remember that again. He'd known when they gave him this job that he'd never fly in combat again. He still felt like just a pilot, but he wasn't anymore. Never again.
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Date: 2006-04-27 05:19 am (UTC)"Still...I don't really want you fighting with them. You can be a retired soldier and be the Ambassador and stay here with me, and just go out to do stuff near the Station. I think thats better." Shinji, in the end, just wanted to keep Kippei with him.
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Date: 2006-04-27 05:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-27 05:29 am (UTC)"I love you."
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Date: 2006-04-27 05:35 am (UTC)"I was right," he whispered to himself. I was right about you.
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Date: 2006-04-27 05:40 am (UTC)"Good," he said instead of anything else he had been thinking, because if Kippei was right and saying it like that, then it must be good.
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Date: 2006-04-27 06:07 am (UTC)"I chose you," he said quietly. "I chose you when I shouldn't, chose you in spite of everything, because I needed you more. I decided you were more important than this, than my job, than Fudomine, and I chose you even though I thought it might cost me everything. Because I needed you the most. And I was right. You're giving me everything back." More than everything.
"We've never had a chance, Shinji," he added softly, taking a deep breath and letting it out slowly. "We never had a chance, until now. You... this... this is a chance. For Fudomine, for all of us. You gave us that. For me. If I hadn't... if I hadn't chosen you..." Honestly, he didn't think he could have ever done that. It hadn't been that much of a choice, in the end, but he'd still been afraid that it was the wrong thing, no matter how much he needed it.
"I felt like I shouldn't, even though I wanted to, even when I needed you so much, I thought I wouldn't be able to do my job. But I chose you anyway, because even if I couldn't, even if I had to give up everything else, I knew I wanted you. You'd be worth it all. I was right. Now I have you and Fudomine..." he reached out to pat the ship again, his hand lingering briefly on the smooth panel. "Fudomine has this. New fighters, new hope, and it's all because of you." He grinned quietly to himself, and kissed Shinji's hands again. "I still think I get the best part." I love you too.
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Date: 2006-04-27 09:49 pm (UTC)"It's all for you."
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Date: 2006-04-28 02:30 am (UTC)"I know," he whispered, and that was the point after all. He ran his hands up and down Shinji's spine, tracing over the strong, graceful line of it, pressing against him.
"I love you," he said suddenly, needing to say it, out loud and definite and fierce. Usually he still felt odd about saying it, but sometimes, it was just necessary. "I love you so. much."
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Date: 2006-04-28 04:44 am (UTC)"Is this ship turning you on, or are you just happy to see me?"
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Date: 2006-04-28 04:58 am (UTC)"Both?" he gasped, hands clutching reflexively at Shinji's hips and trying not to thrust up against him because there really wasn't room. The ship was definitely turning him on, sexy perfect beautiful thing that she was, and flying always did that to him, but the fact that this ship was Shinji's, that Shinji had made it and made it for him, was definitely adding to the arousal factor, not to mention the fact that Shinji was sitting in his lap.
"You're so sexy, and your ship is sexy, and jesus you're not going to start something here, are you?" He shivered as Shinji's tongue licked at the hinge of his jaw, and his hands moved of their own accord to slip beneath his shirt. This was probably a very bad idea, but yeah, it was definitely turning him on.
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Date: 2006-04-28 05:04 am (UTC)"You make me horny as hell. I'm fine when you're not around."
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Date: 2006-04-28 05:11 am (UTC)"I never... wanted...anyone... so badly in my life," he asserted between kisses. "You make me crazy." And he had no idea why that was, why Shinji made him want and need things he'd never really felt the lack of, but it seemed to be something that was just Shinji.
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Date: 2006-04-28 05:16 am (UTC)"We should have an early night; there's lots of work to do in the morning." And the sooner they got home to bed the sooner Shinji could molest Kippei properly.
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Date: 2006-04-28 05:43 am (UTC)"Dammit," he muttered, but he was smiling faintly as he dragged himself back out of the cockpit of the fighter and dropped down to stand beside it. "Right then, let's get out of here," he sighed, not without a lingering backwards glance at the ship. "You did good," he told Shinji, and leaned in for another kiss, for thank you and I love you and I really mean it.