tarte-pit:

It’s a moment that later Shiro will run over in his head like a home video, watch and rewind and start over, play backward piece by piece and pause on each part, because the next thing Keith says is out of order and out of context. There’s some way it fits, but it’s years before he figures it out.

“I love you,” Keith says. He sounds it out like a promise and then squeezes Shiro’s hand and repeats it, stronger: “I love you.”

@arahir’s gorgeously angsty, ultra cathartic, healing yet brutal, will probably jump u in an alley and leave you for dead, if you think you can read this without crying think again, fic. Thank you for the amazing work. I had a lot of fun making this!!! (click for higher quality)