[ there's not often silence between them. even when they're not talking, leo sometimes fills the comfortable void with some absent humming, some distant melody that'd built up within him from the time they spent together. one kiss, one note; maybe one whole line, maybe one whole song, just from that.
and even when he's not humming, when he's not talking, leo doesn't spend his time in silence. when he sleeps beside tsukasa, and leo's awake and aiming not to rouse him, he's still running through things in his head. there's still something that bubbles within him and there's still notes and—
—for a moment, right now, there's nothing bubbling, replacing the inspiration that usually flows and flows and flows.
but he wrangles it, and leans his head a tad to the side so he can rest it lightly on tsukasa's.
no talking yet, no explanations, just both their breaths and his quiet waiting and the deafening silence of his worry, that he pushes down. ]
And I love you.
[ he fills the void again. i love you, not in the way he says it to everything, when the inspiration rises up or knights does something he's particularly proud of, as their king; but just i love you, from leo to tsukasa. ]
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and even when he's not humming, when he's not talking, leo doesn't spend his time in silence. when he sleeps beside tsukasa, and leo's awake and aiming not to rouse him, he's still running through things in his head. there's still something that bubbles within him and there's still notes and—
—for a moment, right now, there's nothing bubbling, replacing the inspiration that usually flows and flows and flows.
but he wrangles it, and leans his head a tad to the side so he can rest it lightly on tsukasa's.
no talking yet, no explanations, just both their breaths and his quiet waiting and the deafening silence of his worry, that he pushes down. ]
And I love you.
[ he fills the void again. i love you, not in the way he says it to everything, when the inspiration rises up or knights does something he's particularly proud of, as their king; but just i love you, from leo to tsukasa. ]