When you woke up from your midday nap, you weren't expecting Kun to still be in the room, honestly. But there he was, sat at the desk with the paperback book from Aegeum, having turned the chair around to face the bed. As you stirred, he dog-eared his page and set the book aside. You yawned and sat up, rubbing the sleep out of your eyes for the second time that day.
He stood up and moved to sit on the edge of the mattress, offering you a tentative smile. "Hey."
"Hey..." You echoed hesitantly.
Kun inhaled through his nose, then exhaled through his mouth before drawing his eyes up to meet yours and setting his shoulders. "Whatever kind of impulses and signals fire in me that my brain interprets as love, I don't question those. If the best word you have for what's going in you is love, it's not my place to question that either. I'm not the gatekeeper of the word."
You held his gaze steadily. "Do you think I only love you because of the First Law?"
"I don't know," he admitted.
"Can you live with yourself not knowing?"
"I don't know."
"I'm sure this has been a lot for you too, I won't push you for an answer right now," you said quietly, slinging your feet over the side of the bed to stand up.
As you made your first step towards the door, hand outstretched to grab the handle, Kun spoke up, "I..."
You stopped, your hand falling back down to your side as you turned back to look at him curiously. "What is it?"
"Never mind." He rushed to shake his head.
"You were going to ask something, weren't you?"
"It's okay. You were going."
"You can ask. I know the difference between question that I can say no to, and an order."
He still hesitated.
"You've seen me say no, haven't you? Even to you, when there was no danger. Think."
Kun finally nodded. "You're right."
"So?"
"I want— Could you... Would you mind... staying, for a little bit? You don't have to... you can sit over on the other bed, or at the desk, or leave, or whatever you want, but..."
"I want to be around you too, Kun," you said the words that you knew he couldn't bring himself to for fear of it being too forceful, sitting back down next to him, closer than before. "Even if... you don't know what to do about it."
He swallowed thickly, and you saw his jaw tighten. You held your hand out for him, watching as he slowly put his on top.
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frankenstein complex ⇢ q.k | ✔
Fanfictionin which the crew of the vision finds you as the sole survivor of a classified research facility and there's more gaps in your memory than memories themselves. on top of that, you've got this weird feeling that the captain of the crew you've found y...
