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"Maybe." He agrees, head back against Nanami's shoulder, arms over his.

"I'll have to go buy some clothes, at least."

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Nanami smiles. He cannot entirely stop smiling.

"We don't have to anywhere for that. If you know what you want, we can use our spoons to buy it." He looks down at Haibara. "You can go buy clothes if you want. Perhaps first one outfit with a spoon to go out in."

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"What do you want to see me in, then?" He turns his head sligtly, tilts it to up at Nanami.

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Nanami stares ahead at the bathroom wall, stuck in thought. A hundred images come to mind, more. He's fantasized about Haibara so many times that he's mentally dressed him in more outfits than he's bothered to count. Some are only variations on a theme, but... there's so much he wants to see Haibara in (and out of).

"Perhaps, for tonight, just my shirt," Nanami says. That's one of them.

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"I like that." He presses a kiss to Nanami's jaw before moving, lifting himself up so he can straddle Nanami and then kiss him again.

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The mental image feels like something from a movie. Something Nanami wants to memorialize in his mind, if not a picture. A photo is risky, if only because someone else might see it. However, he's clung to every picture of Haibara he has since he died, studied everything about them. The idea of having more warms something.

Nanami kisses Haibara back, slowly, no rush.

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It's easier to kiss in this position, something he takes full advantage of before finally moving back to just rest against Nanami's chest again.

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This too is good. As much as Nanami likes kissing Haibara, and if no one is around, he would like it all the time, simply being together quietly is immensely relaxing.

Even with the stew on the stove. It's fine. He more often left things like that back home due to reading a good book. Haibara is a better reason.

"Do you feel grounded?" Yet.

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"I was grounded the first time I touched you." His voice is quiet, eyes closed.

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Nanami runs a hand along Haibara's side under the water. He remembers touching Haibara's shoulder, expecting it not to be real. Hugging in public. In the middle of the street. It feels like a lifetime ago.

"I'm here for you," Nanami says. He holds Haibara against him. Perhaps they could still do something like hold hands in public.

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"I think that's my line." He smiles, leans back into him.

"Whatever you need, I'll do my best to help you."

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Nanami laughs. "So it is, but I may borrow it from time to time."

"Help me remember not to fall asleep before putting the stew away. If we don't eat it."

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"We're going to eat. Or at least I am. I've got a lot of time to make up for and it's the first meal you've cooked. I'm going to have at least some of it fresh." And then they can put the rest away.

"Are you tired?"

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Nanami smiles, glad Haibara will enjoy it without it needed to be reheated. He recommends reheating on the stove, not in the microwave, but it will never be the same.

"Emotionally worn out," Nanami says. "In a good way. It's been... a lot is all. I don't want to fall asleep yet, though. I want more time together first." Just in case.

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"Because you don't want to wake up and find out it wasn't real?" He murmurs the word, fingers entwining with Nanami's.

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Nanami winces slightly and tightens his grip around Haibara, as though that could do anything to anchor him, to keep him real. "Yes," Nanami admits, "I don't—

"I don't know that I could handle that." He would, if it happens. But fuck it would fuck him up.

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You'll feel better tomorrow when you wake up and I'm still here." He shifts again, onto his knees and settles to face Nanami, hands framing his face. "I'm not going to vanish." His voice is soft.

"Nobody else you've met since coming here has disappeared on their second day, have they?" Not that it can't happen, but it seems highly unlikely.

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Nanami swallows back, leaning into Haibara's touch. You don't know that, he feels like saying, but Haibara keeps talking. Keeps making good points. Gojo felt like the fox was messing with him when Geto arrived, but Geto is still here. All the sorcerers are.

He takes a deep breath and sighs. "That doesn't mean today needs to end early."

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"And I'm not saying it does. I know you won't trust this until you wake up tomorrow and I'm still here, curled against your side." His lips brush against Nanami's lightly, not once but a few times.

"I just want you to worry a little less."

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"Until then, it feels like a dream." Like he's waiting to wake up. But oh such a good dream. Is it so impossible his fantasies about Haibara coming back would change in a place like this?

He kisses Haibara back, the kisses interrupting what brooding he might have fallen prey to. "That's not my strong suit." Failures, the past, he can handle that. The future? That hasn't been determined yet.

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"Maybe that's why I'm here then. To help you worry less." He murmurs it against Nanami's lips before just kissing him again, hands sliding down over his shoulders.

"Among other things."

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Nanami kisses Haibara and slides a hand into his hair. "Among other things."

"I want you to obtain your dreams. I want you to get new dreams and work toward them. I want the world for you."

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"I already have." His eyes half close at the hand in his hair, Haibara leaning to press kisses along his jawline.

"Not in any hurry for new dreams, I have everything I want right here."

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It's the first day. All the things Nanami's dreamed about for Haibara, all the possible futures and lives he could have lived, all of it can wait. None of it may be what Haibara himself wants. Time will tell.

"I've been here a month. I'm not going anywhere."

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"And even if I had somewhere else to go, I'd still choose to stay right here." Softly before shifting to rest his head on Nanami's shoulder.

"So I'm not going anywhere either.