the normal life AU meme

you wake up in the morning, and something has changed:

Maybe you're a super villain, a superhero, a magician, a knight, a space explorer -- but today, when you pad down the stairs (still half-asleep, still unfocused), you do not walk into your secret lair, your spaceship, your headquarters.

You're now just an average Joe, and you're standing barefoot on a worn wooden floor, smelling fresh coffee.

To boot, there's someone else in this kitchen, leaning on the counter, wearing pajama bottoms and an old t-shirt.

The setting might be new, but hell, you know eactly who they are...

so...why is your worst enemy/co-commander/partner/captain/etc. currently pouring you a second cup of coffee and asking you for pointers on the crossword?

WHAT EVEN?

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From:

getoutoftherobot

[No matter how long they're together, things like this always make Shinji feel warm and fluttery inside.]

If you tempt me into kissing you, something's going to burn, you know.

[The admonishment is barely there behind the melting fondness. He feels most at peace in these sleepy, domestic moments.]

If you want attention, um... We can, you know. After we eat.

From:

rinseandrepeat

[For a moment, Kaworu considers what dying in a house fire would be like. Would he have pushed Shinji out the front door before burning wood fell on him, or the smoke fill his lungs until the life was snuffed out of him? He shouldn't put the idea out into the world; this is Shinji's home, clearly, he doesn't want that taken from him.]

[He chuckles at the implication Shinji is putting out, though it's a little forced. He has to find it funny, he doesn't remember encountering a Shinji already ready to be intimate with him, albeit without saying so directly. He's not the Kaworu this Shinji knows; he's slipped into that body, eaten up his own soul.]

I'll spend my time with you any way you desire.

[It may not be fair for him to take the place of a happier self. He'll have to come clean eventually, he can't string Shinji on like that for long, selfish as he wants to be.]