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Kurapika woke up in a cold sweat, his breathing fast and panicked. Spiders.
His sitting up caused leorio to wake from his sleep, as soon as he noticed what was happening he placed his arms around Kurapika, trying to reassure him he was gonna be ok and it was just a dream.
Kurapikas breathing has steadied, leorio calmly said ”Hey, it’s gonna be ok sunshine it was just a bad dream” as he walked kurapika out to the couch in the living room and had him sit down
“Hey, you wanna make cookies with me?” Kurapika nodded and walked over to the kitchen counter.
“Since you're over there can you preheat the oven?” leorio said with a kind smile, “Sure,” Kurapika’s voice wavered and shook slightly, but it was better than it was.
He opened the oven and tried to take out some of the pans they had stored in there. One of them slipped out of his trembling hands and onto the floor
Leorio looked up shocked, and hastily walked over to where the pan dropped. He picked the pan up and took the ones he was carrying, putting them on the counter.
Walking back over to Kurapika, he said “Hey are you ok? I'll get you some water.” Kurapika nodded his head, and walked over to the couch to sit down once again.
A minute or two had passed, and Leorio brought him some water and sat down. “Are you feeling a little better now you sat down?”
“Y-yes. Thank you leorio” he took the glass and took a sip of the cold water. He felt a slight shiver travel down his spine, then relaxed.
“You're cold? I’ll get you a blanket, one second,” Leorio got up from the couch and took a minute or two before returning with a moderately sized blanket.
Kurapika looked up and smiled at Leorio, then taking another sip out of the glass he was holding and placed it on the coffee table in front of him.
“Do you wanna get back to baking? I’ll try not to drop any more pans,” Kurapika said in a slightly more upbeat voice than he had previous, and got up from the couch.
“Sure, I'll get the ingredients from the pantry.” Leorio said as he to got up from the couch
A few minutes had passed, and Kurapika had set up the bowls and preheated the oven. Leorio had the ingredients set up on the other section of the counter
Kurapika started to crack the eggs and add the other ingredients to the bowl of wet ingredients, and mixed it all together.
After about 10 minutes, they were finally on the last step, chocolate chips. Kurapika had to get them out of the freezer because Leorio didn't want them to thaw out that much, but as he picked the bag up his fingers got really cold and he dropped it on his foot.
“OH CRAP” he could hear the bag hit the ground, and he jumped around in pain.
“Pika are you ok??” leorio once again rushed over to him and brought him to the couch
“I'm really sorry the bag was cold and heavy and my hands slipped-” Kurapika said, his voice wavering a little…
“Hey hey it's ok, let me handle the chocolate chips. Don’t worry about it, i'll get you some ice” Leorio kissed his forehead and got up again to get the bag off the floor, and finish mixing the batter.
Finally, Leorio had put the pan with the cookies in the oven and they sat down. “Hey, you wanna talk about the dream you had?” he gave Kurapika the ice and sat down next to him
“It was stupid, i dont know why i got so worked up-” Kurapika said in not much more than a whisper
“Hey, don’t say that. It’s not stupid whatever it is, it made you upset. Now tell me.” Leorio said, placing his hand on Kurapika’s back
“Well fine then, i was back in my childhood home, with my parents and such. We were just sitting there having dinner and then,” Kurapika's eyes welled with tears, but he continued.
“Their eyes just came out. I could see the phantom troupe there. I felt so small, and helpless” the tears were now streaming down his face, falling onto his lap, but even then he continued.
“It was horrible, but there's nothing i can do now” Kurapika looked up at Leorio, who wiped his tears away with his hand.
“It's ok now sunshine, you're safe. We have cookies too, that will make you feel better in no time i'm sure of it.” Kurapika sobbed and fell into Leorio’s arms.
They stayed like that for about 20 minutes before kurapika looked up again. “Leorio, I love you”
“I love you to sunshine, I’m glad you’re feeling a little better” leorio stroked Kurapika’s tear-stained cheek, and ran his fingers through his soft hair.
“Hey, how is your foot feeling? I might need to wrap it up, that bag was heavy. I’ll be right back”
Leorio walked down the hall to their room, grabbing his medkit and bringing it back out to the living room
“Oh, yea that’s definitely bruised. I’ll get you all set in a minute or two.” He wrapped Kurapika’s foot in a bandage to keep it from getting further injured and have a little support.
“There you go! All set. Try not to walk on it too much-” he wasn’t able to finish his sentence, Kurapika kissed him.
They broke apart after a minute, “Your affectionate today, I love it. OH anddd the cookies are done. Stay there” he got up, and took the cookies out of the oven.
He took a bite out of one of the piping hot cookies, and yelled “SHIT THAT’S HOT! KURAPIKA DON’T LAUGH AT MEEE”
Kurapika was laughing hysterically, and once he finished Leorio said “Yea maybe we should wait a minute to eat those,”
Kurapika started giggling again, and leorio went to sit down on the couch again. “Jerk, you could have at least tried to contain your laughter”
“Its your own fault you forgot to let the cool down before you shoved one in your mouth dork” they both laughed for a minute, and the sun started to come up from behind the trees.
“How about I make us some coffee? We are gonna need it.” Kurapika nodded and Leorio started brewing the coffee.
Kurapika got up and moved to the dining room table after picking a book up from the shelf by the hallway, and started reading as Leorio made breakfast.
Kurapika set his book face down on the table and walked over to where Leorio was cooking, peeping behind him to see what he was making. “Do you need any help?”
“I think I got it, thank you though. I don’t want you to drop a hot pan on your foot either, I wouldn’t be able to do as much about a 1st-degree burn as I can a bruised foot.”
Kurapika laughed and went back to his seat at the table, picking his book back up.
Leorio finally finished making food and coffee and brought it all to the table. Kurapika yet again set his book down on the table
“There we go! Coffee, pancakes, eggs, and some bacon for good measure!” Leorio smiled and set the food down and Kurapika got the dishes
“Thank you leorio, it looks delicious!” Kurapika smiled, and Leorio started to blush.
“It’s no problem, don’t worry about it.” he sat down across from Kurapika and started putting food on their plates
“Dig in!” they both started eating, and in 15 minutes the food was completely gone from their plates.
“Leorio, that was super good. Thank you!” Kurapika said cheerily, getting up from the table to go kiss Leorio on the forehead
“Hey, don't you have work? You should probably get dressed. You wouldn't want to be late” Leorio got up from the table, taking the dishes and putting them in the sink.
“I do, but it's just seminars today, I think i'll call in sick. It might be nice to spend the day with you anyway” Leorio looked over to Kurapika for an answer
“Oh you don't have to do that for me, i can deal with being alone for a few hours.” Kurapika averted his eyes and looked down to the floor.
“No, i'm gonna call in. i don't wanna go to work today anyway, none of the things they talk about in the meetings are things i don't know anyway.”
Leorio walked over to Kurapika, lifted his chin so they made eye contact, “Hey. Don't feel bad about it. You're Not the only reason I'm not going to work today. It's not an issue, lets just have fun.”
“We can go out for lunch, do something fun. You chose.” Kurapika smiled up at him.
“I don't deserve you Leorio, you're amazing.” Kurapika said, as they started to walk over to the room to get dressed.
Leorio turned to look at Kurapika, “What makes you say that?”
“You just do so much for me, I just don’t get why when i don't have much to give you back”
Kurapika looked up at leorio, who was still struggling to find the words to respond.
“Thats hard. Well, you inspire me to keep doing what i care about, its the least i can do. I love you, isn't that what you do for people you love?”
Kurapika started to cry, the tears were pouring down his face now, but he still smiled. “I really really don't deserve you”
Leorio leaned down and kissed Kurapika, no other words were exchanged for a decent amount of time.
They broke apart and Leorio said “Hey you, lets go get dressed its been like an hour” he started walking into the room
“Leorio, you're over exaggerating. It was like a half an hour” leorio started laughing, and changed into his casual clothes
As Kurapika started to change, leorio looked over and commented “yesss work it bo”
Kurapika choked and yelled at him to look away whilst trying not to die
“Kurapika we are literally married” Leorio said dully to Kurapika only wearing pajama pants
Kurapika turned around to walk over to leorio, when leorio finally saw what Kurapika was wearing he burst out laughing “KURAPIKA DID YOU STEAL MY TIE??
“Yes leorio i did, you like the look? I could go out in this” Leorio was wheezing and unable to say anything
Once he was able to talk again, Leorio said “Mhmm thats a good look on you, lets go. Like right now.”
They both laughed about it for a few minutes, when they were finally fully dressed they grabbed one last cup of coffee and walked out to the car.
cliffhanger. i know. no remorse.