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After breakfast they usually go for a walk, Kame can't really remember when it started but it has become something they both enjoy. There's something peaceful about just walking and looking at the world as they never used to have time to do, side by side and holding hands as often as not.
They take their time, not trying to keep up with or be on time for anything, just wandering and soaking up the relaxation of being able to just be together.
Eventually they end up at the park a few blocks away, late enough in the morning for a few children to be playing there. Jin's face always brightens when he sees them, and Kame always feels the small pang of regret that the one thing Jin will never have that he really wanted is children of his own.
Still, it's a bright spot in both their days, as Kame takes a seat on a park bench with a book he carries, all the time in the world now to catch up on those things he always meant to read and never had time for.
Sometimes a classic, sometimes a modern novel, and not infrequently a volume of manga that long ago finished it's run, but Kame has time to read it now.
He spends as much time watching Jin as he does reading, though, because Jin playing with the children is not a sight to be missed. Pushing them on swings, catching them coming down the slide, calling encouragement to some childish competition or other - he knows them all by name, and seems as delighted with their company as they are with his.
They tell him their secrets, their small troubles that seem as big as the world when you are five years old, and Jin listens gravely, his white head cocked attentively, laugh ringing out now and then but always taking them as seriously as if he were one of them, and they love him for it.
Kame closes his book and hugs it to his chest with a pensive smile, watching and wondering, sometimes, about all the things Jin has given up for him, and if they aren't just as important to Jin as Kame's career was to him.
No regrets, though, not at this point, not when Jin finally says goodbye to the kids for the day and comes back to Kame with a smile as open and carefree as it had been when he was seventeen, wide and delighted with the sheer joy of life, and Kame knows that whatever mistakes they made, in the end it was right, the choice to stay together and stick it out through the hard times, knows that Jin will never stop being the one thing he loves above all others.
Jin comes over to help Kame up, not that he needs the help but he lets Jin baby him, patiently amused by the way Jin is so careful with him these days, as if he might break, such a contrast to the careless Jin of their younger days - and yet he likes it, likes the feeling that he is the most important thing in Jin's world too.
"Did you have fun?" he asks rhetorically, as he always does, just to see the beaming grin split Jin's face, smiling automatically himself in response because it's impossible not to. "Ready to go?"
Jin hums an affirmative as he leans in for a kiss, unable to resist as ever, and Kame grants it wholeheartedly, selfishly glad that Jin always comes back to him, always needs him just as much.
"Let's go home," Jin agrees contentedly as he tucks Kame's arm in his, and they leave the park behind, heading home for the nap they are both in need of now and no longer care enough to feel any shame about. They have so much time now, time to lay in bed and be lazy if they want to, curled up together and making out in a slow, leisurely fashion or just lying together, warm and comfort and held, peace and safety as they drift in and out of a doze.
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They'll have today, and tomorrow, and the next day just like this, always together and enough time to enjoy it, enough space to stop and look and love and breathe and feel not just hope but completion, justification, satisfaction and perfect, absolute contentment.
It's never going to be perfect, but it's always going to be just right. And they will never again have to snatch and squeeze time and moments in between work and life and outside commitments, never have to worry about who might see or what they might think.
It doesn't matter anymore, and instead of snatched seconds, minutes, a day or two or a week behind and between they have time now.
All the time in the world, just to be together.
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All the time in the world, just to be together.
This is wonderful ♥.
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alskdjflaskdf holy crap wtf is that in your icon? XD;
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*not actually a shrimp, a marine isopod.
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THAT IS NOT CUTE, NESS! NOT EVEN A LITTLE BIT CUTE! WTF. D:
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The feeding sticks we used (so that they wouldn't injure us) could sometimes be two feet long :D.
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Called "sea locusts" by ancient Assyrians, "prawn killers" in Australia and now sometimes referred to as "thumb splitters" by modern divers - because of the relative ease the creature has in mutilating small appendages - mantis shrimp sport powerful claws that they use to attack and kill prey by spearing, stunning or dismemberment. Mantis shrimp can break through aquarium glass with a single strike from this weapon [3].
I volunteered in a school lab one semester and helped take care of them :D. They're awesome ♥.
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♥
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