Thread by @Em_loveKaveh

#haikaveh where post graduation Kaveh got a big commission request to go Inazuma and study it’s architecture and help build more substantial buildings. Kaveh agrees, his house is empty, his mother had left for Fontaine years ago and his friendship with Alhaitham was in tatters.

There really wasn’t anything for tidying down Kaveh in Sumeru excluding his father grave and empty home, so he sells the house, asks his kind neighbours if they could occasionally visit his father while he was away and left for the nation of eternity.

Everything fine.

Until midway through his studies on Watatsumi Island, it isn’t, until the nation goes on lockdown not allowing anyone in or out of its islands, additionally a savage war breaks out over the vision hunt Decree.

Kaveh, unable to not help those in need joins the fight!

The war is long and brutal, and changes him in ways that he can’t describe, he makes many enemies and friends along the way. His hands are covered in blood that will never wash away… no matter how hard he tries.

Fortunately a traveler from afar comes and the war finally ends.

Kaveh decides after that that’s it’s time to head back, he’d already gotten much more then he’d bargain for —some good some bad— in Inazuma and needed a break, a rest. So when the famous traveler says they’re heading to Sumeru next, Kaveh tells him he’ll guide them!

They split as soon as they arrive, the traveler wanting to explore the first more while Kaveh, he knows what he wants to do, has a desperate need to see Alhaitham. But what if he’s forgotten him? Or simply doesn’t care? However, the war had given him a new confidence.

Even if Alhaitham doesn’t want to see him, at least seeing the other will settle the feeling in his gut.

But before that it’s time to visit his father’s grave.

However as it turns out he’s not alone. Stood in front of the grave was none other then Alhaitham himself!

And oh Archons how he’s changed! Hell, he’s even taller then Kaveh now! Muscles that were frankly unfair for a man who would spend his whole life in a library surrounded by books and knowledge, reading until he was eventually kicked out to be actually human being and socialise.

“A-Alhaitham.” Kaveh can barely stutter out, so full of emotion, ones he’s buried for years on end. He feels like he’s going to explode.

Said man whips head head around, so fast and furious (pun not intended) that Kaveh’s worried that he’s have hurt his neck muscles.

Emerald eyes widen in shock, he’s stands there stock still. Mouth page and expression surprised. Previously, Kaveh would have found this hilarious the usually stoic, sassy junior who always had to get the last word currently shocked into silence! Ha!

But now…

There’s a full minute of silence between them and Kaveh’s unsure of how to break it. Should he? And what should he say? Should he wave? Leave? He’s doesn’t know.

But before he can get too lost in his thought Alhaitham seems to gather his own thoughts together and strides forward

towards Kaveh with a quick, purposed paces across the small clearing in the graveyard.

He stops when he stand’s practically on Kaveh’s toes, they’re so close and —oh archons Alhaitham’s always been beautiful it he’s matured into such a handsome man— finally does he speak.

“Kaveh.” It’s low and rough, almost a grunt, eyes narrowed in on the blond who’s resist the urge to shudders, he’d be on the receiving end of worse more deadly looks over the last few years after all.

“Alhaitham I-“ Kaveh starts though he doesn’t actually know what to say.

Did Alhaitham really still hate him? He knows he’d left their conjoined project and they’d ended on bad terms…

Kaveh vividly remembers himself storming out of the house of Daena, tears streaming down his face after his big agrument, omitting his name from the work and project.

However, whatever Kaveh has though Alhaitham was going to do, he never had guessed this. Because one second he’s looking into the other narrows, green haze the next he’s being embraced in a tight hold, his head being pressed into his junior’s —firm and rather muscular— chest.

While the other as the other presses into Kaveh’s hair, and breathes, “I missed you.”

Kaveh had flinched at the unexpected contact, the last time someone held him in a somewhat similar position they then promptly attempted to choke him, and steal his vision.

Fortunately if Alhaitham noticed the action —of course he would this was Alhaitham after all— he didn’t mention it.

“I missed you Kaveh.” Alhaitham repeats face smushed into Kaveh’s unkept locks, his hair care routine has gone to shit during the war, he’d had make do with soap.

There wasn’t any branded floral shampoo on the front lines after all, in fact, if they got a warm shower and warm meal then it was considered a good day, majority of the time they washed in the rain —fortunately storms in Inazuma were easy to come by— and eat small ration packs.

Then all of a sudden Kaveh can’t hold it any longer, all the emotions and feelings he’s been trying to reign in since he’s stepped foot back in the nation, since he’d seen the lock of silver hair… He cries, sobs, into Alhaitham chest, as the latter to only tighten his embrace.

(Again I’ll delete this tweet later and continue but I do have to go to work and suffer!)