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Texts appeared on Kaveh's body one day, and Alhaitham never missed out a day to be enlightened.
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The evening light spilled across Kaveh’s shoulders, illuminating entire paragraphs that had migrated there, dense scholarly prose flowing along the elegant line of his spine, footnotes curling teasingly just above the dimples at his lower back.
Alhaitham’s breath hitched, barely audible.
“…This is ridiculous,” Kaveh mumbled into his arms, voice muffled and embarrassed. His ears burned. “You’re literally treating me like an open book. I can feel you staring.”
“Because the text is clearest here,” Alhaitham replied. He leaned down, one hand bracing beside Kaveh’s ribcage while the other traced slowly along a line of text near his shoulder blade. The touch was feather-light, impersonal in intent, yet the way his fingertips followed the curve of muscle made it feel anything but.
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17 Jun 2026
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After receiving millions of Mora as a reward for helping save Sumeru against Dottore, Kaveh finally has the means to move out of Alhaitham's house. But his roommate's uncharacteristic panic reveals a years-hidden feeling that changes everything.
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“Do you think we can save it?” Al-Haitham asks, none the wiser. “It’s just the roof that’s gone. I would trust you to make the arrangements, senior, if I weren’t so worried you’d bankrupt me.”
Kaveh does not take the bait, does not bite back at all. Instead, he holds a hand up to an ash-covered wall. His fingers come back stained.
He wants to say yes. There’s nothing Kaveh wants more than to close his eyes to block out the burnt, blackened view of the house destined to fall. He could imagine it exactly as he left it then: sunlight streaming through the beautifully stained windows. Al-Haitham on the divan, a Kaveh-shaped spot beside him. Not that it would work, even if Kaveh never opened his eyes again. Gods, Kaveh tries, squeezing his eyes shut when the sight becomes unbearable. But the burnt smell permeates the air, inescapable, as the heavy feeling of soot clouds his lungs.
The house is unlivable.After the burning of irminsul, Al-Haitham and Kaveh find their house unliveable. Kaveh is totally normal about this. Totally.
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Everything had been going well on Kaveh's expedition. 'Had been' being the key words.
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- Part 46 of Alhaitham & Kaveh
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Saving Sumeru together may have repaired many of the long-standing fractures in Kaveh and Alhaitham's relationship.
... Sadly, it did nothing to cure Kaveh's terminal obliviousness.
“One - one more time?!”
Alhaitham huffed softly through his nose. “Kaveh. I’m in love with you.”
Kaveh’s hands shot upward to grasp tightly at his wrists, keeping Alhaitham’s palms pressed against his face like the contact would re-ground him in reality. “I must be going crazy. I’m hearing things...”
With a slow, long-suffering sigh, Alhaitham shut his eyes briefly with exasperation. Then, finally giving in to the fact that Kaveh was simultaneously the smartest - and most idiotic - man he’d ever met, he leaned forward and dipped his forehead to rest against his.
“Let me clarify another way, then,” Alhaitham breathed, nudging their noses together gently.
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- Part 16 of Haikaveh Threadfic Oneshots
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