I really like this headcanon. o.O
“Kiyoko, are you okay?” Kasuka watches her friend storm out of a meeting with her fists clenched.
“I’m fine,” she seethes.
“You’re not.” Kasuka pushes back a lock of blonde hair and motions Kiyoko into her office.
“Men are pigs,” Kiyoko bursts out as soon as their alone. “Kureo excepted, of course. But – I’ll say something I know for a fact, and they keep questioning me until I doubt everything all over again. But all the rookie men are believed immediately!”
Kasuka shakes her head, her hand on her growing stomach. “I know the feeling.”
Even as the most skilled investigator around, she’s often treated as fragile. It’s infuriating.
“I can’t take it anymore.” Kiyoko wipes her eyes. “I’m so angry. I will never earn their respect.”
“You shouldn’t have to, but please, I need you here,” Kasuka pleads. She leans close to Kiyoko to deliver a hug, and Kiyoko prays Kasuka doesn’t notice the fluttering in her heart.
She loves Kasuka. But Kasuka loves Kureo, and so Kiyoko will sit by silently.
“Don’t just sit by while they treat you like that,” Kasuka encourages.
Kiyoko swallows. Well, if she’s going to do it in her personal life, she might as well try something different in her professional life. “Okay.”
“Good.” Kasuka smiles. Someone knocks on their door.
“That’ll be Kureo. He has a unique knock.” Kasuka smiles as she opens the door. “Ready for the doctor?”
Kureo’s eyes wander to Kiyoko. She flushes, sure he knows exactly how she feels for Kasuka, and exactly the pain she’s in, watching Kasuka have his baby.
But he, too, is sitting by with silence. Perhaps because he trusts Kiyoko.
She wishes she trusted herself.
Mercy and Magic 