Kara
At least he got him smiling again, Josiah looked so pretty when he smiled, All the midnight light seemed to shine on him, his smile shining the brightest, his eyes like stars. Kara saw when Joseph was scared and he didn’t want to see that again. He wanted him to be happy.
“You like the peacock huh?” Kara asked nudging him
“Yes I do, the peacock looks gorgeous.”
‘Not as gorgeous as you however.’ Kara had to stop himself from saying
“They are pretty.” He said instead, having to force himself not to stare
“I see you really like those huh?” Kara said
A shrug was his response
“If you could have any pet what pet would you have?” Kara asked
“Hmm maybe a bear.” josiah responded
“Hey that’s my animal. How dare you choose a bear.” Kara said teasingly
Josiah laughed a little but it seemed forced and his eyes looked scared.
“Are you ok Josiah?”
“Yeah I’m fine. Just a bit shaken up from earlier.”
“Are you sure?”
“Yeah I’m sure. Hey look it’s a penguin!”
“Oo penguin! What's your favorite bird?”
Kara said trying to distract Josiah from his thoughts
“Hmm… I really like red tailed hawks.”’
“Do you?”
“Yeah they’re cool.”
“Hey do you wanna head home? You seem distracted and might need some rest.” Kara said gently taking his hand
“Only if you want to.” Josiah said, avoiding his eyes.
“I asked if you wanted Josiah, it's your choice.”
“I am a bit tired.”
“Alright let's start heading out then.” Kara said
“Yeah ok.” Josiah said, yawning adorably, like a kitten.
Laughing, Kara took his arm and started heading towards the exit. About half way he felt Josiah slip from his grip. Confused, he tried to turn around but ended up bumping straight into someone, knocking Kara over. With a small glare Kara looked up to see who he had run into. What he saw was none other than Pekka Rollins. Kara’s eyes widened as he scrambled too his feet a bit too quickly causing him to stumble a bit
“Watch where you're going brat.” Pekka snapped to kara.
“You're the one who ran into me, you bastard.” Kara snapped back
“Actually you ran into me, now get out of my way.”
“Apologize for knocking me over first.”
“No, I will not apologize for you not paying attention to what's in front of you.”
“It’s dark, do you expect me to see everything? You don’t even know who you're speaking to.”
“Oh I don’t now?”
Then he felt Josiah tugging on his sleeve and very quietly whispered “Please just move so we can continue walking Kara.”
Placing a gentle hand on Josiah's back, Kara continued.
“Who knows? You might be speaking to kaz brekker.” He said grinning up at the man his father despised
“I know It’s not him. Now move it.”
“Your right. It’s his son.” Kara said, taking Josiah's hand and moving out of the way.
“Mhm sure it is.” Pekka said walking past them
“W-what the hell was that Kara W-we could have got caught!” Josiah said very unamused and scaredly
“But we didn’t. I knew he wouldn’t believe me. Dad doesn’t go around saying he has kids so I knew he wouldn’t know.” Kara explained before adding “Are you alright Josiah?”
“H-he could have believed you. A-and no i’m not fine!”
“I’m sorry Josiah I get that was a bit reckless.”
“Y-your right it was. N-now lets go.” Josiah said already starting to walk away
Kara sighed and looped their arms again guiding him back to their home. He was pissed at himself for doing that and making Josiah so upset. His glittering silver eyes were so filled with fear and he hated that.
When they got home Josiah whispered “goodnight Kara try not to make too much noise getting to your room.” Then Josiah disappeared silently walking across the dark hallway.
Kara almost made his way fully back to his room when he ran into his father.
“What are you doing up Kara?”
“I went to go get some water from the kitchen.” Kara said, barely managing to stop the water from dropping to the floor, or worse on his father.
“I see. Go to bed Kara I don’t want to see you out of your room again for the rest of the night.”
“Yes father.” Kara said rushing up to his room and closing the door behind him
There he let his thoughts take over. Josiah’s fear filled eyes plagued his memory. He looked so scared he looked close to tears. He never wanted that to happen again. He should never have tried that with pekka. He should have left when Josiah asked him to. He should make it up to him tomorrow. The only question was how? Kara couldn’t deny it anymore he knew he was in love, he’d do anything to see Josiah’s smile, to hear his pleasant voice, and see the sparkles in his eyes.
‘Maybe I could get him a hawk’ Kara thought, grabbing a notebook to jot down a few ideas he could do to make Josiah happy.
‘How on earth am I supposed to get a hawk here?”
He drew a line through the idea just as something large and feathery bird hit him in the head causing him a headache.
“What the fuck!” Kara yelped, rather loudly
The hawk hawked at him while looking at Kara with it’s beady little eyes
“Umm hello?” Kara asked staring at the bird
“Is everything ok in here?” Inej asked walking into the room
“Yeah mom everything's fine.” Kara responded rubbing his head where the bird hit
“What happened Kara? Why is there a hawk in here?”
“The bird flew through my window and hit my head.”
“I see, are you ok?”
“My head hurts.”
“I see. Does the bird look ok kiddo?”
“I think.”
“Alright. What do you want to do with it?”
“I kinda wanna give it to josiah.”
“You think he’d like it?”
“He likes hawks.”
“I see. Next time you go out you should gift it to him.”
“I should.” Kara said already imagining Josiah's smile
“I’ll be back with her. I'm just going to make sure she didn’t hurt anything.” “Inej said gently picking the bird up
“Ok mom.” Kara said, putting his notebook away.
A few minutes later Inej arrived with the hawk and said everything was good. Kara had made a little nest for the hawk out of old shirts and jackets.
“You should get some sleep Kara.”
“Yeah that’s a good idea.”
“Good night sweetie.” Inej said tucking Kara in despite many protests of him being to old