[The touch is welcome again without even a hint of any hesitation on Keith's part, drawing only a breath out of him but otherwise he's quiet in listening to him, gaze half-lidded but reflecting similar emotions back at him.]
Shiro... you have to know. [He sounds hushed but there's just barely a plea in his words, soft insistence, and explanation at once. Please, know this if nothing else.] You're it. If it's you, if at the end of it all it's still you and me each time, I-- That's all the happiness in the universe for me.
Nothing that ever got in the way of that ever made this any less true. It's always gonna be you.