Sonder

n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you'll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk – The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Summary: Davis learns he didn't really know much about friendship at all – until he finds a stoic TK, staring at a blank wall, his hat squished between his fingers.
Warning(s)/Spoiler(s): post-2.11 "The Storm of Friendship"
Rating: K+/PG

Character(s)/Pairing(s): Davis, TK, Patamon, Veemon

Author's Note: Since it's been almost five or six years since I've written these characters, and since I hold them all very close to my heart and wish to do their characterization the utmost justice, I'm writing a collection of moments focusing on the Adventure/02 kids. I have a couple of ideas that I want to tackle – namely certain characters and certain dynamics/relationships – but for the most part I'd like to be challenged and therefore I WILL BE TAKING REQUESTS. So please, not only leave a review regarding the following moment, but leave a request as well. If you do leave a request, please leave a quote, song, or some sort of prompt for me to follow and not just a character/pairing/etc. I'd especially appreciate if you'd ask for unusual friendships/situations because those are not only more challenging, but are also more fun.

DISCLAIMER: I do not own Digimon or anything else you may recognize.

01. The Call of the Prison

you were pacing, i was insecure

He finds TK sitting on the Kamiya's couch, staring at a blank wall, his hat squished between his fingers. Davis frowns; hadn't TK been celebrating their rescue of Agumon with the rest just moments before? Davis steps into the living room and sits on sofa across from the blonde.

"Hey, TS."

TK looks up at the misspelling of his name, used to it by this point, and frowns. "What do you want, Davis?"

"No need to be rude," says Davis, holding up his hands in mock surrender. "I come in peace." When TK continues to stare at him blankly, Davis sighs. "I'm sorry about earlier – you know, tackling you and everything. I mean, it turns out you were right anyway."

"Don't worry about it," says TK, shaking his head. "I shouldn't have given you such a hard time anyway – I keep forgetting you're new at all of this." His eyes return to his lap, and his fingers squeeze the fabric in them harder.

Davis notices. "Then what's bothering you?"

"It's just the whole Patamon thing," says TK. "Almost lost him." Davis thinks he hears an added again, but decides to ignore it.

"You really care about him, don't you?" It's not really a question, more of an observation, but Davis knows it's an important one.

"Yeah." It's not really an answer, more of an appeasement, but Davis appreciates his effort nonetheless. "And you care about Veemon."

"Yeah, I guess."

"You guess?" There's a little edge in his voice, but it's hidden under some other emotion that Davis can't quite recognize.

Davis looks at his hands; finally he gets a chance to think about the Digi-egg he had acquired and all the implications he had chosen to forget for the moment. "I really care about Veemon, and I know now I would do anything for him. But – friendship? Me?" He shakes his head. "It just doesn't fit."

This, apparently, catches TK's attention and he stares at Davis. "You know, before just now, I would have agreed with you." Davis feels his heart clench and he opens his mouth to retaliate, but TK interrupts him. "But – you came over here to talk to me. You apologized, even though you really didn't need to, and you did just say you care about Veemon." TK shrugs. "Seems like friendship to me."

Davis stares. He doesn't even really like TK – and yet, he's sitting across from him (in the apartment of the girl who probably created the rivalry in the first place) having a personal conversation about things that matter. Like friendship.

"Thanks?" says Davis, rubbing the back of his neck with his hand. "Um, I don't really have friends – not before Veemon – but it just seemed like the right thing to do. We're all on the same team, right?"

TK smiles and it's hinted with some knowledge that unnerves Davis. But he's used to it at this point. "Right," agrees TK. "We're a team – and maybe if you stop jumping on me every time Kari agrees with something I say, we can be actual friends."

Davis narrows his eyes. "We'll see." He pauses for a moment before frowning. "Wait a minute – are we fake friends now or something?"

TK shrugs and puts his hat back on his head. "Or something."

"What – ?" As Davis struggles for the words to say, TK stands up and grins.

"Well, we better join the others. Who knows how much sugar Patamon's eaten by now." Davis watches as the blonde happily walks off, every appearance of his previous sadness faded away. Davis blinks a couple times for before sighing and shaking his head.

While he may not dislike TC completely, the blonde sure knows how to confuse him. Davis sighs, forces himself up, and heads over to the others – his team.

Maybe one day he can finally say his friends.