The episodes stopped once Matt started sleeping next to Shiro. And when Shiro awoke to Matt's heavy breathing from any sort of nightmare, he would wrap a hand around his waist and hold him, even after Matt calmed down, burying his nose into Matt's soft hair.
And it was perfect, and he could stay like that forever, just holding Matt so close that nothing else mattered, that there wasn't an alien race hellbent on destroying everything they loved, that they weren't flying at ten thousand light years a hour, that they weren't broken human beings cuddling in the dark.
It was Matt, it was just Matt, so complicated and simple, he wasn't an alien princess or children he had to be strong for, he wasn't unfamilar territory, this was Matt.
Who cares that society saids it was unusual for two men to hold each other in the dark and cry into each other's shoulders? They were thousands of light years away from Earth anyway.
