周子舒｜周絮 （Zhou Zishu | Zhou Xu） (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
lonelydream) wrote2023-10-29 10:27 pm
lonelydream) wrote2023-10-29 10:27 pm
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Zhou Xu
missives | encounters
Zhou Xu
missives | encounters
Zhou Xu
missives | encounters
Zhou Xu
missives | encounters
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Peace.
[ He sighs, not having expected anything less. ]
You can't kill him. Besides, if we're counting sins, this could be said to be punishment for what I did. [ And then he goes on, not entirely lying: ] It hardly hurts at all anymore.
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Not pity, not that.
Something else. )
If anyone ever touches you again I'm going to take their hands, do you hear me? ( A fierce declaration, only slightly shaken. ) But nobody else will get close to. I won't allow it.
( He is a rabid dog made loyal, there's no changing that. )
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[ He's touched by Wen Kexing's rage and fury, his viciousness in protecting what he loves as his own. It is Zhou Zishu's privilege and honor to be counted among that number. Reaching up, he touches the back of the hand Wen Kexing has on his chest. His voice is more devastatingly gentle than he knew he could be. ]
You came for me. You asked me, after, why I wasn't surprised to see you, and I'll tell you now what I told you then:
I didn't know how, and I didn't know when. But I knew you would come.
[ There are worlds hidden in those words, laid as bare as Zhou Zishu could bear to make it. ]
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When he pulls back it is with a ragged breath. )
Ah-Xu.
( It is terrifying, being a loved thing, he can feel it battering the inside of his chest. )
Yes.
( He will always come. )
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[ Wen Kexing kisses the breath from his lungs, leaving Zishu breathless. ]
Ah.
[ It's a soft sigh, an uncertain breath, but he reaches for Wen Kexing, sinking his fingers into those dark strands. ]
Lao Wen.
wHY DID I WRITE FACE INSTEAD OF FAITH WHY
( Is his own skin burning? Probably. Wen Kexing might be utterly shameless in most matters but when it comes to the fragile, ruined thing he calls a heart he finds himself veering helplessly into shyness. )
You should rest and get better because I have plans. ( Lofty, playacting, despite how furiously vulnerable the whole thing is. ) Do you need anything?
Re: wHY DID I WRITE FACE INSTEAD OF FAITH WHY
[ WELL, face worked perfectly well as well. it was funny, at least. ]
Lao Wen.
[ He says it again, this time adominishing, flushed and a little embarrassed. ]
So eager to leave me?
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( Startled, face twisting into repentance. He pets Zhou Zishu with one hand, running the palm of it over his hair in a soothing fashion. ) Do you really think I would, Ah-Xu? After all this time. Tch, I just want you to relax, you look half dead and what kind of wife would I be if I kept you from what you need? Here, I'll lie down with you.
( He shifts, half pulling Zhou Zishu with him, wrapping him more firmly into his arms. )
So ornery, you won't always get away with it.
( He absolutely will. )
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Won't I? You're not very good at saying no. Not even to Chengling.
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I can say no! I've said no a dozen times!
( Just to people he doesn't like or care about. )
Besides, the boy's fine isn't he? He never asks for much.
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You encourage him.
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( Bittersweet, and a little guilty. )
I just think he deserves a little more time to be childish, don't you? Neither of us got much of it. It isn't doing him any harm. You know he wants to prove himself to you. He's a good boy.
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[ Zishu's a little taken aback, and then he sighs, dropping his eyes. He had significantly more of a childhood than Wen Kexing did; whatever he didn't, was a product of his own stern stubbornness. At least until his Master passed and left the sect in his less than capable hands. Fifteen is not so much older than fourteen, though. ]
I know. You are, as you so often remind me, right.
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( We because Wen Kexing does not plan to leave. He'll take whatever role is needed in both Zhou Zishu and Chengling's lives, eager to remain. )
I owe him that anyway. But I'd want to, regardless.
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[ He debates, for a moment, telling his Lao Wen how he collaborates with Chengling to trick Zishu. How Chengling forgave him (though Zishu still thinks no forgiveness was necessary) for the deaths of the Zhang family. And then he decides, no, there are some things Wen Kexing will need to learn on his own. ]
You're a good man, Lao Wen.
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Not really. But I can try to make up for my crimes, which is as close as I'll get.
( A hum, tuneless. )
And if I get to spend my time with you and the boy and my silly girl while I'm doing that then I'm luckier than most, aren't I?
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It isn't so bad to think about, hm? And between Tragicomic Ghost and Senior Ye, we'd even have elders in this odd little family we've found.
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Senior Ye? Has Ah-Xu decided I must be punished after all?
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He's very annoying. But he's also a good ally to have.
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( They probably do. )
And not one out of that old toad.
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Lao Wen.
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Ugh, fine. Go to sleep. Maybe you're delirious.
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[ Silly. Though he can't disagree that he finds Ye Baiyi incredibly frustrating and annoying to deal with, he also does respect the older man and is not too thin-faced to take advantage of Senior Ye's standing in the jianghu to ensure their own safety. ]
Maybe.
[ Because sometimes it's easier to just go along with Wen Kexing's sulking. ]
Will you be joining me?
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( Not that his chest is actually all that enjoyable, he makes himself look bigger with many layers of robes. But still! No complaints so far. Wen Kexing hums, wraps a lock of Zhou Zishu's hair around his fingers. )
Fear not, Ah-Xu, I'll be a dutiful wife.
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Is that what a wife is meant to do?
[ It's semi-rhetorical. ]
Get some rest, Lao Wen. You could use it as well.
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