“Stop causing trouble”
Professor Lan and His animagus boyfriend
With glasses?
On a scale of “weird flex, but okay” to RUDE, how acceptable is it to pop up out of nowhere, reblog someone’s artwork with added fic and then piss off into the ether, because, uh…
-
Lan Zhan finds the rabbit in the winter.
Fur pitch-black against the snow, it huddles in a pitiful, bedraggled ball at the edge of the Gusu Academy’s herb garden when Lan Zhan calls Jin Rulan’s fat, spoiled familiar to heel, and continues to cower even after Fairy has trotted reluctantly away to sit by Lan Zhan’s side.
Lan Zhan initially intends to leave it, to hold Fairy just long enough to let the rabbit run back into the night where it belongs, but when it uncurls and limps forward, red splatters drip onto the ground behind it.
There is no matching stain on Fairy’s muzzle, so it is not a harm that Gusu is directly responsible for, but - to save the animal from Jin Rulan’s dog just to leave it to die in the cold would not be a mercy.
Slowly, carefully, Lan Zhan scoops it up and tucks it into the front of his robe, where it can share his body heat. He expects it to struggle, and so is pleasantly surprised when it calms immediately and begins to nose around in his clothing.
“Be still,” he tells it mildly, and, whistling for Fairy to follow, heads back up the hill, towards the light of the main hall.
Keep reading
