Heyyy! Can i request 21(collapse) with Li and Seb poly please🥺? I legit spend a few hours wondering wether or not i should request this, cause i already request a Li/Seb poly last time. Which is more or less only a few days ago. But in the end i decided to go with it because for one, i really Really LOOOVE your writing. And two, i'm really in love with both Li and Seb and just couldn't get myself RO request another RO instead.😅 Hope you don't mind!
Hi, anon! I don’t mind at all. Just sorry that this took so long since I did something to screw up my back a couple days ago. It’s better now, though, so here’s some more long, twisting sentences inspired by @speakergame‘s poly route. The last stories were Speaker-focused and then Seb-focused, so Li gets it this time.
This was...honestly going to be a lot more dramatic, but then I felt a little bad because I couldn’t fix it in 10 sentences, so I relaxed the angst.
You’d thought that maybe...well, you didn’t know exactly, whether it was that you thought Li would have grown more careful with age or that you thought maybe it wouldn’t be so painful--wouldn’t make your chest twist like a wet towel--now that you had both grown up and apart. But you see the signs (shallow breath, hands falling slack to the side, rapid blinking, loss of balance, skin suddenly so pale it looks like paper ready to tear) and you know you’ve just been avoiding the unfortunate truth: Li hasn’t changed a bit.
And you still feel the same choking worry tinged with exasperation when you see Li collapse, so of course you’re there, tucking the frail body against your chest, as soon as it happens. So is Sebastian, which surprises you in a way and yet not at all. He reaches out, fingers brushing your hands as his arms slide under Li beside yours.
“We have to go,” he says, and you know he’s right, that even though Li is light, Sebastian can carry the weight without slowing down at all, unlike you, and--
And it’s not as hard as you thought, releasing Li into Sebastian’s arms instead of yours, when the worry you saw in his green eyes had you convinced for a second that you were looking into a mirror. Maybe he can help you yell at Li later, too, though you have your doubts it’ll ever get through the witch’s head how much this scares you.
But you can hope.