Wip Wednesday!
From my reverse big bang fic, posting May 26th! But some of the rabbits stir, and nose curiously at their boots. Lan Zhan halts, and drops, wobbly, to his knees. Wei Wuxian sighs deeply, and puts his hands on his hips, mouth open to urge him up, and onward.
Lan Zhan picks up one of the bunnies and gently nuzzles his entire face into its side.
Wei Wuxian doesn’t clutch at his heart, but it’s a very near thing. He watches, pained, as Lan Zhan cradles and cuddles the little thing, both of them wearing expressions of gentle bliss. After a moment, Lan Zhan glances up at him, and his mouth falls open in soft, comical surprise, as if he forgot Wei Wuxian was there. He looks at the rabbit, then back up at Wei Wuxian. He extends his arms, lifting the rabbit toward him like an offering.
“Ah, no, he’s happier with you,” says Wei Wuxian, shaking his hands at him.
But Lan Zhan’s loose expression of hope falls, and Wei Wuxian’s whole chest pangs. Defeated, he drops down beside him, and accepts the rabbit. Which immediately begins to squirm in his hands. He tries to keep hold of it, his hands a loose but secure cage, and by the time Lan Zhan has pressed his face into another rabbit, he thinks it’s begun to settle. He occupies himself with keeping it happy, instead of losing years off his life watching Lan Zhan solemnly cuddle the daylights out of every bunny in the clearing.
Eventually, the fluffy little cloud seems to be allowing itself to be lulled. Its eyes droop, and it nuzzles its head into Wei Wuxian’s palm. He huffs.
“You’re so cute when you’re sleepy,” he says. “I wonder if you’d let me give you a kiss now. Hmm? Would you like a kiss?”
An abnormal stillness suddenly sets off alarm bells in his mind, and he turns, quick, to see what’s wrong. But it’s just Lan Zhan, right beside him…only, he’s staring at him much more intently now, and something has changed in his expression. Wei Wuxian blinks at him, confused.
“Lan Zhan?”
Lan Zhan's eyelashes flutter as he glances down, and then back to Wei Wuxian’s face. He swallows visibly. Wei Wuxian notices his ears have darkened oddly in the monochrome of moonlight, and…he nods.
Wei Wuxian feels strangely hot. He’s still confused, but Lan Zhan is very, very close, and he’s still—
Lan Zhan’s heavy gaze flicks down to Wei Wuxian’s mouth, and it all hits him at once. His expression, his nod, his blush.
“Oh,” Wei Wuxian breathes, limbs buzzing and numb. “I—ah,” he holds up the rabbit. “I didn't mean…I was talking to…to the…”
In a flash, before Wei Wuxian has even registered him moving, Lan Zhan is whirling away, a froth of white disappearing into the night.