Have I told you guys about a certain wangxian au that was kind of dark?
Where in a certain universe, everything is wrong, WWX did survived the siege with terrible wounds and hid A-Yuan in a tree, unaware that the seal he applied to him fell off and he saw him tumbling towards the cave where his gege works... and follows him.
WWX is dying, he is delirious and weak from blood loss, he hid however he could in a corner invisible to the naked eye and just see how A-yuan is crying while walking towards him. As much as WWX enters into a panic as he sees his son A-Yuan with him, he can't move anymore, there is no strenght in his bones to move a muscle no matter how much he wants to send A-Yuan away.
A-Yuan tries to clean some of WWX's blood from his face with his dirty clothes and just, nestles with the man. WWX dies with a lighter heart by not being completly alone in his last moments.
However, A-Yuan becomes sicker than in canon and just a few hours by resting with WWX's corpse, he develops a fever and just dreams. A-Yuan succumbs to his fever, forever resting with WWX.
Days later, after WWX's cave was robbed of his scrolls and spells, LWJ with fresh wounds from the disciplinary whip, is looking for something... someone, anything! Something that gives him hope. Alas, when he plans to leave the cave, there he sees them, WWX and A-Yuan. LWJ is destroyed by the sight of their corpses, so peacefully resting, he sobs uncontrolably, without holding himself back. How could he? His soulmate, his equal, and the inocent child that brought a small spark of joy in them were no longer in this realm.
He doesn't notice how long he is crying his heart out, yet he somehow gathered enough force to carry both corpses for a proper burial, after that he would play the guqin and make sure that their souls are well rested... and then... and then he would continue living in grief.
LWJ takes them both on his arms and walks, he doesn't have enough energy to fly with Bichen, and with a heavy infection on his back, he just walks. He tumbles and almost falls to the ground constantly, forgoten is his image of a pristine cultivator, he is but a man who feels as if the world already ended and there was almsot nothing else to be there for.
He manages to find another cave, hopefully far away from the Burial Mounds, and leaves WWX and A-Yuan resting together... just when he tries to get up again but he can't, he have exhausted himself to the point of his body refusing to move. He knows he needs to bury them, let them rest and let their souls enter the reincarnation cycle as soon as possible, he knows he has to do this, and yet, he can't move an inch. LWJ closes his eyes just for a brief moment and collapses.
By the time he wakes up, he is disoriented, thirsty, hungry, and with a fever. LWJ glanced at WWX and A-Yuan to his horror, the bodies had began the stage of decomposition. He tries to reach for WWX, for any of the two of them, but his body is so heavy... maybe. Just maybe. He thinks with a heavy heart, maybe he can rest with them, maybe is his time too. A small, selfish part of him just hopes that they are waiting for him.
With great challenges, LWJ manages to stand up and carry the bodies one by one, there in the cave, there is no day or night, no one sect to hunt WWX down for his demonic cultivation, no cultivators hunting little A-Yuan for being a Wen. A cave with no memory their tomb.
They entered to the core of the cave, and there, he sat with WWX in one side and A-Yuan in the other, his fever still making him dizzy and weak, his back burning with an infection that could kill any cultivator. LWJ just talks, or so he thinks he does.
He confesses his feelings for WWX, how, if offered another oportunity he would court WWX correctly, protect him from everyone, possibly adopt A-Yuan and teach him to be a righteous cultivator that exceeds them. If they reincarnate together, LWJ confessed, he would gladly be the ink of his brush, the ribbon that hold his hair, the shadow that accompanied him for the moment WWX would be born, anything, just to be with him just one more time.
Huanguanjun dies sitting with two other corpses, protecting them from the world.
That's it, until his body is found by the Jiang sect months later. They keep quiet of WWX's skeletonized body, however they do report finding LWJ's and a child skeleton to the Lan sect.
LWJ's body rests over a table, ready for a proper burial, LXC is heartbroken by his little brother's death, that he is unaware when LWJ's body rises up with black veins in his neck and walks away, searchign for A-Yuan and WWX's bodies.
I would continue this later, its 2 am and honestly didn't think I would go for a second part, let alone, I don't consider to make this a fic any time soon :,)
