honestly i own this one to @gottagho-st because without this i would have written some trashy hurt/comfort
this is kinda of a continue to what i wrote yesterday. anyways. the first time aurora heard anything about it she heard the girls talking about how phantom is going to be sent back and it pretty much broke her heart.
cumulus was talking to cirrus about how sad it almost feels, about how she will almost miss the new quint.
and aurora was running.
phantom was already in his bunk, his eyes already closed, but just her hand on his shoulder got him to open his eyes, looking at her startled.
"rorry?" he whispered, his voice so soft and no matter how much she blinked them away the tears still fell. he hugged her then, and she hugged him back. so tight, holding onto him like he's the only thing that ever existed.
"they said that you're going to be sent back." she said after she calmed down, both of them now laying face to face in phantom's bunk, she plays with his hair as he kept his hands hugging her, their tails tangled together.
phantom just nodded, his eyes looking vacant and far away, like they're hidden by some kind of a fog.
"i'll miss you," he said, and breathed out a sigh, the rest of the sentence withering away on his tongue (just like they both knew he would do soon too).
"i'll miss you too." she said back, closing her eyes, "promise me that you'll say goodbye before, okay? please phantom."
"i promise" he whispered in to the space between them.
and then, after the tour ended after not seeing or hearing anything from phantom for a week, if not more, she knew deep down that he broke his promise.
no one talked about it, no one even mentioned phantom, except for the older quints that appetantly were looking for him too. she wondered if they knew that phantom's going to be sent back (but then she reminded herself that it's more than most likely that he was already sent back). maybe she should tell them? but there's no one but phantom who she wanted to talk about it to, and he's already gone.
every night and every morning she would knock on phantom's door, asking if he's there, she never got an answer.
not until she heard aether calling to omega, his voice urgent and terrified, that one morning. it was so cold out that even with her hoodie and pj pants she had her blanket around her as she stepped outside, and then she saw phantom again.
something was so incredibly wrong but no one was saying anything, and it wouldn't really matter to anyone, especially not phantom, but he was wearing a fucking tee when it was this fucking cold outside she just wrapped her blanket around him, hoping that maybe it would snap him out of his trance, maybe it'll clear the fog from his eyes. it did absolutely nothing and she could feel the tears falling down her face, drawing invisible maps on her pink skin.
she don't know what the fuck went down, the older quints and papa were the only ones allowed to stay with phantom.
but now she knows that they're angry, they wouldn't talk with anyone, and papa just looked at them all with disappointed eyes.
she doesn't think anyone even noticed her being gone, and if they did she don't care. she quietly opened phantom's door, the way everything was so clean, even phantom's own scent, felt like a punch to the gut.
she slowly shook him with a whisper of his name.
he just looked at her before making place for her, and she held him so fucking tight she herself felt like she can't breathe.
"you promised to say goodbye." aurora accused him. "i'm still here." phantom offered her a barely there smile.
when she started to cry his own tears fell as well.
she hugged him tighter.
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the wolf that fell in love with little red riding hood; a remake of this au
chiluc week 2022
@chilucexchange
day 6
prompts: reverence | fairy tale au
challenge: include teardrops
open for better quality | no reposts | ID under the cut
[Image description: A digital drawing of Diluc as Little Red Riding Hood and Childe as The Big Bad Wolf. Diluc’s hair is arranged in twin braids that fall over his chest. He wears a black cape with a red hood, a white button up, black high-waisted pants, and black thigh-high boots with golden laces and red bows. His cape is adorned with golden tassels and secured in place with a red ribbon tied into a bow. He has a sword around his hip and carries a picnic basket. Childe walks slightly behind him, pointing towards the side as he speaks. He has black wolf ears and a tail. He wears a white cape lined with black fur, a loose maroon shirt, gray pants, and black boots that cut off under the knee. The two walk together in a forest and are lit by dappled sunlight.]
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following up on this post though where I pinned down that by Chap 23/24, Shen Qiao already exhibits a shift in attitude wrt Yan Wushi. Which isn't to say he still doesn't rise to Yan Wushi's provocation, lol, because he very much does. But clearly by Chap 24... like, if he wanted to leave... he could? (Yes maybe Yan Wushi would stalk him and pop up wherever he went like :3 owo did you miss me? :3c) But he doesn't
And so that begs the question for me of like... why. Why doesn't he just leave? There's that line later in the chap about how if it were just a few days earlier, then he'd be uncomfortable all over (with Yan Wushi's provocation), but stuff like the goosebumps (he got), they decreased bit by bit until they were gone. - so yes he got used to it, but by early chap 24, he hadn't yet gotten to the point of, like... habituating to Yan Wushi's provocations?
so. really. I can only conclude that actually.... Shen Qiao likes it, lmao. Cuz, like, sure if Shen Qiao gives an inch then Yan Wushi will take a mile, but I also don't get the feeling that Yan Wushi really crosses any boundaries that Shen Qiao ultimately doesn't concede.
It's not like with Bai Rong - who he sets very clear boundaries with and doesn't really yield on them - or with like Huo Xijing or Sang Jingxing or the rest of Huanhe, who I think we can all agree are on another level of Bad, and who clearly SQ also sees as a different breed than Bai Rong (and tbh I think he sees Yan Wushi as being more akin to Bai Rong than like Yuan Xiuxiu or Sang Jingxing etc.)
With Yan Wushi, it's like... clearly Yan Wushi pushes his buttons and pushes his boundaries, but so far anyway, YWS doesn't seem to have done any pushes that are just a step too far beyond what Shen Qiao can tolerate.
So. Where does this leave us. Shen Qiao finds Yan Wushi irritating and but also stimulating I would guess? And at least tolerates his provocations if not continues to tacitly encourage it by being so permissive to Yan Wushi's antics. But also it gets his blood going and gives him jitters... hm why does this sound familiar........
Is. Yan Wushi. like a caffeine high that Shen Qiao is chasing lmao?? *insert all of the coffee memes of like it's so good but at what cost, sometimes it gives you accelerated exhaustion etc* i've connected the two dots dot.jpg
Which also means that, any time anyone asks Shen Qiao about Yan Wushi and like, what the heck clearly he just pushes your buttons and tries to get a rise out of you, why are you even sticking with this old man,. this is him:
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