[ it's only one tear! just one he's holding onto the rest! they don't deserve to abandon him in betrayal! there will be no march. instead, he closes his eyes as thumbs push there, where his face feels warm, feverish because the skin to skin feeds their warmth to one another and hell is comfortably balmy.
he shakes his head. ]
Lu...
[ eventually making eye contact with him, eventually letting another slide, and his eyebrow draws downwards. he thinks about it, living in the cage of his body under glass, and later, contemplating the means to his escape, every day eyes turned upwards. so he turns his eyes upwards now, and the feeling overwhelms him. what an empty sky he'd been trapped beneath.
what a vivid galaxy set before him here and now.
he lowers his eyes, but allows his face to be held all the same. ]
he's immediately fussy as he wipes away those tears, when a second drops, butting his head a little into lin jingheng's, tilting his head to kiss his forehead, his nose, to do anything and everything to try and stop it from happening or soothe him? his BABY ]
You're scaring me. [ he says, but he doesn't quite mean it, laughing a little, and - honestly, tears up too just at the sight, out of empathy for the person he loves most, in the entire world, of the person he has always loved, of the person he will always love, biting his own lip to keep himself from losing it and making things worth. ]
It's okay. You can cry, if you want. Our secret. [ the words are very quiet, in this little space between them. you're safe with me. maybe - if he's forgotten everything, if he's relearning how to love, then maybe just being here in this moment of vulnerability could be enough. ] I won't tell.
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he shakes his head. ]
Lu...
[ eventually making eye contact with him, eventually letting another slide, and his eyebrow draws downwards. he thinks about it, living in the cage of his body under glass, and later, contemplating the means to his escape, every day eyes turned upwards. so he turns his eyes upwards now, and the feeling overwhelms him. what an empty sky he'd been trapped beneath.
what a vivid galaxy set before him here and now.
he lowers his eyes, but allows his face to be held all the same. ]
Something in my eye... I'm fine, I...
[ another. this is a curse. what's opening up? ]
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he's immediately fussy as he wipes away those tears, when a second drops, butting his head a little into lin jingheng's, tilting his head to kiss his forehead, his nose, to do anything and everything to try and stop it from happening or soothe him? his BABY ]
You're scaring me. [ he says, but he doesn't quite mean it, laughing a little, and - honestly, tears up too just at the sight, out of empathy for the person he loves most, in the entire world, of the person he has always loved, of the person he will always love, biting his own lip to keep himself from losing it and making things worth. ]
It's okay. You can cry, if you want. Our secret. [ the words are very quiet, in this little space between them. you're safe with me. maybe - if he's forgotten everything, if he's relearning how to love, then maybe just being here in this moment of vulnerability could be enough. ] I won't tell.