[ oh, he has a little doki, if only because hearing lin jingheng call him by his title is like, beyond his wildest dreams and makes it immediately a thousand times more positive.
he feels like he's going to vibrate out of his skin but manages, very innocently: ] What crime?
[ he sees that. and oh... it kind of hurts. what is relearning this sort of thing after over a decade? lin jingheng feels rusted over, that he's trying to make his joints move in all of the right ways again. even then, theirs is a bridge fashioned carefully over so many years already. it's been left in disrepair.
so he scoots just a little closer. subtly. it is a subtle scoot to press a little closer, the way a cat might in their aloof way. ]
[ he turns his head to look at him, now, closer together. like a puppy - his brows are knit together, and the smile on his face is wavering a little - almost desperate for the acknowledgement, for an answer. is that okay? is that enough? is that right?
[ yeah, this is... this is definitely the puppy behavior that jingheng knows. he can practically hear every molecule in bixing's body vibrating for some sort of grasp of what once was.
what still is, just behind fogged glass.
i wish i could tell you what i did to get back to you. but he's always been of fewer words. so instead he reaches up a hand and very carefully sets it on lu bixing's wrist, pulling it forward to that he can cup the back of his hand and
lu bixing watches him do this - his breath catches, as he reaches up to touch, fingertips twitching a little, and then... as his hand settles out, he breathes out. like he's been exalted. to feel him - solid, alive, real, not a hologram that he made in a fit of madness, not a cruel, short dream he desperately wanted to stay in when he woke up in the morning.
he thumbs at lin jingheng's cheek - able to do so without trembling, finally, but trying not to stare at him for too long, trying to remember how all of his broken parts are supposed to work together, and manages a little smile, mouth crooking up at the corner - hopeless, rueful, sad, but there. ]
...You came back to me.
[ is what he finally says, barely loud enough to be heard. ]
[ nothing would stop him, not even death. clasping hands, there one moment, pain the next, and now this, just this. he clings to him with honesty now, letting his own face drift towards lu bixing's palm a moment to allow himself the honor.
he holds that hand to his face a selfish moment longer. ]
I... made a promise to you.
[ he focuses then on the little tug of lu bixing's mouth, and his own thumb slides up to hold his jaw, to stroke a little against that twitch. ]
[ alright well he's crying, now. it's impossible to stop it - tears leak from his eyes and fall down his cheeks, and lu bixing swallows a lump in his throat, the hand on lin's face flexing, once, and then gripping harder. it's probably a good thing that his biochip isn't active. he'd probably hurt him.
he turns his face into his hand and hiccups, a sob that's childish and silly and unbecoming of the prime minister of the eighth galaxy, but just can't help himself. there's nothing else to say, for the moment - all he can do is cry, and finally drop his hand away from lin jingheng's face to hook around him and pull him in closer again, to breathe him in and feel him, alive and solid and realer than anything he's ever dreamed in the long, long seventeen years that passed, and just sobs into his shoulder, body wracking misery that's finally found the tiniest outlet for release. ]
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[ man i hate jingheng because he isn't going to say anything, but that's just because lu bixing knows that he can give everything he needs to give him without saying a single woord. he holds him closer, draws him in against his chest and sinks into the back of the seating, holding him as close as the boundaries of their bodies allow.
he feels the intensity of his crying, and just strokes at his hair, won't tell him to stop, because wouldn't that be worse? it is not so much unbecoming, as jingheng only knows that he needs to anchor bixing here and now as they weather this insanity.
finally, lin jingheng turns his head from the way they have tucked themselves against each other like a pair of birds. he presses his forehead to bixing's temples with a soft bonk. ]
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he feels like he's going to vibrate out of his skin but manages, very innocently: ] What crime?
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[ he leans back against the couch and lets himself sink into it. the doki is there, buried under the thousands of feet of "we are in hell."
when he leans, it is just a millimeter, enough to touch shoulder to shoulder. ]
You left quickly.
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...Well, I had to escape the scene.
[ is that the right thing to say? how do you flirt? he has to relearn, bit by bit. ]
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so he scoots just a little closer. subtly. it is a subtle scoot to press a little closer, the way a cat might in their aloof way. ]
Did you? So soon?
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[ he turns his head to look at him, now, closer together. like a puppy - his brows are knit together, and the smile on his face is wavering a little - almost desperate for the acknowledgement, for an answer. is that okay? is that enough? is that right?
sometimes looking at him makes his heart ache. ]
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what still is, just behind fogged glass.
i wish i could tell you what i did to get back to you. but he's always been of fewer words. so instead he reaches up a hand and very carefully sets it on lu bixing's wrist, pulling it forward to that he can cup the back of his hand and
just brings it up to hold it to his own cheek. ]
Wherever you go.
Even Hell.
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lu bixing watches him do this - his breath catches, as he reaches up to touch, fingertips twitching a little, and then... as his hand settles out, he breathes out. like he's been exalted. to feel him - solid, alive, real, not a hologram that he made in a fit of madness, not a cruel, short dream he desperately wanted to stay in when he woke up in the morning.
he thumbs at lin jingheng's cheek - able to do so without trembling, finally, but trying not to stare at him for too long, trying to remember how all of his broken parts are supposed to work together, and manages a little smile, mouth crooking up at the corner - hopeless, rueful, sad, but there. ]
...You came back to me.
[ is what he finally says, barely loud enough to be heard. ]
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[ nothing would stop him, not even death. clasping hands, there one moment, pain the next, and now this, just this. he clings to him with honesty now, letting his own face drift towards lu bixing's palm a moment to allow himself the honor.
he holds that hand to his face a selfish moment longer. ]
I... made a promise to you.
[ he focuses then on the little tug of lu bixing's mouth, and his own thumb slides up to hold his jaw, to stroke a little against that twitch. ]
Bixing.
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he turns his face into his hand and hiccups, a sob that's childish and silly and unbecoming of the prime minister of the eighth galaxy, but just can't help himself. there's nothing else to say, for the moment - all he can do is cry, and finally drop his hand away from lin jingheng's face to hook around him and pull him in closer again, to breathe him in and feel him, alive and solid and realer than anything he's ever dreamed in the long, long seventeen years that passed, and just sobs into his shoulder, body wracking misery that's finally found the tiniest outlet for release. ]
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he feels the intensity of his crying, and just strokes at his hair, won't tell him to stop, because wouldn't that be worse? it is not so much unbecoming, as jingheng only knows that he needs to anchor bixing here and now as they weather this insanity.
finally, lin jingheng turns his head from the way they have tucked themselves against each other like a pair of birds. he presses his forehead to bixing's temples with a soft bonk. ]