Ian likes to be helpful. Adam needs a whole lot of help.
Crash needs Ginger. Ginger wants Crash.
Johnny goes to Mexico, and there's one more Ex-President.
Debbie, Holden, a tub of Vaseline, and a lazy Sunday. When they're unlucky, they get to bring their work home with them.
“We raised a child together,” Jiang Wanyin says, voice thick with pain. “You two were sworn brothers.” He swallows hard and oh. Oh, no. Lan Xichen is not ready for this conversation. He is never going to be ready for this conversation. “And because of what he did, there is nowhere outside this room that either of us can mourn him.”
Lan Xichen has been in seclusion for half a year, healing, he thinks, from the way his world was upended that night in a temple in Yunping…
“We raised a child together,” Jiang Wanyin says, voice thick with pain. “You two were sworn brothers.” He swallows hard and oh. Oh, no. Lan Xichen is not ready for this conversation. He is never going to be ready for this conversation. “And because of what he did, there is nowhere outside this room that either of us can mourn him.”
Lan Xichen has been in seclusion for half a year, healing, he thinks, from the way his world was upended that night in a temple in Yunping City. Then, Jiang Wanyin comes to visit—breaking the fragile peace he has been building, but offering, perhaps, a better healing.
The mask comes off, and Finney leaves the basement behind. He's still not free.
Cornelius opts for a different look at Carnivale. Billy is appreciative.
Hickey takes the measure of Mr. Jopson from below.
Written for the Watchmen kink meme. Adi's adolescence isn't a very smooth transition. (Additional warning for mentions of eating disorder.)
That night, Nie Mingjue dreams of Qinghe, but it is a Qinghe that is far from home.