May. 5th, 2019 08:40 am
Sunday Six - future fix-it
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likealeafonthewindI realized that I completely missed posting a snippet last Sunday, oops. I went to see Endgame last weekend and I needed a lot of time to process it (and then read fic about it). I wasn't even been able to concentrate on Guardian stuff until Friday, tbh. And since then, I've been working on my fic for the 520 Exchange which I can't share in case my recipient is someone who's subscribed to this journal. So instead, here's a way-more-than-six-lines snippet from my future fix-it (to make up for last week =P).
“Come on, didi,” the boy in black murmurs encouragingly. “We’re almost to the village. They’ll be able to help us there.”
“I don’t—” the boy in white breaks off in a hacking cough “—I don’t think I can, gege—”
“Yes, yes you can. We’ll do it together, okay? Just like we’ve done everything else.”
The other boy shakes his head but seems to decide that it’s a waste of energy to keep arguing. The two of them stumble along slowly. Zhao Yunlan is starting to get a sense of who he’s watching and he can’t help feeling fascinated at seeing his Shen Wei younger than he’s ever seen him.
The two arrive at a village just as the sun is starting to set, and they’re greeted by a woman who’s taking down laundry from a line in her yard. She gives an alarmed shout when the boy in white collapses to the ground, pulling the other boy down with him.
“Get the healer!” she tells one of the other villagers who had come running at the noise. He runs off while she hurries over to kneel by the two boys.
“Didi! Didi!” Shen Wei is crying out. There’s a look of such terror on his face that Zhao Yunlan can feel his own heart squeezing in sympathetic fear, though he knows that Shen Wei’s brother must have lived through this.
“Come on, didi,” the boy in black murmurs encouragingly. “We’re almost to the village. They’ll be able to help us there.”
“I don’t—” the boy in white breaks off in a hacking cough “—I don’t think I can, gege—”
“Yes, yes you can. We’ll do it together, okay? Just like we’ve done everything else.”
The other boy shakes his head but seems to decide that it’s a waste of energy to keep arguing. The two of them stumble along slowly. Zhao Yunlan is starting to get a sense of who he’s watching and he can’t help feeling fascinated at seeing his Shen Wei younger than he’s ever seen him.
The two arrive at a village just as the sun is starting to set, and they’re greeted by a woman who’s taking down laundry from a line in her yard. She gives an alarmed shout when the boy in white collapses to the ground, pulling the other boy down with him.
“Get the healer!” she tells one of the other villagers who had come running at the noise. He runs off while she hurries over to kneel by the two boys.
“Didi! Didi!” Shen Wei is crying out. There’s a look of such terror on his face that Zhao Yunlan can feel his own heart squeezing in sympathetic fear, though he knows that Shen Wei’s brother must have lived through this.