So here it is finally all posted, the fic written for MDZS wip big bang. Where I'd signed up for the lower word count tier expecting this to be between 10-15k.  Still just managed to get it all done for that tiers posting dates - but it ended up coming in at 36k.  So I was just a bit under estimate.  



New Horizons (36094 words) by silver_sun
Chapters: 6/6
Fandom: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Sòng Lán | Sòng Zǐchēn/Xiǎo Xīngchén
Characters: Sòng Lán | Sòng Zǐchēn, Xiǎo Xīngchén, Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn
Additional Tags: Pre-Canon, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Night Hunts (Módào Zǔshī), Hurt/Comfort, First Kiss, canon character deaths Wei Changze and Cangse sanren, Child Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn

Summary: The decision to help a small village threatened by a vicious yaoguai brings with it danger and upsetting news that Xiao Xingchen never expected to receive. With the news comes a choice, one that will change the course of both Xiao Xingchen and Song Lan’s lives in ways that neither of them expect.

Story is fully written and complete in six parts. Posting will be every other day starting on 22nd April, posting time each day will be about 8am UK time.

The Song Lan/Xiao Xingchen fic for the MDZS wip bigbang is finally ready to post.

I was writing for what was lowest word count tier - which was like 10k - well the fic is 35k or there about. It is being posted in sections. Part 1 today, 2 on Sunday, 3 Tuesday, 4 Thursday, 5 Saturday and then the final one, 6 the following day, Sunday.

Rating:

• Teen And Up Audiences

Fandom:

• 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)

Relationship:

• Sòng Lán | Sòng Zǐchēn/Xiǎo Xīngchén

Characters:

• Sòng Lán | Sòng Zǐchēn
• Xiǎo Xīngchén
• Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn

Additional Tags:

• Pre-Canon
• Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
• Night Hunts (Módào Zǔshī)
• Hurt/Comfort
• First Kiss
• canon character deaths Wei Changze and Cangse sanren
• Child Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn

New Horizons

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A day late (although I did post on Twitter) for wip Wednesday.



“We can try again in the morning,” Song Lan says, seeing the dejected look on Xingchen’s face. “You cannot do more than you have.”

“Can’t I?” There is something sharp and hurt in Xingchen’s tone. “Because it feels like I have done very little at all.”

It startles Song Lan to hear him sound like this. It worries him too, as despite wearing a heavy cloak he is still shivering periodically, while the frequency with which he tries to ease the ache in his arm has increased. “You need to rest.”

“How can I? How can I do anything else when I promised her I’d find him?”

There is no easy way to argue against what Xingchen wants to do. The child is lost and alone, either trying to survive by themself or having been taken in. Even if that were the case there was no guarantee that anyone who took in such a child would have their best interests at heart. Yet he can’t just watch as Xingchen pushes himself, ignoring food and drink, going without sufficient rest, not even seeming to care that he is injured.

Song Lan is still trying to think of what to say when a dog starts barking again. Louder and closer this time, he sees the crowd move slightly, but it isn’t the dog that they are letting through. A child, a boy of about four, scared and crying, darts out.

Just a little bit of the wip big bang songxiao fic. (posted as part of a wip meme on tumblr)

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“Here is a good place,” Xingchen replies. “She can rest here, her husband beside her. We can give them that at least.”

“You killed the yaogui,” Song Lan says, hoping that there might be some comfort to be found in that fact. “They will know their deaths did not go unnoticed or unmourned.”

“Us.” Xingchen turns to him. “It was us. I couldn’t have done it without you.”

Despite his sadness at what has happened there is still so much warmth in how Xingchen looks at him and in how he speaks to him that Song Lan cannot help but feel moved by it. To be there beside one another, to be there for each other in whatever way they might need is something that he wants more than anything else. He hopes that Xingchen somehow knows that he feels this way, because as sure as he is of his own feelings in this, he is also certain that he has no hope of telling it to him in a way that makes any sense or isn’t profoundly awkward for them both. “Nor I,” he says, then regrets it. It sounds strange, both not enough and too much all at the same time. “Together." He tries again. “We are at our best together.”

Xingchen doesn’t reply, but he moves closer, until their shoulders are almost touching. The blustery autumn wind still gusts about them, first from one direction and then from another. There is some protection from it now though, whichever way it blows one of them shields the other.

It feels right.

It’s not something Song Lan can put into words and for once he doesn’t mind. Sometimes all that is needed is just to be there, to be each other’s shelter in the storms of life.


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