Fate

Ch. 38 ⚠️

⚠️Sensitive content in this chapter, content includes, nightmares and night terrors, descriptions of death, blood, and gore. Also involving post trauma, and fears, and other mental health issues. Please read with caution⚠️
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For the first time since Wei Wuxian has arrived to Yibo and Zhan's, he has had a nightmare. Not just a nightmare, but a night-terror. It was so bad it woke the entire house. Yibo and Zhan couldn't get near him to give him something to calm his down because his body was swarming with resentful energy. Zhan and Yibo now could understand what Wuxian meant by these nightmares. Wangji asked if he could get his brother here to help as he had Liebing and with both him and Wangji, they could get the resentful energy to clear away.

Xichen and Haikuan came with Wen Qing and Wen Ning. Wen Qing has dealt with Wuxian's nightmares before while they lived in the burial mounds and she always worried for him. He would scream and flail around and she'd worry more about him harming himself then anyone else because she made sure that no one was in he room other then here and Wen Ning. Wen Ning would gather the resentment from him as it did not harm him as it is his life force that keeps him alive.

Wen Qing said she would use her needles to keep him from moving around too much and she'd have Wen Ning hold him down as he was immensely strong. He'd also be care about it as he didn't want to harm Wuxian in the process. After a lot of effort, Wuxian eventually calmed down enough for Wangji to hold him and comfort him. Wuxian eventually came too, his eyes red and filled with tears. He held onto Wangji so tight as if he feared losing him.

"I-I'm s-sorry," Wuxian stuttered so quietly that it was almost impossible to hear him.

"It's alright, just try to recollect yourself," Wangji said as he comforted him more.

"No need to worry about apologizing," Zhan said, "did...did you want to talk about the dream?"

"Nightless City, so much hate and so much anger. So much pain and so much blood. I...I saw her dying again...Jiang Cheng...he blames me for everything...he caused me to finally fall down that cliff...but I didn't wake this time when I fell...I just kept falling, and falling, and falling...when I finally landed, I landed in a pile of corpses, all the bodies that had fallen from the massacre in Lotus Pier. Madam Yu and Jiang Fengmian...they were dead but I could still hear their spirits screaming at me. Telling me I killed their daughter and son-in-law...that I ruined Jiang Cheng's life. I ruined Shijie's son...all those bodies suddenly came to life and started ripping me apart...it was like I could feel it all. The pain, the feeling of them digging their nails into my skin...what scared me most was that I saw Lan Zhan's corpse lying beside me," Wuxian explained what he could get out before he broke down into tears once more.

Lan Wangji wrapped his arms around his partner tighter and letting him know that he was right there beside him. To let him know it was all a dream and that he would not have to worry about losing him. Lan Wangji was going to do everything he could to remain by Wuxian's side. That was all Wuxian needed to hear, honestly, to hear that Wangji was there. His vision was stuck between the visuals of the dream and what could potentially be reality.

"It will be okay, Wuxian," Xiao Zhan said, "you are not in that timeline right now. Since you are here in this one, focus on gaining your confidence and strength back. You have all of us here in this room to help you. I promise you, we will help you."

"Thank you, and I am sorry I woke you all," Wuxian said.

"Honestly, Zhan and I were not asleep yet anyway, so you are fine," Yibo replied.

Zhan glared at Yibo for basically outing that the two were potentially up to know good in the bedroom, "Yibo!" Zhan said.

Haikuan chuckled, "damn, glad you two are doing well and also exploring your new little world of being a couple," he teased.

Wuxian glanced up and Wangji, "are we that open about or intimacy like that?" He asked confused.

"No," Wangji replied, "and I would like to keep it that way. Only you, will know what I am like in the bedroom."

Wuxian started laughing which caught the attention of everyone else. Wuxian stopped laughing when he felt eyes on him, "ugh, you guys can go back to sleep if you want, no need to worry too much now. I have Lan Zhan here," Wuxian told them.

"Mnn," Zhan nodded and led the others out.

Haikuan went back home with Xichen and the Wen Siblings, and Zhan and Yibo went back to their room. Yibo was all for continuing where the two left off when they got interrupted. Zhan could only roll his eyes at him.

"You are one horny boyfriend," Zhan told him.

"That is only because I love having sex with you," Yibo told him, "might even be my favorite activity that you and I do."

Zhan laughed as he pounced on Yibo, shoving him back on the bed, "I am not complaining, you do know how to make me feel good. It's my favorite pastime with you too."

Yibo flipped them over quickly and pinned Zhan's arms above his head, "that's good to know. Since Wuxian and Wangji tend to do it every day, why don't we do the same? It will be great."

"As long as you do not break me, I would like to be able to walk the following day," Zhan told him.

"Hmm?" Yibo hummed and brushed his lips against Zhan's just to tease him, "well, it will let me spoil you in the morning too, tending to you while you gain mobility back."

"Wow, such a sweetheart, Yibo," Zhan replied. Yibo laughed and finally settled his lips onto Zhan's. He let go of Zhan's arms and wrapped his arms underneath him. Zhan wrapped his arms around Yibo's torso and rested his hands flat in Yibo's back. There was no telling what the two will end up doing in the future but the know that at the moment, they cannot get enough of each other.