Sold to the Yiling Patriarch ✔️(a Yizhan Omegaverse AU Fanfic)

Lesson 10: Trust Issues Can Ruin a Relationship

"So you can teleport and have to drink blood, but once a month you can shift and walk in daylight?" Yibo asked when they'd finally gotten to a lull in his heat.

They were just lying in each other's arms in the dark of the cave, fingers running lightly over sweat-damp skin.

"Not quite," Zhan said. "I can change into my wolf form at any time. But at the full moon, some  wolf traits are a bit more prominent."

"Is that why you know so much about Gusu? Because you're a hybrid?"

Zhan hesitated. "No. Yibo, I..."

Yibo suddenly felt nervous and stilled his hand.

"I have something to tell you," Zhan finished.

Yibo remembered what they were going to discuss later and sucked in a breath. "You lied to me?"

"No!" Zhan said. "At least, not exactly. And not about that."

Yibo snorted.

"I just haven't kept you completely informed about things."

"Things?" Yibo repeated. "How many things are we talking about?"

Zhan's mouth dropped open, but he quickly snapped it shut. "We need to talk about your brother."

"What about my brother?" Yibo asked, body going tense. "He's dead."

Zhan sighed. "No," he said, "he's no. Your brother is alive, though only just."

Yibo's heart banged against his ribcage. "What? He... he can't be. I don't feel him. At all."

Zhan sat up. "We should go back. I'll take you to him. I've been waiting to see if his body could recover against the silver rounds he took."

"You mean he's here? He's been here all along?"

Zhan turned his back to him as he dressed. "I wasn't sure what the outcome would be," he said. "I thought it would be better since you already thought he was dead, if you only had to mourn him once."

Yibo couldn't move.

"I know you may not agree with my decision," Zhan said. "But I did really think it was better for you. And safer for the clan. I didn't know you thought I'd killed him." 

He rubbed his hand over his face. 

"Take me to him," Yibo said, getting to his feet. He didn't know how to react, so he just wanted to focus on Xichen.

Zhan nodded and came close, wrapping Yibo in his coat and his embrace. 

"Hold on," he said. 

The mountainside swam away, and before Yibo could blink, they were standing in Yibo's bedroom back at the fortress. 

Yibo shook his head and clutched at Zhan's arm to steady himself.

"Teleporting takes a little getting used to," Zhan said. "Even for vampires."

Yibo nodded and waited for the room to stop spinning. Then he went to his closet to get dressed.

"Yibo," Zhan called out after a moment. "There's something else." 

Yibo's movements stilled. "What else?" 

"If I do nothing, your brother is going to die. That's what I've been waiting to determine." Zhan hesitated. "But I don't have to do nothing. I can turn him. Into one of us. I can't guarantee he'll survive the transformation, but I'd give him pretty good odds. Lots better than he has right now."