#omegaLWJseason ...omega warprize LWJ is displayed at the wen...

And he rips WX's throat out.
WWX looks like he very much wants to start shouting again. "Lan Zhan's not anyone's," he grits out. "What have you—why is he—"
What has WX /done/ to him, WWX thinks despairingly. LWJ is proud, stubborn, unflinching. What could make him act like this?
WWX wonders the worst. But he can see almost all of LWJ's body through the too-thin robes he's wearing, and there are no hand-shaped bruises, no bite marks.
WX notices. "You're sure he's not yours?" he asks dismissively. "You're /smelling/ him."
"To be fair," WX says casually, like WWX isn't 2 seconds away from tearing him apart, "he /does/ smell delicious."
"I could bite him," WX murmurs. "Claim him right here, in front of all of you. He wouldn't even resist - would you?" He directs this last part at LWJ.
"But I don't want you in my head all the time," he says off-handedly. "So I won't. But I have a better idea."
He grabs LWJ's chin and turns his face towards him. LWJ looks past WX's ear and doesn't react.
"You son of a /bitch/," WWX hisses. WZL places a hand on his chest.
WX taps his knuckle against LWJ's cheek. "You should probably just listen, you know," he says in LWJ's ear. "Or your friend there might lose his core."
"Good," WX says, tilting his head back. He pushes LWJ's face down towards his neck. "Go ahead."
"Lan Zhan, don't do it," WWX says desperately. "Don't, you'll have to taste him, you'll—"
"Hurry up," WX snaps. WZL moves his hand to WWX's throat. LWJ breathes in, breathes out, and bites down.
LWJ bites down much, MUCH harder than a bondbite requires. his teeth go straight through WX's muscle. WX screams and tries to rip LWJ off, but LWJ grabs his arms and pins him as his teeth meet in the middle of WX's neck.
WZL throws WWX aside and goes for LWJ.
(WWX, watching: well mark me down as scared AND horny)
Does WC care? No, he does not. Does he grab multiple guards by their collars and shove them at LWJ, almost directly in WZL's path? Why, yes he does.
so a lot of the wen guards conveniently end up unconscious and coreless on the floor. which, hm! means that there are a lot of spiritual swords lying around unattended!
bells start ringing in the watchtowers - no doubt WRH will lock nightless city down. the guest disciples all grab swords from the fallen wen guards and get ready to fly.
except for LWJ. who is still chained.
He's cut off by a growl.
Su She scoffs (from almost 20 paces away). "Since when do /you/ have anything to do with the lan sect?" he sniffs. "Was WX right? Is LWJ yours?"
"Wei Ying," LWJ interrupts. WWX turns to look at him. It's the first time LWJ's spoken since he showed up. He sounds as coolly detached as he always does, even though he's wiping the last of WX's blood off his mouth as he speaks.
Something settles in WWX's chest when he hears that, like a restless itch finally being scratched. He still kind of wants to rip off SS's head, though. Weird.
WWX strips off his outer robe and tucks it around LWJ's shoulders, and has to resist the weird urge to purr.
like, for example, LWJ. you know. just an example.
"We'll just have to wait until we get back to Lotus Pier," WWX says decisively. "Jiang-shushu can break it."
LWJ gives him an odd look. "Lotus Pier?"
WWX is still acting like a territorial guard dog (ugh). he hates it, but he can't help it.
when he finally works up the courage to ask, LWJ just sighs and reveals that, while he was insulted, jeered at, and paraded around in silks like an animal, he was never touched.
He spits this last part out like it tastes rotten. It probably does.
It doesn't take a genius to figure out that the 'main event' was probably the indoctrination.
"Worry about yourself first," LWJ snaps, so harshly that WWX shuts up. "You're a target. WC will not forget what you did. All because-"
"Don't overthink it," WWX says. "It's not your fault that WX's a dick. Or that I'm too reckless for my own good."
"And you would've just let WX kill /you/ instead?" WWX shoots back. "Do you really think that would've been better?
About a week after they leave Qishan, they reach Lotus Pier.
WWX blinks. "Ah, Lan Zhan," he says, "this smells like you now. You can keep it, if you want."
(And if he secretly stashes the LWJ-scented robe in his closet, that's his own business.)
Almost a month after WX's death, the Wens attack.
After the attack on lotus pier, the sects finally rally together against the wen.
WWX has Feelings about it.
He can't leave lotus pier, though. So he just has to watch as LWJ and the lans leave.
"What does lan zhan have to do with anything?" WWX asks, genuinely confused. JC looks at him like he's stupid.
JC's not serious abt the mate thing, ofc. But WWX's brain just goes *windows shutdown sound*
Oh, WWX thinks. Fuck.
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