Tin and Can – Episode 10 (Love by Chance)
Author: somewhatavidreader
Tin + Can’s letter
LBC’S INCORRECT QUOTES: Was that before or after you slept with him?
Pete walks towards the IC Building. He spots Tin, sitting outside on a bench, which is not abnormal.
What is abnormal is how Tin’s eyes are following someone. His laptop is out, but his fingers are still. Pete tries to trace his line of sight and finds Can on the other side of the street, laughing and joking with other people. Tin looks like he wants to stab them.
“Oh Ai Tin, I didn’t know that you know Ai Can,” Pete says as he sits beside Tin.
Pete watches Tin’s body language as he answers. His shoulders and back slouch, like he’s curling in on himself. The tips of Tin’s ears turn pink and Tin actually looks to the side instead of at Pete. “Let’s just say that we’ve ‘crossed paths’.”
Pete takes it all in before asking, “Was that before or after you slept with him?”
“What? How did you?”
Pete smiles. “You seem so besotted, Ai Tin. It’s refreshing.” Pete pats Tin on the shoulder before he gets up. “Also Ai Can has been shouting about how he can’t believe he lost his virginity to you at soccer practice. Bye!”
Pete turns to look after he’s walked off for a few steps to see Tin marching towards Can with a strange look on his face. Certainly Can’s going to get a repeat at this rate, Pete thinks.
#but imagine this though#imagine this exact scenario#of Tin trying to hide his new-found relationship with can#but pete taking none of that bullshit and called him out for it#i live for this moment
@andwebegin YOU ASK AND I SHALL DELIVER. Ver 2 ya’ll!
The first hint wasn’t really a hint but a feeling. No matter what anyone says, Pete was observant and Tin felt different.
Tin felt less cold, only by degrees, but anything less than his absolute stoicism was obvious. He walked differently, talked a little differently, like he was trying to relearn how to be a person. His gaze didn’t pierce like it used to, a manner of liveliness had returned.
Pete didn’t dislike these changes. Back before he moved, before the hurt and betrayal, Tin had been so much more open and lively. To Pete, these changes, although small, reminded him of the friend he once had. More of this could only be a good thing.
The second hint was that Can was too cheerful. Or perhaps the better word was too normal.
He begged for food, rambled and raved, and yet, Pete could see that something else was on his mind. A tight lipped Can was not likely to be a good thing. Everyone had learned their lesson with a distracted Can already.
But now it seemed like Can was making an extra effort to speak up when everyone knew he normally would. Furthermore, Can was taking extra care with his words. Pete normally had trouble following Can’s stream of consciousness, but it was much easier to follow when Can was minding his words. Like Can was making an effort to be understood.
Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan for number 4 of the ask meme?
Shen Wei finds Zhao Yunlan camping out in Shen Wei’s apartment, and for a second, honestly thinks about using his powers to get himself the fuck out of there, but he can’t, because this Yunlan doesn’t know he’s the Black Cloak Envoy yet.
“Stop avoiding me, Shen Wei,” Yunlan says, from where he’s sprawled out across Shen Wei’s couch. Normally, that would be a very familiar and very welcome sight. Today, it just makes Shen Wei want to flee. “I just want some answers, but no-one is telling me anything. Even Lao Chu said that he’ll only answer my questions if you allow it. What the fuck is going on?”
Shen Wei averts his eyes. He’s never learned how to lie to Yunlan properly. “I’m not sure what sort of answers you expect me to have,” Shen Wei tells him. “I’m just a university professor-”
“Bullshit,” Yunlan snaps, jumping to his feet. “Look, I may have temporarily lost my memory, but it’s more than clear that the SID listens to you. That they trust you.”
Shen Wei tries very hard to keep from reacting, to not show how anguished he is at the mention of Yunlan’s memory loss.
“Shen Wei, I might not remember you,” Yunlan says, coming closer to Shen Wei, “but my heart does.”
Shen Wei looks up at that. “I-”
Yunlan shakes his head. “My heart races when I see you, it aches when you leave,” Yunlan continues, gripping Shen Wei’s shoulders. “It’s telling me that you must be important to me, that I must love you. But you keep avoiding me, and I just. I just want to know.”
“Yunlan,” Shen Wei breathes out, and then catches himself. He looks at Yunlan, ignores how the way Yunlan’s face falls makes Shen Wei’s heart break a little. “I think you must have the wrong idea,” he says, gently shaking Yunlan’s grip off himself. “I don’t have the answers you’re looking for.”
send me a fandom/character/ship and a number for a headcanon
@thewickling said I had to do the words thing to make it happy, so I guess I’m doing the words thing to make it happy:
Zhao Yunlan, because he’s Zhao Yunlan, doesn’t leave things well alone, not even after Shen Wei politely invites him out of his apartment, and asks him not to break in again, because Shen Wei comes home again the next day to find Yunlan, once again, sprawled out on his couch.
“Chief Zhao, you-”
“Don’t mind me,” Yunlan says. “For some reason that no-one is telling me, I feel more at home in your apartment than mine. And since I’m not allowed to go back to work yet and have to bore myself to death at home, I figured I’d do it where I was truly at home.”
His emphasis does not go unnoticed by Shen Wei.
tl;dr: i spent too much time thinking about tin and i’m gonna regret sharing this post but here i am.
/contains novel spoilers.
Okay but Can is the sweetest human ever. He’s still pissed at Tin and he’s still not even sure if what Tin told him had any truth to it but he can’t stop himself from worrying about him and checking in on him because there’s a chance that he MIGHT have been telling the truth. I can’t wait until Tin finally accepts Can into his heart fully because he’s gonna spoil the shit outta him and Can deserves nothing less.
“Listen. I don’t really wanna apologize to you, Ai Tin. But I cannot forget about what I did to you. Stop. Don’t call me stupid too. You’re right. I’m a fool that keeps apologizing to you repeatedly, but I did say mean things to you that day. Doesn’t matter if you told me the truth or lied to me. I don’t care. And, I don’t want to feel upset about what I did to you. Sorry that I was mean to you. I didn’t really mean to do that.
Yes. And you owe me an apology too. Asshole.”
ANDWEBEGIN’S FAVOURITE TINCAN MOMENTS: Can & Gucci
ANDWEBEGIN’S FAVOURITE TINCAN MOMENTS: Why? Are you still mad at me about that kiss?
LBC’S INCORRECT QUOTES: Was that before or after you slept with him?
Pete walks towards the IC Building. He spots Tin, sitting outside on a bench, which is not abnormal.
What is abnormal is how Tin’s eyes are following someone. His laptop is out, but his fingers are still. Pete tries to trace his line of sight and finds Can on the other side of the street, laughing and joking with other people. Tin looks like he wants to stab them.
“Oh Ai Tin, I didn’t know that you know Ai Can,” Pete says as he sits beside Tin.
Pete watches Tin’s body language as he answers. His shoulders and back slouch, like he’s curling in on himself. The tips of Tin’s ears turn pink and Tin actually looks to the side instead of at Pete. “Let’s just say that we’ve ‘crossed paths’.”
Pete takes it all in before asking, “Was that before or after you slept with him?”
“What? How did you?”
Pete smiles. “You seem so besotted, Ai Tin. It’s refreshing.” Pete pats Tin on the shoulder before he gets up. “Also Ai Can has been shouting about how he can’t believe he lost his virginity to you at soccer practice. Bye!”
Pete turns to look after he’s walked off for a few steps to see Tin marching towards Can with a strange look on his face. Certainly Can’s going to get a repeat at this rate, Pete thinks.
The Last Good Bar 
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