393: the bicycle scene
He Tian watches as Mo Guan Shan plays around with the bicycle.
He’s circling around the quad, pedalling without holding on the handle bars. Mo Guan Shan looks relaxed and the expression on his face looks so boyish and young. As if the events in the previous days were all just a bad dream.
He Tian wants him to always be like this. He wants Mo Guan Shan to just be a regular kid and never get hurt ever again.
“Little Mo~” Mo Guan Shan turns to him at the mention of the nickname (Cute, he thinks, Like an angry kitten) and He Tian couldn’t help but smile. “Come here!”
There’s a frown and an angry pout on Mo Guan Shan’s face, but he pedals to the shade where He Tian is anyway and that too makes him smile.
“What’s up?”
He Tian just makes a come hither gesture and Mo Guan Shan pedals closer. The protests come as soon as he figures out what He Tian wants, sitting sideways at the bike’s back seat.
“This is buzzcut’s new ride. What are you gonna do if you accidentally break the rear wheel?”
That’s what he says, but He Tian hears what he’s not saying.
I don’t know how to do this. You'll get hurt, you know? And then what?
He Tian just waves him off. “It's not that fragile.”
I'm not that fragile. He’s not and he knows Mo Guan Shan will never hurt him willingly. I'm not gonna get hurt. Even if he does, He Tian will take it.
“Fuck, we're gonna fall,” Guan Shan says but he doesn’t brush off He Tian’s hand on his waist.
This is not a good idea. We're not a good idea.
“Enough nonsense.” Give him an inch and He Tian will take a mile. With Guan Shan not shaking off the arm on his waist, He Tian holds on tight and leans his weight against his back. “Start moving. I'm not afraid of falling.”
I'm really not. Shut up and move already. I’m ready.
“Move your hands away. Grab onto the seat instead.”
Let me go. You could do so much better. Just let me go.
He’s giving He Tian a last out, a last chance to leave and let go, but why would He Tian do that? He’s already locked in on Mo Guan Shan since the day after the fight with Jian Yi and Zhan Zheng Xi when he saw him eating a sandwich outside some convenience store. He Tian has decided to keep him when he called, stuck in the rain, and Mo Guan Shan, pissed and unsure wholly wary of him, came with an umbrella anyway and cooked him beef stew at his apartment (albeit under threat). He Tian already vowed to take care and protect him, shield him from whatever shitty thing the world is gonna throw at him, when he Guan Shan looked more pained than He Tian was when he saw his hurt hand.
He Tian knew he liked him when he had that nightmare and his first instinct was to call him. By the time Mo Guan Shan told him he doesn’t actually hate him that much, He Tian already likes him too much he doesn’t know what to do with himself. He’s the only one he feels safe enough to come to, with all of his guards down, that he can allow himself to rest and sleep defenseless.
He Tian realized he loves him when they went to that aquarium and Mo Guan Shan said he’s too bothered by He Tian to ever forget him. When Guan Shan asked for new earrings, He Tian thought his heart would burst from how happy that simple request made him. He’s so in love with him he feels crazy with it. He hangs at every word Mo Guan Shan says, at everything he does, that if he tells He Tian to jump off a cliff he’ll be at the bottom of it before he could finish saying the words. If Mo Guan Shan asks for his heart, He Tian will carve it out of his chest himself and serve it to him on a silver platter.
He Tian is sixteen and already six feet too deep in love with Mo Guan Shan he doesn’t have any idea how to let him go even if he tried.
“No, I'm not letting go.”
And He Tian really means it.
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I love how Roy Mustang's response to fascism is a pyramid scheme. This man commits war crimes, realizes they're wrong, and decides to overthrow the government and replace it with a pyramid scheme.
But you say, what pyramid scheme? "I'm going to do everything I can to protect the ones I love, and in turn they're going to protect the ones they love". That's it, that's his grand plan. It's a pyramid scheme.
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Well... It's the first anniversary of TBOBF episode 5. I remember I was so nervous all the day waiting to see it and trying not to spoil myself. I remember my reaction when Din appeared behind those curtains I was SCREAMING internally and I don't even know how I survived the rest of the episode without passing out haha. Can't believe it's been a year now oh how time flies...
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