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Xue Yang has no regrets! He likes seeing a more playful side of Song Lan anyway...

He rubs his head up against Song Lan's hands. "Mm, I like it when you wash it," he says. Being taken care of, especially in such an intimate way is such a novelty and he's wildly greedy for it.

[zichen]

The rubbing is unfairly cute and Zichen sneaks another kiss to Xue Yang's lips.

"Be good and stay still." he wets Xue Yang's hair with clean water from the faucet. Then he begins to massage in the shampoo.

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Xue Yang practically purrs as he leans into Song Lan's hands and lets him lather his hair up.

"Mmm, I might miss the baths here when we go back home. They're so convenient! Water just appears when you want it. I wonder where it comes from..."

[zichen]

"The plumbing, I assume, but the material the pipes are made out of would be hard to acquire in our world." Zichen murmurs as he lathers the shampoo down to the roots of Xue Yang's hair, "I will take care of you, regardless. You don't need to worry."

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Xue Yang's cheeks flush, but he looks more pleased than embarrassed. "Or the Admiral has some magic well at the bottom of the ship." After all, this ship is somehow floating through space so anything seems possible.

He leans even more into his lover's hands, even more like a cat seeking affection than normal. He's practically purring too.

[zichen]

"Possibly." Zichen grins at the open pleasure and drops kisses over Xue Yang's face, "Close your eyes, A-Yang." he advises before he rinses the shampoo out, "I think magic is the answer to most of the questions I have about the Barge."

Including them being on it.

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It's definitely become easier to accept and appreciate the affection that Song Lan so readily showers him with. And to give him affection in return. It really is a strange thing between them, but it's making them both happy, so who cares what it may look like to outsiders? They don't matter at all.

He closes his eyes as asked to let his hair be rinsed out. "Mmm, probably..." he murmurs distractedly, a little lost in his thoughts.

[zichen]

Strange is a good word for it. Zichen has been shocked by how easy it is for him to just...care...for Xue Yang. When he pushes the pain of the past to the back of his mind and watches the other man in the quiet moments, he sees that he is needed. To be needed is one of the blessings Xiao Xingchen had given him effortlessly, but ever since their split, he hasn't felt connected to anyone. Until Xue Yang.

"What are you thinking about?" he asks gently, cleaning Xue Yang's cute face next.

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Xue Yang's cheeks color a faint hue of pink when he's brought out of his thoughts. "Ah... I was just wondering, have you told anyone about... well, us?" It feels incredibly strange to talk about the two of them as us, but also... right.

[zichen]

"Mmhm I have." Zichen washes off the soap and cups Xue Yang's face between his hands, "They worry about me and tell me to not get too close to you. I've ignored them." his lips twitch, "I appreciate their concern, but I've watched you for years and this...what we have...is new. I treasure it."

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Xue Yang so easily melts when his face is held so gently. He finds himself sinking into the hold, turning his head to nuzzle Song Lan's hands.

"It's none of their fucking business anyway," he says with a small pout, "Tell them to fuck off if they bother you about it."

[zichen]

Zichen chuckles deeply and brushes a soft kiss against Xue Yang's lips.

"They don't bother me." he strokes his thumbs over his lover's cheeks, "I understand their caution - they know some of our story - but I'm not under a spell or dim-witted. We both know how this ends if you were tricking me. But you're not."

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Xue Yang's pout melts from his lips like magic when Song Lan kisses him, and the pink in his cheeks returns.

He leans and gently headbutts Song Lan's cheek. "I don't want to do that anymore, but I also don't care what they think about me. Most of the people on the Barge aren't worth a damn anyway." The fact that he's saying "most" and not "all" is some kind of progress!

[zichen]

He likes that color and he nuzzles his lips against it, enjoying the soft warmth.

The headbutt makes him laugh again and he gathers Xue Yang against him, embracing him tightly.

"I know." and Xue Yang doesn't have to say anything else on the matter, "Zack is a good man and, oddly, I think I am developing a friendship with Dennis Collins."

The butcher who is quite proud of his murderous deeds.

"He was so angry with me when I was his Warden, but he has opened up more and told me about his interest in music."

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Xue Yang frowns a little. "Dennis Collins? Isn't he the guy who killed a bunch of people here? Be careful around someone like that!" Probably a little ironic coming from Xue Yang, but...

"Zack is okay I guess..." he concedes, somewhat reluctantly before asking, "Have you ever talked to Xie Lian? You'd like him. He's... he's kinda like Xiao Xingchen."

[zichen]

Zichen traces over that frown with his finger. "He is proud of his murders. We have argued extensively about it and, strangely, he has never threatened me." he frowns himself and gives a little sigh, "I'm not here to judge anyone. I'm here to help." he softens, "Of course that was more difficult where you are concerned. Until you reached out for me...and needed me."

He smiles at the concession and kisses Xue Yang's brow.

"Is he? I..." his heart clenches, "I'm not sure I'm ready."

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"Yeah. He's one of the first people I met here. I... thought he was Xiao Xingchen at first. They dress the same." White Daoist robes. He remembers the way his heart had jumped in his chest until he had realized that the face was different. "He's... nice. Sincere. He knows the shit I've done, but he's never been judgemental about it." A nice change of pace.

He leans up and gives Song Lan a soft kiss. "Mm. I get it." Trying to lighten the mood a little, he playfully adds, "And don't get jealous either. He apparently has a husband back home."

[zichen]

"A-Yang..." Zichen can imagine how that heart leapt and then ached. He nuzzles their cheeks together and then smiles, tenderly, into his lover's eyes.

"Friends like that are very precious." he strokes back Xue Yang's wet hair and kisses his neck. Then he finds himself being kissed and he sighs.

"Why would I be jealous?" Zichen tilts his head to the left, "I have you, don't I?"

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"Mmm..." Xue Yang hums into the kiss and slides his arms around Song Lan's neck, snuggling against him.

"Mm, it's just, he's similar to Xiao Xingchen, but I only like him as a friend." It feels strange to say that, that he has a friend, but Xie Lian is the one who had called him that first.

[zichen]

The pure heat between them feels so good that Zichen relaxes fully, gently playing with Xue Yang's hair.

"Ah did you have a crush?" he smiles faintly, "I know my A-Yang has a type and a very good eye for beauty."

Beauty that he fears he lacks.

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Xue Yang laughs a little. "He's pretty, but no." He slides his fingers into Song Lan's hair. "I like Zichen the best," he says with a small, playful smile, though the words are completely sincere.

[zichen]

Something inside of him calms and Zichen leans into the fingers in his hair. He really doesn't want Xue Yang looking elsewhere or at anyone else.

"I'm not pretty like Xingchen or Xie Lian."

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Oh, is that insecurity he hears? Xue Yang won't have none of that! "Zichen is extremely handsome. I thought so the first time I laid eyes on you. You looked so fierce when you came flying in to put Fuxue against my throat." He grins and nips at Song Lan's lips.

So maybe he had found it hot to be chased down by two incredibly attractive cultivators, okay!! So sue him!!

[zichen]

If he could blush, his cheeks would be hot! The compliments baffle him and he opens and closes his mouth several times, looking like a fish.

"Is that why you were grinning?"

Xue Yang. Xue Yang. Zichen barely holds back a laugh, hiding it between their lips as he kisses his lover thoroughly.

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Xue Yang giggles in the face of how stunned Song Lan is. "Uh-huh. Did you not realize that I was making eyes at you?" he teases.

He continues to giggle into the kisses, clinging tight to his lover.