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A Curse of a Different Color

by nickel710

G, 35k, wangxian, lan wangji & lan xichen, xichengqing

Summary: At home, Lan Wangji steels himself before taking off his shirt to investigate the problem on his arm. He isn’t sure which will be worse— to peel away his sleeve and find something horrific, or find nothing at all out of the ordinary.

Still, the only way to know is to take action, so he shoves his anxious uncertainty down into his golden core to burn away into nothing and unbuttons his shirt. Out come the cuff links, set gently back into their case. Finally, he tugs his arms out of their sleeves and, not yet looking at his arm, puts the shirt into its appropriate color-sorted laundry bin.

At last, he lets his gaze move to the back of his left forearm. His breath catches in his throat. The fingers of his right hand move, shaking just slightly, to skim at the half inch spot about halfway between his elbow and wrist.

Hard to the touch, there is a patch of cool white stone on his skin. More accurately, perhaps, there is a patch of his skin that has transmutated into, if he had to hazard a guess, white jade.

OR

In which Lan Wangji is slowly turning into jade and turns to local curse-breaking expert Wei Wuxian for help.

My comments: In which lwj finds that patches of himself are turning to stone (jade, to be specific, which he has strong feelings about since childhood). Wen Qing (with her weird asexual polycule behind her) can do nothing about it, so they turn to curse-breaker wwx. Wwx quickly realizes there is a link between the acceleration of the curse and lwj's repression of his feelings. And so... they embark on a treatment plan of Feeling All The Things.

Excerpt: Once it’s just the two of them, Wei Wuxian holds out a hand, his expression going softer, kinder. “Sorry for all the noise and chaos, I know I’m a lot. Didn’t mean to scare you.”

“Not scared,” Lan Wangji says, more out of instinct than anything else, and lays his hand into Wei Wuxian’s so he can begin his examination.

Wei Wuxian looks at him a little sadly. “If I were you, I’d be terrified.” His face brightens a bit, gets a mischievous glint. “Even… petrified. Eh? Eh?”

Is he making… puns… about Lan Wangji turning into stone? The look Lan Wangji gives him must be some combination of incredulous and angry, because Wei Wuxian lets the laughter die on his lips and winces. “You’re right,” he says, though Lan Wangji has said nothing. “Too soon. Like, way too soon.”

modern au, modern cultivators, curses, angst, fear, curse breaker wei wuxian, getting to know each other, falling in love, fluff, flangst, emotional repression, emotional hurt/comfort, hurt/comfort, therapy for all!, bunnies, implied/referenced self-harm, (but it's unwitting), modern with magic, @nickel710​

A Worry-free Week (1-Minute Mondays)

Jay Adams once told a story about two men – one was a worrier and the other his friend. One day the worrier acted carefree. His friend asked him about his new carefree attitude. The worrier told him that he had paid someone else to worry for him. The friend asked, “How are you going to pay him?” The worrier said, “That’s not my problem! That’s his worry not mine!”

Wouldn’t it be nice if we could…