#posting the silly prompt later today💜

[luckymoonly]

@good-vs-evo yours isn't bad either!💜

Mine is very on brand 😂

Yes and they had hamster sex together

(It's for a prompt for the FQ gotcha)

Now tagging @violetgarlends , @cecropiacrown , @fengqingtrashgolbin, @silverstark , @mingguangsword and @nukaacola (If you feel like it, of course!💜)

Last Line

Rules: in a new post, show the last line you wrote (or drew) and tag as many people as there are words (or as many as you like).

Thank you for the tag @evolutionsbedingt!! <3

Currently working on a post-canon fix it fic for The Double!!

Lu Ji winces– that might cause Wen Ji’s injuries to reopen– they hadn't completely healed yet

Tagging (again, no obligation to do this): @habizuh-studios @astrowaffles @l7k-a @lianhuajing (time to get back on that grind!!) @hualianisms

[purplebass]

I just wanted Lila to be silly and play hide and seek with Ren, so I wrote this short fic. It isn't my usual verbose writing because I realized I needed a break from long fics. I am a little burned out because of real life, and I just needed this. I have more light fics like this planned out and I hope to write and post them sooner or later. <3

Read on A03 💜 Words: 1,105 Rating: G

It was a lazy afternoon at the palace, and Lila was sprawled on the velvet sofa in Kell’s bedroom by herself. It was one of those rare times she didn’t have anything to do. At once, her senses became alert. Someone was about to approach the room, but it wasn’t Kell. No. He wouldn’t make all this noise, and would be more gentle with the handle. 

Lila turned her gaze to the door, and she wasn’t surprised to find little princess Ren behind the white wood. 

“Delilah, are you free?” she beamed.

“You shouldn’t be so abrupt,” the nurse chastised the kid, who nodded with understanding. Lila wanted to say she didn’t care, but the old woman prompted the child to greet her properly.

“I apologize for intruding, Delilah,” Ren said. “But are you free?”

Lila sat up, eyed the child with a grin. She was bored out of her mind, and the proposal was interesting. “What do you have in mind, princess?”

“Let’s play hide and seek!” Ren squealed, and Lila couldn’t say no.

The princess enlisted one of her fathers – the other was busy being a king – and her nurse to play with them. Lila shouldn’t have taken this too seriously, but she didn’t want to disappoint the child. This little game was the perfect distraction from the routine of the palace, and she just knew where to hide.

The wine cellar was in the basement, and it was only frequented by the servants. Lila wasn’t a servant, but she liked to visit the place from time to time. 

She glanced at the bottles lined on the shelves, neatly divided by flavor and type. White wine. Red wine. Champagne. Hard liquors. Juice. 

On another day, she would have taken her time to pick a bottle and would have hidden her prize in her trunk before someone would have come and would  have caught her red-handed. No one usually did. But today she was playing with a kid, she wasn’t choosing a bottle of expensive wine she would later share with her partner in the captain’s quarters of the Grey Barron. 

She found the alcove she was looking for, and tucked herself into the shadows. She wasn’t sure Ren would come down there, but she had kept her end of the bargain. 

She put her hands in her pockets. It was starting to get cold in there, and she couldn’t use her magic to summon a small fire. After a while, she glanced at her pocket watch, and realized she had been there for almost an hour. 

Would the kid ever find her? Well, she had tried to play.

She heard steps. Light steps. Then a glint of flame illuminated her face, and she held her breath. 

Someone had found her, but it wasn’t Ren. 

“Lila?” Kell’s soft voice echoed in the darkened cellar.

“What are you doing here?” she asked. “I thought you were with Rhy.”

���Indeed, I was. I’m sorry it took so long –” she put a finger on his mouth to silence him, and he shook his head questioningly. 

“I’m playing hide and seek,” she muttered. “Be quiet.”

“Is this another way to say someone is looking for you? What did you do?”

She rolled her eyes. “I’m playing with the princess.”

“Ah,” he frowned.

“Yes, ah,” she sighed. “I just love people coming after me, but not all of them are enemies.”

“You’re supposed to hide where she can find you. I doubt she’d come here.”

“Perhaps that’s why I hid here,” she shrugged. “And I’m quite good at hiding.”

“But I still found you,” he raised an eyebrow knowingly, and she felt giddy. He just knew her ways, just she knew his. “You shouldn’t be too sure of yourself.”

“You only found me because Rhy wanted you to choose a bottle of wine for dinner.”

He sighed. “And I still have to find the one I wanted. Care to help? I know you know how to pick good wine.”

She raised her eyebrows and glanced at her pocket watch. She’d been there for an hour, she doubted Ren would find her by now. Maybe she had stopped searching altogether. 

“Fine, I’ll help you,” she walked towards the back, when she knew Rhy and Alucard kept the good stuff, and picked a bottle with a golden label. “Here, this,” she grinned.

Kell took the bottle and looked at it skeptically, then he nodded. “Yes, this is okay,” he agreed. 

“How did you find me?” she asked curiously. 

“Your smell,” he whispered. 

She scrunched her nose at him and smelled her clothes. “Do I still smell like smoke?”

Kell put a hand on her forearm and leaned in, brushing his nose on the side of her neck. She felt his warm breath on her skin, and she tried not to lose her balance when he inhaled her scent. She was sure she smelled fine, but he still took his time perusing her jugular. He planted kisses over there until he found her lips, and she forgot where she was. 

By this point, she had probably won the game. She deserved a victory kiss.

“I found you, Delilah!” 

Ren’s voice made them jump, because none of them expected the child to appear out of nowhere, in the wine cellar of all places. 

Kell lost his hold on the bottle of red, and it fell on the stone floor and shattered. 

“I told you to wait until they would separate,” the nurse reprimanded the child, who was smiling despite herself. She looked apologetic, at least. 

“Are you hurt, princess?” Lila asked with concern. Rest in peace, good wine.

Ren shook her head. “I’m not hurt, Delilah,” she said. “And I am a winner! You were the last one I had to find.”

Lila sighed. “How did you wind up here?”

“Thanks to my papa,” she explained with a grin. “I saw uncle Kell leave papa’s study, and I wanted to follow him because maybe he knew where you were hiding,” Ren said. “But he walked away too fast so it was papa who told me to come here, because he said you like to practice magic in the wine cellar. And you like to make bottles disappear.”

“Ah,” she pretended to be surprised. She exchanged a look of understanding with Kell. He managed a grin. “Well, then. Tell your daddy Rhy that I’m not going to stop making bottles disappear in the wine cellar anytime soon.”

“Will you show me, Delilah?” the child asked, hung on her every word.

“Perhaps, when you are older,” she smirked. Kell just shrugged and rolled his eyes.