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xiao xingchen. ([personal profile] daozhangs) wrote2020-08-14 12:22 am

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[personal profile] legbreakings 2021-09-01 05:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[ As he finds himself climbed and his arm climbed as well, all Jiang Cheng can do is sit there and indignantly think This is cheating!

Not that he knows exactly how it is cheating when it is Xiao Xingchen stealing back the wine that Jiang Cheng had stolen, or that manhandling his arm is a wrong move - with soft, warm fingers that feel so nice when they grip his arm firmly, he has such a good grip, a very good grip. It is a smart move. Clever. And kneeling over his lap is sensible.

But it is still cheating.

Because he is so close that his body heat is now sinking into Jiang Cheng's extremely human and sensitive to touch and warmth body and there are legs on both sides of his legs and he smells very nice and... It is just cheating.

His breath comes in short little inhales, and then Xingchen is even closer somehow - is he? it feels closer - and he has the wine jar, fine, he can have that, but he is speaking - so close! he is so close to Jiang Cheng's own mouth - and then he is...

He squeaks when Xingchen is suddenly no longer kneeling over his lap but sitting himself in it, and this is most definitely cheating. ]
Xingchen! [ he gasps, going very, very still under the heat of his body and the weight of it and the way his eyes are riveted to that pale, scarred throat arching as he tips his head back to drink his stolen wine.

He lifts his fingers to his throat, fingertips brushing over his skin where his throat moves with every gulp and there has to be so much cheating involved because he barely even notices his lips following the path of his fingers until his lips are already brushing against soft skin.

Jiang Cheng freezes with another mortified noise. ]
Edited 2021-09-01 17:08 (UTC)
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[personal profile] legbreakings 2021-09-03 12:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Not... not... not...!

This time, the noise he makes sounds more like the human counterpart of a cat getting his tail stepped on. This is certainly about his level of indignation. Only that his indignation comes with flushed cheeks and flushed everything and utter mortification and that makes it all so much worse, just like the teasing in Xingchen's tone of voice does. That he isn't angry at such presumptuousness is good, maybe, but... ]


You are not supposed to laugh at it! [ he barks, lifting his head - and only narrowly avoiding to knock his head against Xingchen's chin in the process - to give the blind man his most dedicated and most underappreciated glower.

Not that he's sure what it was. Well, he knows what he would have liked it to be. That throat looked very kissable and lickable and other delectable things but... Yeah, he will just stay to his this is cheating routine. Seems safest. ]
You were cheating!
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[personal profile] legbreakings 2021-09-03 05:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Oh. Oh. Now this tenderness? That is most definitely cheating. It makes him feel all soft and mushy and fluttery-warm in his belly, even more so than the alcohol does, and that's just so incredibly unfair. Jiang Cheng makes a strangled little noise at the back of his throat and shivers into the minute touch of fingers brushing his hair back. ]

In... [ His tongue darts out, wetting his lips. Thoughts are hard right now. They keep running through his metaphorical fingers like sand. ] In... It just is. [ There. That will show him, right? His eyes finally flicker down to look at Xingchen's fingers wrapped around his own wrapped around the wine, and he lifts the jar to take a sip. He makes it exactly halfway before his eys wander to Xingchen's lips instead. He stalls his movement and inhales sharply. ] What if I just kiss you instead? Will you still be not-laughing then?
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[personal profile] legbreakings 2021-09-04 02:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He had been brave when that question-demand-threat had passed his lips, bravery fuelled by the bubbly warmth of the wine and the dizzying heat of Xiao Xingchen sitting on his lap and maybe also by how sheer overwhelming everything feels now that he can finally experience human sensation again - by how starved he is to experience more of it after a year in a robot's porcelain skin, starved enough that it is easier to throw caution to the wind and give voice to what he truly wants but would never ask for under normal circumstances.

But he is asking now, if not easily then at least recklessly, and when warm lips touch his own he knows he is being rewarded for it.

It is so much, it feels so much, that for the first moment all he can do is remain still while sheer sensation washes over him. It is not his first kiss, not even his first kiss with Xingchen, but it feels so much longer than it had actually been since that equally reckless kiss in Pirate's Cove. He makes a little noise, a whimper, and there are fingers grasping his jaw, gentle and hot and burning like the lips against his own...

Jiang Cheng may be prone to fretting and catastrophizing, but he has never been one to back down from a challenge.

So he surges forward, pressing in close, a hand going to cup the back of Xingchen's head while his tongue darts out, eager to taste wine and taste him and make him feel even more alive with the sheer dizzying giddiness he feels at their kiss. ]
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[personal profile] legbreakings 2021-09-06 11:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Oh. Oh, but Xingchen pressing in even closer and shifting on his lap in the process, is nearly enough to make Jiang Cheng choke on thin air. They are pressed flush together now and he burns so hot, everything of him is burning so hot just like his mouth and just like Jiang Cheng is burning hot now with the thrill of the kiss thrumming through him.

Xiao Xingchen may be an inexperienced kisser - not that Jiang Cheng is all that experienced - but every brush of their tongues makes his blood burn. And he is learning. He is learning so fast that Jiang Cheng feels drunk not just on the alcohol by the time Xingchen pulls away to gasp for air. ]


I... Me, too [ he stammers out, his face hot and red. With their foreheads pressed together, they are still so terribly close, and every breath Xingchen takes tickles Jiang Cheng's face. It leaves him reeling, between all of this and the alcohol and his own thoughts racing. He awkwardly wraps his arms around Xingchen's waist to keep him right here and also keep him blessedly still. Because they are still pressed together and as nice and soothing as the hair petting feels, and as nice as it is to have him on his lap, Jiang Cheng finds himself suddenly very aware of how devastatingly disastrous it would be if Xingchen moves on his lap. ] Just stay here. Right here. [ A pause. ] I liked that.
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[personal profile] legbreakings 2021-09-12 11:51 am (UTC)(link)
[ Oh, they are definitely getting a head start on making fools of themselves, Jiang Cheng has no delusions about that at this point. He finds it utterly impossible to be upset about it, too.

The little kisses have him wanting to squirm from the sheer overwhelming fondness and embarrassment and that warm fluffy feeling in his belly. But he remains so very aware of the not-so-soft and fluffy heat spawned by having Xingchen sitting on his lap and...No. Moving would be bad. Moving would be disastrous.

But then Xingchen is shifting and he makes a nervous little squeaky noise, worried he will start wriggling, too, and his arms wrap tightly around him, pressing him against his chest. Which also may have him pressed firmer against his groin. Oh no. This is why you don't do drunk problem-solving. ]
No moving! I said no moving! You're supposed to stay very, very still now [ he chokes out, certain that his face must be bright red by now. ]
Edited 2021-09-12 12:56 (UTC)
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[personal profile] legbreakings 2021-10-09 07:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Oh, oh, but why is he stopping all the touches now? He liked being touched and he does not like this new distance (as much distance as there can be, with Xiao Xingchen still sitting on his lap, dangerously close to wriggling against Things he should not be wriggling against.)

But. No forgetting what the problem here is. Hands. The lack thereof.

He scowls and makes an annoyed noise in the back of his throat, and since he is on a roll already, he follows that up with a huff. ]
Don't ask stupid questions! You didn't do anything wrong! [ Okay, that came out a little bit more frustrated than intended. Even if he is very frustrated. He thinks for a moment, and scowls for a moment longer, and then he reaches around Xingchen for the wine. ] But if you're not going to keep touching me I'm going back to drinking.

[ And then maybe he will have enough liquid courage to put these hands back where they belong. ]
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[personal profile] legbreakings 2021-10-12 09:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[ His hands falter on the jar of wine he has only just accepted from Xiao Xingchen, barely remembering how to hold on at all in the wake of this... this...

He makes pathetic strangled noises in the back of his throat and rears his head back, feeling his face burn, as if it hadn't been burning all along already. ]
You can't just say such things! [ he blusters and finds himself wishing for once that he were still as outwardly unruffled as he was in his Simulacrum body. This human shape has so many more tells, and it is also so much more aware of Xingchen's continuing closeness. Even if he isn't touching anymore, which remains outrageous.

He brings the wine to his lips and takes a large, belligerent gulp before offering it his partner - offering it to him by holding the jar to his lips and tipping it back slightly in invitation. ]
If you have nothing to say but shamelessness, then drink.
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[personal profile] legbreakings 2021-11-04 04:59 pm (UTC)(link)
[ What? Why is he...? How is he...? What! Jiang Cheng half scowls, half pouts, very confused by this change but also very certain that he does not like Xiao Xingchen leaving his lap - and very confused again on how he is supposed to voice his displeasure without actually admitting to being displeased at all.

He is far too tipsy for such complicated thoughts, really, so he just watches in dismay as Xingchen leaves his lap - leaving his lap cold and alone and tragically abandoned! - and lays down next to him. He hesitates for a moment before draping himself on the dock next to him, mimicking his position. ]


Fine. We can lay here. But I hope you realize when we are laying on our backs, we can't drink. Not without making a mess, anyway. [ Which just goes to show that his lap had been the superior place for Xingchen to be. And his lap still feels tragically abandoned, by the way. And how is also all squirmy and flushed and let alone with these very human feelings that feel startling and new for how long it has been since he had a human body to feel them with (not that he had another person to get quite so close and personal with before, but still.) He huffs. ] I liked it better before.

[ There. That's not admitting to anything, strictly speaking. ]
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[personal profile] legbreakings 2021-11-10 02:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[ That may seem like the simplest way to avoid it and that much may be true for Xiao Xingchen, but it is not at all true for Jiang Cheng. For him, this means having to own up to specifics of what he liked. Embarrassingspecifics.

He bristles, a defensive scowl already back on his face, though he leans into the small touch rather than leaning away from it. ]


I liked it! Everything. Why do you have to make it so complicated? [ He huffs a little. ] You sat on my lap and now you aren't.
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[personal profile] legbreakings 2021-11-13 08:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Jiang Cheng growls his frustration at such steep demands and gives him a baleful look, complete with a finger poking him in the chest. ] You're not the only one who is drunk! Be more considerate! Now you're expecting me to think about my words!

[ He heaves a melodramatic little sigh, which leads to a melodramatic little pout. ] My head is very fuzzy and whooshy and I think I need more wine to fix that. [ Which, said and done, he grabs the closest jar and brings it to his lips for a good, large gulp. ] There. And now you should come closer or I'm not going to share any wine with you. [ Which is clearly a terribly efficient threat, right? It must be. Should be. ] And I won't let you sit on my lap again, either!
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[personal profile] legbreakings 2021-11-18 05:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh [ he exhales softly, quiet and flustered, and it would be with reddened cheeks if his face weren't long since red already. It was definitely easier to hide his body's reactions when in his porcelain-encased monster form.

He feels nice leaning against him like this, soft and warm - things which he had always been, and Jiang Cheng can now feel again - and probably so very, very, painfully aware of Jiang Cheng's stuttering heartbeat. Oh. ]


You... [ He clears his throat. ] Yes. Well. This isn't bad. [ So he wraps an arm firmly around him and buries his nose in his hair, while the other still holds on to the wine in at least a pretense of his mind being on drinking rather than on Xingchen. ] This is better than before. [ When he had been laying next to him, which is clearly too far away and should not be allowed. ]