[The call comes out of nowhere after days of silence following that miserable experience they'd shared. He would have come around to texting Jake again eventually, but it would have taken a few more weeks at least. He really had been terrified.
But some things matter a hell of a lot more than his own stupid fear. (and this isn't the conversation that should be held over text.)]
Jake. [His voice shakes with the single syllable.]
[ Jake had been meaning to contact the guy. He really had. The night of, it felt better to wait until things cooled down. Then the next morning, something in him still felt it was too soon. Another day passed, then another, and before Jake knew it almost half a week had gone by and suddenly the question of too soon had become the hurdle of too long.
Jake missed when their communications felt natural and easy, almost like two friends who had already known each other a long time. Of course, knowing someone's cadence, sense of humor, and philosophical musings wasn't the same as knowing someone's soul. Jake just wished the universe could've picked a less bombastic way of reminding him of that.
When Wei Wuxian's username flashes into his head, anxiety and relief springs up in Jake simultaneously. One of them had to take the first step towards repairing what was fractured, and Jake is selfishly glad Wei Wuxian took on that burden this time. As Jake moves to listen to the message, a few fleeting moments of ignorance make his heart feel lighter than it had been in days.
Unfortunately for that lightness, the universe wasn't done with her game.
At the sound of his own name in Wei Wuxian's throat, something in Jake instantly changes. There was fear there, but that wasn't all there was. Something was wrong. ]
Wei Wuxian?
[ He asks, voice suddenly firmer than the younger man would have much occasion to hear from him. Even during their darkest conversations during the fate of Ciraiwei, there was a warmth to Jake's tone that kept that darkness at arm's length. The urgent question in his voice now isn't what is it, it's what happened. ]
[He doesn't even flinch at the sound of Jake's voice despite the fact that he knows he's a dog now. It doesn't matter that he's a dog, it only matters that he's Finn's brother. Wei Wuxian might be terrified of what Jake looks like, but he knows what it is to be an older brother. He knows what it is to find your sibling broken and bleeding at the hands of someone else.]
Someone hurt Finn. [He says, direct to the point because it's what he'd want if it was him. No beating around the bush, not when Finn needs him. His voice softens then, gentling in a way he couldn't have ever dreamed he'd gentle it for a canine.] Doctor McCoy is already looking after him. He says he'll be fine, but you should be here.
I don't know what happened yet. [A half truth. He knows it was Felix and that it happened during training, but this was no training accident. This was a grown man beating on someone younger than him for no other reason than he lacked self control entirely. (And perhaps humanity as well.)]
[ The words hit him in a strange order, almost like music played out of tempo.
Here Jake was at a steady 4/4 time signature, moving through his day. Just before this call came through, he'd been wondering what to make for dinner that night. Maybe Finn would be in the mood for corndogs again. Ever since Finn snuck out to make them with Itachi, Jake had been seriously jonesing. They could eat them in the sunlight room, have a little picnic, pretend they were in Ooo for a bit. Just a normal end of a normal day.
Now here was Wei Wuxian, only the notes he played came in a scattered 3/4 beats per measure. Finn, hurt. McCoy, he'll be fine. What did that mean? McCoy will be fine? No, that's not right. That couldn't be right.
You need to be here. You need to come.
I don't know what happened.
Finn, hurt.
Shaking his head, Jake feels as if his whole world just slowed to 2/2 time. He nods dumbly, not realizing that Wei Wuxian couldn't see him. ]
Infirmary? [ There's a long pause as he considers his own question. Even if Wei Wuxian answers affirmatively, Jake continues to play out his reaction as if he couldn't hear him. ] No, yeah, duh. Okay. I'm comin'. Tell him I'm comin'.
Jake [he says again and there's a firmness there. He can hear it in Jake's voice, the shock and distance of an out of body experience. Like he's hearing but he's not really fully there. He remembers running through fields for miles and miles as Lotus Pier burned. He remembers night turning to day. Somehow, he'd kept moving. Nothing had felt real even as he knew it was all so painfully real. (There'd still been ash in his mouth, in his hair, in his clothes.) His heart gives a pang and he swallows over a sudden lump in his throat.
Finn needs Jake to be there. He needs him to be there, not lost somewhere in his mind.]
Jake, he's going to be okay. [He repeats because McCoy's words are all that are keeping him from ripping Felix's throat out or feeding him his own insides. (He pushes the anger aside for now because he has to focus on Jake now. Felix will come later.)]
[ Maybe it was his tone of voice, maybe it was Jake's lingering guilt never quite letting up, or maybe it was some sort of ancestral instinct to listen when a human spoke to him with such command in his voice... whatever the reason, Jake feels his scattered thoughts coalesce into something solid. ]
Yeah. Yeah, I hear you, man.
[ His slow steps pick up into faster ones, before Jake gives up the ghost entirely and starts running on all fours. Any passers by might glimpse the little yellow blur speed past, sprinting as if he were a pup again until skidding to a stop at the infirmary entrance.
If there was more Jake wanted to say to the man, he'd get his chance soon enough. ]
Where is he? [ Jake barks, bursting inside with adrenaline fueled urgency. He sounds out of breath and scattered, but a far cry from the numbness Wei Wuxian heard over the phone. ] Where's--
[ Jake stops cold, looking ahead a the humans gathered around the bed. Something about the sight felt so distinctly wrong. Maybe it was the time of day. Feeling your heart fall to the floor, that was a sensation best reserved for late at night, not mid-morning. Seeing your little brother -- the kid you'd grown up alongside, who you'd raised through bad dreams and bedwetting and his first crush and his worst crush and the all the disappointments and triumphs that came with growing up -- beaten up to the point of unrecognizability? Not exactly pleasant brunch conversation. ]
Finn, buddy. [ There's warmth to the statement, as if he were comforting Finn himself. He's at the boy's bedside in a moment, paws up on the bed to get a better look. If anyone around him had a reaction to his presence, Jake didn't notice. All that was secondary right now. ]
[ His inspection of the boy is scattered, darting from injury to injury, nosing at Finn's hand with a quick sniff that takes Jake a moment to decipher. Wei Wuxian's scent was there, all the more recognizable by having the man himself right nearby. But there was something else too. Someone else.
For the second time in ten minutes, Jake feels his mind go off beat again. ]
Felix? [ He whips his head around, seeking Wei Wuxian for confirmation. ] Felix?
[It's instinct the way he plasters himself to the wall the second Jake is through the door, a bone deep warning that sends his pulse through the roof. He doesn't flee the room though and it's a testament to the severity of the situation. It helps that when he closes his eyes and listens to Jake's words, it's harder for the fear to consume him when all he can hear is a brother's anguish over the pain of his younger sibling.
(The fear isn't gone, he isn't sure if it'll ever be gone, it just doesn't matter as much.)
He stays there pressed against the wall, listening to Jake and trying not to flinch when he opens his eyes again and sees the way Jake is nosing at Finn. Then Jake turns to look at him and where there might have been a spike of fear before, there's only a rolling seething hatred now at the utterance of that name. His eyes flash with anger, momentarily distracted entirely from the fact that there is a dog only a few feet away from him.]
Yes, [he hisses, and closes his eyes again but this time to try to restrain his anger, not his fear.]
They were training. [The venom with which he spits out the last word makes it clear how pathetic he thinks that excuse.]
[His eyes widen at the sound of that growl and he lets out a soft whimper, but even as his whole body twitches and his mind screams at him to run, Wei Wuxian stays put, forcing himself to take another deep breath and focus on the situation at hand. Felix is the enemy here, not Jake.
A single glance at Finn's bruised and bloody face is enough to settle him for now.]
I d-don't know. [His hands curl into fists and he wrenches back control of his voice, forcing it not to quiver.] I don't know where or when. Probably the simulation room. [Because it can be locked, he doesn't clarify.]
Does it matter where? [His eyes narrow, vision fixed on Finn again.] Is there any place or kind of training that can justify this? [The last is asked in a growl of his own.]
This isn't training, this is an angry fool who can't control himself taking out his anger on someone younger and weaker.
[ Even through the haze of everything else, the flinch registers as fear for Jake. He cows back reflexively, curled lip falling back over his teeth with a sympathetic pang in his expression. Crud.
As he lets Wei Wuxian stammer out his answer, Jake's hackles raise again, though he keeps the corners of his mouth firmly pointed down. No more growling. He could at least do that much. This man was as angry as him, probably as scared as him in his own way, he didn't need to be any more petrified. ]
I--[ Jake sucks in a breath, willing it to come out less heated when he starts again. ] I knew they were training together. He introduced me to him as his teacher.
[ Jake's ears were back, paws clenching against Finn's blankets. ]
I could tell the guy was off, but I thought maybe it was just. Y'know, he was scared of dogs. [ There's a briefly guilty glance over at Wei Wuxian before Jake's eyes return to the floor, sternly reanalyzing that encounter. ] Finn didn't want me coming to their trainings and I thought, sure, y'know. Why cut the kid off at the knees if he knows the guy better than me? It's been going on since he first started here.
[ That fact seems to renew anger in Jake, though it's direction seems different. Directed inward, rather than outward. He shrinks a bit, unconsciously. ]
Have you seen anything before now? Any... sign of this? Give it to me straight.
[He can hear the guilt in Jake's voice and his fingers twitch to reach out and offer a comforting hand to his shoulder, or well...back, but they curl instead at the last moment. He isn't that brave, even now.]
Nothing. [He wracks his brain trying to recall anything at all, any hint he'd missed, but if it had been there he hadn't caught it.]
He didn't even tell me he had another teacher. I met Felix on Ciraiwei and if I'd known he was training Finn, I would have said something.
[He goes quiet for a long time and when he speaks again, his voice is steadier than before.]
I made many mistakes back home. Mistakes that hurt people. And sometimes I hurt people on purpose. Finn doesn't know, not really. [He'd alluded to some of it but that was hardly a confession.]
I'm not a good person, Jake, but I try to be. But this man, this is the kind of man I hurt on purpose. Someone who can hurt an innocent like Finn...
[ Jake's not sure if nothing is the answer he wants or not. It was either a sign that this only accelerated to this level of intensity recently, or that Felix just got sloppy about hiding his tracks. It just didn't make sense. What the hell did some adult man have to gain from this?
Jake is lost in his own thoughts while Wei Wuxian explains his ignorance of their connection and for the lengthy pause that follows. It's only when the young man breaks the silence again that Jake looks up from Finn's hand, paw sheltered over it protectively. ]
You--[ He stops, once it becomes clear Wei Wuxian isn't done speaking. I'm not a good person, I've hurt people, I've made mistakes, and sometimes they aren't mistakes. It was a sentiment that washed over Jake in waves. Apprehension came first, followed by concern, followed by sympathy, followed by gratitude.
At day's end, the ones you had to watch out for weren't the Wei Wuxians of the world. They weren't even the Itachis of the world. People who could acknowledge the terribleness of their deeds with no caveats or excuses, who had the capacity to know they were capable of while still able to grasp onto the fact that taking a life was powerful. That it was worth something, that it mattered to somebody, even if they had no regrets in moving forward with that kill. Those people? They weren't the ones that kept Jake up at night.
It was the kind of person who could do this, and who wasn't even here now to face him. Those were the ones that set Jake's teeth on edge. ]
You can't. [ Jake says suddenly, firmly. There's no indication yet what he thinks of what Wei Wuxian has confessed to him. If anything, he looks more preoccupied with the young man across from him than Finn for those few scant seconds. ] I know that look. I know what you're thinking. And I know you've got a million thoughts swirling around in that head, so let me say this slow so you hear it: Viveca will send you home. You can't go home.
[ He takes a step toward the man, careful, emphasizing his point with a gesture back to Finn. ]
This kid cannot lose anyone else. Each time he gets close to someone, they go. You're his home here, as much as I am. Don't you dare do anything stupid to wreck that, you follow me?
[Despite the way Jake's volume increases and he's obviously upset, Wei Wuxian finds himself softening in response (for a dog!)and his eyes grow warm as his gaze flickers from Finn to Jake. It's the best possible response because it's the response that puts Finn first, and he finds words spilling from his mouth before he can think about them at all.]
You're such a good brother. [He shakes his head and the anger takes a backseat as he turns his attention fully to Jake.]
I know. Viveca would send me back. [More than that, he knows she'd be angry at him for making her do it. He cares about Viveca and he'd like to think it's a mutual feeling, but she wouldn't have a choice. He won't put her through that, not for Felix.
And he'd lose everyone. (Finn, Ziggy, Yen. He'd lose Itachi so shortly after the man had admitted he would struggle if Wei Wuxian ever left. So soon after Gwen. Felix sure as fuck isn't worth all of that.)]
I'm not going to kill him, Jake. He isn't worth it. I would never do that to Finn or anyone else here that I love. Not over a worthless waste of space like Felix. [He smiles, and it has an edge.]
[ The way Jake seems to instantly deflate, catching himself against the bed in relief, goes further to show just how worried he'd been. Maybe it was projection, maybe it was recognizing what he, himself would like to do in some fantasy version of events where consequences didn't exist, or maybe he's just glad that Wei Wuxian had it in him to smile at him so directly.
Maybe it was relief in the hope that, someday, the low laying tension between them would be so found it may as well not exist. ]
Glob, man, you nearly gave me a heart attack. I'm old and fat, you can't do that to me, dude.
[ Exhaling, Jake looks back up just in time to catch the edge in Wei Wuxian's smile. Without missing a beat, Jake returns it with a smile of his own. It's a weird thing, feeling himself grin in the middle of all this. Then again, it wasn't exactly happiness he was communicating.
Finn would be fine. He knew that. And now, Wei Wuxian would be fine too. The only person who wouldn't be fine wasn't his problem right now. ]
Heh. Well, in that case. [ He hoists himself up on the bed, ready to settle in alongside Finn, shooting a quick finger gun at the direction of the door. ] Do it to it, brother.
[ And then, more sincerely, shrinking down a bit to fit snuggly against Finn's side: ]
[He snorts lightly and the complete insanity of the situation isn't lost on him. Laughing with a dog. (No, he reminds himself, laughing with Jake.) The fear will return as soon as all of this is over, he knows that. It isn't even gone now, only buried beneath something stronger and more important, but for the moment he allows himself to dwell on the strangeness of it all and then he offers Jake a single nod.]
I will. You take care of him. He needs you. [And then just like that, Wei Wuxian is gone. He won't find Felix because the man has gone to hide and won't end up confronting him for several days, but regardless he'll keep his promise to Jake and return to Finn's side.]
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But some things matter a hell of a lot more than his own stupid fear. (and this isn't the conversation that should be held over text.)]
Jake. [His voice shakes with the single syllable.]
time to die
Jake missed when their communications felt natural and easy, almost like two friends who had already known each other a long time. Of course, knowing someone's cadence, sense of humor, and philosophical musings wasn't the same as knowing someone's soul. Jake just wished the universe could've picked a less bombastic way of reminding him of that.
When Wei Wuxian's username flashes into his head, anxiety and relief springs up in Jake simultaneously. One of them had to take the first step towards repairing what was fractured, and Jake is selfishly glad Wei Wuxian took on that burden this time. As Jake moves to listen to the message, a few fleeting moments of ignorance make his heart feel lighter than it had been in days.
Unfortunately for that lightness, the universe wasn't done with her game.
At the sound of his own name in Wei Wuxian's throat, something in Jake instantly changes. There was fear there, but that wasn't all there was. Something was wrong. ]
Wei Wuxian?
[ He asks, voice suddenly firmer than the younger man would have much occasion to hear from him. Even during their darkest conversations during the fate of Ciraiwei, there was a warmth to Jake's tone that kept that darkness at arm's length. The urgent question in his voice now isn't what is it, it's what happened. ]
: )
Someone hurt Finn. [He says, direct to the point because it's what he'd want if it was him. No beating around the bush, not when Finn needs him. His voice softens then, gentling in a way he couldn't have ever dreamed he'd gentle it for a canine.] Doctor McCoy is already looking after him. He says he'll be fine, but you should be here.
I don't know what happened yet. [A half truth. He knows it was Felix and that it happened during training, but this was no training accident. This was a grown man beating on someone younger than him for no other reason than he lacked self control entirely. (And perhaps humanity as well.)]
You just need to come.
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Here Jake was at a steady 4/4 time signature, moving through his day. Just before this call came through, he'd been wondering what to make for dinner that night. Maybe Finn would be in the mood for corndogs again. Ever since Finn snuck out to make them with Itachi, Jake had been seriously jonesing. They could eat them in the sunlight room, have a little picnic, pretend they were in Ooo for a bit. Just a normal end of a normal day.
Now here was Wei Wuxian, only the notes he played came in a scattered 3/4 beats per measure. Finn, hurt. McCoy, he'll be fine. What did that mean? McCoy will be fine? No, that's not right. That couldn't be right.
You need to be here. You need to come.
I don't know what happened.
Finn, hurt.
Shaking his head, Jake feels as if his whole world just slowed to 2/2 time. He nods dumbly, not realizing that Wei Wuxian couldn't see him. ]
Infirmary? [ There's a long pause as he considers his own question. Even if Wei Wuxian answers affirmatively, Jake continues to play out his reaction as if he couldn't hear him. ] No, yeah, duh. Okay. I'm comin'. Tell him I'm comin'.
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Finn needs Jake to be there. He needs him to be there, not lost somewhere in his mind.]
Jake, he's going to be okay. [He repeats because McCoy's words are all that are keeping him from ripping Felix's throat out or feeding him his own insides. (He pushes the anger aside for now because he has to focus on Jake now. Felix will come later.)]
He will be fine. Do you hear me?
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Yeah. Yeah, I hear you, man.
[ His slow steps pick up into faster ones, before Jake gives up the ghost entirely and starts running on all fours. Any passers by might glimpse the little yellow blur speed past, sprinting as if he were a pup again until skidding to a stop at the infirmary entrance.
If there was more Jake wanted to say to the man, he'd get his chance soon enough. ]
Where is he? [ Jake barks, bursting inside with adrenaline fueled urgency. He sounds out of breath and scattered, but a far cry from the numbness Wei Wuxian heard over the phone. ] Where's--
[ Jake stops cold, looking ahead a the humans gathered around the bed. Something about the sight felt so distinctly wrong. Maybe it was the time of day. Feeling your heart fall to the floor, that was a sensation best reserved for late at night, not mid-morning. Seeing your little brother -- the kid you'd grown up alongside, who you'd raised through bad dreams and bedwetting and his first crush and his worst crush and the all the disappointments and triumphs that came with growing up -- beaten up to the point of unrecognizability? Not exactly pleasant brunch conversation. ]
Finn, buddy. [ There's warmth to the statement, as if he were comforting Finn himself. He's at the boy's bedside in a moment, paws up on the bed to get a better look. If anyone around him had a reaction to his presence, Jake didn't notice. All that was secondary right now. ]
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For the second time in ten minutes, Jake feels his mind go off beat again. ]
Felix? [ He whips his head around, seeking Wei Wuxian for confirmation. ] Felix?
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(The fear isn't gone, he isn't sure if it'll ever be gone, it just doesn't matter as much.)
He stays there pressed against the wall, listening to Jake and trying not to flinch when he opens his eyes again and sees the way Jake is nosing at Finn. Then Jake turns to look at him and where there might have been a spike of fear before, there's only a rolling seething hatred now at the utterance of that name. His eyes flash with anger, momentarily distracted entirely from the fact that there is a dog only a few feet away from him.]
Yes, [he hisses, and closes his eyes again but this time to try to restrain his anger, not his fear.]
They were training. [The venom with which he spits out the last word makes it clear how pathetic he thinks that excuse.]
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[ His lips peel back into a snarl, growling around the edges of his words in anger. ]
When the heck did this happen? Where did it happen?
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A single glance at Finn's bruised and bloody face is enough to settle him for now.]
I d-don't know. [His hands curl into fists and he wrenches back control of his voice, forcing it not to quiver.] I don't know where or when. Probably the simulation room. [Because it can be locked, he doesn't clarify.]
Does it matter where? [His eyes narrow, vision fixed on Finn again.] Is there any place or kind of training that can justify this? [The last is asked in a growl of his own.]
This isn't training, this is an angry fool who can't control himself taking out his anger on someone younger and weaker.
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As he lets Wei Wuxian stammer out his answer, Jake's hackles raise again, though he keeps the corners of his mouth firmly pointed down. No more growling. He could at least do that much. This man was as angry as him, probably as scared as him in his own way, he didn't need to be any more petrified. ]
I--[ Jake sucks in a breath, willing it to come out less heated when he starts again. ] I knew they were training together. He introduced me to him as his teacher.
[ Jake's ears were back, paws clenching against Finn's blankets. ]
I could tell the guy was off, but I thought maybe it was just. Y'know, he was scared of dogs. [ There's a briefly guilty glance over at Wei Wuxian before Jake's eyes return to the floor, sternly reanalyzing that encounter. ] Finn didn't want me coming to their trainings and I thought, sure, y'know. Why cut the kid off at the knees if he knows the guy better than me? It's been going on since he first started here.
[ That fact seems to renew anger in Jake, though it's direction seems different. Directed inward, rather than outward. He shrinks a bit, unconsciously. ]
Have you seen anything before now? Any... sign of this? Give it to me straight.
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Nothing. [He wracks his brain trying to recall anything at all, any hint he'd missed, but if it had been there he hadn't caught it.]
He didn't even tell me he had another teacher. I met Felix on Ciraiwei and if I'd known he was training Finn, I would have said something.
[He goes quiet for a long time and when he speaks again, his voice is steadier than before.]
I made many mistakes back home. Mistakes that hurt people. And sometimes I hurt people on purpose. Finn doesn't know, not really. [He'd alluded to some of it but that was hardly a confession.]
I'm not a good person, Jake, but I try to be. But this man, this is the kind of man I hurt on purpose. Someone who can hurt an innocent like Finn...
I'm going to handle it. This won't happen again.
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Jake is lost in his own thoughts while Wei Wuxian explains his ignorance of their connection and for the lengthy pause that follows. It's only when the young man breaks the silence again that Jake looks up from Finn's hand, paw sheltered over it protectively. ]
You--[ He stops, once it becomes clear Wei Wuxian isn't done speaking. I'm not a good person, I've hurt people, I've made mistakes, and sometimes they aren't mistakes. It was a sentiment that washed over Jake in waves. Apprehension came first, followed by concern, followed by sympathy, followed by gratitude.
At day's end, the ones you had to watch out for weren't the Wei Wuxians of the world. They weren't even the Itachis of the world. People who could acknowledge the terribleness of their deeds with no caveats or excuses, who had the capacity to know they were capable of while still able to grasp onto the fact that taking a life was powerful. That it was worth something, that it mattered to somebody, even if they had no regrets in moving forward with that kill. Those people? They weren't the ones that kept Jake up at night.
It was the kind of person who could do this, and who wasn't even here now to face him. Those were the ones that set Jake's teeth on edge. ]
You can't. [ Jake says suddenly, firmly. There's no indication yet what he thinks of what Wei Wuxian has confessed to him. If anything, he looks more preoccupied with the young man across from him than Finn for those few scant seconds. ] I know that look. I know what you're thinking. And I know you've got a million thoughts swirling around in that head, so let me say this slow so you hear it: Viveca will send you home. You can't go home.
[ He takes a step toward the man, careful, emphasizing his point with a gesture back to Finn. ]
This kid cannot lose anyone else. Each time he gets close to someone, they go. You're his home here, as much as I am. Don't you dare do anything stupid to wreck that, you follow me?
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You're such a good brother. [He shakes his head and the anger takes a backseat as he turns his attention fully to Jake.]
I know. Viveca would send me back. [More than that, he knows she'd be angry at him for making her do it. He cares about Viveca and he'd like to think it's a mutual feeling, but she wouldn't have a choice. He won't put her through that, not for Felix.
And he'd lose everyone. (Finn, Ziggy, Yen. He'd lose Itachi so shortly after the man had admitted he would struggle if Wei Wuxian ever left. So soon after Gwen. Felix sure as fuck isn't worth all of that.)]
I'm not going to kill him, Jake. He isn't worth it. I would never do that to Finn or anyone else here that I love. Not over a worthless waste of space like Felix. [He smiles, and it has an edge.]
But we're going to have a talk.
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Maybe it was relief in the hope that, someday, the low laying tension between them would be so found it may as well not exist. ]
Glob, man, you nearly gave me a heart attack. I'm old and fat, you can't do that to me, dude.
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Finn would be fine. He knew that. And now, Wei Wuxian would be fine too. The only person who wouldn't be fine wasn't his problem right now. ]
Heh. Well, in that case. [ He hoists himself up on the bed, ready to settle in alongside Finn, shooting a quick finger gun at the direction of the door. ] Do it to it, brother.
[ And then, more sincerely, shrinking down a bit to fit snuggly against Finn's side: ]
Just come back after. Deal?
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I will. You take care of him. He needs you. [And then just like that, Wei Wuxian is gone. He won't find Felix because the man has gone to hide and won't end up confronting him for several days, but regardless he'll keep his promise to Jake and return to Finn's side.]