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    After three years, Lan Wangji rejoins Lan society. He is in pain. Lan Xichen can tell, because Lan Xichen can always tell, but he knows everybody else can, too.

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    Wangji visits him in seclusion once a week when he is at Cloud Recesses, like clockwork. Lan Xichen, whose sense of time and self and world is drifting, appreciates, as always, his brother’s reliability.

    Or, Lan Wangji recovers eventually. Lan Xichen does not.

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    He knocks. There is no answer. If Lan Wangji had wanted to be left alone, there would have been. He opens the door, which hadn’t even been locked. For the briefest of moments, he pretends to hope that the silence is because Wangji had run, but of course he hasn’t.

    Or, Lan Wangji accepts punishment.

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    "My lord. I know the hour is late."

    "It is very late," Thranduil agreed softly, "and the weather is foul, and the roads unsafe—all compelling reasons why you should not be standing before me now."

    Bard's smile did not falter, but Thranduil saw a twinge of something painful in his eyes. "If you wish me to leave, you need only say so."

    [[Written for the prompt "you turned up at my door sopping wet and I don't know what else to do".]]

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    It wasn't so strange that Thranduil would call him a friend. And yet the word seemed to draw them closer like a length of string, binding them together, yet still so fragile.

    [In which Thranduil and Bard begin writing each other letters over the long winter after the battle.]

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    Thranduil did not seem the type to try to keep friends. Yet Bard could scarcely go a day without being summoned to the Elvenking's tent, to finalize every trade and tax agreement between their two realms for the next five hundred years.

    [With the first winter quickly closing in on Dale, Bard and Thranduil have very different ideas on what it means to be a leader.]

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