Wen Kexing moves quietly and confidently even in the dark room. He opens his bag, closes it again, puts it away. Then he slips under his blanket, the mattress dipping and shifting underneath him before he finds a comfortable position. He stops moving eventually, his breath slowing down. For a moment, Zhou Zishu thinks that this will be it and he’s- disappointed. Relieved. He wants nothing. He hasn’t wanted anything for a long time.
Or: only one bed, two murderers too close to each other for comfort and a family of three in the making.
Author's Notes: Additional warnings for: Zhou Zishu's canonical suicidal tendencies/ideation, the brief appearance of a gun and mentions of gun violence, a number of vague physical symptoms that might be related to Zhou Zishu's old injuries/nails/depression/dehydration, including chronic pain.
Apart from general modern aesthetics this isn't really happening in any specific time or place, I cannot really handle the real world right now and so the only homophobia here is whatever it is that Zhou Zishu is inflicting on himself.
Special thanks and shout out to my dear friend Em who received the first draft of this fic in a stream of screaming messages and encouraged me to actually write it, this is for you! <3
Many thanks to Katharija for blanket permission to podfic their works! (I hope I pronounced their name correctly!) Make sure to leave a comment or kudos on the original fic if you enjoyed it.
I guess I have a thing about modern AUs when it comes to picking fics to narrate. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Music is ZAYN - Dusk Till Dawn ft. Sia (Tyler & Ryan Cover).
The artwork used for this podfic is by Erwin Sokolski.
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