sticking this here until I figure out what to do with it

“I think I’m in love with Shen Wei,” Zhao Yunlan said, the words punched out of him like he’d been punched, the realization of it coming over him, leaving him weirdly buzzed and dizzy like when his blood sugar gets too low. “Shit. I think I’m in love with Shen Wei.”

“Uh-huh,” Da Qing said without looking up from his paperwork. Half a stick of dried squid is hanging out of his mouth.

Zhao Yunlan kicks him in the shins. “This is a life-changing realization here, you damn cat.”

“Yeah, and it’s one everyone else had three months ago.”

Inspirational - the Hostage fic