Family Time, hopefully [Closed to the Lan Family]

[only_one_wei]

Who: Wei Wuxian, Lan Wangji, A-Qing. (Lan Sizhui and Lan Xichen are welcome if they are interested)
Where: Dining Car
When: Imagination 22, after lunch
What: Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji have an important question to ask A-Qing.
Warnings: Deaths might be discussed, but here's hoping the conversation will be upbeat.



Wei Wuxian, looking serious for once, stopped A-Qing after lunch. "Do you have a moment to talk to Lan Wangji and I for a few moments? We'd like to ask you something important."

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[spikelet]

Her nervousness at his apparently very real reputation was shattered within moments, their flirtation an effective antidote. She even restrained herself from further comment for the sake of future harmony. Besides...

"Hurt what future?" She asked, frankly. "Anyway, I might not be the Ghost General, but I'm definitely stronger than before. If your enemies come here, I'll be the one helping you."

She paused, and then nodded, firmly. "I really am grateful! I won't let you down." Even if she now had to block off a few hours for grilling Lan Sizhui on behaviour that afternoon.

[only_one_wei]

"Of course you won't," Wei Wuxian said with another grin. He knew her pretty well, after all. "Our precious daughter could never let us down!"

Which reminded him. "Mm, I should mention. In Yi City, when you were helping us defeat Xue Yang, your ghost allowed me to see all of her memories. So...there is that." He felt better for confessing, though a little nervous how she would react. His fingers tightened on Wangji's.

[achickenformylove]

"No, you couldn't let us down." She was a good student and he enjoyed her being around... even if she had likely stolen all of the sweatshirts. Not that he ever really wore them. It was fine.

"Hmm..." WangJi took WuXian's hands in his as WuXian squeezed his hand. He was there; he wasn't going to leave you.

[spikelet]

She severely doubted that. There was plenty she could do to disappoint them, she just hadn't found the limits yet. Still, she appreciated the white lie.

Until Wei Wuxian just... casually mentioned that about her alternate self. Was this how life was going to be? Offhand revelation after offhand revelation? She blinked, and blinked again, and then narrowed her eyes. They both knew, but she'd 'allowed' it, in the future. So she'd had no choice? Having seen Xue Yang's work, and experienced it firsthand, she could guess why.

"I'm not going to be angry at you for keeping that secret," she decided, after a long moment. "I know what that guy is like, it must have been the only way to tell you, right? Such unpleasant things, who would want to talk about them?"

A dramatic, put-upon sigh. "I just thought you were good at reading people, but it turns out my ghost spilled the beans instead."

[only_one_wei]

"I am good at reading people!" Wei Wuxian protested. "But knowing what good care you took of my uncle did pre-dispose me to thinking you were an incredible person, I will admit," he said with a grin. Honestly, her attitude would have driven his brother insane, which also endeared her to him. He was very happy he got to call her daughter now, even if she hadn't decided on a name yet.

Her ability to cause mischief, well, with their son taking so firmly after Wangji, it was nice that their daughter favored his side of the family.

[achickenformylove]

"He does seem to be better than most," WangJi remarked. "I only know what he has told me."

He hadn't seen it. He had been too busy fighting different forces to keep WuXian and the juniors safe.

[spikelet]

So only he had seen anything. It was a little reassuring. With their forces combined, and faced with outrageous flattery, she subsided in a theatrical huff.

Then paused. Uncle? Ah, right. He was related to Xiao Xingchen-- they were martial family. But daozhang's only martial sister was... So... Ah! Several thoughts occurred at once, and she almost bounced.

"I'll be a Wei," she decided, again. If nothing else, it would ensure that the beautiful, outstanding cultivator of daozhang's story would get to feel some satisfaction. "Having seen so much, you might as well be family already..."

[only_one_wei]

Wei Wuxian couldn't help but grin. Honestly, A-Qing would make a great Wei. He could just see the kind of migraine she'd give Jiang Cheng if he ever showed up on the train.

"My mom would have loved you. And his uncle," he said with a nod to Lan Wangji, "won't. He didn't approve of her or me, either, so you are in the perfect company. Remind me to tell you, after we make this official and it is too late for you to back out, what she did to Lan Qiren's beard." He added a wink for good measure.

[achickenformylove]

WangJi smiled faintly watching as A-Qing out of nowhere beginning to bounce excitedly. Whatever she had decided had clearly made her excited.

And that decision was a good one. There were plenty of Lans (even they weren't all directly related to him) but as far as they both knew, the name Wei would die with him. Even if his uncle would have disapproved like WuXian had said, WangJi approved.

"I think that is a good option," he said after WuXian a look somewhere between 'really?' and amused for wanting to tell her about what his mother had done to his uncle.