Luhan and the Lion
Luhan and the Lion | theblobmaster | PG-13 | KrisHan | Angst, Character Death and Yifan is possibly a lion? | 1.672 w
written for jlloves for a small fic exchange. she gave me the prompt, krishan with lions and glasses. this is what my brain provided. i'm so sorry again.
The sun beats down on his handsome face as he lays flat on the warm ground. It’s a nice weather to be lazy in. He yawns and swats at the flies with his tail, not really caring if he hits them or not. One of the cubs has ventured close to him, pawing at his tail curiously, baring his teeth he lets out a growl and scares the little one away. It’s nice feeling mighty.
There’s a buzzing in the distance and soon one of the weird things with the hairless animals in it come in sight. At first he barely spares them any attention, rather focusing on doing as little as possible but then those annoying clicking sounds begins. Furiously they keep going and annoyed he looks over to the intruders, starting in surprise. Inside the weird thing, he knows he can’t get into, is a slightly hairless lion. Dry mane fuzzy around a small head. It’s a slightly funny looking lion. Intrigued he lazily gets to his feet and walks over to examine the weird lion in the thing. The clicking noises get more furious the closer he gets and soon he’s head to head with the weird lion.
The noises it makes are just as off sounding as it looks. He brings his front paw up to put just next to the weird lion’s head, pawing softly to try and get through the barrier between them without success.
Luhan gasps when he comes face to face with the magnificent lion. It’s looking right at him, eyes almost begging him to take down the window. He swears he’s seen those eyes before, staring at him with adoration and love. “Yifan” it leaves his lips unknowingly and he can hear Yixing and Zitao quieten in the back of the truck as Luhan lifts his hand to put it over the glass where the lion’s paw is resting. He is sure he saw the lion react to the name and he starts repeating it over and over, tears welling up in his eyes as the lion starts to desperately claw at the windows, soon trying to pound the doors open. Luhan is sure when he sees the sheer shine of desperation that this is Yifan. He’s about to open the doors when the driver is suddenly speeding away and all that is left is Luhan looking back at a magnificent lion standing in a cloud of dust looking lost after the truck.
The glasses on Yifan’s nose is sliding down as his head lolls a bit to side, a quiet snore escaping his lips. This is how Luhan finds him after coming home after a long day of paperwork upon paperwork. Chuckling to himself he slides in beside his boyfriend in their shared bed and closes the book splayed on the other’s chest, remembering to bookmark the page. Carefully he takes the glasses off Yifan, biting down a laugh when the other grunts and turns around to snuggle further into the covers. With a fond smile he kisses Yifan’s cheek and goes to get ready for bed himself.
Watching after the weird thing, he feels a sort of loss. Similar to when the hunters come back from a hunt without any prey for him to devour. The strange lion had made him feel like he should have it beside his side and care for it. Standing with the sun baking down on his back, he stares after the dust cloud that follows the thing before turning around to go back to the flock, purposely scaring a pair of the cubs because of his bad mood before finding a shade to lie in a bit further away from the rest. Almost sulkingly he paws at the trunk of the tree like he had done to the barrier.
Laughing Luhan snatches Yifan’s glasses away and puts them on. His sight going bad but he can still clearly see the amused smile on Yifan’s face as he dodges lazy attempts to take the glasses back. Finally Yifan get a hold of his arm and he tucks Luhan in close kissing the smaller on his nose.
Back at the hotel Yixing and Zitao watches on with sad eyes as Luhan cries himself to sleep, sobbing out Yifan, Yifan, Yifan. Shaking their heads the go out to buy dinner, hopefully Luhan will be able to function enough to eat after he’s gotten a bit of sleep.
It hadn’t been on purpose, they were roughhousing around a bit. Laughing and cuddling when Luhan kicks a bit too hard on Yifan’s back and the taller flies into their stone table head first. His glasses splinters and all Luhan hears is the pained scream before he sees the blood and for a while all he can do is scream.
It’s a slow day. Much like the one before. The hunters had caught a big antelope so he is sated and ready to do nothing just like every day. The weird lion from yesterday is forgotten as his tail swats at flies and he growls at the cubs getting too close. Today is dedicated to lying in the shades and looking over his flock with pride.
The glass splinters and all Luhan can see is the blood that’s oozing out of Yifan’s eyes. Panicked he cries and tries to call after 911, having to repeat himself multiply times for them to understand his desperate ramble. When they come they take Yifan with them back and all Luhan can do is look on from the side as Yifan is taken away.
Luhan isn’t much better when he wakes up next day, eyes red rimmed and face puffed from all his crying yesterday but he’s insistent in getting Yixing and Zitao to going on another Safari. Insisting that the driver they had yesterday takes him back to see the same lions as the day before. A bit hesitantly he gets taken back and they park the same place, miraculously the lions haven’t moved their spot yet. Quickly Luhan makes the decision and opens the door before any of the other three occupants can do anything. He hears them call for him, but he doesn’t care. He’s sure that the big male lion from yesterday is the reincarnation of Yifan.
It never became the same, Yifan didn’t smile anymore and every time Luhan tried to talk to him he shut himself off from the smaller. No matter how much Luhan begged and pleaded and cried Yifan refused to speak to him unless it was necessary. It was clear that he hated that he had to rely on the smaller and Luhan hated to see Yifan so displeased and depressed. Luhan missed seeing Yifan’s goofy smile and hear him joke. Luhan missed his Yifan.
There’s a new kind of smell in the air and he lifts his head to look at the direction. The weird lion from the day before was out of the barrier thing and quickly he’s on his paws and running towards it. It doesn’t flinch and just waits for him to come standing completely still.
He should’ve seen it coming, should’ve anticipated it but that didn’t mean it hurt any less when he came home to the sight of a lifeless yifan in a filled bathtub with water colored red from the blood that ran from his wrists. Brokenly he falls to the floor and cries, tries to call the alarm central again but there’s no pulse and he knows there’s nothing they can do. Instead he hauls the cold body out of the tub and cradles it to his chest with tears streaming down his face, repeating the name of his loved one.
The lion is just in front of him, so close he could reach and touch it. Even if he knows that it’s Yifan the big animal scares him a bit and he waits for it to approach him. Softly he whispers, “Yifan” and the lion reacts coming closer to sniff at him. He can hear Zitao and Yixing screaming inside the trunk asking, begging him to go away but Luhan stays put and when the lion stills in front of him staring him in the eyes, he slowly raises his hand. It’s fur is slightly tacky from the warmth and there’s dirty clinging to it, but it feels amazing to touch Yifan again after so many years. The lion cocks its head to the side watching him intently.
Luhan never really got over it, so when his friends asked if he wanted to go on a trip to Kenya he initially wanted to refuse, but they convinced him and on the plane down he felt a strange stream of rightness go through him. Yifan would be there, he knew.
The strange lion doesn’t smell like a lion, it doesn’t look like one either. It reaches out its paw to touch his back and he cocks his head to the side to inspect it further. It’s a very weird lion if a lion at all. It cocked its head to the side to mimic him and he eyes its neck. Its almost gleaming in the sunlight and it looks invitingly delicious. It’s long and remind him of the antelopes. Maybe its a weird antelope? Making a quick decision he bares his teeth and jumps the weird antelope going straight for the throat killing it on the spot. Satisfied he starts to pull it away so he can eat in peace but before he can get far, there’s a sound and he feels something hit him in the head and then everything’s black and he can feel nothing.
If Yixing or Zitao ever had to explain the sight they saw of Luhan and the Lion’s body they would describe it as if the lion was cradling Luhan. Luhan’s small body pressed closed and with a small content smile on his face. They would say it was what was needed and now the two could meet again in another life.
i always welcome a comment.
written for jlloves for a small fic exchange. she gave me the prompt, krishan with lions and glasses. this is what my brain provided. i'm so sorry again.
The sun beats down on his handsome face as he lays flat on the warm ground. It’s a nice weather to be lazy in. He yawns and swats at the flies with his tail, not really caring if he hits them or not. One of the cubs has ventured close to him, pawing at his tail curiously, baring his teeth he lets out a growl and scares the little one away. It’s nice feeling mighty.
There’s a buzzing in the distance and soon one of the weird things with the hairless animals in it come in sight. At first he barely spares them any attention, rather focusing on doing as little as possible but then those annoying clicking sounds begins. Furiously they keep going and annoyed he looks over to the intruders, starting in surprise. Inside the weird thing, he knows he can’t get into, is a slightly hairless lion. Dry mane fuzzy around a small head. It’s a slightly funny looking lion. Intrigued he lazily gets to his feet and walks over to examine the weird lion in the thing. The clicking noises get more furious the closer he gets and soon he’s head to head with the weird lion.
The noises it makes are just as off sounding as it looks. He brings his front paw up to put just next to the weird lion’s head, pawing softly to try and get through the barrier between them without success.
Luhan gasps when he comes face to face with the magnificent lion. It’s looking right at him, eyes almost begging him to take down the window. He swears he’s seen those eyes before, staring at him with adoration and love. “Yifan” it leaves his lips unknowingly and he can hear Yixing and Zitao quieten in the back of the truck as Luhan lifts his hand to put it over the glass where the lion’s paw is resting. He is sure he saw the lion react to the name and he starts repeating it over and over, tears welling up in his eyes as the lion starts to desperately claw at the windows, soon trying to pound the doors open. Luhan is sure when he sees the sheer shine of desperation that this is Yifan. He’s about to open the doors when the driver is suddenly speeding away and all that is left is Luhan looking back at a magnificent lion standing in a cloud of dust looking lost after the truck.
The glasses on Yifan’s nose is sliding down as his head lolls a bit to side, a quiet snore escaping his lips. This is how Luhan finds him after coming home after a long day of paperwork upon paperwork. Chuckling to himself he slides in beside his boyfriend in their shared bed and closes the book splayed on the other’s chest, remembering to bookmark the page. Carefully he takes the glasses off Yifan, biting down a laugh when the other grunts and turns around to snuggle further into the covers. With a fond smile he kisses Yifan’s cheek and goes to get ready for bed himself.
Watching after the weird thing, he feels a sort of loss. Similar to when the hunters come back from a hunt without any prey for him to devour. The strange lion had made him feel like he should have it beside his side and care for it. Standing with the sun baking down on his back, he stares after the dust cloud that follows the thing before turning around to go back to the flock, purposely scaring a pair of the cubs because of his bad mood before finding a shade to lie in a bit further away from the rest. Almost sulkingly he paws at the trunk of the tree like he had done to the barrier.
Laughing Luhan snatches Yifan’s glasses away and puts them on. His sight going bad but he can still clearly see the amused smile on Yifan’s face as he dodges lazy attempts to take the glasses back. Finally Yifan get a hold of his arm and he tucks Luhan in close kissing the smaller on his nose.
Back at the hotel Yixing and Zitao watches on with sad eyes as Luhan cries himself to sleep, sobbing out Yifan, Yifan, Yifan. Shaking their heads the go out to buy dinner, hopefully Luhan will be able to function enough to eat after he’s gotten a bit of sleep.
It hadn’t been on purpose, they were roughhousing around a bit. Laughing and cuddling when Luhan kicks a bit too hard on Yifan’s back and the taller flies into their stone table head first. His glasses splinters and all Luhan hears is the pained scream before he sees the blood and for a while all he can do is scream.
It’s a slow day. Much like the one before. The hunters had caught a big antelope so he is sated and ready to do nothing just like every day. The weird lion from yesterday is forgotten as his tail swats at flies and he growls at the cubs getting too close. Today is dedicated to lying in the shades and looking over his flock with pride.
The glass splinters and all Luhan can see is the blood that’s oozing out of Yifan’s eyes. Panicked he cries and tries to call after 911, having to repeat himself multiply times for them to understand his desperate ramble. When they come they take Yifan with them back and all Luhan can do is look on from the side as Yifan is taken away.
Luhan isn’t much better when he wakes up next day, eyes red rimmed and face puffed from all his crying yesterday but he’s insistent in getting Yixing and Zitao to going on another Safari. Insisting that the driver they had yesterday takes him back to see the same lions as the day before. A bit hesitantly he gets taken back and they park the same place, miraculously the lions haven’t moved their spot yet. Quickly Luhan makes the decision and opens the door before any of the other three occupants can do anything. He hears them call for him, but he doesn’t care. He’s sure that the big male lion from yesterday is the reincarnation of Yifan.
It never became the same, Yifan didn’t smile anymore and every time Luhan tried to talk to him he shut himself off from the smaller. No matter how much Luhan begged and pleaded and cried Yifan refused to speak to him unless it was necessary. It was clear that he hated that he had to rely on the smaller and Luhan hated to see Yifan so displeased and depressed. Luhan missed seeing Yifan’s goofy smile and hear him joke. Luhan missed his Yifan.
There’s a new kind of smell in the air and he lifts his head to look at the direction. The weird lion from the day before was out of the barrier thing and quickly he’s on his paws and running towards it. It doesn’t flinch and just waits for him to come standing completely still.
He should’ve seen it coming, should’ve anticipated it but that didn’t mean it hurt any less when he came home to the sight of a lifeless yifan in a filled bathtub with water colored red from the blood that ran from his wrists. Brokenly he falls to the floor and cries, tries to call the alarm central again but there’s no pulse and he knows there’s nothing they can do. Instead he hauls the cold body out of the tub and cradles it to his chest with tears streaming down his face, repeating the name of his loved one.
The lion is just in front of him, so close he could reach and touch it. Even if he knows that it’s Yifan the big animal scares him a bit and he waits for it to approach him. Softly he whispers, “Yifan” and the lion reacts coming closer to sniff at him. He can hear Zitao and Yixing screaming inside the trunk asking, begging him to go away but Luhan stays put and when the lion stills in front of him staring him in the eyes, he slowly raises his hand. It’s fur is slightly tacky from the warmth and there’s dirty clinging to it, but it feels amazing to touch Yifan again after so many years. The lion cocks its head to the side watching him intently.
Luhan never really got over it, so when his friends asked if he wanted to go on a trip to Kenya he initially wanted to refuse, but they convinced him and on the plane down he felt a strange stream of rightness go through him. Yifan would be there, he knew.
The strange lion doesn’t smell like a lion, it doesn’t look like one either. It reaches out its paw to touch his back and he cocks his head to the side to inspect it further. It’s a very weird lion if a lion at all. It cocked its head to the side to mimic him and he eyes its neck. Its almost gleaming in the sunlight and it looks invitingly delicious. It’s long and remind him of the antelopes. Maybe its a weird antelope? Making a quick decision he bares his teeth and jumps the weird antelope going straight for the throat killing it on the spot. Satisfied he starts to pull it away so he can eat in peace but before he can get far, there’s a sound and he feels something hit him in the head and then everything’s black and he can feel nothing.
If Yixing or Zitao ever had to explain the sight they saw of Luhan and the Lion’s body they would describe it as if the lion was cradling Luhan. Luhan’s small body pressed closed and with a small content smile on his face. They would say it was what was needed and now the two could meet again in another life.
i always welcome a comment.