week four | mingle

[marriagebroker]

Final week at the estate! Final week with your friends. Final week with your beaus. Time to make the most of it, everyone!

In fact, to celebrate this fact, today there is a cake. It's nothing special, just a nice little cake to enjoy with your morning coffee or throughout the day. Yay, cake!

And when Wei Wuxian arrives that morning, he is going to call out once again for everyone to join him, near the cake.

"Everyone, I have another announcement!"

Hell yeah, announcements.

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[crimsin]

Certainly not. I am just moving up the timeline, now that I know such a sentiment will not frighten you.

[ The last thing in the world he wanted was for Aven— Kakavasha to run from him. Now, he has no such fear. Even if he did, they would be banished in an instant by four beautiful little words.

I love you back.

He hasn't the words for the joy he feels at hearing that, but it hardly matters. Kakavasha leans in to kiss him, and Nico happily kisses him back, all bright joy and deep affection. He pours his heart into the kiss for as long as they care to trade breath, until their lungs start to burn for air. ]

[gamboler]

[ He doesn't care to count the moments either, for how all else seems to fade away while his heart and soul lean so fully into this kiss, into this man who has chosen to love him. A questionable decision, perhaps, but Nico doesn't see it that way, and maybe in due time, he won't, either.

Wei Wuxian had told him this final week wasn't an ending, but rather the show was the beginning of something. He hadn't been able to see the sense in that before, wrapped up in the anguish of his own decision to be made, but now that he has...he can see just how right their overseer was.

This is...just the beginning.

Only when he must break for air does Kakavasha pull away, his lips red and swollen, cheeks flushed, brow tipped against his lover's. He still clinging so tightly to Nico, an anchor in another sense now, to keep him from floating away. ]

You can tell me whenever you like. As many times as you like.

[ He's certainly not about to stop him. ]

[crimsin]

[ When at last they part, Nico takes a moment to simply bask in this beautiful man, flush with hope and possibility for the first time in far too long. They're on the cusp of something great, something new and wonderful.

There is just one thing more hanging over them both. Nothing he expects will change Kakavasha's mind at this juncture, as fervently as he's given himself over to this, to them, now that he's finally made the choice to take the leap, but something Nico feels needs to be put out into the open regardless. ]

I will give you all the "I love yous" in this world and the next, amour, but before we get too far ahead of ourselves, there is something I would like to address.

[ He'd folded his card up and stuck it in a pocket at some point. Now, he fishes it out and offers it over. A little crumpled and creased, but easy enough to still read. One of you has been hiding your true identity for a long, long time. ]

I owe you the truth, before we go home. It will pave the road ahead more than anything else.

[gamboler]

[ It's hard to bring himself back down to earth after all that, but he will heed Nico's beck and call without a second thought, peering down at the card as Nico unfolds it. That's right...he hadn't been positive which secret was ascribed to the vampire, but this was the one he thought most likely. Nico had told him he'd left his family to join the resistance, so that only made sense.

...But it seems there may be more to it than he initially thought. ]

Of course. What is it?

[ Not something that will change how he sees Nico too drastically, he's certain — Nico wouldn't have waited until now to tell him if that was a concern, but if it's still so important that he brings it up now, then it's important to Kakavasha, too. ]

[crimsin]

I have mentioned before – the Lord Emperor. He sits atop the throne of all vampirekind.

[ It’s probably pretty easy to figure out where this is going by this point, but Nico wants it said out loud, for Kakavasha, but also for his people, who will see this one day, too. He wants them to know he’s here, and he’s coming back. ]

His name is Toussaint d’Adelphe. He is my father, and I his rightful heir.

[gamboler]

[ Oh.

Oh.

In the back of his mind, Kakavasha can't help but find something amusing about all this, how fantastical it sounds. Hadn't he just talked with Yingying the other day about how he'd enjoyed fairy tales as a child? And yet here he is, finding out the man he's in love with has secretly been a prince this whole time.

He really does just need the curse on him broken. ]

Oh, is that all? [ A knowing little smile, features still bright with adoration. ] So, when we [ yes, it feels right to say "we" now ] return to topple his regime, will that put you on his throne instead?

[ Goodness, what a thought. Nico would make a fitting leader though, he thinks, and needless to say, whatever is in store for them will be far from dull. ]

[crimsin]

[ "Is that all?" He says. "We," he says. Nico's heart feels fit to burst with affection and no small amount of relief. Logically, he knew this revelation would change little for them, but some part of him still worried. What if?

He laughs, a fizzy pop of joy and relief in equal measure. ]

That is the goal. It somehow does not feel so daunting with you by my side.

[gamboler]

[ Oh, he adores that sweet laugh of his, it's almost sickening. ]

Luck aside, I like to think I've proven myself as an effective strategist. I may just prove an asset to you, yet.

[ As though he needs to prove himself of use to Nico in any such way, but it might be nice to put his skillset to use in a way that might enact change for the better, for once. Even so — it mattered little what Nico intended to do when they return home. They could rule the country or simply lay in the sun, and Kakavasha would be satisfied, so long as he's at Nico's side.

Still...

His nose wrinkles, another laugh escaping him as he butts the bridge of his nose against the vampire's cheek. ]

I can't believe you've been a prince in disguise all along...how terribly romantic.