Snowflake Challenge #10

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Challenge #10

In your own space, create a fanwork. 

This is the second draft of a Su She PoV chapter of Three Nies and a Baby, a fanfic with pregnant fem!Jiang Cheng (The Untamed).
My characterization was influenced by KizuKatana's Su She Eats His Heart Out. The story overall came out of reading feline_somnanbulist's Jiang Cheng escapes her abusive family stories. 

 Nervously watching the sun peek over the horizon as they approached Lanling, Su She cursed Wei Wuxian, not out loud, of course, but in his thoughts. A few hours back, he’d started to suspect that Wei Wuxian had lied when he’d said they’d be back at school in time for Su She’s first class. He would have turned the car around but, somehow, and Su She didn’t know exactly how, Wei Wuxian had ended up driving his car. “How long is this going to take?” he asked as Wei Wuxian parked the car at the train station. “I can’t afford to miss my classes.” Wei Wuxian scoffed. He just didn’t understand how important it was to show professors you were serious by attending each and every class. That alone could make the difference between a passing and a failing grade. Hey, had Wei Wuxian walked off without him? “Hey, wait for me.” Wei Wuxian didn’t bother to slow his pace even though Su She was panting after running to catch up. Some people were so rude.

“Look,” Wei Wuxian said. “If you hook up with Jiang Cheng, it won’t matter if you fail all your classes.”

“I’m not failing. Who said I was failing? I bet it was Lan Wangji. So pretentious. He’s always trying to make me look bad.” Wei Wuxian didn’t stop race walking through the train station, but he did, for the first time that evening, turn his head to stare at Su She. There seemed to be something dismissive in the way he shook his head, and how dare he? Sure, he got good grades, but that was favoritism or possibly he got his hands on the tests ahead of time. He was no better than Su She no matter what the other students seemed to think.

“I’m just saying,” Wei Wuxian continued. “If you cinch this deal, uncle’ll give you any job you want.”

Oh, yes, that’s why he was here. Imagine the respect he’d garner as CEO of Lotus Industries. The Jiang’s didn’t have a son, only useless fillies who obviously couldn’t take the company’s helm. They needed someone firm to step in and take control.

Once they found the train platform, Wei Wuxian read out the train’s arrival time as if any idiot couldn’t read it off the digital display. “Less than ten minutes. Cutting it close.” He sprawled out on one of the benches, leaving next to no room. Su She decided to stand, not because Wei Wuxian was rudely hogging the bench but because it’d make a better impression on Jiang Cheng. Women liked attentive men. He wished he’d had a chance to dress a bit better. Wei Wuxian hadn’t given him time to prepare before inviting him along. They guy might be a rude, privileged brat who didn’t know when to shut up, but he had picked Su She for Jiang Cheng. At least he knew quality when he saw it. Su She pulled out a comb and brushed his hair back. That was probably more than enough. The girl was pregnant. She wasn’t about to be choosy. In fact, she’d probably be grateful that Su She had stepped up to rescue her.

As the train pulled into the station, Wei Wuxian jumped up and started bouncing in place. Could the guy not sit still? No matter, his lack of decorum would make Su She’s own calm graces stand out all the more. As people started leaving the train, Su She would have wished he could remember Jiang Cheng’s face, but Wei Wuxian practically grew up with her. He’d know what she looked like.

“Ah,” Wei Wuxian exclaimed. “I’d recognize that purple hoodie anywhere.” He darted forward and grabbed Jiang Cheng’s arm. It was rude, detaining her like that, but at least it’d make Su She look better in comparison. “Nice trick, leaving my car at the station. I’m going to have to drive home to get it. You’re paying me back for the parking. It’s not my fault you can’t keep it in your pants.”

Drive home? Didn’t he come from Yunmeng? Well, Su She wasn’t letting Wei Wuxian drive his car all that way. He had to get back to school. With a sinking feeling, Su She realized Wei Wuxian still had his car keys.

“Excuse you.” Jiang Cheng jerked her arm out of Wei Wuxian’s grasp.

Huh, he wasn’t all that if he couldn’t even control a girl. “My darling,” Su She said. “We’ve been so worried.” He tried to take her hand, but she somehow slipped out of his grasp. She must be feeling shy. He could understand that. She must have had a bad couple of days. Once she realized that he’d come to save her, she’d be more affectionate.

“Who the hell are you?”

How could she pretend not to know him? She was just as stuck up as Lan Wangji. She had no right to be, not knocked up as she was with no one else stepping up to save her reputation. Things would be different once they were married. “That’s no way to speak to your fiance.”

“You’re not Jiang Cheng,” Wei Wuxian said. The words didn’t make sense. He’d recognized the hoodie. Who else could she be?

A security guard came up and stood beside her. Good. Jiang Cheng couldn’t evade him now that he had an authority figure on his side. “Are these boys bothering you?”

“My fiance’s confused,” Su She had started to say when Wei Wuxian elbowed him in the side. What the hell? That hurt.

“I’m sorry,” Wei Wuxian said. “I thought she was my sister.”

“If that’s how you treat your sister, I’m glad we never met.”

Su She watched in confusion as the girl – she wasn’t Jiang Cheng? – walked away.

“Oh, yeah?” Wei Wuxian called after. “We just met right now.”

The guard stepped closer. Oh, he was big, sort of intimidating if Su She were the kind of yellow coward who was scared of big, muscular men. “It’s best you two leave. And don’t bother that young lady or any other women. I’ll be keeping an eye on you.”

Su She wasn’t scared or anything, but Wei Wuxian walked off and so he followed. He was Wei Wuxian’s ride home. He couldn’t just abandon the guy to confront a guard who was acting inappropriately. “I don’t get it? I thought that was Jiang Cheng. You said it was her hoodie. If that wasn’t Jiang Cheng, where is she?”

“Shut it, stupid.”

There was no need to insult him. He was doing Wei Wuxian a favor. If looked at correctly, he was doing the whole Jiang family a favor but taking on sullied goods. He was just too charitable.

“Jiang Cheng’s not here. We’ve been set up. Someone sent in a decoy.”