Fic: After the Waiting (OCs, Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan, SID Team; post-canon)

[china_shop]

For the 520 Day Guardian Reverse Exchange, I wrote a post-canon-AU, OC-heavy outsider POV fic for tinypinkmouse:

After the Waiting (10195 words) by china_shop
Fandom: 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan
Characters: Original Dixing Characters, Shen Wei (Guardian), Zhao Yunlan, Da Qing (Guardian), Chu Shuzhi, Zhu Hong (Guardian)
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Alternate Universe - Nearly Everyone Lives, POV Outsider, SID Team - Freeform, Politics, Banter, Themes of Loneliness and Belonging, Dixing Worldbuilding, Morning After
Summary:

In the early morning sun, the SID’s brick façade glows like a volcano. There’s already a snaking queue outside, people singly and in couples—one woman with a baby, two teenagers with a sleepy child.

Dai Jiaying joins the queue’s tail, and others soon come up behind until, logically, they’re the tail, and she’s right in the snake’s belly. She banishes the thought, shoves her doubts and misgivings away; she’s here now. She tilts her face into the sunlight and prepares to wait.