Is there a problem, officer? triggers a litany of cursing through Xie's mind - not over the link, he's still holding that back, but he's quietly freaking out in Kevin's pocket, enough that he misses, at first, the hints that this isn’t entirely a genuine arrest. It's not until the pat down completely misses the pocket he's hiding in that something clicks, that everything clicks.
He'd picked up enough to realise that Kevin was working with other people, that the familiar transfer was part of some wider plan (some apparently poorly researched wider plan, but he doesn't entirely blame them for not knowing very well kept secrets), but he'd assumed it was some other gang or organisation or coven that wanted to move against Zhao Jing.
He hadn't expected police.
He doesn't know how to feel about it - he'd done a lot of bad things for Yifu, was there any chance this ended with him anywhere but a cell?
He stays still in Kevin's pocket once they're inside the car, just waiting like he was told to. The freaking out hasn't really abated, it's just shifted focus slightly.
He's not even sure he trusts them to actually be able to keep them safe from Yifu, the one saving grace being that right now Yifu doesn't have the best person to get at someone in police custody, because that's him.
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Date: 2023-10-16 12:46 pm (UTC)Is there a problem, officer? triggers a litany of cursing through Xie's mind - not over the link, he's still holding that back, but he's quietly freaking out in Kevin's pocket, enough that he misses, at first, the hints that this isn’t entirely a genuine arrest. It's not until the pat down completely misses the pocket he's hiding in that something clicks, that everything clicks.
He'd picked up enough to realise that Kevin was working with other people, that the familiar transfer was part of some wider plan (some apparently poorly researched wider plan, but he doesn't entirely blame them for not knowing very well kept secrets), but he'd assumed it was some other gang or organisation or coven that wanted to move against Zhao Jing.
He hadn't expected police.
He doesn't know how to feel about it - he'd done a lot of bad things for Yifu, was there any chance this ended with him anywhere but a cell?
He stays still in Kevin's pocket once they're inside the car, just waiting like he was told to. The freaking out hasn't really abated, it's just shifted focus slightly.
He's not even sure he trusts them to actually be able to keep them safe from Yifu, the one saving grace being that right now Yifu doesn't have the best person to get at someone in police custody, because that's him.