[ON HOLD] Shared Scars | Childe x Fem!Reader | Genshin Impact

~ 27 ~

THE VERSION 2.0 TRAILER GONNA MAKE ME ACT UP
also i got c1 kazuha teehee

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The first thought that crossed you mind when you regained the slightest sliver of consciousness was 'Why the hell do I keep getting knocked out like this?' The second was 'Wait fuck where am I.'

Rubbing the sleep from your eyes, you noticed you felt dizzy and your head was pounding; pretty par for the course these last few days. You slipped a hand out of the covers to push them away, noticing all of the bandages upon your body. The memories of what that man did to you came flooding back, threatening to spill over the surface as you shivered.

Before you had the chance to process these feelings, however, you heard cursing from another room, "Graaahhhh fuck fuck fuck! Stop iittt just let me bleed out honestly!"

You were alone in this room and had no idea who'd brought you here. Deciding to look into who it was, you got out of the bed, nearly collapsing to the ground in the process. Your entire being was in so much pain that you barely noticed some of your wounds had reopened by doing this. One of the doors was half-open so you stumbled towards it, using the wall as support.

As you pushed the door open, you were greeted with quite the unexpected sight. Childe was shirtless and bleeding, sitting on the edge of an ornate bathtub as Kaeya, now with shoulder-length hair, was sitting next to him and sewing up a gash on his shoulder.

"It's almost like you enjoy hurting me KaeyAH- Y/N!" Childe stood up, needle still in his arm, and dashed over to you. He cupped your face in his hands and tilted it side-to-side to check you over, "You've been out for so long I thought you wouldn't wake up..." Tears pricked at the corners of his eyes, but he pulled you into a gentle hug before you could notice them.

"Honestly the both of you are incredibly irresponsible," Kaeya said, prying Childe off of you, "Childe, you're bleeding even more now because you wouldn't let me finish. And Y/N," his eyes settled on you, immediately softening, "I love you, but please, stop scaring me like that."

Not even registering what he just said, you reached out a hand to him, "Your hair..."

Kaeya scoffed and slapped Childe on his injured shoulder, "Blame this one for that. I was perfectly capable of getting that Fatui bastard to let go of my hair, but Tartaglia had to run up and cut it off."

"Ow! We barely got out of there as is, if I hadn't cut off your precious little ponytail we may not have gotten her out safely!"

It brought peace to your mind that they were being somewhat friendly with each other, but one thing bore down on your mind and sent a chill through your body, "W-what about to Dottore..? Is he going to come after me again?"

The boys shared a wary glance with each other before Childe answered, "Even if he tries, I'll kick his ass like I did in that basement," he said with a cocky smile.

"Yep, and then I'll just fucking shoot him," Kaeya interjected. "Now, you need to get back to bed and rest. Just look at you, we have to change your bandages again."

"O-oh, right. Sorry..." You looked down at your wrappings, hardly even noticing the new one that had appeared when Childe was getting patched up. "Where are we, by the way?"

"Wangshu Inn. Zhongli owes me... more than a few favors, so I cashed one in to get us a place to lie low," answered Childe, nudging you out of the bathroom.

"Why does the leader of the Adepti owe you so many favors? And why did her get us a room like this, it looks like a honeymoon suite..."

Kaeya cracked up in laughter from the other room, and Childe sighed, "...He didn't tell me this was the room he had reserved here... But don't worry about sharing a bed, I'll just take the floor."

"..Sounds good."

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Kaeya only stuck around for a few more hours, spending that time changing your bandages and fretting over you like the big brother you never had. All he did for Childe was help him in ways that also hurt him like pouring alcohol right into his wound, or deliberately pulling his stitches too tight.

You found their rivalry refreshing, but also really weird. The way they were acting looked like the midpoint of an enemies to lovers relationship in some fanfiction...

     It got a lot quieter after Kaeya left, though. The two of you felt awkward being alone together again, especially after all that had just happened. You wanted to ask Childe so many things, like what happened after you were knocked out, or how he got Kaeya to help him, or if the Harbingers were out looking for you both- But none of the words seemed to know how to formulate themselves into speech.

He kept his silence, and his distance. He stole the occasional glance at you from time to time, but that was all he did to interact with you.

     It felt like hours had passed in silence, but it had really only been about 45 minutes. Deciding that you were going to go absolutely insane if this kept on any longer, you got up and went over to Childe, lightly kicking his foot.

     He looked up at you and raised an eyebrow, "What?"

     "Do you wanna like, go for a walk? It's fucking boring in here."

"You deadass just limped 6 feet over here to ask me if we could go limp around even more? Did you hit your head too or something..?"

"I- you could've just said no, you don't have to be an ass." You stepped around him to flop onto the other side of the couch, wincing as you landed. "You got us the one room designed to fuck in, and that also happens to be the one thing I can't do right now. So yeah, I'm a little bored."

"You've only been conscious for like 2 hours get a grip?"

"I'll get a grip when you get a little nicer!"

You successfully managed to waste time making fun of each other like that for the next few hours. The sun had crawled it's way over to the horizon now, painting the sky in the dark violets of night.

Childe was rambling on about something about his older siblings until he noticed you had fallen asleep on his shoulder. He sighed, and picked you up to put you in the bed. He knew you probably wouldn't even want him touching you though, so he put a blanket over you and went to sleep on the couch.

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hiiii im about to go to ren fair :]
also things will be less boring next chapter ahdjjdndjd