Winter's Fever. || Zhongli X Childe

Part 1

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"That was delicious Childe. Thank you." Zhongli took another sip of his tea.

"Well, you did help me with my commissions so it was the least I could do!" Childe smiled.

"You have mora, right?" Zhongli looked at him.

"Yeah, of course I do. Why wouldn't I have mor—" Childe emptied his pockets and laughed awkwardly.

"I have no...mora." Childe put his hands on the table and fidgeted with his fingers.

"Maybe I have some spare mora in my pockets.." Zhongli went through his pockets while Childe admired Zhongli's perfect side profile.

"Ah, that's a first." Zhongli put the mora on the table. "What a surprise, Mr. Zhongli finally had some mora!" Childe teased.

"The waiter will get it later, I wanna show you something!" Childe grabbed Zhongli's arm and started running to the special place he was gonna show Zhongli.

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"Childe! You're going to fast, slow down!" Zhongli laughed, he now had messy hair because of how fast Childe was running with him.

Childe smiled, Zhongli barely laughed so he loved when he did.

"We're here!" Childe stopped running and was in a field with glaze lilies and the view of the sunset was amazing.

Zhongli smiled at the sight of it. "How'd you find this area?" Zhongli asked.

"I was just bored last night so I took a walk and found this place! I thought you'd like it."

"I love it. This is truly gorgeous." Zhongli picked one of the glaze lilies and smiled at it, fidgeting with its stem.

Childe gently took the glaze lily out of Zhongli's hand and placed it behind his ear.

"You look beautiful." Childe cupped Zhongli's face in his hands and smiled.

Zhongli leaned closer to Childe and kissed him, Childe's eyes widened and he jumped back and started squealing while he put his hands over his face to cover the blush.

Zhongli laughed a little. 

"Why would you do that!!" Childe shook Zhongli with a confused yet happy face.

Zhongli kissed him again.

"Ahh!!" Childe shook Zhongli faster.

"You're so cute." Zhongli hugged Childe and laughed.

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| It's been a few months since Childe and Zhongli had gotten together. |

"Zhongli?" Childe walked in on Zhongli half asleep sitting in a chair in front of his breakfast.

Zhongli groaned.

"What's wrong?" Childe put his hands on Zhongli's shoulders and kissed his cheek.

"I didn't sleep well last night..I'm fine." Zhongli smiled at Childe.

"No, you're not fine. Tell me what happened last night." Childe pulled a chair over and sat with Zhongli.

"It's nothing, I just couldn't sleep." Zhongli looked at the table and fidgeted with his hands.

"Come on, you know you can tell me anything." Childe put his hand on Zhongli's thigh and smiled gently.

"Nothings wrong Childe, I swear I'm fine!" Zhongli picked Childes hand up by lifting his sleeve and putting it on his own thigh.

"Now I know somethings wrong!" Childe crossed his arms.

"CHILDE." Zhongli slammed his fist on the table. "..I'm fine. Just tired, and stressed." Zhongli loosened his grip in the fist.

. . .

"Fine then." Childe got up and walked away.

"Wait, Childe—" Childe slammed the door to their bedroom as a way of saying 'Stop talking, you've already messed up enough'.

"I'm sorry." Zhongli sighed.

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( Night )

Zhongli went to check on Childe, "Childe?" Zhongli turned on the lights. "Go away, I'm sleeping." Childe pulled the covers over his head more.

"Childe..I did your commissions for you and I made dinner." Zhongli placed a plate of food on the table next to the bed.

"I'm not hungry." Childe said.

"You haven't eaten anything all day though!" Zhongli sat on the bed and had a worried tone.

"When did you start keeping track of how much I ate? Huh? Gonna tell me I'm fat next?" Childes voice sounded like it cracked a bit.

"I'm sorry Childe, but I don't understand why you're being like this—" Childe took the covers off himself and stood up, "You don't understand anything. That's why you'll never be anything close to a human. Rex lapis."  Childes eyes were all puffy and bloodshot from crying. Childe walked away.

Zhongli opened his mouth like he was gonna say something but then quickly shut it, knowing whatever he was gonna say was gonna make it worse.

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( With Childe )

Childe put on his coat and his boots and went out for a walk.

It was freezing.

I can't believe Zhongli did my commissions in this weather..

No, don't think about him, this is your time to relax and not think about him.

Childe sighed and continued walking.

( been a few minutes )

Are we gonna break up? I hope not. I love him but he was being a jerk.

Was he? He was just stressed and he looked like he was sorry for yelling at me. Maybe I'm the jerk in this situation.

Childe blew into his hands to get warmer.

Why'd it have to be winter.