[HIATUS] Some Childe x Zhongli stuff, I don't have any other ideas for a title.

Little Miss Qiqi

Zhongli silently walked up to Childe. Afraid that he might be dead, Zhongli kneeled down and placed two of his fingers near Childe's wrist to feel a pulse. He was relieved when he felt beats. Zhongli quickly but steadily picked up Childe, calling Hu Tao over.

"We need to go, locate some shortcuts." Zhongli said as the Funeral Parlor Director began jogging to an exit with no treasure hoarders around. They began running through several areas before making it out of the forest. "Who did this?" Hu Tao questioned, "I'm uncertain. Let's go back to the harbor and discuss this later, hold on tight."

Hu Tao held onto Zhongli. Slowly, the area turned warmer and everything glowed into a bright white- making Hu Tao shut her eyes tightly.

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The light behind the Funeral Parlor's eyes slowly turned back to a dark space. She rubs them and opened her eyes up, revealing that they have been teleported near Bubu Pharmacy. Luckily inside, Qiqi was fixing up some cabinets with paper in them- nothing too special of some sorts.

Panting grew as the three of them ran up the stairs, "Hello? Is anyone here? Qiqi? Dr. Baizhu? Anyone?" Zhongli worriedly called out while going up to the counter. "I'm here... Oh. It's you guys. What seems to be... the matter? Is someone sick?" Qiqi questioned while staring up at the tired individuals. "No, we are running into a tight predicament at the moment, mind if you can heal him for us?" Hu Tao said while pointing at the knocked out Childe.

Qiqi doesn't fully remember Childe but she decided to heal him anyway, it was also not common for the tiny girl to treat wounds like these. "I sense that this is... urgent. I'm coming, don't worry." Qiqi quickly goes around the wooden counter and leads the group to the middle of the room.

"Set him down here, please. I'll do as much as I can when it comes to wounds like this."

And so, Zhongli did the following steps that were given. The two step back to let Qiqi do the work for them.

Unlike the temperatures of Zhongli's elemental burst, Qiqi's one was much colder yet calming. The floor was marked with a snowflake-like pattern, little ghosts or what seems like spirits swirl around them, and snowflakes started falling down.

It was hard to tell due to the snow floating and shooting out in all directions but Qiqi appeared to have levitated above the ground for a short amount of time. None of them witnessed it though.

After the sound of wind blowing died down, the room stayed dead silent. Maybe they were waiting for Childe to do something- like open his eyes. Anything can relieve them at this point.

Luckily, healing doesn't take long to happen.

The blood that was soaked into Childe's clothes soon withered away. There was only a few scars on his body, including the big one which reached his shoulder to the hip.

Hu Tao sighed in relief, glancing at Zhongli. His eyes were filled with tears streaming down his cheeks that soon splashed onto the floor. "H-hey! Zhongli, please don't cry, Childe is fine! Don't worry about it anymore!" Hu Tao panicked as she held onto the taller one's hand.

He was basically like a mini waterfall if you think about it. It was unlikely for an Archon like Zhongli to cry like this, well, it happened two times in his life- one turned out to be more painful than the other.

"We must take him to... what was it called again? I forgot. Just follow me please." Qiqi said while tugging on Zhongli's finger, "And yes, everything will be ok. Maybe he is still unconscious. But besides that, the wounds weren't too deep as well."

Where will they be taken to?

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After a long trip, the group was taken to Mondstadt for some odd reason. Out of all places, it was in another nation. Was there a reasoning to this further on? Maybe so.