Fuckass... || ChiScara

6.

I checked my phone, seeing that a fair bit of time had passed. It's getting pretty late, why do I always seem to go so slow when it's Childe that I'm going to go see? Ugh, if I don't get there soon we're going to just have to head back immediately. But finally I arrived in Inazuma City, heaving a sigh as I did. Walking is exhausting. So after only a few moments of trying to find the tall ginger I yelled out to him, not bothered about how many people there were.

"OI CHILDE, WHERE ARE YOU DUMBASS?" - Scaramouche

Then I heard an annoying and very open laugh, making me huff in annoyance. Then I turned to see where the laugh had come from just to see Childe leaning on a food court waving with one hand, the other to his mouth to help project his voice.

"Yooo! Fandango man! Get over here!" - Childe

Well fuck this. He's already being an idiot and calling me stupid names that make me want to smack the shit out of him.

"Nope, I'm leaving" - Scaramouche

So I turned on my heel, holding up both of my middle fingers to the side so he could see them clearly as I walked back towards where I can come in.

"Fuck you." - Scaramouche

"Good luck telling that to the Tsaritsa!" - Childe

He laughed yet again, clearly mocking the fact that I keep trying to leave even though if I were to, the Tsaritsa would be pissed. So I turned around with a scowl, seeing him finishing some bird egg sushi he had without even making an effort to stop me from leaving. So fuck him for being right again. I pinched the bridge of my nose and huffed to make my annoyance very visible to him.

"I fucking hate you." - Scaramouche

"The feeling's mutual!" - Childe

I don't think I really hate him, I couldn't. Even though I do kind of hate him, because he's an annoying bitch who's always making stupid comments and jokes and flirting stupidly, I don't think I hate him. But whatever. I walked back to the taller, crossing my arms as I did. We've got a fight to do. And this time he's going to have the shit beaten out of him.

"Now let's go somewhere more... private." - Childe

As the ginger said that, he placed a hand on my shoulder, and oh my god his wording, it made my face flare slightly. But I quickly swatted his hand away and composed myself enough to get rid of the blush by glaring at him.

"I really do not like your wording. If it was for anything other than beating the shit out of you, I would just leave. Doesn't matter that I'd have to tell the Tsaritsa. So let's hurry this up, hm?" - Scaramouche

"You offered to fight and now you're wanting to hurry it up?" - Childe

He laughed at me again before walking off, leading the way to somewhere we could fight in peace. After we reached a quiet area at the base of a large cliff he pulled out his water blades. I assume he's still too worn out from last time to use his delusion again. That's fine, it'll just make this go quicker. So I pulled out my weapon, a just Hakushin Ring catalyst so nothing too special. Sometimes I'm tempted to use my hat as a weapon, but that'd require taking it off, which I do not like at all.

"Bring it on, Balladeer~" - Childe

"Yeah, yeah, whatever. I'm going to destroy you this time anyway." - Scaramouche

"Do it." - Childe

He spoke before quickly running at me with a huge smirk. Fuck, as a catalyst, getting close isn't something I want, until Tartaglia switches to his bow, distance will be my ally. So I sprinted away quickly, firing off a normal attack as I did. It hit him right in the back, a critical hit immediately so a pretty lucky shot. 

"I will." - Scaramouche 

I watched him tumble to the floor, groaning but getting back up almost right away, holding his side. I assume his wound may have reopened. But he smirked at me, yelling.

"Do it again!" - Childe

"Fucking masochist." - Scaramouche

"The best there is!" - Childe

But after quickly moving back to a nice, safe distance away from him, I fired off another attack, he hadn't gotten back up yet but I aimed right underneath him, making it not quite hit but the force of it blew him up and into the side of the cliff, stopping him from flinging too far. I saw his water blades fade away, showing  that I had won and he was down. For now at least. I don't doubt as soon as he's better he'll be pestering me for a rematch. He went down to his knees and gripped at the dirt and grass beneath him, groaning.

"Didn't even hit me once." - Scaramouche

I let my weapon fade out of existence as well, until I summon it again, walking over to him and holding out a hand to help him up, grinning at my easy win.

"That.. that was just a starting round~" - Childe

He very clearly doesn't have the energy to keep going, this is the starting and ending round. Whether he likes it or not. But somehow he pulled himself up to a stand with a shaky sigh.

"You're clearly exhausted. No point in me fighting an opponent who's already exhausted." - Scaramouche

I sighed, opening the small bag I have hung on my side to pull out some bandages I keep handy in case needed.

"Exhausted? Only get like that after using my delusion. This? This is nothing." - Childe

But his words began to slur, likely from a mix of exhaustion and blood loss, I could see it making a puddle beneath him and I scowled.

"Shut up, sit down and move your shirt out of the way." - Scaramouche

"So now you want to see what you're missing out on, huh?~" - Childe

"Fuck off." - Scaramouche

I pushed him down into a sit gently, pulling his shirt out of the way, using some gauze to apply pressure to the wound and then wrapping it tightly to keep the pressure on it to hopefully slow the bleeding. Though I noticed when I sat him down his eyes began to flicker closed. In order to clean him up properly and make sure he's okay, we need to get out of here.

"We're going back to the city." - Scaramouche

I watched his dead blue eyes open slowly at that.

"For? We didn't even complete our mission here. I never take up a mission that can't be a full success." - Childe

"We won't be completing any missions when you're like this. You can have your 'full success' later. We're going back to the city whether you like it or not." - Scaramouche

I huffed and changed from kneeling to sitting beside him. I let my shoulder basically rub against him, but not showing that I liked it.

"We can have a small break first to get your energy back and hopefully let the bleeding slow." - Scaramouche

"So you do care~" - Childe

This man does not know when to stop. But then again, he is right, I do care. That's why when he leaned his head on my shoulder I didn't make any move to push him away. In fact, without really noticing, I let my hand move up to run gently though his hair, it was dusty but really soft.

"I do not care. I just need you alive if I'm going to fight you again. Also, I don't plan on carrying you, so you need to be able to walk the whole way back as well." - Scaramouche

"See what I mean? You're offering to fight me." - Childe

I grunted in response and glanced at him sideways. His eyes had closed as he rested on my shoulder, his breathing relaxed almost as if he had somehow fallen asleep. I almost smiled at the sight before turning away again. We just sat there like that for a few minutes before I felt his head move off of my shoulder and he stood up.

"Come on, let's go back now." - Childe

I simply nodded, getting up and moving around to be at his right side, the uninjured side so that it wouldn't hurt too much, and wrapped his arm around myself. Letting him lean on me won't be too bad, I just want to make sure he doesn't collapse on the way. I'm totally not hugging him slightly or anything. Okay maybe I am but no <3