TURBULENT / XIAOVEN

eighteen

authors notes: sorry about accidentally publishing early a few days ago LMAO i still do Not know how to use wattpad after using it actively for a year...

ANYWAY! heights r mentioned a bit in this chapter so since its important here r heights of the characters that are important + reoccurring:

xiao: 5'2 / 158cm
venti: 5'5 / 165cm ☆ xinyan: 5'9 / 175cm
chongyun: 5'4 / 162cm ☆ xingqiu: 5'10 / 177cm
zhongli: 6'3 / 190cm ☆ diluc: 5'10 / 177cm

and qiqis like. child height. (also idk theyre reoccurring but kuni, ajax, kazuha, and dottore are like 5'6 / 167cm, 6'2 / 187cm, 5'2 / 158cm, and 6'1 / 185cm in that order)

oh yeah bc i did it in my last fic... do u guys want nsfw chapter at very end or no... bc... if any of yall r transphobic about xiao im keeping my prn to myself.... (no the fic is not even halfway to the end but just asking yknows)

OKAY ENOUGH TEE HEE

CWS- choking, blackmailing, vomiting, mentions of past ableism against chongyun, mention of scars, implication of abuse

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xinyan feels bad knowing that she thinks xiao had done something to chongyun. it feels horrible knowing that her best friend could have possibly hurt someone as sweet and caring as chongyun. 

xiao isn't one to do that, xinyan thinks, but isn't he? a part of her thinks. i mean, when she had first met him as a young boy, he was absolutely covered from head to toe in the crimson blood of another. 

as she rushes into the room with venti, zhongli and diluc, she hates to say this but- she's shocked that the act of violence isn't being committed by xiao but instead a man she'd seen very briefly– a tall man with a a hair color similar to chongyun with a large scar across his face. 

the man's hands are wrapped around xiao's small throat while chongyun is beside the man, sobbing as he tries to ory his large hands off of him. xiao has his hands wrapped around the man's hands, struggling as he fights to not lose consciousness. 

xinyan can see bruises forming around xiao's neck as he tightens his grip on him. xinyan looks up to zhongli who has pure anger and hatred in his eyes. he's never seen the older man look like that and if she didn't know how sweet he was, she would've pissed herself and started shaking from fear. 

"get off of him," zhongli says as he stares at xiao, who is gasping for air as he claws at the man's arms. 

the man laughs as he looks up slightly into zhongli's furious amber eyes, "what are you, like his dad or something?" 

zhongli clenches his fist at his side, "yeah, practically. what's it to you?" 

"aw, how sweet," he pouts as he mocks the taller man, he looks down at xiao, who has begun to tear up from the pain. he smiles softly down at the young man he wipes his tears away with the pads of his thumbs. leaning down, he whispers softly into xiao's ears so that nobody else can hear, "i know it hurts but, you can take it, can't you?" 

as xiao shakes his head frantically, the click of a gun against the older man's head shakes him out of his thoughts.

"get your hands off of him, dottore," diluc says as he holds the gun against dottores temple. dottore lifts his brows as he looks over to diluc with those dark eyes and that stupid grin of his, "my, my. what ever shall you do, diluc? save the child or let your secret go free? what a decision."