Xiao x Aether One Shots

Bad weather (part1)

~21.47~
~Wangshu inn~

Xiao pov:

I was just sitting at wangshu inn when I suddenly saw aether walking not that far away from the inn, he seemed off , he seemed more sad than the usual happy and bright aether, but at the same time I can tell that his facade has been slowly falling apart day by day.I felt sorry for him since he was always helping people while no one helped him, he tried to hide the dark circles under his eyes with concealer, which worked for the most part, but it was a different story when it starts raining heavily, usually he would try to stay away from people on days where there was thunder and lightning, I knew it wasn't because of him being scared that his concealer would run and people would see his eye bags since he got a waterproof one. I noticed that this behavior only started ever since he came back from Inazuma which was odd but I decided not to question him. But I couldn't help but wonder why he's always avoiding people on those days, what makes it even more concerning is that it's been getting worse and worse day by day. I haven't been able to keep my mind off of this whole situation which irritated me, so I decided to follow the traveler next time he acts up again for the sake of 1, not having to think about it all the time and 2, to make sure the traveler is o-, what am I even saying it's not like I care for him anyways, he's just a mortal like the rest, over sensitive, immature, annoying, and probably goddamn stupid. Yea no who tf am I kidding, I damn well know he's none of those things, well he's a mortal, but at the same time his strength is above the ones of a mortal, he can wield multiple elements at once, fight the Shogun and survived a strike from he-. Then it hit me like a tsunami. He's afraid of the lightning because he nearly died to a god. How on Teyvat have I not realized this all this time, I taught I'm supposed to smart from living all these and being an adepti but maybe not. Even tho I most likely know the reason to his odd behavior, I'd still like to back it up to make sure. Am I seriously worried about Aethe- I mean traveler, geez what's gotten into to me, you know what I'm just going to go check up on him since it's one of those days anyways, especially since it hasn't stopped for the past 4-5 days which might have made it worse since I haven't seen him out for like 2 da- No No just shut up Xiao and go.

Aether pov:

I hate it. I hate it so much, this fucking weather has been making my anxiety go beyond the moon and my breakdowns multiply by a goddamn 500% (A/N: yes I do know that's not possible but shush it is in this book because I said so 😭). If only it could just be sunny again. Since I haven't stopped walking around outside for 2 days Paimon went to Xiangling to stay until I would be back, don't get me wrong I would still teleport to the kitchen at Wangshu inn and cook something for myself every once in a while, well maybe 1-2 times a day but still, it's good enough. Honestly I probably look like a mess right now, walking alone out in the rain while crying and shaking from goddamn trauma that I wish I could just erase. I haven't been in the right mind recently either because of this, so if something started to fight me I would lash out on it with anger and just brutally murdered it with no hesitation. I felt like crying and screaming because all of this started becoming overwhelming for me. Somehow I've managed to go unspotted by people for the past few days which made me feel better, when I first realized the weather I decided to tell katheryne that I won't be doing commissions for the next week or so because I needed a rest, not that I don't need one, because I really do need one, especially after the past few days. I was lost in deep taught until a large rod of lightning struck in front of me, then another, and another, and before I knew it I collapsed into my knees onto the ground with my face in my hands crying loudly and shaking as if I was about to get struck by Ei again. While I was on the brink of a anxiety attack I heard a someone step, and then proceed to crush a stick behind me. That was the final straw, that sent me into one of the worst anxiety attacks that I've ever had in my whole life. I started to violently shake while being so short if breath from crying and silently screaming that I began to suffocate everything seemed even more foggy then it was before, I could feel the breath of the person behind me but off of my shoulder, I was about to just completely loose it but at that very moment I felt something I haven't felt ever since my sister and I where separated, a hug, an actual hug, I turned around in fear and shock only to see a familiar raven hugging me from behind while telling me that everything will be ok. I started to relax slowly, actually REALLY slowly, so slowly in fact that even though I was still shaking and crying Xiao teleported us to his abode. This is so embarrassing.