Kaeya's POV: moments after waking up from his snow sleep
"Uncle Zandik, is that you?"
The tall figure unfolds himself from the chair, his red eyes flare in the warm, dark room, looking directly at the young Khaenri'ahn.
"Why it is me, your dear uncle Zandik," he said smoothly. Dottore interrogated, dripping with melting snow, "Why were you outside the Palace gates passed out in the snow."
"I could not go on any further, I was cold and tired, I'd been walking for three days after I crossed the border."
"You're lucky to have had that delusion that is in your hands right now, or you would be dead," he says before spacing out.
"Uncle Zand," I say, waving a hand in front of his stunned face.
"Oh, sorry, I just have a constant ongoing bar fight in my head nowadays, kinda the drawback of having so many segments wandering around inside there." Dottore exposes about his current mental state.
KNOCK! KNOCK! KNOCK!
"Who's there?"
"Doctor, I know you're in there, open the door before I break it down!" Regrator said through the door.
Dottore reluctantly got up and opened the door to see an extravagantly dressed man wearing two coats and several rings on his hands.
"Oh, who's the young man in your company, oh wise doctor," the lavish man inquired.
"Oh, him, he is Kaeya. The boy we found in the snow. He is a favourite of mine." Dottore hastily explained.
"Uncle Zandik, who is he?"
HAHAHAHAHA
"Did this kid just call you, Uncle, dear doctor?" Pantalone asked in the middle of laughing hysterically.
"A word about this to the rest of the harbingers without my consent, and you'll be my next test subject, Regrator!" Dottore blasts, crimson eyes blazing in anger.
"Fine, I won't give the game away just yet." Pantalone replies, sighing in relief.
"Kaeya, this is Pantalone, 9th of the 11 fatui harbingers. He is one of my colleagues and one that I work incredibly close with." The one known as Zandik said, crouching down to Kaeya's level, "Look in your hands, you can keep it, I want you to have it."
"Doctor, a meeting is about to start, if you may could you bring him with us." Pantalone suggested.
"Whatever, I was going to bring him regardless of if you had suggested or not, you ruthless banker. Who is the reason you can use elemental attacks? ME!" The man with pale blue hair said flaring with anger
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Authors POV: roughly 20 minutes later in the throne room.
A long table stands in the midst of the room, 8 figures of assorted height, size, and rank, surrounding it.
Kaeya follows Dottore and Pantalone to the table and squeezes into a space between them, holding Dottore's hand nervously.
"Dottore, what is a child doing here?" Il Capitano inquired.
"Shut the fuck up, Captain, he is significantly older than you are and has been through more shit than you could ever believe." Dottore snapped back with venom in his voice.
"Uncle Zandik, who are all these people?" Kaeya whispers just audibly to Dottore.
A silence hung over the previously murmur filled room like a thick fog.
Arlecchino was the first to speak up, "Jester, why is there a child between Regrator and The Doctor?"
"Ohh, Tsaritsa, I knew I was going to explain this to you all eventually." Pierro says with a sigh."This boy is one of the three founding members of the Fatui, including me and the good Doctor, he has seen the worst the gods have to offer and why we must bring down the Heavenly Principles."
"So you're saying this kid is from Khaenri'ah, just like you, Jester," Scaramouche pipes up angrily.
"What about his connection to the mad doctor?" Capitano interjects
"Will both of you be quiet. I would explain if one asked me to." Dottore snidly remarks.
"Are we not civilised, my fellow harbingers. Dottore, please enlighten us on your connection to both Pierro and the young man before us." La Signora echoed across the room.
Kaeya ducks down under the table a little bit because her imposing presence.
"As, you wish, fair lady." Dottore breathlessly thanks her. "Me, Pierro and Kaeya, this young man here are some of the few survivors of the cataclysm nearly 500 years ago, alongside the boys twin sister who preserves her life in the same way I do, as she was my student in the ways of prolonging ones life, and numerous others including one known as the Twilight Sword. He is a future Harbinger and already holds two delusions, one of his own, a cryo delusion, and one of my pyro delusions."
A clamouring murmur echoes across the table like a good piece of gossip needing to be spread. This scares Kaeya, who says audibly, "Uncle Zandik? Uncle Pierro?" Immediately, the murmur stops, and attention is split between the two highest ranking harbingers.
"Wait, he calls them uncle!! That's adorable." Columbina squeals, running over to Arlecchino and hugging her. Arlecchino is way too done with her antics.
"Sorry, was this an impromptu meeting organised by Pantalone after he barged in on me and Kaeya to discuss what is going to happen with him. I have some things to attend to involving Kaeya's condition. Come Pierro, I'm going to need your help. You know how he hates needles," Dottore says nonchalantly, then leaves, Kaeya holding his hand and Pierro following briskly behind them.
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The Displaced (A Fatui Kaeya AU)
FantasyA humorous, serious and adventurous story involving Kaeya after the cataclysm. he is adopted by the Ragnvindr family but runs away after having his eyepatch ripped from his face and being called a freak. After two months, he finds his way to Snezhna...
