TURBULENT / XIAOVEN

thirty nine

authors notes: haihaihai!! ermm so a lot of ppl voted to update this weekly instead of just throwing the remaining chapters at everyone in one sitting so yay!! also no guarantees it'll be weekly like actually maybe every 2 weeks bc i am SO busy with writing my akiangel fic atm but i will try my very hardest!! also ive been playing hades like crazy rn and i recently romanced thanatos and im like hehehehehe haiiii (twirling my hair and kicking my feet btw)

ALSO ITS SO LATE RN SORRY NO CWS EXCEPT THE USUAL YALL KNOW!!!!!!!!!

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venti awakes to xiao shaking in his bed. he doesn't know if it's from a seizure or something else but he wakes very quickly due to concern to find xiao's mother by his side. xiao's mom was shaking xiao ever so slightly– her hair was messy and the hair tie that held her hair was slowly slipping out of the grip of her hair.

"he doesn't wake up easily," venti grumbles, his voice strewn with sleep.

"oh?" his mother seems shocked by those words, "he used to wake up so easily. even the slight creak of the floorboards or the wind blowing would wake him up."

venti nods as she laughs softly at the end of her sentence, "i'll wake him up."

venti yawns as he goes back to what his mother had been doing– shaking him rapidly as xiao lays limp in his hold.

"wake up or i'm gonna kiss you." venti says and he feels xiao shift in his hold.

"kiss me and i'll hit you with my car." xiao grumbles as venti stops shaking the man.

"well don't because your mom is literally staring at us." venti says as he releases his grasp on xiao. xiao grumbles even more as he rubs his eyes with the palm of his fist as venti sighs and pulls the covers over himself in an attempt to sleep once more.

"you're getting married?" his mom asks and there is a bold pause in the room.

"what?" xiao yawns, "i dunno, maybe? probably?"

"xiao."

xiao shrugs, "yeah, i mean unless you want me to marry one of those ugly zombies outside."

"please don't," venti grumbles into his pillow as qiqi latches onto his arm in her sleep.

"well, i am fine with whoever you marry, quite honestly." his mother confesses, "as long as you're happy and seeing how you are with venti, i'll say that you've achieved it."

"thank you, mom." xiao says before he yawns, "can i go back to sleep now?"

"what?" his mom says, her voice pitching up but still trying not to shriek while venti and qiqi had laid just a few centimeters away from them. "i was gonna ask if you wanted a small wedding here? seeing as you know, all of this might not end soon."

venti peeks one cautious eye open, "huh?"

xiao smacks him on the arm lightly, "this is none of your business. go back to sleep."

venti closes his eye as he mumbles, "i'm literally the one getting married to you."

"so?" xiao huffs playfully as he goes back to speaking with his mother, "a wedding, really? we don't need anything huge like can we just, i don't know, just say we're married and get it over with?"

"what?" venti shrieks, "no! i know you are not one for dramatics but listen, i so very much am. so i would like a lovely small wedding today and you can dress up or not, that is up to you but we will sing and dance and have fun because you are my husband!"