heal me, love me || diluc ragnvindr

part II

   Hana runs as fast as she could while looking at the order location. 'Angel's Share - Charles' is what written at the box. She continue to run until she's completely out of breath and felt very dizzy. 

    To her surprise, she suddenly bumps into a man figure. A tall man with flaming red hair and a coat, the stoic look on his face making him looks very intimidating. But little did Hana care about all this since she's running out of time.

    "Ah! I'm so sorry but I need to go now, I sincerely apologize, sir!", she bowed to him and sprint away leaving him behind. The man looks at her with confusion as she run to the same way as he's going to.

   After rushing over to Angel's Share, she finally arrived and enter it. The tavern is full of people drinking and laughing out loud, it might be caused it's already evening that this place is cramp up with customers. This atmosphere making her very uncomfortable and quickly go to the counter to meet Charles.

   "Hello, I have a delivery for Mr.Charles. Is he here?", she asked the one of the bartender on the counter and he immediately called for the person she's searching for to come. Soon a man with a bottle of wine came up to her.

   "Well hello! Is this the famous baked sweet from Miss Jane? I'm really excited to taste it then, but after I served this customer. Please do take a seat and hope you can wait for a moment, miss?", he says as he walked over the other side to make some drinks.

   She nods and take a sit on the end of the tavern far away from people. But then, a drunkard walked towards her silently. The drunkard started to flirt and touches her inappropriately , holding both of her wrists tightly.

   She screamed for help while trying to get away from him, but he's just too strong despite being very tipsy.

   Suddenly, someone grabbed him by the collar and pushed him against the wall. 

   "You dare to do such things in my tavern? Have you ever felt the taste of pyro slime essence in your mouth?", it's him, the man Hana bumped into earlier. He is indeed looks very fierce.

    After his sudden appearance again, she begins to thought to herself.

    'My tavern..? but the owner of Angel's Share is..' . She gasped when she realized this red haired man is indeed..

   "Master Diluc! Please spare me! I promise I won't bother her again, Please I'm begging of you!", said the drunkard while still having himself pushed to the wall. His voice is shaky and his expression showed nothing but pure fear.

   "I better not see your stupid face again here", Master Diluc grabbed him and pushed him outside of the tavern. He then take a look on this girl in front of him.

   "Are you alright?", his voice is cold but still sound gentle to avoid being rude. He is concern about her since this kind of experience could leave such a big scar on someone especially a woman like her. 

   "I'm fine. Thank you.. for saving me just now", she looked at him and gives away a sincere smile though he could clearly see that she's very uncomfortable right now.

    "Master Diluc, right? I'm sorry we have to meet like this but here. May I ask your help to please give this to Mr.Charles? I need to go", she handed him Charles's order and darted out from the tavern as fast as possible when she saw all the eyes that staring at her.

   Diluc did what she asked to and watches as she walked away from there.

   Hana walked quickly back home as the skies turned dark and the moon are showing brightly in between all those stars. She couldn't believe of what happened just now, she is indeed never like drunkards for such reasons.

   After arriving at home, Miss Jane welcome her with some delicious meal. She knew how tired Hana might be from all those delivering and she's thankful for having her around.

   "hmm.. this smells really good! don't mind if i dig in right now", she picked up the utensils and started eating the meal very fast.

   "Oh now please don't eat too fast. The food is not going to run away from you. So, tell me what happen today, my dear?", Miss Jane chuckles at her behavior and asked about her day with full of care and love for this young lady like she's her own daughter.

   Hana told her all the things that happened today while biting onto her food. Miss Jane felt shocked by hearing all of this.

   "So, you met a nobleman, Master Diluc? Oh, You're very lucky! I heard he's the man that had many woman from all around Mondstadt crushing on him", she is very enthusiastic about this. Maybe... she's one of them...?

   "I am indeed very lucky to have been saved by him. Miss Jane, can you help me with something? Could you help me makes some sweets for Master Diluc, as I want to thank him when i go to the tavern again tomorrow to collect Mr.Charles payment?", she seems a bit embarrassed since she had never done such things.

   Miss Jane looks very happy and excited for her trying out something out of comfort for the first time. "Well, sure thing darling! Let's start right now! what are you planning to make?" 

   She thought for a moment and says, "Hmm.. maybe something light and not too overwhelmed like a..", she put her hand on her chin as a sign that she's thinking very hard right now. A great idea soon comes to her, "Aha! what about a chocolate chip cookies?! It's very simple and very suitable for any occasion! Yes, this would perfect."

   And so they started to make the cookies together while making the other orders too. They had a night full of laughter baking together. 

'Oh could there be someone who loves me like her own child more than Miss Jane?', Hana thought to herself before she went to sleep.

♡

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hehe! so they met for the first time. i hope this is enjoyable since I thought it's very... basic? the man saved the girl and so on blablabla..

but- it's what most people like so I'll let it be this way. maybe i should come up with a more dangerous situation. but well, here we are!

please wait for another chapter since i'm storming up my brains to try giving an accurate diluc's personality with a little bit of a twist of my own^^!