Hanahaki disease AUs || Oneshots

4 - Alhaitham x f!reader - Death's Dream of Lost Time

Welcome, welcome! Who is ready to have their heart ripped out?

A thing about the flowers: Orange lilies can have very different meanings and can stand for both positive and negative things, these are just the things I chose :)

Also it looks like I focus an awful lot on Kaveh, but you'll get it later in the story, I promise.

Red Geranium: Folly; Stupidity
Orange Lily: Hatred; Pride; Disdain; Passionate desire; Renewal; Rebirth; Restoration of a soul

Characters:
-Alhaitham, adult male (Genshin Impact [video game])
-Kaveh, adult male (Genshin Impact [video game], Alhaitham's roommate. Contains mentions of his backstory, poor boi)
-Nahida, 500+ years old but child-body female (Genshin Impact [video game], Goddess of Sumeru) (Treat her as a child, don't be a perv)
-Reader, adult female (You were in the same classes as Alhaitham back at the Akademiya and stayed close friends)

Genre: Angst with a hint of fluff and bittersweetness

Requested by @IAMSIMPSOWHAT , thank you so much for requesting!

Warnings:
Angst
Blood
Choking
Crying
Death
Gaslighting
Guilt tripping
Hallucinating
Intrusive thoughts
Kissing (dw no making out or anything disgusting)
Swearing

"Fuck. I really messed up this time."

1st person's POV (reader)

 'Those in power will always control manipulation.'
 '...What the fuck bro.'

I snickered, directing Alhaitham's and Kaveh's attention to myself. Three idiots on a couch at three in the morning, three different projects on the table, a recipe for disaster. I looked down at the men, while seated on the arm rest of the furniture. Alhaitham raised an eyebrow.
 'Oh don't even start, Ham,' I said, sending Kaveh into a laughing fit.
 'H A M??' he wheezed, 'I thought it was a joke when you said you called him HAM-' Before he could continue, Alhaitham slapped the back of the blonde's head with his notebook. Kaveh snorted loudly while glancing at Alhaitham, who had turned his head back to me. He deeply regretted sitting between down his friends. I gently pushed a strand of hair away from his eye, careful not to poke him. I smiled at him, looking in his eyes. He stared back, his face deadpanned. Kaveh looked at me as if I was crazy.
 'Y/n, can I speak to you? Privately?' Kaveh said, his face scrunched up. I jumped up from the couch and followed him to his room.
 '...What the fuck is going on with you and Haitham?'
 'I don't know what you're talking about,' I tried to convince him. I obviously failed miserably. Kaveh frowned again, his eyes emitting worry. He grabbed my shoulders and softly squeezed them.

 'Y/n,' he started, 'You're naïve, sensitive and pure. You're basically a baby. Be careful; Haitham is blunt, oblivious and quite honestly, rude. He barely has feelings, and if he has them, he doesn't show them. He is not what you need. I'm pretty sure you need reassurance, to hear that you're loved. You need to KNOW. If you fall for him, you won't know. I can see that you are falling, but please, only dive in once you're sure you can handle it.'

15 months later (after graduation)

 'You warned me,' I chuckled, twisting the orange petal between my fingers. Kaveh nervously fidgeted with his clothes.
 'You warned me, yet I still... fell. I still fell for that oblivious, stupid, annoyingly handsome, smart, hot, gorgeous-'
 'Yeah, yeah, I get it. What are you going to do?' Kaveh interrupted me. I watched him anxiously clutch a pillow for a few seconds, watching the floor around him. His eyes ran over the mountains of orange and red petals. I sighed deeply.
 'I don't know.'