Comrades or More?

Chapter 10

Childe's pov:

I felt scara go limp over my shoulder, guess he was still tired.. 'there's no way that position is comfortable' i thought to myself. 'Oh! I know' i set scara down and took off my backpack, adjusting the straps to the loosest setting. I set my bag by a tree and set scara on top of it and put his feet through the straps, this way when I wear the back pack it would be like a harness, seat thing.. that way i dont have to carry him. I put the backpack on, and sure enough, it worked. The bag now acted like a baby carrier for this shorty. Scara was leaning forward onto my back and we were on our way again. 'How did he manage to sleep through that..?' I wondered.

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I finally made it to the city after getting side tracked and getting lost for a while, scara was still asleep, and by this time the sun had begun to set. Guess we should find an inn.. i looked around for somewhere to stay, and luckily, i found one.

I walked into the building and stood at the front desk, waiting for the receptionist. Just then i heard a voice that made my heart drop to my stomach.

"Oh.. its you two.." heizou said from behind me.

I turned around to see him wearing one of the outfits that the employees here wear. "What are you doing here?" I asked.

"I need to get some money to get a ship back to Inazuma.. so i got a job here." He walked behind the reception desk. "Anyways, what can i do for you guys?"

"Oh uh.. we just need a place to stay for the night." I said.

"Alright, one or two rooms?" He glanced between me and scara.

"Just one, this guy is tiny" i pointed to the still sleeping scara.

Heizou chuckled. "Alright, here's your key" he handed me a key. "Ill show you the way" he walked down the hall and i followed. Here you go, sleep well" and he turned to walk away.

I turned to grab the door handle. "..heizou" i looked over at the maroon haired male.

"Yeah?" He looked confused. "Need something else?"

"No, but uh.." i pulled a pouch of mora out of my bag and tossed it to him. "There, that should be enough to get you three meals and a ship back to Inazuma.." he just stood there shocked and i walked into the hotel room. 'Bed time.. finally' i thought to myself. I took the bag off and set scara on the bed then pulled the covers over him. He looked peaceful.. 'youre a pain in my side, y'know' i chuckled, then laid down as well. I soon fell asleep.

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The next morning i awoke fairly early. I kicked the covers off of me, and that's when i notices scara was clinging to my side.. and my arm was around him. My face had a light dusting of blush across it, and so did his. I tried to get up, but then i heard mumbling.

"N-no.. dont leave.." scara mumbled.

"A-are you awake?" I asked a little suprised, but he didn't respond. 'Is he sleep talking..?' I waved my hand infront of his face. No response. 'Hm.. how should i wake him up..?' I wondered. I looked at his hair and gasped. 'Now's my chance!' I reached up to pat his head, and i had barely even touched a single hair when his eyes shot open and he swatted my hand away.

"Dont even try" he glared at me.

"Ha! So you were awake!" I proclaimed. "I knew it!- wait.." my eyes widened and my face turned red and so did his. "Y-you.. were clinging to me..?" I just sat there on the edge of the bed.

"I just woke up like that.." he murmured.

"And stayed like that?" I smirked.

"What? Youre warm.." he kicked the covers off of him and climbed out of bed. "How did you carry me here without me waking up..?" He asked, trying to change the subject.

"Baby harness" i said blankly while adjusting my bag straps to how they should be.

"What?!" He yelled. "Where did you get one of those?! And theres no way i would fit in that! Youre lying!"

"Ok, not an actual one, but i just strapped you to my back with my back pack. Id say it worked pretty well" i chuckled. He rolled his eyes. "I'm a bit surprised you slept the entire walk here.." my voiced trailed off.

"Oh, no that- that's normal" a small smile appeared on his face. "Just mentally exhausted i guess.." the smile faded. There was clearly something he wasn't saying.

"Huh.. alright then" i put my bag back on and walked over to the door. "Do you want the hotel breakfast, or do you want to eat somewhere else?"

"Uh.. oh! I know!" And with that he raced out the door signaling me to follow.

"Not hotel breakfast then" i mumbled then chuckled.

We walked a little ways through Liyue, about to the port. There were stalls there and it seemed to be rather lively for only being eight in the morning. There were kids running around and small groups of people all scattered around. I almost lost scara a few times.

"Why is this place so busy.." i asked scara.

"I have no idea.. but anyways, we're here" we were standing in front of a stall with multiple different items, but they were all food. Unprepared food.

"You planning to make breakfast or something? Cuz I'm sure not" i gave him a serious look.

"Of course. You really think id let you carry me around all day yesterday and not pay you back somehow?" He looked confused.

"Oh, don't worry about that. Like i said, you're light" i shrugged.

"Still, I don't really want fast food anyways" he said before the owner of the stall came back. Then he purchased a few things.

"You sure you need all of this? That's like.." i counted the things he was struggling to carry. "To many things to count right now"

"Yep, i need every single one of these" we began walking out of the city since it was insanely busy.

Once we found a peaceful spot about ten minutes from the city, we started a fire and scara began mixing some stuff together in one of the bowls he bought.

"So.." i asked. "Whatcha making?" I looked around at the cracked eggshells, neatly sliced loaf of bread, cinnamon that had been knocked over, and then to scara.

"French toast..?" He looked at me with a look saying, 'you stupid or something?'

"Ohhh, okay" i sat staring at the fire whilst scara made the French toast. "Hold up-" i looked at him. "Since when do you know how to cook? You've never made food for the other harbingers, in fact, you always asked the lower rank Fatui to make you food all the time" i stared at him confused.

"I can make a few things.. and this is one of them" he pointed to the French toast that was still cooking.

"Ahh, alright" i said.

"Do you want the first one?" Scara asked a minute later.

"Sure" i held out a napkin and he set the toast on it. He then passed a small container of syrup and another one filled with powdered sugar.

"Pick whichever you want, or mix them, I don't care" he shrugged.

"Aren't these sweet? I thought you didn't like sweets?" I asked.

"I don't, that's why i eat it plain, call me a monster if you want, but is basically just a cinnamon egg sandwich on one piece of bread" he shrugged, then added another piece of bread to the pan.

"That's.. interesting. I'm still going to use syrup, thank you very much." He giggled at this.  

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Heyyo, sorry for the late chapter, but hopefully I'll be able to get back to updates every four days. Make sure to hydrate and you're amazing btw :)