one more chance (zhongchi)

chapter 7

"Liaaaaaaaaaaa" Childe groans and falls into a chair as Lia closes up shop.

"What is it?" Lia walks over and sits down across from Childe.

"Is Zhongli ignoring me??? He hasn't stopped by for weeks! Hasn't it been a month!?" Childe sighs.

"Didn't you hear him? He said he had a busy schedule. Give him a bit more time dude, there's probably projects or tests going on that Zhongli needs to grade or teach."

"B-but... ok fine, we'll see."
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'It's definitely been almost 3 months' Childe is getting anxious and is sitting on his bed. 'Is he ignoring me? I thought we were friends..." Childe stares at his phone trying to figure something out.

'I should call him...'

Without thinking, Childe presses the call button next to Zhonglis contact. He instantly regrets it but the phone gets picked up on the other side almost immediately.

"U-um, Zhongli?" Childe fumbled his phone, surprised.

"Hello! Finally! Someone who knows Zh- wait who are you? Sorry." says a voice of a stressed female on the other side.

'Did Zhongli give me the wrong number? On accident? On purpose? Whatever...' Child ignores the voices in his head.

"This is Childe, Zhongli's um, friend?"

"Oh thank goodness. A friend of Zhongli. This is the Wangshen Hospital. Zhongli recently got into a car crash and is currently unconscious..."

Childe's heart sank. Even in this world, this universe, is Zhongli about to leave him again? After finally finding him?

"No..." Childe starts tearing up.

"Oh, sorry, sorry! He's um, doing okay... we think... the doctors said it's not too fatal but it would be best if someone could show up to see him or something."

"What about his family!? Im pretty sure he has a niece."

"Well, I'm not sure with personal relationships but none of them showed up. We tried contacting all of them but nothing happened. So could you-"

"I'm coming over right away. Give me 10 minutes."

Childe hangs up and rushes to grab his jacket before running downstairs.

"HEY! Childe where are you goin-"

"Zhongli is injured. I'm off to see him I'll text you."

Lia has never seen Childe this worried before so she felt it was best to let him go.
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'Please please please please please' Childe paces in the waiting room, biting his nail.

"Mr. Tartaglia?" a nurse peeks into the room. Childe runs over.

"Yes, that's me. Is he alright?"

"His condition has worsened a little... let's um, get into the room and talk."

Childe follows the nurse into Zhongli's room and sees his beloved in a not very good condition and Childe starts to fall apart.

"We aren't sure if he's going to mak-"

"Please! Anything! Can't they do anything at all? Over the phone call they said it wasn't that fatal! How could this have happened?" Childe falls to his knees.

"I-I'm sorry sir... I'm not sure what we can do..." the nurse backs away.

"May i have a moment with him."

"Of course..." she exists the room.

Childe walks over to his lovers bed and sees that Zhongli looks extremely pale, as if some life was sucked out of him. He was laying there as if he were a dead body. Childe recalls the scene from the Archon War and feels another stab through his already aching heart.

He just stood there, saying nothing. Soon, tears started flowing down his face as he fell and sobbed into the bed.
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Authors Notes:
I know this is a sh!tty angst and wont make you cry like i hoped it would 😞😞

Please lmk if this was sad, I want to improve lmao :sob:

Will be more bad angst by yours truly coming soon