𝗦𝗵𝗼𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗿 | ᵂᵃⁿᵈᵉʳᵉʳ

▬ 𝗙𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗗𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺

"Are you sure this is the right idea? What if he really gets mad at you?" Nahida asked with worry as she watch her friend paint her face with cosmetics making her look like she's been beaten up so roughly.

"It's fine, it's fine. So how do I look?" Y/n asked as she finished placing the finishing touches on her face. Nahida complimented her for the realistic effect of her makeup but still worried for her own sake.

Nahida already suggested that she'll call the wanderer back since Y/n has returned but with Y/n's devious mind, she decided to return and act pitiful as a captive.

"Y/n..."

"It's fine if you don't snitch on me. Besides, I wanna see him rescue me. It would be a pity if we call him back now, he must've been halfway there already." Y/n reasoned as Nahida can simply sigh at her plan.

Calling out Mimo, Y/n commanded to teleport her back to the room she was kept in. But before she left she messed her hair up and ripped her clothes to make it more believable.

"*sigh* I hope you won't regret it later." Nahida said but Y/n could only smile cheekily before she got teleported back to Snezhnaya.

Y/n arrived unnoticed and noticed that none of them knew that she was gone for a short while.

"*sigh* the fatui, always so inefficient." She muttered before she laid down and patiently waited for the wanderer to arrive but then slowly began to drift off to sleep.

The church bell rings and the atmosphere is very serene. Y/n was entering the church with a bouquet in hand, slowly marching to the altar as the piano plays.

She was about to get married.

Her veil blurs the face of the groom but she seems to not mind it while she walks down the aisle with a soft smile on her face.

When she arrived at the altar, she looked at her husband-to-be with a smile while the priest was stating his words.

The guest around them was also in awe at the joyous occasion. And when it came to the part where the groom kisses the bride, suddenly the church doors busted open.

"Stop the wedding!" The trespasser shouted which earned gasps from the audience. When she looked closer at the face of the trespasser she was shocked to see that it was the wanderer who halted the ceremony.

"Scaramoo?" She muttered as the groom in front of her asked if she knew the troublemaker.

Y/n took off her veil and noticed that the groom in front of her was indeed, Pantalone. She immediately backed away which shocked the audience even more.

How did she end up here?

"What's wrong my dear?" Pantalone asked making her cringe to the point of throwing up.

"Scarababe, come take me away!" She said as she reached out her hand to the wanderer who was slowly approaching the altar.

However, he wasn't moving toward her but to Pantalone. She was completely ignored and was simply passed by.

"Pantalone, come with me and leave this girl behind. You and me, we can dominate the entire world." He spoke and Y/n was left speechless.

"You, I know you. I remember now, you're Scaramouche." Pantalone replied as in a blink of an eye, the wanderer turned into Scaramouche, his clothing and his demeanor had changed in just a second.

The two harbingers looked at one another so dearly that Y/n felt like throwing up and was on the verge of tears as she questions herself about what she had just witnessed.

"Wait wait wait, stop stop stop! This wasn't part of the script. Please tell me you're just joking, don't tell me you really want to be with him. Wandarawr, this isn't you. Look at me!" She begged but only to have her words fall deaf to his ears.

And to make things worse, the wanderer and Pantalone were on the verge of kissing but thanks to her she stopped them by placing her hand in between their lips.

"I READ BL BUT THIS HAS TO STOP! I CANT LET YOU KISS HIM, CAN'T YOU REMEMBER THAT I WAS YOU'RE FIRST KISS? PLEASE SCARABOOBS, TRY TO REMEMBER!" She begged once again only to be slapped by the Scaramouche in the face.

Y/n fell to her knees as she held her aching cheek in disbelief. She looks up to see Scaramouche and Pantalone look down on her with disdain.

Hand in hand the two harbingers walked down the aisle leaving her behind in tears.

"..vert....up"

"Per....wake...."

"Hey, wake up!" The wanderer shook Y/n who was asleep with tears streaming down her face.

"AHHH! STOP!" She screamed as she woke up in a sudden way. In front of her eyes was the wanderer who was looking at her with concern. She slowly reached his face and shed more tears.

"You're not gay, right?" She asked in a daze.

"Hah?!" He asked in disbelief but as he saw her face bruised and beaten, he merely thought that she was damaged in the head.

He clicked his tongue and picked her up, taking her out of the room. Y/n looked around and saw multiple fatui on the ground knocked out.

This made her aware of the reality she was in, she finally remembered that she was acting as a damsel in distress. To hide her smirking face, she wrapped her arms around his neck and leaned on his shoulder as she tried to not let out a laugh.

From the wanderer's perspective, he thought that she was trembling with fear, unaware of her true emotion so he let her be.

With no enemies in sight, he flew out of the warehouse and began to head straight back to Sumeru.

He started to blame himself for arriving late and he can't seem to find the right words to say to her. For some reason, he feels anger after seeing the state she was in.

Normally he wouldn't care about anyone else but this girl in his arms make him feel things he's so unfamiliar with.

Just remembering her crying in her sleep makes him want to destroy the fatui. Why? Why does he feel that way? What kind of sorcery did she do?

"*snore*" His thought halted when he heard her snore.

"This girl, how can she sleep so soundly after all that? *sigh* What a weird mortal."