Tʜᴇ ᴇsᴄᴏʀᴛ ᴡᴀɴᴛs ᴘᴇᴀᴄᴇ『ᶻʰᵒⁿᵍˡⁱ ˣ ᵐ/ⁿ ˣ ᵗᵃʳᵗᵃᵍˡⁱᵃ』

XXI

Hᴀʀʙɪɴɢᴇʀ ɪɴ ᴘᴀɪɴ

It's been a solid week since M/n dealt with Dottore and he assumed it would be the end of that chapter of life, however...Tartaglia had been antsy over the last few days and M/n couldn't figure out why, at first that is. It wasn't until today that M/n figured out what was going on with one of his lovers. M/n had left the room during the early morning to make tea for himself and Tartaglia when he heard a loud thud, the Dendro user thought nothing of it until he felt a heavy pressure take over the house.

In a hurry he drops everything and bolts back upstairs to check on Tartaglia but finds him in his Foul legacy transformation on the floor curled in on himself whining in pain, his clawed fingers tearing into the flooring of the bedroom. M/n scampered over to check on the male but he couldn't get him to budge due to how large and heavy the ginger was.
"Taglia!? Can you hear me?"M/n asked as he dragged his fingers through the ginger locks of the large abyssal man. He only groaned, waves of pain taking over his body, he couldn't understand what was wrong with his own body.
Shit! Zhongli left so early today for work! Maybe-
Tartaglia suddenly sits up and pulls M/n into his lap, his masked face becoming visible so he can nuzzle M/n without causing him pain.
"Taglia?"

"....Hurts...It all hurts.."His voice came out deeper than usual, raspy, and pained but all he could do was hold M/n to his large body as gently as possible.
"It's okay Taglia, I'm here for you. I'll try my hardest to heal you."A light green accent covers them both as M/n uses a large portion of his abilities to help, it wouldn't take much of his energy so he felt it was necessary to do so. However...It wasn't working, Tartaglia was still in pain causing him to whimper.
"What happened to you? What caused all this pain you're in Taglia?"The male could only shake his head lightly. M/n maneuvered his body so that he was now sitting comfortably in Tartaglia's lap.

The sorrowful expression on M/n's face didn't go unnoticed by the abyssal man, a soft voice in the back of his head called out saying a singular word that his muddle mind was familiar with.
"M-mate..."

"Hm?"

"My darling mate...*Sniff*"Large tears roll down Tartaglia's cheeks and drop onto M/n's. It was unreal to the healer, not once has the Harbinger cried before so it was quite apparent that the pain had not faded nor lessened.
"Xiao! Get Zhongli now!"

🤎💙💚

Zhongli wasn't busy at the moment so he took to venturing around the harbor for his break, Hu Tao took no issues with this as usual and so he spent time conversing with the humans but something caught his attention, a paper crane suddenly dropped on his lap after he sat down for tea. A bit confused he picks it up, it was made from normal paper but a smudge of ink causes him to open it to see what was inside.

Soon after he read the content, he sprang to his feet and immediately excused himself! Bolting away from the harbor faster than lightning to get home.

Zhongli nearly kicks the bedroom door open when he gets there.
"What happened!?"

"I'm not sure but I managed to put him to sleep. Help me check his body for anything out of place."Zhongli nods his head and helps M/n check around the sleeping man's body, oddly enough there wasn't anything out of place.
"Hmm no, cuts where poison could get through nor is there a needle mark..."

"Is it me or do you smell lantern flowers?"

"Huh?"M/n leans forward to sniff Tartgalia, for a moment he didn't smell it at all but that's until he began to move closer to the sleeping male's mouth.
"Why didn't I notice that sooner? Lantern flowers ripe fruit and very young leaves are used in herbal medicine but if manipulated right it can be used as a stimulant."M/n reaches over to grab a pair of pants that Tartgalia forgot to throw in the hamper and digs through the pocks, there he finds what looked to be a prescription and a small bag.
"This handwriting is Archons awful! But as they say, doctors have the worst handwriting...But this handwriting isn't Baizhu's."