Genshin Impact Oneshots :D

Baizhu (angst)

Warnings: death, sickness, sadness

Racking coughs escaped the frail figure lying on the thin mattress in a cramped corner of the room, gasps escaping him between coughs to inhale as much air as possible before another fit started.

    A girl tipped a small amount of water between Jiahao's lips, trying to urge just a little water to ease his coughs. He thankfully drank it and relaxed onto the mat.

       Her family had shrunken to only her and her two brothers that she loved dearly. The rest? Taken by the disease that plagued the rest of them, and it seemed that Jiahao was going to follow soon after.

   She didn't have medicine, only home brew recipes that were designed to relieve common colds and such, nothing like the disease that had burned its way through her small village in less than 3 days.

   Washing her hands in a water basin, she tried to rid herself of the thoughts stewing in her mind, and went to go check on her other brother, Jingyi, who was chopping wood for their small fire.

    Something was wrong... she watched as her brother weakly swing the ax at the wood, barely making a small split in the oak. He mopped his brow before trying again and getting the same result. When he raised his ax to try to hit the wood again, his body collapsed, almost dropping the ax on his head and only cut his arm instead.

    She ran to him, and kneeled next to him before gasping. The cut was much deeper than she had thought...

    Quickly, she ripped off the hem of her old hanfu, tying it around the gash that stained the fabric a frightening red.

   "What are you doing..? I'm not going to make it... you know that..." Jingyi coughed raggedly, away from her as his tears mixed with the earth beneath them. "Besides... that's your favorite hanfu..and..." His voice trailed off and his coughs weakened, until there wasn't any at all. That familiar twinkle was gone, replaced with a cold emptiness, just like with the others.

   She bit her lip to choke back the sob threatening to escape her, another one of her dear siblings, gone forever, and she couldn't save them...

   Slowly, shakily, she closed her brother's dim eyes, not caring as her tears stained the fabric of his garments.

    "Goodbye," She whispered, "Make sure to take care of yourself and-" Her voice broke, "-our siblings."

    "You were the best big brother a sister could ever have asked for"

.  .  .

     Baizhu had received word of a sickness that was rumored to be quite horrendous on the body, and he had packed his bags with medicines and treatments to make a several day journey (without changsheng for fear of his friend getting sick) to a small village that had sent a report of its worries.

   Nothing could have prepared him for the silence that had greeted him when he passed through the gate into the village, no laughter of children or the familiar chattering of grandmotherly gossip. No birds... Chickens... Not even a single mouse.

What had happened?

     A woman, stumbling under the weight of a man, walked to an empty hole, pre-dug to save energy if the time did come to bury them, which was a horrifying idea at first, but she soon saw that it was completely necessary.

     Morbid, but it matched her mood as she buried her brother under soil, never to see the sun he so beautifully adored.

"Miss?"

    A worried voice broke her from her foggy thoughts, and she turned to see a man with green hair and gold glasses, holding a small case.

    The doctor almost jumped when she looked at him but steeled himself, "Doctor Baizhu, at your service, may I ask what happened here?" His voice shook a little as she blankly stared at him.

    "A doctor?"

    "Y-yes I am a doctor..."

    "And you want to know what happened?"

    "If it isn't any trouble"

   Archons this was awkward, Baizhu had just asked a woman who had just finished burying her brother, what happened.

    "One day a fisherman got sick, and it spread to his family, then to his neighbors, and then to everyone else. Now almost all of us are dead and most of my family with them." She gazed at the freshly turned earth, then at the older spots lined beside it.

    "Almost all?" Baizhu dared to ask, even if he could only save one, it would be something.

    She glanced at him quickly before striding towards her small house, him scrambling after her.

   Opening the door, you could smell the scent of death in the still air, however she was used to it and completely ignored it whereas Baizhu shuddered but kept following the determined woman.

   His eyes met a small child who couldn't be more than 9 at most, who could barely move besides the coughing racking his tiny frame.

    The woman crouched down next to him and offered him more water, but he couldn't keep it down.

   He had seen enough.

Swiftly, he walked over to the child, all awkwardness gone, and opened his briefcase with his medicines,

"Let me help"

.  .  .

   The now peaceful child slept blissfully, no longer racked by painful coughing fits.

    The exhausted doctor closed his kit, taking one more look at the child before smiling softly. He fully believed that Jiahao was going to recover. He was young, and he had been very lucky.

   He then turned to the sleeping girl that was lying on the bedroll he had packed for himself, which was better than nothing.

   When she was awake, she looked so much older than she actually was, but sleeping? She looked so young to have lost all of her siblings, save one.

    What a poor child, so young with so much loss to carry around.

   The reason she wasn't affected by the illness was actually because she miraculously had a special antibody that fought against it, which he reasoned she had gotten from a weaker version of the sickness.

   "I can't just leave them here alone, can I? I don't think they would object to living with me... and I don't think QiQi would mind either for that matter."

   The girl wasn't even 17, he had learned, which was much too young to take care of her little brother by herself in his opinion.

   Baizhu came to a conclusion. He was going to adopt the siblings, and raise them himself. The child would need an education and the girl would make an excellent pediatrician.

"I'll take care of you now... to the best of my ability..."

END

FIRST ANGST BOISSSSS

This was strictly a father/daughter relationship (I need the dad vibes lol)

Hope you enjoyed this and leave a request for any character you want!

Pun of the day:

Secretary: "Doctor, there's a patient on line one who says he's invisible."

Doctor: "Well, tell him I can't see him right now."

(It's not funny but it's doctor related so yee haw)

DRINK WATER

(I'm so tired but I live to spite sleep)