𝘮𝘦𝘭𝘵. / 𝘥𝘪𝘭𝘶𝘤 𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘳

a week

"Venti." Diluc crossed his arms, sitting across the benches in the tavern with kaeya to investigate him. "Oh! What's this free wine for?" Venti joked, poking a tounge out.

"About [y/n.] You talked to her yesterday night." Venti raised an eyebrow. "Yes, indeed. Why?" Venti looked at Diluc with doe eyes.

"Tell me all about it, where it started and ended." The bard raised an eyebrow and sighed. "I'd say, she was approaching me with a letter from the Acting grand master. She was looking for me under barbatos' statue. I invited her to come talk with me, until she needed to will to come home to do something, i escorted her from mondstadt and made sure she got into the winery safely."

"What did you guys talk about?" Kaeya said curiously, "Ruins. History of teyvat and theories of the world." Diluc nodded, ignoring the wine in the table. "If i told you she went missing the same night, would you please have the heart to help us find her?" Venti smiled secretly.

"What do i get?" Diluc pinched the bridge of his nose. "Lifetime free Wine." Oh... Lifetime.

Venti knew it was odd, he made sure twice she was safe before returning to mondstadt. Afterall, every child and person in Mondstadt is considered his child as their god.

He was willing to save anyone from death, after all he was considered one of the weakest archons. But he cared for his people more than he cared for his.

he knw how troubled you felt eversince the beggining, just hearing it from Master Jean. He was the god of freedom, you had no freedom.

A week had passed, the child was non chalant and quiet. nonetheless he never even let a word out to you. He's been getting more colorful and bright in the skin and flesh, he wasn't grey.

You've offered him most of your food after he finished his, though he would refuse, but he knew he wanted it. He was close to healthy.

"Hey." You called out, the boy looked at you with his mouth shut. "What's your name?" You asked softly, making the boy gulp on the cold rice served. "I.. don't have a name."

your gaze softened. "Where are you from? Do you remember?" His gaze drifted away from you, looking back at his food. "Somewhere." He admitted.

his voice was raspy, his grey eyes turned black in the lightless prison cell. You longed for a heir or a descendant of yours, but he never looked like you, he just somehow had your blood.

"Do you remember what happened before you lost tons of blood?" You tried to investigate so he would give you more courage to escape. "Stop." His voice cracked which sent you into a void of guilt.

"I'm of your blood now... you started my life." It made you guilty knowing that it started the day he was thrown into your cell, his life started in a laboratory. "I know it seems bad, but i promise it will get better." You crawl from the bed behind him, embracing him into a hug only to be elbowed in the rib lightly.

You grunted, he looked down at his food. "I can't trust anyone. The doctor told me he was going to take care of me, but he just forced a knowledge capsule into my brain to have me talk like this and tell him what I felt in experiments." your heart throbbed.

"I'm taking you home, i promise." You rub his back, he turned away from you. "I wont give you a name until we get out from here, so its decided that you were actually born on a beautiful place and abandon the way we met." Tear drops fell from the childs eyes into your grey sheets.

"I promise you'll always have new warm food, getting to eat on a table and eat in a warm room."

You were soft and weak, you wanted to take care of this child so badly. The trauma of the kids the fatui recruited were dead, none of them survived from the doctors experiments.

It just relied to you if this child is going to live. Even if he pushed you away countless of times. A promise is a promise, if you left him here, you'd come back for him.

Faint footsteps filled the dark blue hallways outside revaling a man with light greenish blue hair, wearing a doctors coat, he wasn't wearing his mask.

The boy wiped off his tears and glared at the doctor. "Get up, its time for the next blood transplant." The boys fists clenched.

"No! I'm fine!" He said, shouting at the doctor. "Oh? You think you'd be fine without any check up's at all?" Dottore smirked playfully.

"Kid, lets just do it. I insist." You held a grasp of the childs wrists. "No, You were already passing out yesterday, you will die!" he looked back at you.

"She insists, did you hear that?" dottore unlocked the door, gripping your wrists with the shots tightly, about to carry you to the Laboratory. "No, Let her go!" You insisted to raise the child, to give him your blood and life. 

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"If you don't plan out something right now i wont hesitate to go on a rampage in Snezhnaya!" Diluc slammed his palms in the table. Stunning all of the superiors in the Knights of ordo favonius.

"Master Diluc. We can't let you go alone on another rampage on Snezhnaya again. We have come terms with the bard that we will wait for them to attack!"

"I don't care! Do you think i'll let them wipe out the last of one of the aristocratic families?" He panted, a bit mad at the acting grand master.

"If they ever come, we will be sure to retrieve klein, but we cant do anything if we  cant." Diluc stormed out, grabbing his claymore. His vision was glowing red.

"Where's the bard?" Diluc looked at the clear skies of Mondstadt. "At the cathedral, sir." Diluc let out an irritated 'tch' before leaving the premises, talking fast steps to the cathedral. It was odd for him to see no children in the plaza, just the gloomy skies. 

He felt cold as ice.

His gaze softened when he saw a bard walk out the cathedral with a traveller, and a portal opening near the doors, the Knights weren't guarding the cathedral at all. His eyes widened, gripping his claymore, he didn't have time to call out the knights when he saw the Mages and the Diplomats scattered around the bard.

"Hand over the gnosis, Barbatos."