“Kaeya, I need you to keep tabs on the Fatui Harbinger accompanying our Honorary Knight,” Jean comments as they enjoy their afternoon tea.
So Kaeya ends up showing Childe around and spending time with him. At some point they learn that both like dangerous situations as a good thing and decide to spar a couple of times. Neither realizes it but they’re very… compatible in a lot of ways. They both have a side of themselves they can’t talk about (Harbinger and Khaenri’ah survivor), they both love pushing limits and having fun. They’re observant and cunning, and their powers complement each other’s (water and ice).
Kaeya finds it endearing that someone like Childe with a a good heart, a good family (Teucer sounds absolutely adorable, Kaeya thinks to himself with a lopsided smile), great power, and a lot of money could end up working for the Tsaritsa. Childe finds it fascinating that Her Majesty granted someone like Kaeya her vision powers—someone so elegant, beautiful, charming, and mysterious.
At some point they sort of… let things happen between them because it feels natural, strangely without hesitation despite their unspoken halves and one being a Fatui. But Kaeya one day wakes up to find Childe cooking in his kitchen with the windows open and freshly made juice, and everything is tidier than he remembers it being but he doesn’t mind. Childe always smiles sincerely at him, truly happy to see him first thing in the morning, and it does things to his heart.
And somehow Kaeya can’t remember the last time he felt lonely, with no place in this world, even when the Fatui Harbinger leaves with promises of writing many many letters between visits (because there will be many until the day they aren’t needed). He belongs.
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