Genshin Impact | Hearing someone talk bad about you
| characters included: kaeya, childe |
genre: fluff? comfort?
warnings: injuries mentioned (childe)
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Part 2
Kaeya was just walking around the city, heading towards the tavern as he decided to take a break from his paperwork.
As he was going down the stairs, he hears 2 knights conversing with each other. Kaeya didn't pay attention to it at first until he hears your name leave their mouth.
"And Master Jean's Secretary, Y/n is it? They're a bitch." Kaeya stops walking and backed away to hide behind a wall, listening silently to their conversation. "Just because they got to work with Master Jean, that doesn't mean they get to act all bossy." One of the knights spat while the other nodded in agreement.
"I know right, I don't get why Master Jean took them in or why Captain Kaeya even dated them." The knights cackled bitterly. "They must be a burden to them!"
"My, my, talking about Secretary Y/n now, huh?" The 2 knights froze in their spot when they heard the captain's voice.
"C-Captain Kaeya! Sir!" The 2 knights spun around and saluted at the captain while Kaeya only kept smiling at the two with his eye closed. It may seem like Kaeya didn't care but he did. The way his smirk was twitching as if it was about to break into a snarl.
"Don't you think that bad-mouthing a superior can get you fired, no?" Kaeya spoke smoothly and the knights shivered at his cold tone behind his smirk. The captain's eye opens and his eye spoke a lot more than his expression. His hardened, threatening gaze nearly made the knight cower in fear.
Kaeya lets out a dry chuckle and pats both of the knights' shoulders, making them flinch. "Get back to work, why don't ya? Instead of slacking around when it's not even your break time yet." He demands in a stern voice, making the knights quickly obey as they ran back to the headquarters.
But before they could get inside, Kaeya shouts out to them. "Talk about Y/n one more time and you're losing your job!"
As soon as the knights disappeared out of his sight, Kaeya drops his smirk and continued walking down the stairs, his plans of getting drunk are now gone as he just walks around Monstadt looking for you.
Soon enough, he spots you at Good Hunter with the Lisa and the Traveller. The captain walks over to your table and Lisa was first to notice as she nudges you.
You looked at her confused until you felt a hand land on your shoulder and heard the voice of your lover behind you.
"Having lunch without me, are we?" Kaeya teasingly says as he takes a seat beside you, still holding your hand. "Kaeya? What are you doing here? Don't you still have to finish that paperwork?" You ask him, taking notice of how he was gripping your hand tight.
"It's my break. I'll get back to it after 15 minutes." He tells you with a smile and you know full well that it's a forced one. "Well, what have you been up to?"
"Oh, me and Lisa just finished helping the Traveller take down an Abyss Mage. We just came back a minute ago so we could take a rest. We'll be leaving again soon though to visit Liyue." You explained to him.
You stare at him in concern as he didn't respond to you, only looking at you in the eyes with a soft expression on his face. "Are you alright? You've been acting weird since you got here."
Kaeya shakes his head and pulls you into a hug, not caring if there are people around. "Nothing. You're just perfect, you know?" He mumbles into your neck, his grip tightening slightly as he thought about what happened earlier.
You blush at his words and slowly hug him back, a small smile making its way up to your face.
"Get a room, you two!" You hear Paimon complain, making you giggle. Kaeya ignored Paimon as he just continued whispering praises into your ear while keeping you in his arms. All the lovey-dovey made the Traveller and Lisa leave your table and eat somewhere else.
Childe had just arrived back in Snezhnaya after clearing out the treasure hoarders that camped around the area. As he was heading back home, he heard some Fatui Agents talking.
As he was about to scold them for not patrolling the land, he stopped in his tracks when they mentioned your name with such bitterness in their voice.
"I heard that Y/n got injured during a mission. Such a weakling. Why are they even working with us when they can barely defeat a slime?"
"I know right, so embarrassing. Poor Childe having to deal with such clumsy s/o."
"Sometimes I wonder how they're even dating."
All while the agents were babbling bad things about you, Childe was clenching his fists hard at the way they were talking about.
It's not rare for you to get talked bad like this. In their eyes, you were weak, hopeless. You would always come back with severe injuries and others would immediately think that you were too cowardly to defeat a simple opponent.
In Childe's eyes though, you were strong and hardworking. He thought that you come back with injuries because you were doing your best to defend the Fatui. The others who thought otherwise are just foolish and blind.
As much as he's worried about you because you're injured, he can't just let them go away with it without a painful punishment.
Through gritted teeth, he stepped out of the shadows and came up behind the agents with a menacing aura.
"Well, well, well. What do we have here?" The agents freeze in fear at the sound of their boss' dark voice. When they turned around they were met with a cold glare.
"Honestly, it's hurting my ears about how much shit-talking I've heard for my s/o. Do you think that you'll get away with it just like that?" Childe speaks as he steps closer to the agents only for them to back away.
Childe began to crack his knuckles all while keeping his hard glare at the three. "How about a little beating to teach you a lesson?"
"Honestly, what were you thinking? I could've handled it on my own." Signora sighs as she stood beside your bed, shaking her head at the sight of your bandaged arm and neck.
You sheepishly chuckle at her, slightly wincing at the pain in your throat. "Aww, worried about me?" You managed to tease at her, only for her to smack your head lightly.
Signora sighs once again before heading towards the door. "I'll go get Childe. Stay there or else I'll throw your ass off the building." She says before leaving the room.
You take a deep breath and closed your eyes, wanting to rest badly already. Your eyes open again at the sound of the door opening, looking to see your boyfriend walking towards you with a worried gaze.
"Hey, you doing alright?" He asks as he crouches down beside your bed, cradling your cheek softly. You hum in response and saw that his gloves were bloody. Some on his face. You instantly knew what happened.
"They talked about me again, didn't they?" You ask, looking at Childe in the eyes for an answer. He sighs heavily and shakes his head. "That doesn't matter. Your neck is injured you shouldn't be talking." He changes the subject as he gently pushes your head down to rest.
"I told you to ignore them, Ajax. I really don't mind it." You tell him and he looks at you dejectedly. "Well, I do. I don't want you to change yourself because of them. I don't want to lose you because of them." He says through gritted teeth.
You sigh and cradled his cheek, running your thumb across his cheekbone. "I promise you, I'll be fine. Those stupid words don't affect me. Just promise me that the next time you heard them talk about me, control yourself, kay?"
Childe looks at you hesitantly, almost wanting to refuse. But, for the sake of your happiness, he lets out a heavy sigh and nods. "I promise."