lohen finding out you collapsed written ver.
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“Wake up for me bun,” you hear lohens voice, your eyes are still closed, you frown, wanting to stay asleep longer but begrudgingly crack an eye open.
He’s squatting on your side of the bed, his face in line with yours. “Morning sleeping beauty,” he smiles and kisses your forehead.
“Mngh…what is it…?” You ask, the longer he kept you awake the harder it’d be to get back to sleep, and you really wanted to go back to sleep.
“Wellllll, I wanted a little farewell kiss before i leave you all alone to miss me” his grin widens, his hand caresses your shoulder above the blanket.
Then your pet cat jumps on the bed with a meow! She’d heard the commotion so she came, wanting food no doubt. She was pretty fat well fed so it isn’t uncommon in this household.
“Looks like our kid is hungryyy!” lohen scratches the cats back and gives it air kisses. “Can i take my kiss so i can let you go back to sleep sleepyhead?”
He leans in and catches your lips, holding the kiss for a few seconds before pulling back. “It’s not a real kiss if you don’t kiss back ya know”
You groan and kiss him back when he leans in, “Great! I’ll be gone for a good part of the day but I should be back around 1 in the afternoon?? Think you’ll manage?”
“Mhm..” I just answer to try to shoo him away, desperate to get back to sleep and get another hour in.
He laughs and stands up, he checks and makes sure he has all he needs and heads to the room door to leave “Oh also- you’ll need to get up soon, you know she won’t stop pawing at you until you feed her!”
You roll your eyes if that’s even possible with them closed. He’s right though, once she’s found out you’re awake, she’s not gonna leave you alone until you feed her, and today for some odd reason she kept pawing at you. why not the man walking around in the house?!!
Not even 10 minutes later you sigh and get up, the cat finally jumping off of you and onto the floor, sitting, waiting for you to start walking towards her food bowl. You really need to invest in an automatic feeder…
“Okay cmon missy.” you walk to the kitchen and go to where her bowl and food mat is, you then go to the cabinet and pull out her wet food, and add a few fish treats on top, along with some pollock + salmon oil for her coat.
“Here ya go” you set it down in front of her and she runs to it, you scratch behind her ears as she absolutely devours the food.
As you stand up and stretch, fully prepared to lounge on the couch all day because you finally have a free day. Your phone rings. Who’s calling me this early?
You pick up your phone and see Eula’s name. Your stomach drops, she never calls, or texts unless there’s a job she’s wanting you to do.
“I apologize for invading your designated day of rest, but an emergency has compromised our eastern perimeter.”
She continues before you can speak, “Two scouts from my unit were ambushed by a pyro abyss mage near the cliffs, one has suffered minor burns, leaving the patrol route along the falcon coast entirely unsecured.”
“Captain Hertha has processed an emergency draft order, I am officially assigning you as the squad substitution. Grab your gear and report to the front gate immediately to secure the border.”
Your face falls, the day you had suddenly been planning to lounge on the couch, was ruined, now you had to go on patrol. “I understand Captain.”
“Also- the sun is brutal today, so do not dally and compromise your stamina.”
“Okay, got it.” and you hang up
You silently scream and hurry to get ready, you wouldn’t have time to text lohen about the schedule change but you’d probably be back before he did anyways so it’s not like it matters.
You get to the gate and see the other two knights, all three of you log your departure time as you cross the stone bridge. You then make your way to falcon coast cliffs.
When you guys first marched onto the grassy slopes of the falcon coast, the weather seemed manageable. The sky was clear, and a crisp ocean breeze rolled off the waves, making the initial leg of the route feel like a standard, almost peaceful assignment. Your two colleagues were in high spirits, casually checking the perimeter maps and chatting about their evening plans back in Mondstadt. You adjusted your armor, fully prepared for a routine shift, entirely unaware of how quickly the cliffs would transform as the day wore on.
By the third hour of the patrol, the heat had become completely unbearable. The gentle morning breeze had long since died out, leaving the open cliffs of the falcon coast baking under the relentless glare of the afternoon sun. There wasn’t a single tree or scrap of shade along the perimeter, and with every mile marched, the metal trim of your favonius uniform seemed to absorb more of the suffocating heat. Your leather boots felt heavy as you kept pace behind your two colleagues.
A sharp, throbbing ache began to pulse behind your eyes. You blinked hard, trying to clear the sudden dizzy spell that came, but your lungs could barely catch a full breath of the baking air.
"Everything clear on your side?" one of your colleagues called out from a few paces ahead, their voice sounding strangely muffled and distant over the grass.
You opened your mouth to reply, to admit that your knees felt like jelly and your head was spinning. But you couldn't the word=s wouldn't come out, if they did it sounded more like a whisper. You didn't want to cause a scene after making it this far into the route. You forced a tight nod, taking one more unsteady step forward, but the world suddenly tilted on its axis.
The bright blue of the sky and the green of the cliffs was surrounded by black. A cold sweat broke out across your body despite the heat, and the steady sounds of outside vanished, replaced by a high pitched ringing in your ears.
Realizing you were going down, a wave of panic hit you. You weakly reached an arm out, your fingers desperately stretching toward the fabric of your colleague's jacket just a few feet away, silently begging them to help you.
But you never made contact. Before your hand could even graze them, the edges of your vision rapidly crumbled into a heavy, suffocating darkness, and the world faded entirely to black as your body slumped limply into the grass.
The suffocating, white-hot heat of the Falcon Coast cliffs gradually receded, replaced by a soothing wave of cool air. You blinked your eyes open, your eyelids feeling incredibly heavy as your vision slowly adjusted to the indoor lighting of the Headquarters' infirmary. The faint, clean scent of Cecilias and medicinal herbs filled the room.
A shadow moved beside your cot, and you saw Barbara stepping back, lowering her hands as the glowing, blue rings of her Hydro healing magic faded into the air. She gave you a warm, relieved smile. "Oh, thank goodness, you're finally awake. Your squad members were so worried when they carried you in. You suffered a really severe case of heat stroke, but your temperature is finally-"
"Oh crap!" you whispered, your voice cracking into a dry rasp as your mind suddenly short circuited.
The realization hit you at once, completely overriding your physical exhaustion. Your heart rate immediately spiked. Lohen.
You sat up way too fast, ignoring the slight wave of dizziness that washed over your brain as you desperately grabbed Barbara’s sleeve. "Barbara, wait. What time is it? Has... has the 5th company unit returned from their reconnaissance sweep in stormterror's lair yet?"
Barbara blinked, completely taken aback by your sudden panic. "U-Uh, it's just past one in the afternoon, so yes, the main units are starting to report back to the front gates. But you need to lie back down and-"
"Did anyone tell him?" you interrupted frantically, your eyes wide with sheer dread. You had intentionally planned to keep this whole mess a secret. If you could just slip out of the infirmary before his unit returned, you could pretend you spent your entire day off relaxing at home. "Please tell me nobody sent a messenger. If I can just get back to the apartment, he never has to find out I was even on that patrol."
Barbara looked at you with a heavy wave of sympathy, her shoulders dropping. "A messenger didn't tell him... but..to be honest im sure he's already heard. You collapsing has pretty much been the main thing thats gone on recently.. I wouldn't doubt that he's already heard."
Your stomach dropped. Your perfect plan was completely ruined.
Before you could even blink, a loud slam rattled the corridor. The heavy doors were thrown open with a manic force that made your ears ring.
His eyes immediately went to the cot you were on, his face was flushed and you could hear his quiet but frantic breaths.
"Are you completely out of your mind?!" lohen barks the second he sees your face, throwing his hands up in a burst of sheer, panicked frustration.
Barbara slips out of the room, giving you both the clearly demanded privacy.
"Falcon Coast?! Midday?! You're a reconnaissance scout, not a mindless recruit! You know exactly what that terrain does to your body in a summer heatwave! If I hadn't walked past those idiot squires at the barracks, were you even planning on telling me!? Were you just gonna sit at home tonight and pretend your skin wasn't burning off? I swear, how many times do I have to say it?! You are not a sacrificial lamb for these captains to use up just to fix their own mistakes!"
"Lohen, please, just stop yelling for a second," you rasped out, your voice sounding incredibly weak as you leaned back against the thin infirmary pillows.
Lohen stopped dead in his tracks, his bright eyes were still wide with that manic, wild adrenaline, his fingers twitching as if he wanted to break something just to burn off the terror of seeing you in a hospital bed.
"I couldn’t refuse," you explained softly, holding your hands up slightly to show him you weren't trying to fight. "It wasn't a choice, lohen. I woke up ten minutes after you left, and Captain Eula was already calling. Captain Hertha signed an emergency draft order."
Lohen's jaw clenched tightly at the name. He crossed his arms, a bitter, mocking smirk breaking through his panicked expression. "An emergency draft. Of course. Because the Knights of Favonius are so spectacularly incompetent that they have to drag my partner out of bed to clean up theur mess."
"Eula's scouts got ambushed near the cliffs early this morning," you continued, trying to keep your tone as calm as possible to force his racing mind to slow down. "The route was completely unsecured. If Hertha hadn't filled the slot immediately, any rogue abyss mage could have marched right up to the eastern perimeter. They needed a 4th company scout who actually knew the Falcon Coast terrain. I was the only one available then."
Lohen let out a low, mocking scoff, but the frantic, wild edge in his posture finally began to crack. He stepped closer to your cot, his boots clicking heavily against the frosted stone floorboards as his possessive, protective instincts took over.
"I don't care about their perimeters," he groaned softly, sitting on the very edge of your mattress. His voice was still trembling with that raw, unfiltered anger, but he reached out, his large, cool hand gently coming to rest over your ankles to anchor you to the bed. "They have thousands of swords at their disposal, but I only have one you. If Hertha needs a vanguard, she can send guy out there to bake in the sun, im sure he'd rather do that anyways. You were supposed to be safe at home. You were supposed to be my one variable that didn't change."
He leaned forward, his head dropping slightly as he let out a long, defeated sigh. "Don't do it again. Next time they contact you on your day off tell them you're unavailable. I’m handling your transfer paperwork first thing tomorrow morning so you're permanently off their emergency rotation."
Barbara comes back in, well she peeked first, but you gestured her to come on in.
She checked your pulse one final time, her shoulders dropping in a soft wave of relief as she looked between you and lohen. "Your fever is completely stable now. You're clear to head home, but you are strictly ordered to bed rest for the next forty-eight hours."
She turned her gaze directly to lohen, "Vice Captain, please make sure she doesn't try to sneak off to do any training, weapon maintenance, or paperwork. Her body just needs plenty of fluids and a nice cool room. I'm trusting you to enforce that."
"Enforce it?" Lohen let out a low, amused chuckle as he stood up from the mattress. "Oh, you don't have to worry about that, Deaconess. I am going to turn our apartment into a literal fortress. She won't even be allowed to look at a pair of combat boots until tuesday."
He gives you a look, and you can already tell its gonna be a lonngggg 48 hours.
note : NOT FULLY PROOFED!! wrote before bed! thank you @cherry-miu for requesting this! i feel like with written works i have more freedom to add like little extra details!! I also changed some things so if the smau and this one don't perfectly align thats why, im sorry! if you guys don't like it ill try to find a way to fix it!! also pls tell me u guys remember guy from genshin, he's an actual knight! pls be nice!!
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