xiaolumi whump sickfic incoming,,
lumine getting a concussion fighting a mitachurl on top of having a fever, she can barely keep her eyes eyes open. bennett takes lumine back to wangshu inn while xingqiu and chongyun head to liyue city for medicine. bennett and lumine get ambushed by treasure hoarders on the way there and bennett and lumine get separated as they drive bennett into the woods; lumine tries to fight off the few that remain but she’s far too dizzy and in pain that she slumps to the floor, vision white and splotchy. the treasure hoarders jump on her, threatening her and lumine can’t do anything but struggle blindly and try to breathe. she’s calling for bennett (who’s busy fighting in the woods) and crying, but he can’t hear her. with nothing left to do, she yells for xiao.
he’s there almost instantly, treasure hoarders flying off her so she rolls over and coughs into the dirt, crying and humiliated as xiao finishes off the last of them. he stands over her, hands shaking with concern and eyes wide as he kneels to touch her shoulder;
“i’m sorry,” she cries, hands covering her face and tears running down her cheeks. “i’m sorry.”
she’s 100% humiliated for having to call xiao in such a helpless situation, not used to asking for help from others vs. xiao who cares for her so much just holding her
xiao picks her up and takes her back to wangshu inn, setting her down gently on a bed and telling her go to sleep. if no one needed him, he’d be useless.
++bennett running off the treasure hoarders in the woods and coming back to the road finding lumine missing and going crazy looking for her 😭 running back to wangshu inn freaking out, hair a mess to see lumine asleep in bed and xiao sitting on the balcony like “oh my fucking GODS YOU COULDNT TELL ME”