the miss and the bartender
diluc x fem!reader
word count: 1,145
genre: suggestive
warnings/side notes: diluc asking if you're crazy but it's actually you making HIM crazy. she/her pronouns, lowercase intended, not proofread i never do.
a/n; SVAJSHSK I WROTE THIS WAYYY BACK like 5 months back to when i didn't even have diluc yet, so ig this was like me pining for diluc and writing to manifest him, cause i literally got him right after this then c2 kaeya came too
you're a lady of mondstat, not too seen, not too invisible either. on a midnight walk, thirsty for something pleasurable you find yourself in nothing but your sleepwear that you couldn't afford to care about, not when you're on the verge of dehydration. you find yourself stumbling along the infamous tavern in which someone familiar may or may not be bartending tonight.
you open the door, and shut it close as the cold breeze stops, and into the warm aroma of people idling, chit-chatting, celebrating, and making business. you look around to see any familiar faces in which resulted in no one but a red-haired bartender calling out to you, and without much hesitation- you sat infront of the counter, offering a lazy smile to the richest bachelor of mondstat. "what a sight to be seen, let alone on the midnight of your most important day" he says, mixing drinks of what looks to be your unspoken order.
"can you blame me? i've ran out of water and i cant afford to knock on families house! not when mondstat provides us the breeze we need to set ourselves into such a deep sleep, no?" you say crossing your arms, looking at the back of the bartender. "i suppose not, but take a look around you, everyone you could ask for a beverage of water.. is here.. not unless another reason to go to the tavern which offers nothing but alcohol, miss?" he says, a glisten in his eyes slitting his eyes for a second as the yellow-tainted chandelier showers him in nothing but a bittersweet atmosphere, his eyes seeming more of a red dazed sunset and his red hair waved and tied into a higher ponytail in usual, his white-buttoned shirt under a well-tailored black vest,
his black gloves fitting a well too tightly around those hands of his. "huh.. correct me if i'm wrong sir, but do you not see that the tavern only has you and i in here?" you say as he slides the drink infront of you, picking the beverage and sloshing the ice cubes and straw. he scans the room in confusion in which just a moment ago where the venue was crowded.
" you chuckle, sliding the mora for the drink. "oh and if you don't mind, i'll be heading off now though, sir." you get up from your chair, your drink in your hand, waving with your other hand, turning on your heel. "i think not." - "excuse me?"- he sighs, "not when all the drunkards are loitering the streets right now. i must make it a duty to escort my-..well you of course, miss." he averts his eyes, you swear you see a faint blush on that stoic face of his.
"ah, i appreciate the gesture a lot, i will be taking your offer and will very much need to make up for this gesture, yes?" you laugh as he escorts you out of the tavern. in such a free place like mondstat there's no need to lock up the place, there's nothing much valuable to diluc in that tavern worth stolen, let alone when the offices of the knights or the dark knight himself can defend.
as you walk past the lantern-lit streets, still somehow ablaze and alive, you pick up a lamp grass on your way and slide a mora on flora's desk. turning to diluc, lighting his face with the plant, you say "this plant contradicts in you in so many ways but it still holds a memorable value when we first met, sir." you smirk, remembering when yourself, a defendless citizen made the darknight himself startled in the sight of you under the first white full moon of the year, collecting lamp grass as he often visited the location wondering who in tevyat dare to pluck them off than to leave them alone. "im not gonna deny it, but i still do visit the lamp grass gardens, reminiscing the time we met."- "no way, without me? i see how it is.." you pouted, impatiently to turn the corner to your house.
once you both made the corner into the alley of your house- you turned to the tall man, handing him the plant, tipping his chin down to plant a small yet sweet kiss on his lips. you smirk as he dazed off into your lips, and once awoken by reality- he scans the roads surrounding you two.
"what.. are you crazy.." he sighs while you laugh, "what? you really think i wont be able to scan this place myself before doing anything?" you replied. he rolls his eyes slightly, shaking his head as he stares down at you, glancing at your lips momentarily, he takes a deep breath taking in your appearance from the faint light in the distance. something about this situation seemed new and exciting for the bartender.
he places an arm next to your head onto the wall. your eyes flutter upwards, half-open in response, but bewildered of the monotoned man, and of course, as all missions fail, he leaned all too aggressively forgetting the drink in your hands, the beverage of the sweet grape juice spilling all its content beneath your sleepwear and tainting your jaw trailing down to your sleepwear. he shakes his head as you chuckle at the embarassed man, a thought clouds his mind. "the grape jui-" something cuts you off and its the actual fact that the man himself has his lips directly in contact with your jaw, placing wet kisses savoring the trail of his well-favorited beverage on his well-favorited woman or...lover, should i say. you tremble as he makes his way to your neck a smile from him tracing on your neck as he continues to be amused of your reaction.
deciding that its better to cut this off, you pull away, his eyes expressed confusion started to intimidate you,
unlocking the door and let yourself in, the man sighing to himself proceeding to walk away, but not when you got a hold of his sleeve and pull him in your house. he tilts his head towards you, "does this mean..." - "...you are quite dense to be the dark knight i suppose.." you remark. he makes his way towards you, his right hand locking the door behind him swiftly and placing his left around your waist, a kiss on your lips down to your neck once again determined that his actions say what he intends to do with you for the night.
bonus:
you: by the way, what was the whole "miss" thing about?
diluc: i sensed kaeya upstairs in the tavern, still wanting some information from me, to any i might be hiding, but not aware that i knew he was there.
you: ohhh i see..
diluc: hm, well who wanted to keep this relationship a secret again?
you: you did diluc, you did.
diluc:
diluc: oh. right.
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