Summary : While traveling the continent, Geralt and his child surprise stumble upon a Kikimora, and while Geralt and the others are trying to find a place to hide the child surprise she wonders off and well... chaos assumes.
Warnings : chaos, just chaos, angst, angry!geralt, blood, fighting, fluff at the end
Pairing/Characters : Geralt of Rivia x child surprise!reader, Jaskier, Yennefer
Prompt : “ Hello! Please could you write something where the reader is Geralt's child surprise (instead of Ciri) and the reader wanders off while Geralt (and his companions if you'd like to include them) aren't looking which results in the reader finding an animal which appears to be harmless but isn't and while she's running back to Geralt she falls (and doesn't get back up) so the animal/monster is much closer to her than Geralt and it's just a chaotic mess?...Sorry 🌷 “ - anon
A/N : So I’m gonna have the timeline the same but the reader will be a young adult in this, even though Ciri is a teenager in the show.
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They had all been travelling for what felt like forever, but in reality it had only been two days. The nearby townsman had said there was a monster in the swamp, and Geralt seemed to know what it was instantly, but refused to tell anyone what it was.
As the group of four neared the swamp Geralt started telling them what this mystery beast was. While he was explaining everything, Y/N had begun to wonder off throughout the swamp without listening to the Witcher. She moved closer to the edge of the water, a bubbling came from the middle of it, but she didn’t seem to pay attention to it. She reached into the water slowly with her hand, just to touch it, but instead had something very large and sharp wrap around her wrist.
Y/N let out a blood curdling scream, one that could be heard all the way from where Geralt and the others were. The sound of the scream had everyone’s head turning, all of them now on the lookout for the child surprise.
“Y/N!” Geralt began shouting as he drew his sword. “Y/N!” But there was no answer. Yennefer and Geralt moved quickly through the swamp as they tried to find her,
Meanwhile, Y/N had managed to slip out of the monster’s grasp, he wrist and hand were cut and bleeding but the pain of it didn’t seem to exist as she ran for her life. She stumbled continuously, running and breathing heavily as she was trying to find the way in which she had originally came.
“Geralt! Please, Geralt help!” She cried out as she began to slow. The girl was losing blood quickly, far to quickly for her body to handle. Behind her she heard the screech of the monster, which only pumped adrenaline through her veins and kept her moving.
Geralt and Yennefer heard the screech of the beast and went sprinting in the direction of the sound. Y/N was still running, and the closer she came to where she thought she had come, the clearer the outlines of the Witcher and Sorceress. Her face lit up in a manner that could easily be described as of relief, but as she began to pick up her pace her foot was caught on a large log. The princess fell, her head smacking against the large chunk of wood. The sound sent a cold shiver down Geralt’s spine as he watched the girl fall.
From behind her though the beast was gaining speed, getting closer and closer but Y/N was not getting up. Without a second’s hesitation Geralt and Yennefer were sprinting towards the fallen princess. Yennefer uttered an incantation, slowing the beast’s movement just enough so that Geralt could get Y/N out of harms way. He placed her limp body next to Yennefer, who was losing her grip on the magic hold.
“Go! Get her back to Roach!” He shouted just as the spell was broken and the monster was now at full speed. Geralt distracted the beast so that the witch and Y/N could get back to the horse safely. It didn’t take too long for the beast to go down, but Geralt wished it could have happened quicker.
Once Geralt had enough strength to get up from the ground he quickly made his way to Y/N and Yennefer, who was trying to stitch up the bleeding on her wrist and hand. “Why isn’t she waking up?” Geralt huffed.
“She hit her head pretty hard, but she’ll be okay. She just needs to rest.” The witch had finished cleaning the wounds on her friends’ skin and caressed her hair while Geralt and Jaskier had decided to set up camp. Since Geralt didn’t usually sleep as it was, he stood guard outside of Y/N and Yennefer’s tent to make sure that there wouldn’t be any more monsters attacking them.
When morning came his senses went into high alert when he heard Y/N groaning from inside the tent. He quickly entered to find the girl holding her head and squinting as light beamed through the entrance of the tent.
“For fucks sake close the damn curtains,” She huffed as she tried to hide her face.
Geralt was livid, he was angry and it showed. “You stupid girl! I told you not to wander off and that’s exactly what you did! You wandered off and look where it got you, you could have been killed!” The witcher bellowed as he shook his head. The man sighed and sat next to Y/N who had a look of pity and regret written across her face.
“I’m sorry,” She mumbled softly, “I didn’t think anything would happen.” She looked up at the golden eyed man with big doe eyes that she knew he couldn’t stay mad at, “It won’t happen again, I promise.”
Geralt nodded and did something no one ever saw him do, be affectionate. He placed a tender kiss to the top of the girls’ head and nodded, “Just rest a little bit longer and then we have to get moving again.” He said and stood up. As he was walking out he turned and mumbled, “I’m glad you’re okay, Y/N.” And then left to catch some breakfast.
“You really do something to him, you know?” Yennefer said with a smile, “I don’t think I’ve ever seen him care about anyone as much as he cares about you.”
