Can You Be Cured? - Xiao x Aether Genshin Impact

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~Holy Shit.~

TW: Horror(ish) Writing
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It was a Sunday morning. The trees swayed in the wind, the rain droplets dripped off benches and buildings. It was quiet. The atmosphere was gloomy and dark in the city.

Nuo walked through her cottage. She trailed her knife against the surfaces of the countertops. She took a sip out of her mug as she sighed.

The lights were off, completely dark other than the candles lighting up certain parts of her cottage.

Nuo held her knife under Lumine's chin. She slightly lifted Lumine's chest with the sharp weapon.

"Such a sad fate you had to meet, my dear."

Lumine's eyes were lifeless. Nuo had her corpse sitting in a chair.

She sipped her mug once again before stabbing the knife right through Lumine's hand.

"Don't worry, darling. Soon, I'll be by your side once again.."
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Xiao looked stared at his bedroom ceiling.

Hour 2, slightly moved position, eyes still on the ceiling.

Hour 4, awake, closed eyes, and head is still pointed to the ceiling.

Hour 6..

Hour 10..

He laid lifelessly on his bed, hoping that some life-changing miracle would happen and Aether would walk through the door again.

Every time that hopeless dream came across his mind, it turned into a nightmare.

Aether always ended up dead, no matter what route was taken.

Xiao shouldn't be having these feelings, right? He broke Aether's heart. Aether has only gone through hell because of Xiao.

The Yaksha had no clue where the blonde was. After the night in the garden, Aether raced off crying.

Suddenly, someone came through Xiao's bedroom door. Was it him? Xiao shot up from the bed.

"Eugh.. what's that rancid smell?" Verr coughed.

She saw the bottles of alcohol around the bedroom.

"Ugh." Xiao sighed and laid back down.

"Xiao? Are you alright? You haven't come out of..here... in 2 days." Verr walked towards Xiao's bed slowly.

"Where's—"

"He's gone. He's not here anymore." The adeptus' voice was cold and hostile.

"Oh..." Verr contemplated on what to say, but nothing came to mind. "Just please let me know if you need anything, okay?"

She backed up out of the room and paused for a second.

The sound of the door closing was so familiar to Xiao.

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Xiao and Aether drunkenly stumbled into the room, not able to take their hands off of each other. Xiao closed the door behind him, never taking his lips off of Aethers.

Aether smiled against the Yaksha's lips. His hands roamed up Xiao's shirt.

The blonde backed up to the bed as Xiao followed.

The adeptus fell onto Aether in the bed.

The blonde began to talk, however it was hard to do with Xiao continuously kissing him.

"Tell me...that...."

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God damn it.

"Why did you have to come back..?" Xiao whispered under his breath.

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Aether trudged through the forest with his head held low.

He finally reached his destination.

A cottage in the deep parts of the woods.

Aether kicked the door in with his foot. The door made a loud wood cracking noise.

Nuo was sitting next to Lumine's corpse, playing with her hair.

"Ah, you're finally here. I've been expecting you." A smile appeared on Nuo's face.

She got up from her seat and looked down at Aether with her red eyes.

The blonde saw his sister.

"..."

"What have you done..?" Aether looked at Nuo with a somber expression.

"Oh! You know. Just some tidying." Nuo turned and walked to the kitchen area of her cottage.

Aether picked up one of his blades and threw it into the wall next to her.

"Come on, bitch. It's time for you to go."

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A/N

how is everybody?

hello everyone, thank you for your enormous support. it has helped me a lot. im going through a harsh breakup right now, so pardon me. theres always something happening, right?

writing helped me a little bit, cannot say when the next update will be up. ill try.

i apologise for any spelling mistakes and the short chapter.

ily

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