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Aether sighs as he spots Xiao lazing on the sick room’s bed, hand lazily propped behind his head.
“Really now, I thought we had a talk about picking fights with others,” Aether says, sitting beside Xiao and raising a tentative hand to lightly brush across Xiao’s bandages, eyes looking out for any winces and sharp intakes of breath.
“Childe had it coming,” Xiao huffs as he leans his face into Aether’s touch. He nuzzles his cheeks softly against the blonde’s fingers before a sharp sting of pain by his cheek stops him. “He shouldn’t have been giving weird looks to Zhongli.”
Aether laughs as he brings his hand up to gently rub Xiao’s head, unsure if there are any bruises hidden within the raven locks, “How was he to know that you’d be so protective of your guardian? Besides, I don’t think he even knows about you two being related.”
Xiao gives a soft tsk under his breath, as if upset over Aether defending someone other than him. He sits up, gently pulling Aether to sit across his lap and against his wishes, Aether feels his face heats up.
“Are you my boyfriend or Childe’s?” Xiao asks through gritted teeth. “Why are you standing up for him?”
Aether pauses before breaking out into laughter at the sight of Xiao pouting beneath him. It was a look that not many has ever seen, one that not many has the privilege of seeing. To many, Xiao is like an aloof caged beast, just waiting for the right spark to be let loose. But Aether knows better, he has seen the many different facets of Xiao.
He has seen Xiao’s laughter when something funny catches him off guard, his frustration when a particular question in their homework stumps him, his tears he tries to hide whenever they watch a particularly tragic movie, as well as the smile he gives whenever he thinks Aether isn’t watching.
“Aether, am I so boring to you that you’re drifting off right in front of me?” Aether jolts back to see Xiao’s brows furrowed, the arms around his waist tightening.
Oh dear.
“I was thinking of you silly,” Aether laughs as he brings his arms around Xiao’s neck and adjusts his legs so that he’s sitting a little more comfortably atop Xiao. It was then that he realises that there was something hard poking him from below. “Xiao, is that...?”
He sees the tips of Xiao’s ears turning red as the boy below him shifts around, though every movement only serves to rub his hardness against Aether. To his embarrassment, Aether can feel himself hardening in his pants as well.
“My incredibly good looking boyfriend is sitting on top of me, how else am I supposed to react?” Xiao scowls as he brings his hands down to cup Aether’s bottom and push them down against him. He gives a smirk at the tremble Aether is unable to hold back. “It seems I’m not the only one feeling good.”
“Hey, stop that!” Aether raises a hand to swat at Xiao, only for the latter to catch his hand before it lands and bring it to his lips, softly kissing the tips of each finger before placing it back on his shoulder. The same hand then moves to remove the band around Aether’s braid, letting his hair fan out before threading his fingers through them and bringing them to his lips as well.
Aether blushes at the look in Xiao’s eyes as he tries to move off Xiao’s lap, only for the grip around his waist to tighten.
“We’re still in school,” Aether hisses, trying his best to glare at his boyfriend as Xiao leans in to sniff at his nape, the warm exhale raising goosebumps on Aether’s neck. “We shouldn’t be doing this, we’ll get caught!”
“Conveniently enough, the nurse told me she had a matter to attend to and wouldn’t be back till quite a while later,” Xiao smiles against Aether’s neck, his tongue darting out for a quick lick which gets a short squeak out of Aether. “And we’ll be quiet.”
“Anyone could come in at any moment and—” Aether says, about to steadfastly refuse Xiao when the boy beneath him brings his hands to the front of his pants, softly rubbing him through his slacks. He could not stop the moan that leaves his mouth even if he tried.
“I’ll try my best to finish this quickly,” Xiao promises, shooting the biggest puppy dog eyes Aether has ever seen on the boy which is completely at odds with the hand that is manhandling him at the very same moment.
Aether scoffs under his breath, breath hitching as the hand manages to unbutton his pants and make its way beneath his underwear, “Xiao, you are quick in many aspects but not this one.”
Xiao beams happily as he continues his ministrations and raises his other hand to rub the back of Aether’s hair as the latter softly trembles down against his shoulder, having long lost the strength to sit up.
Aether bites on Xiao’s collar, trying his best to muffle his moans only for Xiao to cup his chin, raising him up for a kiss. He feels Xiao’s tongue push his lips open and guide his tongue out, sucking and nipping on them before pushing his own tongue back into Aether’s mouth. It wasn’t till Aether’s almost out of breath that Xiao lets him go.
“D-do you need me to help you with that?” Aether says with a quick look down at the tent in Xiao’s pants. Xiao grunts in response, quickly unbuttoning his pants and aligning his dick alongside Aether’s, before guiding Aether’s hand to cup the both of them. He rests his hand above Aether’s and starts moving both their hands up and down, the slick they both produce making lewd sounds that seem to resound around the quiet sick room.
“Let’s cum together,” Xiao pants as he leans forward to lick at Aether’s nipples above his shirt, which sends a jolt straight to his dick. He hears Xiao huff out a laugh as he turns to give his other nipple a broad lick. “You have no idea how good you look right now.”
Aether replies by tightening his grip on Xiao’s shoulder, his hand around their dicks moving faster as they both chase the fast approaching pleasure.
Aether ends up cumming first. Sticky, white threads spurting over Xiao’s shirt and Xiao only groans at the sight, hands moving in short, fast jerks before he too reaches his orgasm.
They both collapse onto the bed, panting as they try to catch their breath, mind still hazy from the aftermath of their orgasms.
“See, that wasn’t so bad,” Xiao smirks as he brings Aether closer to him, chin resting atop the blonde’s head. “We should do this more often.”
“We will do no such thing, we were just lucky no one came in,” Aether retorts, though he smiles at the warm earthy scent of Xiao around him and leans into the embrace. “I don’t want to have to explain to Mr. Zhongli why I have my hand around his son’s penis.”
“Won’t that be an exciting way to reveal our relationship to Zhongli?” Xiao chuckles at the soft thump of Aether’s fist on his chest and gives a placating kiss to his boyfriend’s forehead.
“Fine, I’ll try not to do this again. No promises though,” Xiao grins as he rubs the back of Aether’s head. “Take a nap, I’ll wake you up once it’s time to go home.”
“No funny business,” Aether says, his eyes narrowed as he snuggles deeper, eyelids already growing heavier with each passing blink.
He falls asleep to gentle rubs on his head and a voice whispering, “As I said, no promises.”