Abyss Aether × Xiao || You can try to escape ||

A Day Together

(Aethers POV)

"You wanna go out on a date today?" I question, looking up at my boyfriend. He nods his head, looking me straight in the eyes.

"Why? Do you not want to?" he mumbles. I smile and shake my head, opening my arms for him and he comes over to my hug. I pull him down on my lap, looking at his face.

"No, I'd love to go with you, it was just kinda random and sudden" I chuckle, lightly kissing him. He blushes and buries his head into the crook of my neck.

"Tonight at 8, okay?" he whispers. I nod as a response. He gets off my lap and heads out for his daily duties,

"Why does he wanna go on a date all of a sudden. Did something happen?" I murmur. I get up and go down to grab a quick snack. I mean the date isn't for another 10 hours.

I decide to head out to the city for a while. I needed to kill some time anyway. Once I make it to the city though, the first thing I'm met with....is an idiot.

"AETHER!" Lumine screams, running towards me. I turn tail and try to run away from her, but I'm blocked off by two other people.

"Sorry, but Lumine promised she would taste all my dishes if I helped stop you".

"And she promised to help me hunt evil spirits down".

Before I can question either of them, I feel someone pull my braid causing me to fall over onto the floor.

"Got you" she snickers, laughing as I lay on the floor.

"Bitch" I cuss, sitting up and looking at her, "So what do you want?".

She looks down the path and back at me. She grabs me by the arm and pulls me off, leaving the other two behind.

"If you don't stop dragging me, I'm gonna flip you into the water" I threaten. She pauses for a minute. She knows I'm serious when I say this so she let's go of my arm.

"Well Aether since you must know. I'm gonna show you something precious that I know you'll love" she smiles, pointing down the path. I can't see anything so we keep walking.

"Lumine, I swear if this is a waste of time I'm gonna kill you" I pout. I'm a very impatient person and I'm not afraid to show that. She rolls her eyes. She's used to my behavior so this doesn't even matter phase her.

"I promise you'll love it Aether" she winks. She continues pulling me along until we reach the edge of a mountain. "Look down there".

I peak over the edge of the mountain to see Xiao down at the bottom. He was fighting monsters.

"Don't you just love seeing your wife being all cool Aether" she laughs.

My wife.

That doesn't sound too bad. Xiao does look really good while fighting. He's pretty flexibly too. Gosh he's just perfect in every way and I won't let anyone argue with me about that.

Lumine and I continue to watch Xiao until he's done fighting. He seems to have noticed that someone's watching him, but I know he can only sense Lumine and her fairy since I've been hiding my presence. I walk away and hide behind a tree, and low and behold two seconds later, Xiao appears infront of both of them.

"Traveler, Paimon. What are you two doing here?" Xiao question, looking between the two of them for an answer.

Both of them begin laughing awkwardly. They try to find some kind of excuse, but they can't come up with one that he'll believe so they just end up telling him the truth.

"Aether was here?" Xiao perks up, looking around for me. I begin chuckling from behind the tree. Seems I was noticed as I feel someone walking closer to me.

"Aether" Xiao whispers. I poke my head out and smile at him. "You were watching me fight..".

"Maybe. You sure looked good doing it" I muse, hugging him. He flushes slightly, accepting my embrace.

"Awww, look at the two lovebirds" Lumine teases. Xiao looks at her like he's about to tear her apart. She pouts at the fact that Xiao only treats me this way. Well I am his lover after all.

"How about we head out for our date Xiao?" I question. He looks at me and nods his head. Before we teleport away, Lumine stops us.

"Aether wait! I have to tell you something" she rushes, running over to me. She puts her mouth to my ear.

"Zyra set up a picnic for the two of you on the Mountain" she whispers. I smile at her and tell her to thank Zyra for me. I go back to Xiao and we teleport away.

"What the-" Xiao mumbles, seeing the picnic set up. I smile at him. I decide not to tell him that Zyra set it up, just in case. I sit down on the blanket, Xiao copying me.

"So..." I start, "Why did you suddenly want to go on a date with me?". Xiao looks up at me, a sudden look of panic on his face.

"No reason Aether. No need to worry" he responds, but I don't believe him at all. However, I decide not to push him on it.

"Let's just dig it Xiao" I laugh, trying to move on from the awkward mood. He nods and we begin to eat some of the food. Zyra surprisingly made Almond Tofu. My guess is that she asked Verr.

"Aether....can we sleep together tonight" Xiao whispers. I choke on my food, taking what he said the wrong way.

"H-huh?" I stutter. He raises a brow to me.

"Can we cuddle tonight?" He repeats. I sigh, cursing my dirty mind.

"Of course we can Xiao, anything for you" I smile, holding his hand. He blushes and snuggles his head into my shoulder. We sit like that for the rest of our date, enjoying each others warmth.

After a while we return to the Inn, and like I promised, I cuddle Xiao while he falls asleep in my arms.

While he sleeps, I watch him. My mind and heart are still both filled with concern.

"Xiao, what's bothering you?"