The Little Light. (18+)

(Alhaitham x Lumine, Genshin Impact)

"Well, no requests again. Somehow, everyone seems busy and Paimon went to see Nilou for out of nowhere she wanted to get dance lessons. And Tighnari went to see Cyno, even though I thought we will have a meet up today, it was something urgent he wanted to share. So... not a big deal, I guess? But somehow it feels so lonely and irritating. Hm... is this a life of a 'hero'? Everyone recognises you, but beyond assigned tasks - everyone is busy.

Sigh... Hm. What can I do?"

Lumine thought to herself and sat down at the side on a bench. She looked at the beautiful flourishing Padisarah in front of the glowing silent evening Sun. "Wait... it's evening. Maybe... right, he might be at home! And maybe he will have something." She got up and turned to the side of the path she looked at.

There it was. She stood outside a house she's been to before.

"Aaaalright. Here I go... uh" Lumine's hand became soft upon touching the door and she suddenly felt uneasy.

*quietly knocks on the wood*

Half a minute passed and someone opened it.

She was met with a pair of green eyes looking down in a calm, unsurprised manner.

-Is Kaveh at home?

-No.

-Good.

Now his face expression gave a hint of surprise. Whether it was displeased or loathing or in interest - she could not tell. But by mistake Lumine let out this unexpected little bit. Good? Good... must have been a weird slip. However, this man... Alhaitham was always quite something in regards to expression whether inability or mere restriction - remained a coined mystery. Such as the man himself. Maybe it is a Scribe thing. To deal daily with such a monotonous job and to actually remain in the position must have taken "its toll". Lumine almost giggled at this thought. She kept it to herself. Thankfully...

He did somehow give out a slight, barely noticeable "gh", but whether it was a question, a surprise - she could not tell either.

They stared at each other for sure 10 seconds, before he acted upon decision.

-Come in-

He gestured with a slight wave of an arm fingers collected pointing towards the room. It seemed quite elegant, actually. Alhaitham's moves had their own sense of refinement. He was never sloppy, but neither was he too harsh. He always seemed so calm and collected. "There was something endearing in it" she thought to herself. And she entered the room.

He showed with another gesture as if saying "please, sit" pointing with palm at the vast floor sofa.

He gave her a slight sharp glance.

-Would you like some tea? I was just preparing masala chai.

Lumine felt like the atmosphere in this seemingly empty at the moment building was so tense. She didn't understand what could be the reason for such a distinctive, but irrational feeling.

-Yes, I'd like to, thank you.

She replied and smiled sweetly not minding of the gut wrenching feeling.

"Huh? What was it... I've never felt this way in his home."

Alhaitham went to the small kitchen he had, since all of the other house was enormous and had places for shelves and "hidden departments for mysterious knowledge" as he liked to occasionally joke and whether that was an actual joke or not could be told by him correcting the information right afterwards, assigning the label or dismissing completely. Only archon of wisdom herself would have seen his little smile after he turns his back.

The man himself came into the room with gold looking cups filling the room with light fumes of fragrant cinnamon and spices.

He was also... Oh. Only now did she notice that Alhaitham is not in his usual attire! He was wearing a somewhat homely looking yet still charmingly lightly embroidered with teal and gold dark green kaftan and black harem pants along with slippers resembling his shoes, however lacking any decoration. As he would say "they're for the comfort. Home representation requires no apparently detailed measures, there is no need to go great lengths of unnecessary detail..."

Lumine was lost in thought for a short moment. Him, sitting down next to her however diagonally so he could face her and placing the golden floral corner servant with cups 'woke her up'. It felt weird. He seemed so nonchalant about her visiting on her own and just proceeded with tea offerings...

Alhaitham took his cup and one sip, looking somewhere in the distance. He seemed aloof. And he didn't even have a book by himself.

-Have you been reading something?

-No. He responded calmly.

-Oh...

-I just came back from work.

He felt like that phrase was unusual, shared with Lumine. It almost felt like something else, resonated like... telling somebody you live with that you came home. But he's shared this phrase with Kaveh sometimes. He's never felt this way...

Warm unknown however insignificant...fuzz appeared in his heart. He took a large gulp of the tea. Lumine noticed it, but acted as if she didn't. It was awkward. Now she noticed something is definitely off, but again, she couldn't fully guess... what.

Half an hour has already passed and Kaveh should've been home by now. At least she thought he should today...

-Is Kaveh out today?

-He was at the tavern and then he said he has some sudden work to do.

-Oh... will he come back today?

-No.

He looked in the distance silently again. Then he took another sip. The air in the room was so tense one could imagine cutting fractals with dendro at this point...

Kaveh... absent today, at this time? He hasn't gone to the tavern for a while... he even told Lumine he stopped drinking for good two months already just finding enjoyment in coffee and new projects he was lucky to take upon. He shared this with her as a means of good news and thanked her for apparently 'shining light of good fortune on his life'.

-But... I thought Kaveh stopped drinking. He told me so.

Alhaitham seemed what one could describe as a bit irked.

-What? He told you? When... huh.

He neutralised his barely but apparently displeased tone in his usual rational manner.

Lumine couldn't hide that she thinks he was planning something. The tension crept in and squeezed her now like vines. The question was held up in her head.

-Don't mind me. I just thought it was by principle a secret as he informed me, and he's bashed me for sharing such labelled information before, henceforth comes my frustration with him and his attitudes.-

He calmly got up.

"Ah. It makes sense though..." Lumine thought.

Alhaitham gave her a side glance.

Then he proceeded to take the empty cups.

-On another note... have you ever tried snake wine? Kaveh's new colleague has a friend that owns a factory.

He took a bottle from the shelf. There was a literal snake inside!!!

Lumine got up to take a closer look at it.

-Wow, so it's real!

Exactly how Zhongli said.

-Is it safe to drink?

-Of course. Since it is authentic. The ethanol present in the liquid of rice wine is strong enough to denaturate the poison.

-Hmm... I guess I'd like to try a sip.

Lumine responded with childish curiosity.

Her tension hopped off for a moment.

Alhaitham poured the drink into a cup as petite as Lumine, almost made for her and handed it. She touched his fingers while taking the cup and they both looked with interest - Lumine at the tiny cup and the Scribe at Lumine.

"Such a small hand" he thought.

He let go of her fingertips and the glass with gentle avoidance.

-How... how do you drink it?

Lumine asked. She's never really drank anything as such before. However, neither was she well versed in exotic drinks as such.

-You just take it in.

-All? In one go?

-All.

She looked at him. Then at the drink. And knocked it in.

-Ooooof

Lumine squirmed eyes closed.

It was so strong!!

-How was it?

-I... ugh, so... too strong and so -

She couldn't finish what she was saying, Lumine put her hand against her forehead and felt dizzy. Uh... Haitha-m...

Suddenly everything became mushy and it felt like she's within clouds, while the place remained the same house. Just... cloudy...

Weird passing pictures started appearing of her... being held by Alhaitham and him whispering something... Lumine... Lumine... the whispers felt so intense it made her gut fill with effervescent butterflies.

-Ah... she gave out a light gasp.

-LUMINE. LUMINE.

He was holding her in his arms, one hand on her cheek, tapping something that felt cold.

-Ah... Alhaitha... what happened?

She slightly rushed up, but as result her soft cheek brushed against his side of the hair and she almost hit her head against his jaw.

They were face to face now, right next to each other.

It felt so soft and...

Alhaitham didn't say a word for a moment.

-Seems you were in a state... unusual for this amount of snake wine.

His voice sounded so soft and low.

-Hah... Lumine breathed out, feeling his hair strands in her cheek, their noses touching.

-I didn't plan thi-

With the "s", he fully emerged into her lips, putting that ending into her.

Alhaitham gently pinned her down on the floor sofa.

-You're so soft,

He effervescently whispered through such sudden passionate kisses that one wouldn't even believe he'd be capable of.

-Lumine... let me take you.

The Scribe possessively stole kisses off of her lips as if those contained prized Knowledge.

-Hah...a-ah- she gasped through his passion, feeling Alhaitham's strong body pressing against her, driving her mad. She wrapped her legs around him and responded to kisses with even more passion as if it was competition... but it felt different. It felt equal. Like connecting the dots in ruin sequence and the doors opened.

-Let's go to my room

Alhaitham took her in his arms up with a grip on her hips and as they continued kissing like if they've been missing out on each other all along, he got her to his room with eyes closed, knowing each wall. (Of course it's the akasha...)

All he wanted was to be inside of her. To wreck her guts. That tension Lumine felt before was real. Paimon suddenly had a dance lesson with Nilou. Tighnari and Cyno were away. And Kaveh got his work arrangement. Alhaitham planned everything. He arranged it ALL.

All for him to lure her in that one evening. A lucky guess, "per se."

His eagle eye was watching for long. Lack of expression only played a part to get this prized possession. To feel her sweetness wrapping around was a gift from the Archons indeed, if he had respected them enough, he would have thanked them.

But not today. He relies on himself. And himself only.

Alhaitham breathed into her passionately:

-I want you all to myself. You probably never had this before. But I'll make it unforgettable.

He unbuttoned her dress and lace, while caressing her chest up and down, with fingertips, then with the palm. Everything felt so... so good. Lumine could barely say a thing. She just wanted more.

He caressed her cheek, then cupped it, brushed his nose against hers slowly.

-Relax

He said in a low voice and kissed her, sliding her underwear off to Lumine moaning into his lips and grabbing him by the back strongly and nervously, palm caressing her bottom of the belly.

He then gave it a few slaps with full fingers and slid inside.

-MMMHH

Lumine opened eyes wide, then grabbed onto his back and squirmed.

-Shhhhhhhh

He adjusted a slight tension healing ability, there was a reason he said Vision is not much of a necessity for him. And began half-deep thrusts.

Lumine felt as if the divine garden itself entered her. Suddenly it felt so unbearably heavenly her grip became light and Alhaitham let her mouth free of kisses to hear her. He wanted to know she's pleased.

-Ahhhhhhhhhh

She let out the most pleasurable moan. It turned him on wildly, but he restricted himself not to ruin the moment. Gradual approach... patience...

-Mmmmmmm, Alhaithammmmm... Ahhhhhhhh

Moaning, lost in space, completely wet and soft Lumine was right in his arms. Good heavens, and it felt so otherworldly. He wanted to make her peak even more. To hear her lose the grip completely.

He pushed in deeper making sure he's sliding at the right point. He was so precise it drove Lumine crazy. Her body responded in trembling, hands went up to rub in his back of the hair.

-YES, PLEASE, ALHAITHA....AH, MORE I BEG YOU

All she wanted now was him to pound everything out of her. She was so inviting,  gentle and so, so tight...

-Lumine...

He roughly moved in rapid short entrances, gripping the blanket. Lumine's moans trembled to him smashing the absolute waters out of her. Their tongues met and he ruthlessly played with hers, intertwining with her, going deep into kisses and pushing his tongue inside her throat shocking her along with stopping deep inside of her. Lumine has never felt so good. She held onto him for dear life while he blessed her insides vigorously. Alhaitham let go of the tasty deep kiss with a wet trail of saliva and groaned tilting head back sharply. Green light cloud aura bashed out of him.

He grabbed her neck.

-MmMH??

Lumine opened eyes wide in shock. And noticed a pair of red - furiously staring into hers.

-ALHAITHAM

She got scared.

His grip was strong however precisely as strong to deeply scare her. Something went wrong.

-I'll fuck the shit out of you. I'll unmake you.

Lumine looked back in complete fear.

Alhaitham gave a long lick starting her neck ending her cheek.

-My pretty princess. Think I don't know?

I'll own you, my Light. Gift by the Archons.- he selfishly and painfully sucked on her soft collarbones and neck leaving patterns.

Lumine squealed in terror.

-STOP, PLEASE, ALHAITHAM, IT HURTS!!!

Suddenly eyes turned back to green.

There were tears in her eyes.

-Huh... he softly took hold of her back of the head.

Lumine... are you hurt?

His now blissfully green eyes carefully examined her bruises on the neck.

-No... he took her in a concerned hold, embracing her, caressing her head.

-Forgive me... what did I do...

He kissed her forehead and cupped her cheek.

-I... I don't know, something happened and your eyes became red, you started acting out of yourself-

Lumine sobbed.

-Forgive me

Alhaitham cupped her again and gave her a prolonged, gentle healing kiss.

-What's... what's this

He looked at a pattern of symbols that made itself clear with sudden sparkle out of bruises on her neck.

"The Scarlet One".

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