#luckae / #kaeluc

“You were my first.”

Kaeya is tipsy, sprawled on the counter of the Angel’s Share. The tavern was empty except for the two of them, and Diluc only put up with him because he didn’t have the heart to throw him out in the rain.

“What?” Diluc asks expectantly.

Kaeya blinks up at him with a sleepy smile. “You were my first. My first love, my first kiss, my first person.”

Diluc huffs, smiling fondly at this drunkard man in front of him. “Your first person?” Diluc questions, moving around to sit next to kaeya.

Kaeya nods, smiling.

“Mhm~ you were my first person.” Here, he sighs, turning to look at Diluc, his head still on the counter. “The first person that laughed with me, that played with me, that held my hand at night, that took care of me.”

“What about father?” Diluc asks.

Kaeya shakes his head. “Different.” Is what he says, “he was kind. But he wasn’t you, Diluc. He didn’t cuddle with me when I had nightmares. He didn’t teach me to pick the grapes in the vineyards, to chase after Crystalflies, to prank the maids at the winery.” Here, he laughs.

Diluc blushes, remembering how Adeline would scold them. Kaeya grins at him, “you would hide me behind your back, taking all the blame.”

“I was just protecting you.” Diluc shrugs, “It wasn’t anything special.”

“But it was.” Kaeya says firmly, a frown on his face. “Special.”

“You are my person, Diluc. My first person.” Kaeya declares, blinking a hazy eye at Diluc. “My first love, my first kiss... my first fuck.” He teases, poking diluc’s cheek. Diluc tries to bite it, making Kaeya laugh. But kaeya just holds Diluc’s face in his hand, and smiles.

He doesn’t say anything, and slowly, Diluc starts to recognise the first hints of sadness in Kaeya’s eye, how he grows quiet with his thoughts. Diluc puts his hand over the one on his face, and says: “you were my first too.” He smiles, kissing the palm.

“My first kiss, my first love, my first ‘fuck’ as you put it.” Diluc scoffs, making Kaeya laugh. “But... you were also the first person I’ve ever thought to protect, Kaeya.”

Kaeya hums, wistful. “Yeah?”

Diluc scoots closer, letting Kaeya’s hand drop back onto the table.

Brushing blue strands away from Kaeya’s face, he smiles at his lover, “you are my first ‘person’ too.” Diluc says, making Kaeya smile. “And you’ll be my last too.”

Kaeya crosses his arms, and puts his chin on them, grinning cheekily at Diluc. “What a promise to make.”

“It’s a promise I intend to keep.” Diluc mutters, leaning down to kiss Kaeya’s eyebrow. “Come on. Let’s go home.”

Kaeya shakes his head. “Nah. Let’s stay here a little longer. Another ‘first’ in the list.” He teases.

Diluc snorts. “What? Me taking care of your tipsy ass? That isn’t a first.”

Kaeya just smiles, “Every experience can be a first, can’t they?”

Diluc huffs again. “You’re ridiculous.”

They’re quiet for a few moments, holding hands on the counter, fingers intertwined together.

“... you’ll be my last too.” Kaeya whispers, “my first and my last. My person. My life....” he trails off, looking up at Diluc carefully. “my death.”

Diluc squeezes the hand in his, and tries not to think too hard about Kaeya’s statement. He spends precious few seconds to choose what he says next, and it ends up being:

“I’ll give you an eternity of ‘firsts’. It doesn’t have to end in death.”

Kaeya, surprised and caught off guard, laughs so loudly that Diluc blushes, turning away in embarrassment.

“You’re so sappy!” Kaeya exclaims, his forehead now on the table again, giggling like he’s 16 and young. Diluc grumbles, arms crossed and blush high on his cheeks.

“But you know,” Kaeya hums, taking his face off the counter to look at Diluc with a dazzling smile. “Eternity doesn’t sound too bad.”

Diluc softens. “Yeah?”

“Yeah, Diluc. Give me your eternity, and I’ll give you mine. How about that? A first for a first.” Kaeya offers.

Diluc has no choice but to kiss that stupid smile off Kaeya’s face, huffing when Kaeya doesn’t stop giggling.

“Of course you silly man.” Diluc grunts, pinching Kaeya’s cheeks until he’s whining. “I’ll be all your firsts. So you better be mine too.”

Kaeya grins. “It’s a deal.”

/end..? I wanted to make it angsty but,, I didn’t have the heart to ruin it. Kaeluckae are just... so pure when they want to be. Look at these two fools, so in love that they’d burn the world down for each other.

Eternity doesn’t sound bad, doesn’t it?

/sorry it’s so short... Like I said it was gonna go off the angsty route.... you can see when I decided to go ‘naw... naw fuck that’
I will.. expand on this into a proper fic when I’m free