#🗯️ ͏ ͏͏ ͏: ͏ ͏ ͏ stars' tales ˑ ִ✷

[nervocat]

“The stars look down on you as you wander with your cat guide. They want to tell you a story of theirs. Will you listen to them?”

# — Notes: I'M SO PROUD OF THIS FIC OMGG. This is my first time writing for him tho so. This is also based on Frank Sinatras song "Somethin' Stupid" hehe. (@dumbificat , @aventurintus , @rainswept ⛧ @ ing you three bc yeah :33). I've also GOTTA stop overthinking my fics bc I don't think the ending went well so now I feel the entire fic isn't good.. oops... THIS IS ALSO MY LONGEST FIC EVER BTW # — Word count: 1.1k # — Fandom: Honkai: star rail # — Cw: just a hint of angst but nothing rlly

—Somethin' Stupid

Aventurine walks around Golden Hour, that same smile of his on his face as he takes in the scenery of Penacony for who knows how many times.

“Aventurine!” he hears you call. He immediately stops and looks behind him, and seeing you running over to him makes his smile slightly more genuine.

“Why hello, [name],” he greets you as you come to a halt in front of him. You seemed out of breath, as if you had sought him out for something.

And he wonders why you, of all people in the universe, would search for him.

“I think I've got some free time, so I was wondering if you'd wanna hang out? We don't do it as much anymore,” you say after you catch your breath, though you still breathe heavily from running.

“It would seem so.. how about we go back to the good old days and gamble with each other?”

“Aventurine!” you say in a teasing, playful tone, elbowing him slightly. The blond laughs a bit.

“What? Does [name] not want to lose to me again?”

“Whatever,” you scoff playfully. “But fine, I suppose we could go do that if you want.”

You groan as you put your cards down on the table, hand in your hair. Aventurine — unsurprisingly — won again. While you guys didn't bet large amounts of money and you earned good amounts of it with your job, it still hurt to lose the money.

“Aaand I win,” he sets his cards down on the table, sitting casually in his chair as an arm is behind his head and a leg over his knee. “You’re definitely better than before though, might I say,” Aventurine adds with a cunning smile.

You look up at him as you lean back in your chair, huffing. “Really? I still lost though, of course.. don't think I'll ever win against you,” you answer, and Aventurine can't help but let a genuine smile sneak it's way onto his lips.

It has been a while of knowing each other, and while he has come to terms with liking you — liking being more like love — it was still an odd feeling for him.

Aventurine moves his hand to take a sip of his drink, as do you, and finds himself slipping up on his words — “I love you,” — is what he murmurs. He tenses and looks up to you, his pretty, mixed eyes meeting with yours as you hold your glass in your hand, lips touching the rim of the glass.

How could he have slipped up? How could he have spoiled this night with you? How could he have confessed like this in front of you, you whom he is infatuated with?

It's silent for a moment before you laugh, taking a sip of your drink. “Oh, Aventurine, you’re really saying that here?” he could tell from your eyes you didn't believe his accidental proclamation of love, maybe even despised it in the sense he's said it many other times in a not-so-serious way (that being when he still wasn't aware of his feelings for you).

Aventurine sighs, finally taking that drink he wanted and gulped the rest of it down. “Yes, you're right, how silly of me,” he plays it off, putting his glass down on the table. “Would you like to leave for tonight, mx. [name]? We could always do this another time.”

Oh how he hates knowing he had ruined the night with you by slipping up and saying somethin’ stupid.

“Yeah, I should probably get back to work anyways,” you say as you stand up, a smile creeping into your face. “But, I'll help you clean up before I go, Aven.” said man nods, his mood having turned sour because of his own words.

But oh how right those words felt to say to you, like they have to no one else before.

Aventurine looks at himself in the mirror the night after he hung out with you. His hat was discarded somewhere else and his glasses sat by the sink.

What was he doing? He was practicing words to say to you, to get his feelings across to you and to get you to know that they are, in fact, genuine words.

Aventurine thinks that he's ready to talk with you again, but decides to go off and do his own thing until you say you're ready to go out again.

He walks the streets of Golden Hour again, and he perks up at your voice. Aventurine turns around with his smile turned genuine. “[name]! If it isn't you, my dear friend,” the smell of his perfume wafts over you, though it's not too overpowering this time around.

His perfume smelt nice.. you wondered why it smelt like your favorite scent, but you let it be. “I have some free time again and was wondering if you just wanted to walk around Golden Hour? It's a nice night to do so” You ask him. Aventurine nods.

“Of course, this is your free time you're spending after all,” he answers. You smile at him and as you start walking, so you don't notice the red tint coating his cheeks, a lovestruck smile on his face.

You two walk for a while, just talking about memories or things going on in the other's life. You both were normally very busy individuals, so getting one-on-one time like this was something you both valued.

You and Aventurine, after walking for a bit, have made it to a more secluded part of Penacony, the start sky view not hindered much now with the lack of buildings around.

Aventurine looks over at you as you talk about how work was for you. He finds himself saying those words again after gaining his composure — “I love you, [name],” — and you can hear the sincerity in his voice and see it in his facial expression, it holding a fondness for you.

Aventurine believes he's said somethin’ stupid again, and he was about to switch off of the topic at your shocked face and no response until you say those words back to him.

“I love you too, Aven,” he looks back at you, his eyes widening. “I realized I might've been a bit.. rude, the last time you said you love me.”

You love him? You love him? Aventurine, who is renowned to be a cunning liar and to not be fully trusted?

Aventurines perfume comes back over your senses again and you wholeheartedly welcome it as you wait for his reply. “You.. love me?” he repeats to himself as he turns his body to you.

“Yes, Aventurine, I do love you,” you cup his cheeks in your hands and he melts at your touch.

Under the stars of the Penacony dreamscape, you two share your first kiss with one another, and when you pull away, Aventurine wraps his arm around you in a gentle, warm hug full of gratitude for giving him a chance with you.

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[nervocat]

“Chapter 2 — The Present Time, Shared Memories, and the Letter.” (no cws - wc: 831, platonic/fluff/slight ansgt, gn reader)

It had been years since the fallout of the renowned High Cloud Quintet. Dan Heng had been banished from the Xianzhou, Blade was a Stellaron hunter — a wanted criminal, and Jing Yuan had become the General, with [name] as kind of “second in command.”

You two have been able to grow even closer than you were back then. You were both looked up to and were held in high regards by the Xianzhou citizens, and much has changed since then.

“Ahem, mx. [name],” Fu Xuan gets your attention, taking you out of your trance. You look to her and smile slightly.

“Diviner Fu, hello,” you welcome her. “Any news?”

“The General would like to see you. I am unsure why, though, wouldn't say,” Fu Xuan answers as she crosses her arms. You nod and get up from your seat.

“Thank you, Fu Xuan,” you say as you move swiftly to leave.

“I don't mean to pry, mx. [name],” you stop your movement and look back at Fu Xuan, urging her to continue with a nod. “Why do you always space off like that? You do it more than Jing Yuan,” she turns to you, her usual stern expression having a hint of curiosity in it. You sigh.

“Just reminiscing about the past, Lady Fu,” you reply solemnly, looking down at your necklace. You've never taken it off since they've gone. Other than your weapon you still wield, it's all you have left other than the muddled memories.

“You’re doing it again..” Fu Xuan chides. She then tells you to get going, saying she has more things to do and you both leave out the door.

As you make your way to see Jing Yuan, you look around at the Xianzhou. It's changed a lot since back then, but it's been a good change. It had to rekindle itself after the incident after all.

You walk up to Jing Yuan with a smile, shaking your head to rid of the thoughts still floating around in your mind.

“Hey, Yuan,” you greet with an accompanying wave. “Ms. Fu Xuan said you'd like to talk with me?”

“Yes, that would be correct, [name],” he answers as he nods to you in a greeting.

“Well, what is it you'd like to address?”

“There’s a few things, but for now, let's talk about the old times?” This has become a common thing for you two, taking a moment to reminisce about the time where everything was ok. You swallow hard, looking away and up to the sky before you agree and start walking the trail you always do, away from the Xianzhou bustle.

“You know, [name],” Jing Yuan starts, garnering your attention. “Even though you're my elder, it sure doesn't seem like it, huh?” he looks over to you with a teasing glint in his eyes.

“Oh stop it, you know I don't like being addressed as your elder,” you reply as you playfully elbow him. “It feels weird to be addressed as such.”

You two continue to walk, some Finches following along as you talk about your old friends and laugh about old memories.

“Yingxing always had a soft spot for you, including Dan Feng,” Jing Yuan says, holding a Finch on his finger.

“Yes, I realize that now,” you continue looking up at the sky, recalling the times you had with them as you crossed your arms. “Though it always seemed like they had something else going on behind us, didn't it?”

Jing Yuan thought for a moment as the bird flew off. “Yes.. even when I was younger, it always seemed like they were something more than friends,” he agreed.

“You never really talk about Jingliu by the way.. how come?” silence engulfs the both of you for a moment, a solemn look in Jing Yuan's eyes as he looks to the ground. Probably shouldn't have asked.

“Well.. I figured you knew a lot about her since you knew her then as well,” he finally answers.

“I suppose so, huh..” you wouldn't say the atmosphere was awkward for you two per se, but it was definitely not the usual for when you two were together in moments like this.

“This may not be the best time to bring this up, but..” Jing Yuan pulls out a folded piece of paper and offers it to you. “I want you to read this, and guess who it's from,” you comply and take the note from him.

As you read it, your eyes slowly widen. “This can't be from who I think it is.. right?”

“I see that you and [name] have become very accomplished peope since we last saw each other all those years ago.. It must be nice. In accordance with our old vow, we should once again roam our lands of past, drink in celebration and recount our great adventures.”

Jing Yuans nods at your words. It seemed he understood who it was from as well.

“Jingliu.”

notes: guess who finally got off his ass to finish ch 2 💀💀 but it's here after too long!! A few things abt the note here — can't remember if Jing Yuan knew abt the sender and I obviously added my own stuff in it to fit what's happening in this story so. Ya. I am pretty happy with this outcome so yay!! Angst in the works now for ch 3 hehe 😈😈 also if anything here is messy I'm sorry 🙏🙏

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series m.list: To Pick Up the Shattered Remains

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