#a weird pipeline from ofmd pirates to genshin pirates

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“On the run”

Beidou x Reader

Words: 2400

Google docs pages: 4,5

Warnings: Slight drinking, platonic (if you squint maybe some romantic undertones), that’s about it

Opening: You’re on the run from the tenryou commission, having escaped an arrest. To your luck, an old friend of yours had just made port in Ritou, giving you a chance to hop onboard before they made departure again. 

AN// Reader can be any gender with an anemo vision! I’m so happy I finally got to play this game. None of my past pcs could run it to a point where it would even open, but I worked my ass off to get a new pc!! Safe to say, after couple years of waiting it’s been nice so far <3 Was also blessed enough to get Baizhu beloved straight away with low pity!

“On the run”

The sound of the wind whistling in your ears had become awfully familiar after running as fast as you could for a while. And even with the wind helping you boost your maximum speed, the sound of the men running after you was audible. They didn’t seem like the sort to give up, not especially after you’d made a run for it for the second time. And the more thought you gave this situation, the more you began to wonder if you’d left too early. You barely even had a plan, yet you were running for your life. Getting caught twice wasn’t going to lead you to better treatment, that was for certain. So you stuck with the original, still a little unshaped plan. To make it to Ritou by dark and find a vessel to get away from the islands completely. 

You’d been to those waters before, knowing full well the dangers that lurked below the water but above it as well. The storms that you would  face with a small vessel would ultimately lead to a failed escape, and you didn’t want to continue that trail of thought further from there. Though, ultimately you would have to come up with something soon. You didn’t have a lot of energy left, knowing you'd been using your vision for far too long for one day as it was. So if there wasn’t a bigger ship in sight once you arrived, there wasn’t going to be any other option but to face the men after you, which you knew you couldn’t defeat on your own. 

The sight of water started to peek out first, the shade of it almost black in your eyes as the night was starting to get comfortable around the island. It gave you the advantage of maybe hiding in the port for a while. If no one found you, a ship might just arrive in time to your rescue without even knowing it. The second thing to appear were the tops of buildings, and lastly the port. Once it came into sight, you skipped away from the road to avoid any unwanted attention. Besides, the surroundings of the houses were lit up, making you visible if you so much as got near them. 

Out of breath by now, your body trembled a little with the wind as you peeked around a corner. No one in sight, but as your gaze travelled up, the masts of a huge vessel came into view. And as if light bulbs had turned on in your eyes, you began inspecting it. Upon getting a little closer, staying at a safe distance, you could tell it wasn’t just any ship. It might have made port earlier today, but even in the darkness of the early night you could tell whose ship it was. Beidou. A tough woman you’d known for a long time, though since the nation closed you hadn’t seen her in a long time. Now that you thought about it, you could barely recall her voice from memory.

Though, this finding gave you hope. If she still remembered you the same way you remembered her, there was a chance you wouldn’t have to hide around the ship for multiple nights as the ship took you to wherever they were headed next. And to that departure they didn’t need much time anymore. By the looks of it in the port, all of the cargo had been taken out and no one from the crew was lounging around the port. The only noises of there even being a fleet came from the ship itself, making it clear that you had to be quick if you wanted to hop onboard. 

The tenryou commission soldiers had quieted down a little, and by the sound of it they must have thought you’d escaped somewhere between the buildings. The accidental distraction allowed you to safely get closer to the vessel and to find a way up. 

The main deck had a few men strolling around, preparing the ship for departure. From the eavesdropping you were able to do, you concluded that they’d heard the commotion too, having to hurry with the preparations by captain’s command to do so. But it was no wonder. If you knew her at all, the captain of this ship did not want to get involved with the tri commission of the island, wanting to move on as soon as she could. 

You stayed at the stern of the ship, as you soon after arriving noticed that most of the men who came on the main deck stayed near the bow. Though, this gave you the sense of safety and a moment to take a breather. Which you should have realised wasn’t the case, knowing that as big as the ship was there were more men on it than on most vessels you’d travelled on. And while listening to the conversations happening near you, one of the crew members had spotted you. In any other case this wouldn’t have been a problem, but by the looks of it Beidou had gotten a lot of new folk to join her fleet, most of them having never seen you. 

The young sailor came up to you, but before he was able to say anything a command rang loud and clear from the quarter deck. “We’re setting sail! Men, to your posts!” It caught your attention, but also conflicted the man attempting to confront you. He had a job to do, but bringing you to the captain was one of them. He gave you a look, making you raise your brows rather playfully. You had ran for far too long as it was, and if the person who finally caught you was an old friend, that was a win in your book. 

In no time after the command, the ship lifted its anchors and set the sails. The wind caught to the fabrics, causing them to make noise before they stretched and pushed the vessel forward. The two gaff sails being close enough to the decks, so anyone could hear the freeing sound they let out. A shaky breath left you, knowing the real danger was finally over. They weren't getting you or your vision this time. 

The sound of boots hitting the wooden deck rang with the wind, but only the sound of a man allerting this person walking caught your attention. The man from earlier had informed Beidou of your presence, and knowing you she didn’t say anything else to the man, leaving you with slight unease as you hesitated to see her. She knew you could hear them. But the amused chuckle that came from her end eased your shoulders. “Hah, where’ve you been hiding? Came to finally join the fleet?” She asked, tone just as you’d faintly remembered it. She leaned slightly on a small pillar behind her, leaning most of her weight on one leg. The wind that blew the ship forward swirled her hair every once in a while, but it didn’t seem like it bothered her.

You gave her a light hearted chuckle back, shaking your head as you stepped away from the shadows at last. Only now could you truly feel how exhausted you were from the running, leaning slightly on the wooden box behind you. Thankfully, the sea legs you’d developed a long time ago seemed to have activated the second the ship had made sail. “Nope, not this time. Maybe next time?” You hummed, tilting your head in a kind yet playful manner. “Is what you say every time we meet. So, where’ve you been?” She asked, clearly not being too serious about recruiting you, not that she ever was. It had never been a demand, not in the tens of times you’d sailed with her. “Here and there”, you started carefully. You were no thief or a big time criminal, and Beidou would have understood if you told her about the unfair arrest over trying to protect someone else. But that would just add to the pile of ‘I was chased by soldiers’ stories you’d already told her in the past. Not that they were ever lies, but you feared that at some point she’d start seeing you as too much of a risk to hide away onboard. You knew the differences she already had with Ningguang, and fostering ‘criminals’ wasn’t going to ease that tension. 

She took a breath, but seemed to notice the faint trembles going through your body before any words came out. Whatever she had been thinking of saying was stored away in her mind, for a better time. “Let’s go inside, coming with me?” She asked, turning her back to you to lead the way, knowing you’d know where to go anyway. “Ah, of course.” You nodded, slowly following behind her. You knew you’d otherwise feel heavy, but the wind gushing to your back made the walking feel light. 

Beidou led you to her quarters, closing the door after you as she watched from the threshold that you got yourself seated. A somewhat comfortable silence overtook the space, the walls of the ship made of such thick wood that not even the sound of the waves hitting the ship’s keel could be heard in the cabin. Though, the comfort made you drowsy, having to force yourself to stay alert. Beidou was setting some of her items to the side, suddenly breaking the silence while she was at it. “I know you have your own things to deal with, and as such, I won't try to rope you into coming onboard permanently, and you know that. But remember, there is always a place for you onboard.” 

Beidou had always been helpful to everyone, no matter who they were. She, if anyone was good at reading people, most she’d met almost like open books to her. So she could spot a lost soul from a mile away, willing to help in any way she could. To you, that help had always been shelter. She knew the dangers you got yourself into, and whenever you’d showed up, she knew something must have gone down badly in the recent days. The captain didn’t force stories out of you, taking whatever tale you gave her when she asked why you’d appeared from thin air yet again. She was a kind soul, in your eyes. 

“I know.” You said silently, mind too focused on trying to stay awake to come up with anything else to her oddly comforting words. Not that you hadn’t heard them before. She gave you a nod at that, by the looks of it being a little more serious now. But not more than ever before in situations like this. She’d seen you in worse conditions, a little exhaustion was probably at the bottom of the list of worst injuries. 

The captain made her way to you, sitting down on the only bed in the cabin. “But if you want to talk over a drink, I’ll help you deal with whatever is going on.” She informed you, making the situation and what she was offering rather clear to you. You didn’t know what you’d spill out to her in a tired state such as this, but the trip to wherever you were headed was going to be a long one. And staying silent wasn’t going to help, most certainly making her more interested at some point. “Sure.” You nodded after a while, watching as she handed you a drink. By the smell of it beer, as per usual. 

You told her of how things had evolved in Inazuma, of how many taken visions had been reported. You weren’t a part of any active resistance group, but you did what you could to help those with visions. So when the opportunity came to sabotage one of these robberies, you’d sprung into action. And it had worked, the person had gotten away, only you they had seen. And not long after, caught. It seemed they had a record of earlier similar attempts listed with smaller crimes, assuring you of nasty treatment if you had stayed there any longer. But at no point of you telling Beidou this, did she look at you as if she was worried. She could see you in one piece in front of her. Everyone had their low points in life, and you had done as she’d told you. When you needed her, to just come and find her. 

Though, after telling the woman all of this, she seemed to catch up with your condition a little better. It wasn’t the beer making you loopy, it was exhaustion from earlier. “Alright, I won’t have my crew get sloppy. And as long as you’re here, you’re getting some rest.” She said,  placing her hands on her knees before pushing herself up. You looked up at the woman, knowing you needed the rest more than anything. Not only the physical strain, but the mental stress of it all would catch up with you eventually if not now. But by the point when she’d said that, you’d almost dozed off on the couch you had seated yourself on earlier. She soon made note of this herself, a low yet understanding him leaving her as she walked closer. 

This was not something out of the ordinary. Finding you on her ship, exhausted or more or less beat up, looking for shelter and a place to rest. Which she was more than glad to offer for you, seeing something in you even she didn’t quite understand. 

Nevertheless, she moved you just enough that you could lay on your back, laying any spare cover she had for you to use as a blanket. With one final look at your resting form, she gave a faint smile which could have been mistaken for a smirk if the person seeing it didn’t know her as well as you did. At the end, it was the way the ship swayed smoothly that brought you to a deep slumber, not waking up when the captain came to rest near you later that night. 

AN// Genshin requests are open, characters I write for are linked at the end of my pinned post ^^ This was yet again proof read at 4 in the morning with 4 hours of sleep, so if there are any mistakes, I apologise :"D