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“are you sure about this? we can always reschedule.” ningguang questioned once more, holding poor kazuha for dear life in her free arm while the other carried his bag. beidou sighed next to her for the millionth time.
“yes ning, of course!” ganyu smiled lightly next to keqing on the couch. they honestly had no idea why she was so nervous. ningguang had been ganyu and keqing’s boss for ages, surely she trusts them enough to babysit her child?
“you have nothing to worry about, little kazuha loves us.” keqing tried to ease her mood. in all her years working under ningguang she had never seen the tianquan so stressed, and hesitant. it was almost like it wasnt even her.
“okay, dont forget to call me for anything no matter what it is! his white noise machine needs to be on an hour before he sleeps, his milk requires 2tps of sugar or else he wont drink it, an-“ beidou cut off ningguangs rambling very quickly.
it was about to be the 7th time she went over the notes she had already written them down for the couple. “you said that already, plus you wrote it down. they’ll be fine okay?”
she sighed, and finally gave in. “alright, thank you guys again and we’ll be heading out. bye!”
“bye guys, bye kid!”
and finally, finally after hours ningguang and beidou had left. “christ, i thought shed never-“
kazuha’s cries echod throughout the space of their large home. ganyu visibly flinched and panicked the second he started because the only child she ever cared for were her little siblings xiao and qiqi, which was also a long time ago..
and keqing had no experience. so they were definitely down for a ride.
keqing scrambled for the paper, hoping it had something on it about calming him down. she skimmed through it while ganyu picked kazuha up in hopes to calm him down. “awe, whats wrong kazu?”
keqing on the other hand groaned when she didnt find anything, and nearly set the paper on fire if it wernt for the fact that she would need it later. next she tried to look in the bag maybe for a pacifer, toy, bottle just anything!
“do you miss your mommy? she’ll be back in no time dear!” ganyu patted his back lightly and bounced her leg like her mother would alwaus do for her when she cried. and slowly, kazuha calmed down. good thing he was familiar with these two.
keqing had found nothing particularly useful, but at least she now knew where and what everything was for future reference. “this might be harder than i thought..” she found herself muttering.
“hey, it’s alright. weve got this, its kinda like training too for when we also-“
“yeah yeah of course! ill go make dinner!” keqings face flooded a deep red, after all these years being married to ganyu shed never get used to some things and some things never change.
“oh- okay!” ganyu smiled, returning her attention back to kazuha who was toying with the ends of her hair, he looked rather bored actually. she thought he probably never got bored at home with ningguang and beidou- those two were definitely something.
“hm, what do babies do for fun..” she commented to herself and pulled out a few toys out of his bag which kazuha seemed to like at the way he squeeled. ganyu laughed lightly at this and played with him for a bit.
it was a little rattle with colorful balls inside that kazuha liked to shake uncontrollably, most likely because of the noise it made. he’d occasionally bop ganyu on the head with it and give his little baby chuckle when she said ‘ouch’.
keqing seemed to be making some sort of soup from the heavy smell of veggies in the air, and oh ganyu couldnt wait to eat. kazuha seemed to be getting bored with the rattle when he threw it on the floor randomly which caught ganyu by suprise.
crawling off her lap, he went off on his own to explore the house and mess with anything he could get his hands on. ganyu made sure to watch him closely cause their house definetly wasnt baby proofed. and not too long after, kazuha found his new obsession.
the door stopper! he lay on his tiny stomach, flicking it back and forward and watching motion stop its moving just to flick it again. he was so simply fascinated with it ganyu thought he would play with it all day if he could.
“dinners ready!” keqing announced from the kitchen while she set the table for her and ganyus meal, and had already made kazuha his food with the instructions ningguang left them.
“alright!” she smiled, lifting the baby by his tiny arms and carrying him to the table.
“uh, should one of us hold him? since we dont have a highchair” ganyu agreed, and keqing offered to hold him and preassumably also feed him. taking kazuha, she sat down in her seat across from ganyu.
the bottle was on the table and much to both of their suprise, he grabbed it by himself and started drinking it. “oh, well that works out.” keqing found herself smiling and laughing at his cuteness, his red eyes akin to ningguang’s staring up at him.
“yup, he has all of ning’s looks and every bit of beidous personality.” they made small talk while they ate, it was a bit hard for keqing to eat with kazuha in her arms but she eventually managed.
“yeah i also noticed. but anyways, hows work going for you?” keqing commented as she ate.
“a little stressed is all, but its going fine! how about you?”
“mm, nothing worth mentioning. and dont forget to take care of yourself because we bith know what happens when you dont.”
“of course, your practically doing it for me.”
“mh-“ kazuha finished his bottle, and handed it back to keqing. ningguang mentioned after eating he got really sleep, and when he got sleeply nothing was going to stop him.
he cuddled up against keqing’s arm in attempt to fall asleep. thankfully she was done with her food by the time he had done this. “i should probably give him a bath then take him to bed-?”
“well ning said he gets fussy in the bath so shed rather just give him one in the morning- i think we just take him to sleep now?”
while ganyu was in the middle of putting the dishes up and washing them, they heard keqings phone ringing seeing as it was a facetime from ningguang, speak of the devil.
“its ningguang!”
“oh, what great timing!”
she accepted the call of course.
“hey guys, hows it goin’? ning couldnt help but to check on kazu.” beidou had actually answered with ningguang next to her, giving a slight wave in smile. keqing had adjusted the camera to show a sleepy kazuha on her arms.
“pretty good.” she responded.
“hey there my love, ganyu isnt messing with you is she?” ningguang came in.
kazuha was too tired to interact with his mom who he was crying over eariler, staying practically slumped on keqings shoulder.
“hes knocked out, i see.”
“yeah, we just had dinner. we should take him to bed right?”
“yes. we’ll be there tommorow morning.”
“alright, bye.”
“i guess he can sleep with us?” ganyu walked upstairs with keqing who had kazuha in toe. they went into their room and prepared to settle in bed where she placed kazuha down softly. he had fell asleep as soon as his head hit the pillow.
keqing laughed to herself quietly at that. “uh, we should have him in the middle so he doesnt fall off!” ganyu say on the edge of her side of the bed, lying down and pulling some cover over her.
“yeah, good idea.” keqing settled in bed, and the feeling was a bit different. her and ganyu would always cuddle each other and have their limbs tangled within each other. of course with a child between them, they couldnt.
but they supposed they could go one night without it.