Alright, chapter 10, here we go, with Noelle. It took quite a while to write it, but I did, and I really like how I'm taking this fanfic. I want it to be a big family that Aether has, and it'll be pretty wholesome. That's not to say there's not going to be darker moments for this series, but there's definitely going to be a lot of wholesome moments that make up for the darker moments.
I entered the church, and felt relief, as I found Noelle, resting on the edge of a makeshift bed, closer to the center of the church. The church was empty, with the remaining sisters waiting outside, on the injured soldiers. It felt… empty, as Noelle was the only person inside the church.
"Did they have a reason to put her inside the church? Or was this Barbara's doing?"
The moonlight was shining on her, she looked… beautiful in the moonlight. The sight of Jean in that moonlight was what she reminded me of.
"Hey, Noelle?"
I spoke softly, next to her, but she didn't respond.
"Noelle?" I spoke her name again, and she still didn't move.
'No… could Barbara be wrong?'
I listened to her, slowly breathing, and took comfort in her being alive, even if she still was sleeping. I sighed, quietly, and just sat on one of the pews, the benches that were inside the church. Right next to me was her weapon, a simple Old Merc's Pal.
'She's been fighting all this time with this…'
I remembered the sight of Jean, Amber, and Eula carrying new weapons.
'I wonder where that came from. If the girls being pregnant with my child somehow affects what weapon they carry, that would be funny…' I chuckled inside my own head, but I realized that probably was the closest I could get to an answer for it.
I sighed once more.
"I don't know how any of this works…" I facepalmed, in front of a sleeping Noelle, who still was resting.
'Let's let her rest. She needs some time to recover, and so do I.' The quietness suddenly summoned the pain that I had carried from almost dying.
"Don't go…" Noelle quietly spoke, as I started to walk away.
I turned around.
'Is she having a nightmare?' I thought.
"Aether…" She sat up on her simple cot, and looked up at me, dazed.
"Noelle, hey." I ran back to her, as I saw her wince in pain, as she tried to get up.
"Hey, you can't be moving right now." I said, firmly.
"But there's other people who need to be helped, we just got attacked." She responded back, equally firm.
"You're right." I admitted, clenching my teeth, preventing me from saying anything harsh. "But you need to know right now, there's other people helping them out."
"But I still have something I need to do, Aether, I have to make sure they're okay." She started to get onto her feet, to which suddenly, my anger for her awakened, as I kept her from getting up.
"Noelle, sit down. You need to rest." This time, I had anger laced in my voice, something that surprised Noelle, but something she still wasn't going to listen to.
"But there's others who also need rest. I can't be a knight if I'm always recovering and resting." I saw her wince, as she tried to stand back up.
"Noelle, can you please stop being so stubborn right now?!"
That shocked her, and she stayed down, as I looked down at her, whimpering.
"You almost died! Do you know who's going to save you, when you're in trouble, if you don't take care of yourself?!"
She shut up immediately, either with the surprise of me yelling, or the shock with what I was saying.
"There's so many other people who're there to protect Mondstant, Jean, Amber, Eula, Barbara, Kaeya, and hell, if all else fails, Diluc will come to help out! But who's going to save you, whenever you guys put yourself in precarious situations, or when you're dying?!"
I didn't know why I was yelling then. Was this the anger I had since meeting her? Or was this the anger I regained from her selflessness? Or was it just me blaming her for me not being able to protect her? I wasn't sure. But I didn't stop yelling.
"You're so stubborn! Please, listen to me and rest! You were so close to death, if it weren't for Barbara?! What would happen to the people who you'd need to help, if you were injured and couldn't help?!"
She had no response for that, and as I calmed down, I realized how loud I was yelling at her.
"Okay, I'm, I'm sorry for yelling." I facepalmed, angry at myself for getting worked up.
"You're… you're right." I saw Noelle, tearing up, then quickly wiping her tears away.
"I thought I was only supposed to help people. I worked so hard, and nothing changed for me… for the favonius knights…"
I heard her sniffle slightly.
"I worked so hard, and to no avail… all I got was being their servant. I couldn't do anything…"
She started breaking down into tears, her own feelings being released at once.
"I-" She sniffled, trying to speak. "I wanted to be a knight of favonius since I was a child, I told you that 2 years ago… and since then… nothing has changed!" She screamed on her own, angry at herself.
"I still kept looking at what was the knight's behavior, what I was doing wrong, and you were saying that it was because of strength, and then you were saying it was because I needed more strength… and you were right! If I was strong enough, you'd not have to care about me right now-"
"Stop it right there, Noelle." I controlled my frustration, and focused on it. "Your issue isn't about strength, or more strength."
I swallowed, with me trying to come up with the right words.
"There's people who you need to learn to trust, like your fellow knights. There's times where you'll need to trust in your own strength, but there's also times when you need to trust those around you. You could have died, had I not taken out the ruin guard, and took Timmy and ran. You can trust me, to help you guys. You can trust Jean, Amber, Eula, Barbara… they're your friends."
"And your wives, right?" She muttered under her breath, loud enough for me to hear.
Before I could speak, she held her bandaged hand up.
"I saw that you were looking so closely knit between all four of you. And I overheard your conversation with Albedo, when you mentioned my name."
'I guess she really does go anywhere where her name is spoken…'
"I also overheard you crying your eyes out about not being able to protect me, here."
"Yeah, but what does that have to do-"
"Can I trust them? That they'll be alright? They're all pregnant…" She looked down at her own stomach. "And I will have to make sure I get stronger, so they won't have to worry about me, and get hurt."
'Oh… that's why.'
"Is that why you think you have to be so strong?"
She nodded, her tears slowing down.
"I have to protect them… and I can't trust them, because why would I force a pregnant woman to fight for me?" She chuckled sadly. "I've got to get stronger, right?"
I had no words to speak against her words.
"Yes. You do have to become strong. But that's not all of it. You do need to put your faith into people you can trust. You need to trust others."
"I know." She muttered again, before continuing, her looking down towards the floor of the church.
"I heard you halted Jean's pregnancy, and you are going to travel across the nations of Teyvat in order to delay their pregnancy."
"Did you hear all of it?" I looked at her.
"I don't think so…" She looked down, puzzled by what I meant
"Well… this is going to be bad, for me to say… and you might not believe me, and if you don't, that's completely fair."
"I'll believe what you say." She said, not hesitating. I sighed, but I couldn't fault her, and it was easier than her not believing me.
"If I… sleep with you, you'll get pregnant immediately. You'll become stronger, and if I delay your pregnancy, since I control Geo, you'll be able to fight alongside Jean, while Amber, Barbara, and Eula give birth in 9 months…" I winced, with how cringy it sounded to me.
"Wait, you sleeping with them… made them stronger?" Noelle asked, confused.
"Yeah, it did… made me stronger too." I tightened my fist, and even flexed my muscle a bit, and she could see I had gotten stronger.
Noelle's face reddened with that knowledge, but nodded, with nothing in her eyes that showed disbelief. She looked down again, as she spoke.
"I… was actually going to say that I loved you back then, before. And asked for me to be one of yours. I didn't know about any of this, I only heard after you mentioned my name." She chuckled, again, her smile regaining on her face.
"Is that true?"
She nodded, not a sliver of doubt in her eyes.
"But, can I have my first time with you?" She opened her arms, as if she was opening herself to me, and trusting me.
I put my hands on her cheeks, and started to kiss her, then and there. Her lips tasted rough, but she was very cute, with her eyes being shut tight as if we were both young lovers. Her expression was suddenly at peace, the fear and anger she had silenced. She put her arms around my neck and shoulders, and I felt her chest against my own, as I sat on the cot itself, and she continued to move her lips on mine.
Eventually, I separated, and felt her breath on my face, and her heartbeat through her armor, which still was on.
"Let me get you somewhere else." I said, to which she tried to stand.
"No, let me carry you. Princess Noelle."
I didn't know why I said that, but for some reason, Noelle giggled in a way I never heard her before.
It was infectious, and relaxed me with her laughter.
"Alright…" I lifted her up like she was a feature, delicately bringing her out of the church.
"How should we get out of here…" I thought out loud, as I looked around.
"Just go through the front door… I'd like them to know that I'm yours…" She deliriously spoke, as she looked at me, carrying her in my arms.
I almost chuckled with that. "You sure you want to sleep with me? And have sex?"
She nodded. "I'd love to have you make me pregnant…"
I widened my eyes, not expecting that answer from Noelle of all people.
She chuckled again, as she touched my face, and hissed as the armor starting cutting into her again.
"Hey, hey, be careful." I grabbed her hand, softly, and kept it down.
"Can you hold my hand? Until we go back to our room?" She spoke with her beautiful, pleading eyes, and I felt… incredibly happy seeing her.
"Yeah, I'll hold your hand."
My smile was enough to match hers, and I carried her past the bewildered soldiers and commoners, and the smug Barbara.
I walked past them, being careful to not exacerbate Noelle's injuries.
"Hey, you alright?" I whispered into Noelle's ear.
"Yeah, I am… I'm with you." She giggled again, probably her deliriousness taking her over. It was refreshing, seeing her be honest.
Eventually, we got to the hotel room.
'Good thing I had a lot of cash here… but I don't think I'll be here for too much longer. I've already kind of trashed the rooms here with Amber and Eula…'
"Hey, aether, are we in our room?"
She looked, half lidded, towards my face, and I looked down at her.
"Yeah, we are. Do you want me to help you undress?"
"Yeah… can you keep holding onto my hand, though, while you take my armor off?"
She looked at me so innocently, to the point where I couldn't say no.
"Okay, just, let me lay you down."
I realized that I was still holding her hand, and feeling how rough it was. She was tough, and I saw that in the grip of her hand.
I laid her down delicately, and held my right hand to her left, as I looked at how I could carefully take off the armor.
I started removing her armor from her right side. She started hissing, as the pain seeped in, but thankfully, her wounds had closed, and she didn't bleed too much from her right arm.
"Is it over?" She looked at me, at the most vulnerable way I saw her. My heart squeezed inside my chest, in pain.
I didn't answer her, instead opting to switch my hands with her, to try to remove her armor from her left side.
Eventually, I managed just to remove the armor from her arms. I saw a lot of scars, some old, some new.
"You've… been working so hard, haven't you?"
I muttered sheepishly.
"Yeah… it's been a long time."
She smiled, despite the pain as I continued to remove her armor, and switched my hands holding hers.
I carefully pried off her armor off her legs, and I could see it was just as damaged as her arms.
It almost made me tear up, but I kept it in.
'I need to make her strong… so she won't get this hurt again.'
"Ahh… traveler?"
I looked into her eyes, as I saw her maid dress as the only thing on her body. Her accessories had been removed in the battle, and in her healing, leaving just her dress.
"Yeah?"
"Please… make me yours…"
She was tired, it was a hard day for her as it was for me.
But I knew I wouldn't deny her request.
"Yeah, I will, Noelle."
I carefully removed her dress, with her keeping her arms up to slip it off of her, from her stomach to her head.
Then, I saw her truly naked, and she had no signs of hiding her body in shame.
"How… Do I look?"
Her olive green eyes looked at me, as she kept her arms at her side.
"I… think you look beautiful."
Her eyes widened, and she looked on the verge of crying.
"Uh… um…" I became really nervous, almost forgetting her being naked in front of me.
"Haha, so considerate of you, honorary knight."
She wiped her tears with her uncut parts of her hands.
I noticed I hadn't held her hands, after removing her dress, and she looked at my hands, then me.
"When you're… having sex with me, can you hold my hands?" She blushed, understably.
"I know that might seem small, but-"
"No, it's fine."
I removed my clothes, slowly by slowly, piece by piece, just as Noelle tried to look at me, in front of her.
"I'll be gentle with you, Noelle."
I smiled, as softly as I could, to try to comfort her.
"It'll hurt at first… I'll try to do some foreplay to make it more pleasing for you…"
"Fore… play?" Her blush didn't wane, but I wasted no time. I held onto her right hand, and using my right, tried to reach out into her lower lips.
"Aaah…" she mewled in pleasure, as I dug inside her body, and she almost immediately came from me just sticking my fingers into her.
'I guess she's never masterbaited…' I sweatdropped, knowing that fact. 'She probably really was saving everything for me.'
I got encouraged, as she moaned, to keep pleasuring her, to make sure she'd be able to do okay when I filled her up.
"Ahh… Aether… I'm ready." She moaned, in between me poking into every part of her vagina.
I removed my fingers from her lower lips, and was tempted to lick her juices off of my fingers.
"Hey, Noelle."
She looked up at me, with sticky fingers from her cumming. She smiled, surprisingly, instead of covering her face in embarrassment.
"Here. I'll drink some of your cum."
I licked it off my fingers and… well, it was a taste.
However, I could see that Noelle was so much happier seeing me do that, which made me want to make her even happier.
"Okay, Noelle. I'm going to fill you up soon. Are you ready for it?"
She nodded, as I held both her hands, and lined myself to her lower lips.
I pushed inside her, but instead of a groan, she moaned.
"Aether… I feel so good." She looked up at me, her lust overtaking her tiredness, and she, albeit very slowly, lifted herself up.
"Hey, hey. I can help you get up, if that's what you want."
She resisted, but, eventually, with me inside her, she relented, and I, holding onto her carefully, brought her onto my lap.
"Ah… I feel you… you're so deep inside me."
She moaned louder, as she tried jumping up and down on my dick, and it felt euphoric for her as it did for me.
"Hey, Aether…" Again, in between her moans and her hopping on my dick.
"Yeah?" I tried to stay calm, but it was hard, trying to hold her hands as she bounced on top of me.
"When… you release inside me… can you make sure to make me look like I'm pregnant?"
"You… want to have your stomach look like you're pregnant?"
She nodded.
"I always wanted to be a mom… almost as much as I wanted to be a knight of favonius. And being the mother of your child… that would give me…" she moaned one last time, before she came again. "no… greater pleasure."
I had her lay down, and I started moving in and out of her, all while holding her hands.
"You want me to fill your stomach, to make you look pregnant? Quite naughty of you, isn't it?"
"Ah…" Her face became beet red, but I kept moving inside, as I felt my climax reaching.
"Well, take it all! I'll make you a pregnant woman!"
I pushed as far as I could, letting me cum deep inside her, and it kept filling up her womb, as her stomach kept growing and growing in front of my eyes. Eventually, I stopped, but not before Noelle looked several months pregnant with my cum inside her womb.
The womb tattoo appeared also, with the geo sign.
"Are you sure you can be able to fight with this child?"
She nodded, smiling, and she kissed me.
"You can delay my pregnancy. All I wanted is to have your child with me." She smiled, simply, hugging her new child in her body, as I smiled alongside her, and kissed her once more. She was sweaty, but I didn't care. Her lips tasted of peaches, and I felt… hyper aware of her body then and there.
"Please, come back to our child and us, okay? I know you have a lot of women who would like you…" She looked away, almost trying to hide away her stomach.
"Hey, why would I ever forget you? I love you, Noelle." I kissed her once more, and laid down next to her, side by side. I felt her stomach alongside mine, and a bit of the sloshing as my cum circled around her body. She blushed, but she didn't care as much.
"I will be back. After all this is done… I'll come back here." I thought about my sister, and finding her, before pushing that thought aside.
"You will, along with the other women I've been with, be my wife. I promise."
She hugged me, despite her stomach and pain, and I hugged her, despite my own pain.
I fell asleep, next to Noelle, and I couldn't feel happier.
And that's chapter 10. Man, it took me a while to write this, but I'm glad I did. I love Noelle. Now, I might go back to fix more of Barbara's story, once I'm done with the Mondstantian girls, but for now, yeah, I really like this story. Wholesome poly family fanfic.