The Beauty of Being Numb | Klaus Hargreeves x Reader

A Guide To Giving Up

(Y/N) enters her room at the Adolphus a crying mess, throwing herself to the bed, and taking the phone. She dials Jackie with trembling hands to her direct line.

-Hello?

-Jackie!- she can't stop weeping-. Oh, Jackie, I'm such an idiot.

-What happened!?- the First Lady panics-. Do you need help? Are you hurt?

-It's Klaus- Jackie sighs, but is still worried-. I found him.

-And? Shouldn't you be happy?

-He said such horrible things about me, Jackie. He kept telling me I was a whore for sleeping with the president. Him, of all people! He should know me better than that.

-Oh, dear...- Jackie can't believe her ears.

(Y/N) had described Klaus like the perfect man, a complete gentleman who loved her deeply. But what she is telling her now doesn't fit that description.

-He yelled at me in the middle of the street in front of everyone. I am so embarrassed, Jackie, they all looked at me like I was a berk. And you know what's the worst part? He knew where I was all this time and didn't give a shit! All those detectives, all the photographs, the looking... It was a complete waist of time!

-(Y/N), dear, breathe- she was panting, feeling like someone had crushed her internal organs-. He's not worth it. You are the most adorable and amazing person I've known, you deserve someone who can love you with the same intensity you do... And Klaus's not him, I can tell.

-I can't leave without him.

-Yes, you can.

-I mean- (Y/N) sobs-, of course, I can live without him...But I don't want to. I love him so much Jackie, I need him.

-(Y/N), you can't give him that much power over you.

-You know? I remember when I met him- she ignores her friend-. Oh, Jackie, it was so clear that he was the only one for me! But there was always something keeping us apart, like if the universe couldn't allow us to be together. And I've lost the count of how many times I've begged him to stay, how many times I've tried to make him love me!

-You can't make someone love you, (Y/N)- the First Lady understands perfectly-. That just happens, you know? And sweety, he's not the only man in the world, there's plenty of fish in the sea.

-No, Jackie, I want him.

-And what makes him so special? What makes you believe you can't love anyone else?

(/Y/N) laughs sadly, his face stuck in her mind.

-"He's so charismatic, magnetic, electric... When he walks in a room, everyone's head turn, everyone wants to talk to him. He is like this hybrid, this mix of a man who can't contain himself. And above anything else, I love him, I love, I love him... And I will always love him, I love him, Jackie."

Jackie tells her something, but (Y/N) can't hear her over the scandal a bunch of police sirens make in front of the hotel. Curious, she leans out the window, leaving the phone on the bed, following the patrols. They park in front of Stadtler's, where a group of African-American protesters chants "No more back doors." (Y/N) runs back to the phone.

-Jackie!

-No, let me finish...

-No, Jackie!- she tries to extend the phone cord as much as she can to look though the window-. Something's happening here.

-What?- her friend's confused.

-Something's happening at a nearby restaurant, the police are here.

-And?