ice cold sweat - karl heisenberg / reader

part 2- faces made for daylight

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Stood in the dining hall by yourself, you feel as though the wind has been knocked out of you. Seeing Lord Heisenberg in the past had always been a fleeting affair, and he'd always been stood next to the dominantly tall Lady Dimitrescu- never had he stood so close to you, even spoken to you. He was terrifying, in the way he had conversed with you so naturally, then disregarded you completely like you were no longer a source of entertainment, a brief plaything. It would do no good to stand in shock, though, especially when you had been entrusted with his hammer- something you could not lift with one hand, and could barely do so with two.

Glancing at the glass still in your hand, you carefully rest the weapon against the wall, then move over to the dining table to put the goblet down. Your steps are insure, your legs shaking- but you decide them to just- get over yourself. He's just some scruffy mechanic, from what you've seen and heard from Lady Dimitrescu. He's a bickering younger brother to the towering vampire you serve every day. He's nothing in comparison to her, and you're survived so far.

Newly embarrassed by how much Heisenberg had blindsided you, the next steps you take are bolder, your shoulders straightening and head shaking as if to reset yourself. Lifting the hammer, though, is still a struggle- so you resort to dragging it with both hands across the floor, despite knowing you'd have to bring it upstairs- to the quarters Heisenberg usually inhabits whenever the rare occasion occurs that he visits his sister. It's obvious their relationship is strained- a serious sibling rivalry, maybe caused by the vying for attention from their Mother, the leader of the land, someone you'd never seen and from the sound of her, never wanted to see.

After arriving at the foot of the staircase, you exhale heavily and balance the hammer against the wall, wondering how the hell you're going to get it up there, and then all the way to the chambers on the other side of the castle. And then you have to go back down and clean up the bloody mess left by the banquet- it seems this man's arrival is just going to cause problems throughout the whole castle, for servants and nobles alike.

You stand at the base of the stairwell, breathing heavily from the physical excursion of dragging the weapon across the floor, even that short distance. It occurs to you how strong Heisenberg must be to effortlessly swing it over his shoulder like you saw him do before, and feel yourself go cold. The moment you take doesn't last long, because you hear footsteps behind you, and quickly turn around to see who it could be.

It's another servant- older than you, and she's been here for a while. You don't know her name, because nobody ever asks eachother. She stops short of you and looks critically at the hammer.

"Is- is Heisenberg here?"

You pause and look down at it, waiting for a beat before saying, "What do you think?"

The other girl sighs, wringing her hands together, clearly anxious. "Okay. Well- I guess we just stay out of his way, like always. Do you need help carrying that?"

"Yes, please. It's so goddamn heavy, I don't know how he manages it."

She bends down to pick up one end, and you lean to pick up the other. Together, you make your way slowly up the stairs. "I think it's got something to do with how he can- control metal, I think," She says, wincing down at the weapon in your hands. "I don't know. All I really know about him is that he causes a mess every time he's here, and Lady Dimitrescu is always in a... sour mood when he's around."

The two of you have made it about halfway up the stairs. "Why do they hate eachother so much?"

"...I'm not sure. I don't care. We have bigger problems than worrying about the conflicts between two... mutants. Like staying alive." Her voice is hushed, and as she says this, you step out onto the landing of the second floor of the castle, and head towards the largest guest room. After this, you're both silent, until you reach the large, elaborately decorated door of the quarters Heisenberg usually prefers.