GRISHAVERSE X READERS

SMILE [KAZ BREKKER]

Prompts: B73. "Your smile is beautiful." + A50. "Oh, are you looking for [name]? They're probably setting themselves on fire right now."

Warnings: I changed the A50 prompt just with a few words but it means the same, and again, book stuff (includes mentions of Nina being a Crow) even though I haven't been able to read them yet. Also cringy writing, I had a mini motivation loss going on when I wrote this...

Word count: 856

You had all been working tirelessly for days with this new heist, and you were spending a lot of time with Kaz while planning. You had sat in his office together all night and he had let you sleep on his couch for a few hours at the morning after you had fallen to sleep with pen in your hand and blueprints still on your lap, he had taken them away from you, careful not to touch you and sometimes even threw a blanket over you.

You thought he was just being a good boss and rewarding you for working so hard, even when he didn't do that with anyone else. You had just grown accustomed to it.

And now you were all doing your final plans for the heist happening in a few days, counting the plan over for the first time. You sat at the table in front of Kaz, but the rest of the Crows were scattered around the room.

"Y/N and I will be here-" he started, but you interrupted him.

"Kaz, I told you before that guards patrol our spot irregularly. What happens if we get caught when we're breaking in?" you asked, pointing at the spot on the map.

"I'll protect you if that happens." he answered without looking up, but making everyone else look up in surprise, eyeing between you and Kaz. You were too tired to realize the absurdness of his sentence though and took it as a joke, even though it was weird of Kaz to make a joke like that.

"So you're kind of a mother hen for me." you chuckled, half-expecting Kaz to glare at you but this time he surprised you and everyone in the room even further.

Kaz smiled.

Genuinely smiled.

It wasn't a smirk, it was a smile. He dropped his facade in front of everyone for just a moment, before he noticed you all staring at him and quickly dropped his smile and clearing his throat, pretending it didn't just happen.

But you, in your tired state, bit your lip and smiled at him. "Kaz?"

"Hm?"

"You should smile more often. Your smile is beautiful." you muttered, Kaz froze and after a moment all the Crows in the room let out a stifled burst of laughter, snapping Kaz out from his frozen state and silencing them with his infamous glare.

It took you a moment before you realized what you had just blurted out, but when it hit you, you clasped a hand in front of your mouth and rose up from the table, quickly making your way out from the room. Kaz stared after you for a moment before he cleared his throat again.

"Well, as I was saying, Inej, you should go to your position at the roof, here. Jesper, you wait for Y/N's signal before going in." he tried to continue planning like nothing had just happened, but everyone could see the faint blush on his cheeks. The Bastard of the Barrel didn't blush. At least if he didn't have something going on with the person who made him blush.

And it was a known fact among the Crows that Kaz Brekker, Dirtyhands, feared across Ketterdam, was head over heels for you, even if he didn't admit it. Everyone knew it and saw the way he looked at you, except, of course, you.

Next morning you didn't show up to breakfast, and Kaz didn't find you from your room. And he realized that he needed to talk to you, let you know that he wasn't angry about your little slip, and you had no reason to be embarrassed. He had made you all overwork, so slips like that happened. He, of course, wouldn't reveal his own feelings for you, but the thought of you having feelings for him brought the slightest amount of warmth to his cold heart.

He had tried to ask around, looking for you but you had vanished, just like he had taught you to vanish if danger is near. He just never thought that he would be that danger.

"If you're looking for Y/N, they're probably setting themselves on fire right now." Nina smiled as she came across to Kaz scanning the Club in hopes to catch a sight of you. Kaz swallowed at that.

"I figured." he frowned, not looking at Nina. But where were you setting yourself on fire?

Nina just winked before licking her lips and disappearing back into the crowd.

It took the whole day before you dared to leave your friend's place and tiptoed your way to your room and could just hope that everyone forgot what you did. Everyone was asleep when you got into your room and you believed that no one knew you had come back.

But Kaz would recognize your steps anywhere, and even though he would never admit it either, he was immediately relieved when he knew that you were back at the Slat, that you were safe.

And maybe someday he could finally tell you that he cared about you, in a different way he cared about his other Crows...