Destiny One Shots

Awoken (Cayde-6 X Reader)

Back at it again, let's go! This was a request for RukyStudios! So so sorry this took so long! I had school and a ton of other stuff! But it's done now so I hope you enjoy!
TW: Talk of experimentation, maybe some Clovis Bray, some fluff.
Words: 911 Words

You laughed at your best friend and his son, "He looks exactly like you Cayde. I don't know what else to say."

Cayde handed Ace back to his wife, kissing her cheek as the two walks towards the kitchen. 

"How are you going to pay back your debt?"

"I saw something in the paper about some Dr. Clovis Bray needs people to turn into a robot of sorts. It pays good," Cayde explains, sighing.

"I saw it too. Are you going to take the offer?" You asked, looking over at your best friend.

"Maybe. I don't know. How do you know about it?"

"I signed up for it. I need to pay for my family too," you look down. You weren't going to tell him.

"I'll do it too then. We'll do it together."

"You will lose all memory and will be transferred into a different body," Clovis explains.

Almost immediately, guards came in and separated people.

"Cayde! Cayde!" You held onto him as tight as you could, "I need to tell you something, I love you!"

Cayde's eyes widen as you were ripped away from his grasp.

"Y/N!" He screamed.

You felt yourself boot up, standing up straight to greet the three people who had walked into your library.

"Hello Exo C4DY3, who are with you?" You asked, doing as your program told you.

"You know me?"

"Yes. You often came here, despite the doctors telling you not to. Have you finally gained permission?"

"Ye..yeah. I need to pull my memories out of archives," Cayde explains.

"Of course, after I learn who's with you."
"These are...new interns! Dr Ikora and Guard Young Wolf!" Cayde lies.

"He'll Dr. Ikora and Young Wolf, I am Y/N-3," you greet them, "What're you here to do again?"

"Uhh yes, I need to review memories," Ikora goes along with her friend's lie.
"Of course! This way!" You started walking down the cobwebbed filled aisles.

The four of you stopped at a box labeled C4YD3.

Getting it off the shelf, you hand it to Ikora.

Ikora and Cayde share a similar look and Ikora plugs in the flash drive thing into his neck.

"This process will take ten minutes. Thank you for choosing my library," you smile, walking back to your front desk.

After the ten minutes, Cayde wakes up, "Ikora where's Y/N?!"

"Front desk why?"

"I loved them! I love them! Ikora, in my past life they were my best friend and I hid my feelings from them and right before we became exos, they told me they love me!"

"But that's not your Y/N, you need their memories."

"I'm not leaving them!" Cayde cried, if only he could actually cry.

He wanted to cry, cry and cry. He wanted you by his side again, as his best friend and his partner.

In the past, Cayde ignored his feelings for you. Afraid of rejection, he found other women. He found his wife and thought maybe, she'd make him forget about his feelings.

It didn't work though. Every smile of yours, every laugh that left your beautiful mouth, made his heart go a million miles.

Music to his ears, that was the saying and that even then it was an understatement. If he could savor your laughter, he'd record it every time so he could rehear it at night.

If he could take a photo every time you smiled and hang it on the wall, Cayde would be the happiest person alive.

"Cayde.. what if their memories aren't here?" Ghost asks.

"I'll search everywhere, every planet, every moon. Ana knows something, maybe the Exo Stranger does too!" Cayde's words were laced with desperation.

Maybe it was the fact that he felt like his life was on the line. He missed you so much and didn't even know.

"Okay we'll help you, but Cayde, Zavala can't know about this," Ghost replies.

"If Zavala were to find out, he'd be so upset. You know the rules of guardians and their past lives," Ikora reminds him.

"This is different. Exos can just get their memories whenever they want!" Cayde argues, "Humans and Awoken have to seek out things that remind them of their past, Exos just need a box."

"This is a bad idea."

"I don't care."

"Hey Y/N, how are you?" Cayde asks, walking up to your desk as you boost up.

"I am the same as yesterday and the day before that, C4DY3. I am okay," you respond.

"Well I have something that might cheer you up," Cayde smiles making you tilt your head, "Just stand still."

Walking behind you, Cayde plugs in flash drive full of your memories, all full of pain, joy, fear, and anger.

After ten minutes, you stand back up and look at Cayde. No words are said, just staring at him.

"Y/N?"

"Cayde!" You cried, flinging yourself at him.

As he caught you, he spun you around. It felt so good to hold you in his arms, felt so good to finally see you after so many years.

"Cayde, I love you," you confess after he stopped spinning you.

"I love you too."