glow of the mark (six of crows soulmate au)

chapter fourteen (wylan)

Wylan entered the small common room that sat below deck, where everyone had agreed to have game night. There were a few chairs, along with one sofa, where Wylan sat, shuffling a deck of cards over and over again to cure his boredom.

Kaz checked his watch, he was sitting in a leather armchair, "Where's Inej? She's late."

Nina rolled her eyes, "Kaz, this is literally a game night, it's not that important. She probably lost track of the-"

Inej entered the room, a blanket wrapped around her shoulders. There were white flakes in her hair, some had melted and were now beads of water. "Sorry I'm late, I was upstairs and got caught in the snow. What are we playing first?"

"Here's another blanket, do you want me to grab you a towel?" Nina tossed a blanket over to Inej, who was now sitting in an armchair beside Kaz.

"I'm fine, I changed into dry clothes before coming in here, thank you though." Inej tossed the blanket back over to Nina.

"We should play Mafia," Jesper suggested, grinning.

"We are not children, Jesper." Kaz rolled his eyes.

"We should play!" Wylan agreed.

"I agree." Nina nodded.

"I played that game a lot when I was younger, I loved it. Kaz, you'd like it. I vote we should play." Inej added.

"Majority rules, sorry not sorry, Kazzle Dazzle." Jesper grinned.

"Jesper Fahey, so help me, if you ever call me that again, I will murder you." To any normal person, Kaz sounded like he was serious, though, it was obvious to his friends //a/n: autocorrect, *investments// that he was kidding. "I already know how to play this, and I'm assuming all of you do too, so just cut to the chase."

"Who wants to be the narrator?" Nina asked.

"Can I?" Wylan asked excitedly.

"If I die, I expect an epic death." Jesper pointed out.

"Noted," Wylan nodded, "Put your heads down."

Everyone did so, and Wylan stood in the middle of the messy circle that the furniture was arranged in, "I will now pick the mafia." Wylan walked over to Inej and tapped her head.

"Next, I will choose the detective." Matthias was tapped, this will be interesting.

"Finally, I will tap the nurse." Wylan tapped Kaz's head, through his hat. 

Kaz responded with an action that relied heavily on his middle finger.

"Mafia, please raise your head." Wylan stepped back into the middle of the circle. Inej raised her head.

"He said please, how polite. Kazzle Dazzle, you should take notes." Jesper mumbled, his eyes still closed, his face shoved in a pillow.

"Fuck you." Kaz replied, keeping his eyes closed.

"Wylan will do that." Nina said, laughing into her hands, where she was keeping her head //a/n: why did i word it like that//.

Wylan blushed furiously, ignoring the comment. "Mafia, point to who you would like to kill."

Inej pointed at Kaz, smirking.

"Mafia, put your head down. Detective, raise your head. Who do you think is the mafia?"

Matthias narrowed his eyes at Wylan and pointed to Kaz.

"Detective, put your head down. Nurse, please raise your head. Who would you like to save?"

Kaz pointed to himself, and Wylan shook his head. Kaz reluctantly pointed at Inej.

"Nurse, head down. Alright, wake up!" 

Everyone raised their heads. 

Wylan started the death explanation, "Last night, our dear friend, Kaz Brekker, was found dead in a pile of money."

"At least I went out in a good way." Kaz shrugged.

"I think it's Matthias." Jesper determined.

"I agree." Nina said.

"It only makes sense, I think it's Matthias too." Inej nodded.

"Majority wins, Matthias, you're out. Since we don't have many people... the game is over. Inej was the mafia."

"I never knew the Wraith would betray me." Kaz smirked.

"Well, I learned from the best."

Jesper grabbed a ouija board, "We should summon a ghost."

"Let's play Monopoly instead." Inej put the board back where Jesper had gotten it from and pulled out Monopoly.

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"Matthias, give Kaz his money, you landed on his property." Inej pointed to Matthias' battleship, which was on Boardwalk.

"He's in jail, I am not giving money to a criminal." Matthias refused.

Inej took the money out of Matthias' money pile and gave it to Kaz.

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When everyone had left the room, it was just Jesper and Wylan. The two were sitting on the couch next to each other.

"Jes, I saw your arm a few days ago."

"What do you mean?" Jesper obviously knew what Wylan was implying.

"You know what I mean."

"Do I?"

"Can you show me your arm?"

Jesper knew he couldn't get out of this, so he stuck his arm out and pushed up his sleeve, which revealed the tattoo that read "Jes."

"Watch this. Jes." The word on Jesper's arm glowed. "See?"

Jesper nodded, putting his arm down and pulling his sleeve back down. "So..?"

Wylan moved closer to Jesper and kissed him before pulling away quickly. "I'm sorry, I-"

Jesper smirked and kissed Wylan again, "Wylan, you don't need to apologize."