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[KAZ BREKKER DRABBLE]

Prompt: Enemies to lovers

Warnings: mentions of violence + angst (hurt/comfort)

Word count: 734

You had hated Kaz Brekker. As rivals from different gang leaders, you were bound to be enemies. Or not enemies on personal level, it was more like always racing each other and do better, and sometimes winning the race against each other made you cheer or yell out loud from frustration. But you didn't hate him as a person, not really. You didn't even know the man behind the name.

You were as smart as him, which infuriated him as you were quicker or better in your plans more than once. Once, he could have been able to stomach. But five times were too much.

So when he had discovered you on an alleyway, badly hurt and Stadwatch nearing you, he kind of wanted to leave you there. But others stopped him, saying that even the Bastard of the Barrel can't leave someone like that, and reminded him that you had never sabotaged his plans or anything, you only had bested him. So Kaz, very reluctantly, told Jesper and Matthias to take you with them to be treated at the Slat.

Nina nursed you back into your health, and Kaz had talked with you a few times over a drink. And then he began to purposely wait for you to come down for a drink.

Y/N isn't so bad, he found himself thinking as he watched you sipping your water. And when you had been well enough, you had returned to your own gang - and that left Kaz feeling strangely alone. It was a feeling he hadn't felt since the first months after Jordie's death - the first months before he had grown a thick shell and built those walls around himself and shut everyone out.

He couldn't lie to himself, he felt glad when you arrived to the club, this time with two of your most trusted gang members, offering an alliance - the kind where your gang would mend together with the Dregs. You wanted to thank Kaz for saving your life, and for that, you were willing to become part of his gang. He hid the emotion when he heard your offer, just like he hid most of his emotions. He listened to you and your terms for an alliance and basically become one gang, acting to be considering it, even when he had decided it the moment you had told him that you wanted to offer alliance. You would not only be stronger and better together, but Kaz had felt this bond to you.

He agreed right after you had finished, and so your gang became part of the Dregs, and you became a Crow shortly after. Kaz was still the only leader on paper, but everyone knew that you were the co-leader. Your word weighed just as much as Kaz's did. He had to admit, you made a good team.

Now your brilliant brains worked together, even though you didn't completely think alike, but that was a good thing, you saw escape routes where he didn't, and he saw an entrance where you hadn't noticed it. That was new for the both of you. It annoyed you at first, but soon changed into a sort of feeling pride.

Now your heists worked even better that they had worked before your alliance. And as months went on, Kaz realized what his bond was. It wasn't just a bond, Inej and Nina noticed it first and Nina teased Kaz for his heartbeat whenever you stepped into the room.

Love, he realized. Do I love them?

Bastard of the Barrel in love. No one thought that could be possible, but the moment the rest of the Crows realized it, they began to drive you two together. Subtly and not-so-subtly (with latter, look at Jesper and Nina).

It worked eventually, even though you both were annoyed about it first. You didn't think that Kaz could like you back, he had too high walls and traumatic past to love anyone like you loved him, and he didn't want to embarrass himself in front of you, or worse, appear weak when you'd turn him down.

But somehow you got together, and it didn't take long before you moved into Kaz's room at the attic. It had been a long way, and something you hadn't thought to be possible, but both of you agreed that it had been the best thing that had ever happened to you.