Pride - Chamber x fem!Reader [Valorant]

18 - Too close

"Yoru!" [F/n] screamed, dashing through the door of the infirmary. She saw Yoru laying down on the infirmary bed, holding his head in pain. Sage was by his side looking at her tablet to check the data she collected. "Sage, what happened?!"

Yoru grunted, eyes remaining close. "Shut up, noob."

She quickly lowered her voice and walked to Sage's side. The woman turned her body to face her, eyes still focus on the screen. "I have no clue. The radianite inside him is very unstable."

[A/n] frowned, clenching her fists. "What does that even mean? D-did something happen last mission that we didn't notice? Is he going to be alright, Sage?"

"Stop talking like I'm dead already," he sighed, sitting on the edge of the bed.

"You should rest, Yoru. I need to examine you again," Sage continued then looked at the short agent next to her. "I need to wake Brimstone up to let him know. Stay here and keep an eye on him, alright? I don't want him to move until I'm back."

Yoru clicked his tongue, not even trying to hide his annoyed expression. The Chinese agent glared at him and Yoru did not add anything more and just laid back down. "I will don't worry," the other woman reassured her with a smile.

Sage left the room, leaving the two young agents together in this silent room. [A/n] took a chair and placed it next to his bed. She wore a frown and looked worryingly at her friend. She hated the sight of her friends being hurt, even if it was nothing but a small cut. When she heard from Phoenix that Yoru was found unconscious on the ground, she rushed to his side. It was not like him which added to her worries. Suddenly, she felt a hand on her head. He messed her hair and smirked down at her.

"You should see your face, you look horrible," he teased, pointing at her worried eyes. She knew he was trying to make her feel better but it did not help.

"You're looking worst than me," she commented with a pout.

Yoru laughed, taking his butterfly comb out of his pocket before playing with it. Then, his smile dropped as his eyes seemed to find themselves lost in the whiteness of the room. [A/n] wanted to question him about what happened but Yoru was not one to talk about himself so she did not want to force him to talk - if he wanted to, he would do it on his own. [F/n] tried to distract him by talking about her day and Killjoy and Raze's shenanigans of the day. Yoru listened to her, mostly lacking any expression, sometimes chuckling a bit at her silliness.

"[A/n]," he said her name, stopping her in her speech. She quickly stopped and focused all her attention on him. "I need to talk radiant to another."

"I'm all ears." She nodded, her voice sounding unusually serious.

He paused for a moment, sighing. It must be difficult for him to make confessions. "I started... seeing and hearing strange things in the rift. Following this, I've started to feel... different. Something is changing within me like some sort of... mutation." [A/n] frowned at his statement, trying to make sense of what he was saying. "I know my body better than anyone and I know for a fact that something is changing. Have you ever experienced that?" He turned his attention to her now, expecting some kind of answer that would prove he was not going crazy.

She pondered for a moment, a hand under her chin. "I cannot remember anything similar happening to me." Yoru seemed disappointed, his head laying back on the bed. "But I know that when my sense of danger started to develop, my body felt strange, like a mutation as you said. But I was still a young radiant back then." She stayed silent for a moment, processing the new information. "If radiants can develop new abilities, it's quite a discovery. I've never heard of it." She snapped her head to Yoru who stared back at her. "We need to try this out now."