𝐹𝓇𝒾𝑒𝓃𝒹𝓈 𝒲𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝐵𝑒𝓃𝑒𝒻𝒾𝓉𝓈-Ｖｉ （ａｒｃａｎｅ)

A mistake, a lecture, and a sibling reunion

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I ended up next to Vi for the rest of the walk. Her hand kept brushing against mine as we walked, making my heart flutter.

“If you wanna hold my hand you could just ask, you know?” I whispered as I got quite close to her left ear. Her face flushed slightly as she looked at me.

“I- I don’t know what you’re talking about.” She stuttered. Watching her fumble with her words because something I did fills my ego way too much. I smiled and walked ahead of her, stopping her from letting our hands touch.

“And I was about to grab your hand, too bad I was wrong.” I winked. Her face made me laugh so hard. She was blushing yet her eyebrows were furrowed, mad at me for teasing her.

“Nice haul?”

I turned behind me to look at a blonde boy sitting on some crates. Deckard. Before anyone could stop him, Mylo replied.

“You could say that.” I’ve never wanted to punch him so much in my life. Fucking dumbass.

~~~

“Vander learns none of this.” Vi said as she sat fully in the same chair we shared earlier. We had made it back to the last drop, but Powder lost the bag. Mylo and Claggor sat on one couch with Powder sitting on the other one across the table. I sat at Vi’s feet on the ground.

“No worries there, Powder took care of the evidence.” Mylo spat. Well, whose fault is it that we got into that fight? I rolled my eyes.

Then, Vander walked in.

“Everyone alright?” He asked, eyeing the bruise on my right eye. He knows.

“Of course.” Mylo replied, trying to “act normal” but failing.

“Ah, good. Then I don’t suppose you could tell why I’m hearing about an explosion and foot chase topside? Five children fleeing the scene.” Called it.

He made his way over to me and Vi, staring at her with a look in his eyes I’ve never seen before.

“What were you thinking?” He asked.

“That we could handle a real job.” She replied.

“A real job?” The confusion mixed with the anger in his voice.

“We got our own tip, planned a route, nobody even saw.” I distinctly remember being seen by a lot of people.

“You blew up a building.” Exactly.

“That wasn’t-”

“Did you ever think about what could’ve happened to you? To them?” He interrupted her. She looked around the room at everyone. When her eyes landed on me, I tried to give her a comforting look. We’re fine. Nothing happened. But she just looked down and played with the tips of my hair. She did that when she was nervous. It’s adorable.

“Where did you even get this tip?” Vander asked the room. No one wanted to speak until Powder piped up.

“We heard it in Benzo’s shop.”

“From who?” Vander’s voice became more inquisitive. Powder shrunk back at his tone but still answered his question.

“Little man.”

Vi stood up, almost knocking my head into the table. Ow.

“I took us there, if you want to be mad, be mad at me. But, you’re the one always saying we have to earn our place in this world.”