Care (Hunter X Reader)

Chapter 3: What is this?

"How lovely, the bard track is a good track to study." Rowan says, I smile brighter before realizing the time of day. The forest that was lit by the bright sun was now dark except for the few balls of light that were created by Rowan and I. "Do you know the time by chance?" I ask as Rowan picks the book off the ground, closing it softly. "It's about 9:03" Rowan replies, I nod, "I should probably get going, when do you want to meet me next?" I ask as I sit up from the grass, "Depends on when Emperor Belos wants me to meet you, I'll send him a letter now asking, he will get the details to you eventually" Rowan explains, I nod and start to walk away, "Alright thank you! I'll see you whenever the next session is!" I wave and run out, "Bye!" Rowan says as she waves her hand. I walk out of the forest being cautious not knowing what could be in the shadows. Arriving back at the big door that I originally exited today. I walk back inside as I look around, guards tensing as I walk inside. Turning back the way I came this morning, I try to retrace my footsteps.

    Showing up at the door with 'Golden Guard' plastered on it, I open the door where I find the room as empty as it was when I left earlier. Slipping my shoes off, I walk back over to the pallet on the ground. Picking the book off the ground, I close it and place it on the bed. Not knowing what to do, I look around the room until I spot more books on the bottom shelf. These books were bigger and were separated from the others by the shelf above it holding other knick knacks and random collectables. Crawling over to the shelf, I grab a book off the bottom shelf. I read the cover 'The Study of Wild Magic Volume 3', 'I wonder what wild magic is?' Opening the book, many notes fall out, 'maybe I should put this back, I don't think Hunter would want me to see this, ...... but, I'm curious' I set the notes aside being careful not to read them. The diagrams and words are interesting as I scan the pages, this'll be a good thing to use to pass the time.
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      As I flip the page, I hear turning of a knob. Quickly I grab the notes in which I set in the book, shutting the book, I gently set it on the shelf. I quickly crawl to the pallet on the ground and see Hunter with armor and a gold mask in his hands. His face is bruised and cut, I want to ask but I don't want to pry. Against my better judgement I ask, "Are you alright?", he flips his head to me, his face softens before, like the first time I met him, it tenses back up. Tears are obviously welled up in his eyes yet I just stare.

"I'm fine." Stern and strong is what he tried to project, although I just projected the need for help and aid as his voice, dry sounding, cracks. A single tear falls as he sets his mask on a hook while he walks to his dresser. Worry sets in my eyes as I think about what could've happened, 'he probably goes through this all the time' I think, but the more I think, I notice that the pain that he shows was no type of pain just caused by physical trauma, but emotional too. But as he walks to the bathroom, clothes in his hand, I decide to drop it. I am only just a temporary roommate, he doesn't think anything more of me. Making it harder to get him to open up. My back falls onto the pallet. As I close my eyes, I never noticed how tired I was, but as my tensed muscles soften, I am slowly knocked out.
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     Waking up I look around. Seeing Hunter back at his desk, I think about what happened yesterday. Hunter was hurt, I learned magic, I learned about what wild magic was. Wait, Hunter was hurt! I sit up as I see Hunter scribbling on a random piece of paper, "Good morning" Hunter says in a still hoarse voice although it was definitely better than what he sounded like before. "Good morning" I reply back as I rub my eyes, looking at the window, I notice it's sunrise. "No new notes from Emperor Belos today. You're probably gonna be stuck with me" Hunter explains, "Stuck with you?" I ask as my head tilts gently to the side, Hunter still looking at his desk, says "I don't have anything to do today, I noticed you read one of the books?" He lifts his head and gestures toward the book on the bed that I had left earlier, "Oh, sorry I left that there." I say as I grab the book and bring it down to me, setting it next to my bag. "It's alright, I'd prefer you'd only have one book on my bed than 10 on my floor." Hunter says, I nod and sit on my knees.

          "Sorry for last night." Hunter suddenly says as I lift my head, directly making eye contact with Hunter. "It's fine, I was just a little concerned. What happened if you don't mind me asking?" Hunter stands up as he walks over to his bed, my head and eye slowly following. "Just a run in with a few monsters, nothing other than that." I nod not wanting to pry anymore. He lays on his bed as he looks over to me, "Are you interested in joining the Emperors coven?", I shrug, "never even knew this whole coven thing existed before yesterday." His eyes widen as he sits up slowly, "your parents never even told you about covens?!" Hunter exclaims, I shake my head no as I sit up more. "That's very interesting, do you have any idea why?" Hunter excitedly scoots closer to me, basically hanging off the edge. "Not really, I'm assuming it's because my Dad got into some 'bad magic' and went missing after he went somewhere."

He leaned back as he thought, "do you know what your dads name is?" He asked, "(Your dads name)" "oh.." "What, is that bad?" I ask, Hunters face dropped as I started to panic, "what? Did he do something?" Hunter just shook his head, "Not much, He was a wild witch." "Wild Witch?" "You don't even know what a wild witch is?!" Hunter asks, I shake my head no as he blinks. "A wild witch is a witch that refuses to join a coven, most of the time due to the opposition of the coven system." "Why would they oppose the coven system?" I ask, "Some say they are too restrictive, some just don't like the covens" He explains, "So you're saying my father went missing cause he was a wild witch?" I ask, "something like that."

"Interesting."
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Word count: 1183

A/N: Hello! Updating this book makes me happy :)) I saw the season 2b leaks and let me tell you, I am so excited. The only thing would be that this book might become entirely off track from canon. But that is fine! I hope you guys like this chapter, adding more character to the reader is fun to do! Have a good day/night!