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[KAZ BREKKER DRABBLE]

A drabble based on the title "just you".

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Word count: 766

You always knew you didn't stand a chance against Inej. The girl had it all, she was beautiful beyond words and impossibly graceful as well. No wonder Kaz had fallen hard for her, even when he didn't say it out loud.

Kaz didn't like to be touched, but you still couldn't help but imagine Inej being able to kiss him goodnight, or even being able to cuddle with him. At the same time, you felt absolutely horrible for feeling jealous because your best friend was getting the man you had loved since you were fifteen - she had been through so much, she deserved happiness more than you did.

You never thought there could ever be anything between you and Kaz anyway; it just wasn't in the cards. You'd known that from the moment Kaz first brought Inej in: that special spark between two people who belonged together. It might have been easier if Kaz hadn't kept giving you these little looks you had been teased about by your friends in Dregs every now and again, softening his expression until it almost melted into tenderness before settling back into cool detachment. You weren't even sure if that had really happened or if it was just your imagination, a flicker of hope of him loving you back or having a crush on you.

But in any case, those looks had disappeared the moment Inej had joined the gang, and it spoke to itself. You were left alone again.

But there was something you didn't know.

One morning, you were met with a heart attack when Inej came by to sit with you as you ate breakfast at the kitchen, and told you that she knows about you having feelings for Kaz. You almost spat out your porridge right then and there, trying to deny it at first and then proceeding to apologize, promising to stay away from Kaz, and that you never had intentions to steal Kaz from her. She frowned at your last sentence, and then burst out laughing. "Wait, you think that Kaz and I are dating?"

"I... well, it's kind of obvious," you mumbled. You tried to act casual but couldn't keep yourself from looking around nervously while Inej was still laughing. You were sure that suddenly Kaz would teleport there and kick you out for having feelings for him.

"Kaz and me? No." Her smile turned into a slight smirk. "He has someone else entirely in mind."

"Who?"

Inej didn't answer, but her eyes told you who she meant, and you felt your cheeks growing hot. "Me?"

She nodded, her smile growing again. "How can you not see it? He shifts completely the moment you walk into the room. Nina says his heartbeat tells her more than most hearts do. And the way he looks at you..." She paused for a moment. "He's always looking at you like that - and he hasn't once looked at anyone else like that - because he is in love with you."

You blinked at her, wanting to tell her to stop lying for a moment, not give you false hopes. But all you saw was pure honesty.

"You should talk to him about this," Inej said gently, rising to her feet beside you. "I told you this because I know what it feels like when someone doesn't want you to know they care about you. Kaz is too stubborn to come forward with it, but you're both suffering from the situation of not knowing."

"What if you're wrong? What if Kaz isn't interested in me?" You asked, and Inej smiled again.

"Y/N, he wants you. Just you. He wants to make you his, he wants to wake up next to you every day, he wants you to be his first kiss, first loving touch, to fall asleep with you in his arms. Kaz Brekker just doesn't say these things to people, you know that. But it's written all over him, the one time you were sick with that aggressive flu, he was losing his mind over it and made his feelings very clear to those who had doubts about it. None of us had never seen him like that. He ordered Nina to check on you every hour, maybe to the Dregs he hadn't changed that much apart from being tenser and more aggressive about cheaters."

You stared at her with wide eyes as she walked away from the kitchen, and then let a flustered grin creep on your face. Inej's words echoed in your head, making your heart pound in your chest.

He wants you. Just you.