Reviving a wilted garden - Lady Lesso x reader

chapter 11- not falling for the same trap twice

a/n -hello, hopefully I will get this up this weekend even if it is late tonight however I think a lot of you are from the land of America's so it will be earlier for you. A month ago I was walking through Times Square before I had time to watch sge and I saw it on a billboard, I had no idea what I was in for. Also I think I might re-read the books because it's been a few years and they r rlly good. 

You soon found that teaching was quite, easy.

Well, teaching surviving fairytales was at least. Learning was practical so you had no marking to do except some paperwork from Dovey every now and then. You just talked about what you loved, the forest.

You had now been here for a week now. At first it was difficult, with Lesso haunting your every move but, she seemed to back off now; you had hardly seen her these past 5 days except when you would be in the hall at the same time some mornings and she would give you a smile then made you look away and blush. Then the time last night when you were patrolling the corridors and when you walked past the library you saw Lesso. She looked enthralled in whatever she was reading and so you didn't disturb her, although it took everything you had in you not go go bounding up to her like an exited puppy. You were aware that if you were too friendly to Lesso she would push you away and so you were careful.

Oh, and you told Uma about you and Lesso that cold night, outside:

"What?!" Uma stared at you, mouth wide open as you sat outside together one afternoon near the pond. "Y/n! See I told you Lesso fancies you!"

It was a hot day and you were both sat outside on a bench, your parasol shading you from the sun and your embroidery in your hands.

Rolling your eyes and crossing your arms, you sighed "Uma, please, she's probably just doing it so she doesn't have to go to the ball with the uglification teacher" you stabbed an angry needle into your embroidery, trying to focus on something other than Lesso for once "anyway, besides I'm not dating someone who is evil and a mere few ours earlier Lesso held me up against the wall outside and threatened to tell Dovey about that conversation she overheard. I'm not ready for a relationship anyway"

Uma pouted at you, she loved to play match maker and the fact that she couldn't manage to convince you that Lesso liked you was annoying her "oh please you haven't dated anyone in over a year. Lesso is a complicated woman who doesn't exactly seem like the type of person who would regulate her feelings normally" she snatched the embroidery hoop from you so you wold look upwards "maybe this is just her way of trying to flirt with you"

Unimpressed, you hit Uma playfully and laughed at what she said as if it was a joke "all the more reason not to date her, I am not getting my heart broke just because I feel the need to fix another woman. I've been hurt before and I am not stupid enough to let the same thing happen twice. I will go to the ball with Lady Lesso as friends because it is a work obligation" you snatched the embroidery hoop back from a unsatisfied Uma.

Smirking, the princess looked at you with mischief in her dark eyes "okay, well, if she doesn't like you. At least admit that you would smash"

"UMA!" You begged.

"Oh come on. If you had the chance"

"If I had the chance I would politely decline because I am only dating women who are, a) emotionally available, b) not evil and c) in tune with their own fucking feelings" You knew this situation all too well, it was the exact same with Bella; you fell for a morally corrupt woman who, whilst being very attractive, was much older than you and you thought it was your duty to fix her heart and show her love but all she did was use you and leave out if the blue, only leaving a single note. That messed you up, Lesso didn't need fixing, and she couldn't be loved; she was evil and you kept telling yourself that.