Affection is difficult || A Hunter x reader story

The return

{Hunter's POV}

My hands, as cold as ice, reaching for the cold and rough surface of the oak tree behind me. Fingers trying their best to get a grip of its edges, but fails time after time.
My eyes, my mind, they won't connect and the world seems to blur, almost vanish from existence.
My back, already trying to keep me up, but i'm slide down, and neither my hands nor any body part for that matter, helps me up.

The emperors coven will do anything to get passed.

Anything.

It doesn't matter who's blood gets to be spilled.

As my fingers fails me to keep me up, It seeks its support in the cold and wet blades of grass. I take a weak grasp.

Footsteps are coming in closer. I can hear their breaths. Their alive breaths. I forget to use mine. I can't hear their hearts, maybe they don't have any.

But they are hearing mine, beats fast and hard. I could cough up all my blood and heart too for the sickness they give me. It wouldn't surprise me if I did so.

My eyelids blinds me, making me believe that this is just a dream, that this is just a nightmare.
That I will wake up any moment now in my bed, with Y/N right beside me.
But that is just a fantasy, and this is reality.

They killed him.

And now, they will kill me.

"Found you"

This is it...

Or so I thought.

My eyes opened in a split second, absorbing of what was about to happen.

I saw light. I could only just assume that the light was from the guards magic spells, ready to strike at me.

But instead of me getting the hit, someone else did.
Explosions were heard so close to me. Striking not one, but both of the guards that almost had me barbecued. They yelled in pain as they fell to the ground.

My hand reached for one of the guards masks and took it off. The guard was unconscious and had fainted, so did the other guard as well.

"...How did.." I whisper to myself.

"Are you hurt?"

I recognize that voice.

My head turns and my eyes lays it's focus on them, and only them. The one witch I never thought I would see again.

"Y/N?"

Only a few meters away from me, and it felt like the most strongest force brought us together again.

"What are you.. how did you-" I tried to catch my words but the sight of them made my ability to speak disappear in thin air.

"Don't worry, I don't know why I can do that either" They said and showed small explosions in their hands.

I stood up and remained our eye contact. It felt so unreal, to see them here, well and alive.

"I...I know what you will say Hunter." Y/N starts.

I take a step towards them.

"I know that you want me to be safe and secure. I am grateful for that you saved me and my father, but can't you see what is happening?"

One more step.

"Our home is falling apart, our friends are stuck with the my enemy and YOU ALMOST GOT YOURSELF KILLED!"

One more.

"..You tell me that I'm needed for the future of the Boiling Isles, but I am more needed here now than ever"