Six Of Crows imagines

Like him- Kaz and Marley(OC)POV- Part 2

Shout out to my friend who wrote this part with almost no writing experience. I have not edited this in any way. Luv you

Kaz

"Kaz,"
The way she said my name made me flinch. Vulnerability and desperation hung in her voice, something I never heard from anyone, not in that way, not even from Inej. My mind snapped back to reality, and I moved before I could think, catching the frail girl before she collapsed to the ground. I swore, feeling her warmth through my gloves, and part of me considered dropping her. Inej's furious face came into my mind. Maybe not. Taking a sharp breath in I picked her up and stepped into the light, toward the Barrel. Ignoring the curios glances and whispers, I carried her up the step to my room, my leg threatening to buckle beneath me. Dumping the girl on the bed I groaned, collapsing in a chair, glaring daggers at the girl, Marley. Where else was I meant to take her? She shifted mumbling something, her body was shaking. She stilled and I blinked looking down at my hand that was now entwined in hers.
"Saints!" I swore pulling back, I hadn't even realised. Standing up I stared at the girl, she had kept to herself during the tour, annoyingly, she was much like me. My heart hammered in my chest, and I swore, for about the tenth time today. Nina would have laughed if she was here. I didn't need to go through that again. My thoughts wondering to Inej. Part of me had known she would never choose me, yet I still acted like a fool. I stared at the red-haired girl, I wasn't going to make the same mistake again.
Her eyes fluttered open, and I school my expression to the stony mask I'm so used to, leaning back in my chair. She sat up almost as if she was electrocuted.
"Where am I, what happened,"
"Good to have you back, you passed out and your currently in my room," I said with a sigh.
She vaguely looked disgusted, before she slumped back. I shove a plate of food in her face.
"Eat"
"No."
I raise an eyebrow, amused and concerned.
"Your half dead, passed out, and currently in my room. You're not in a position to refuse," I say.
She growled "Oh really, that sounds like something you say every time you kidnap someone."
I raise an eyebrow again and smirk. "How'd you know?"
That made her grin and she glanced at the food, almost flinching away. Come on your Dirty Hands, figure something out.
"You like books," I said.
She looked up suspicious, but I could tell I had scored home.
"Eat and I'll take you to a library,"
She eyed me with suspicion, not moving.
I shrugged, "your other option is to stay here with me until Inej gets back.".
Her eyes widened and I didn't know whether I should be offended as she grabbed the food. Sure, the only library was at the university, which was out of bounds, but she didn't need to know that.
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"WHAT THE HELL ARE WE DOING!?" she shrieked whilst trying to stay quiet. Both of us donned black cloaks and I was hunched over the lock of the university library. She kept looking side to side as if someone would jump out and arrest us. Actually, that was very likely to happen.
"I said I'd take you to the library" I said with a shrug working on the lock.
"I didn't think we were breaking in!"
"I'm Kaz Brekker, no one in their right mind would let me into a library with heritage artifacts. Where's all that talk about being a pirate, I thought you would be used to this." She hissed at me, about to bite back when the door swung open. I gestured for her to walk in. Hesitating she did, and I followed smirking, but she didn't even notice. Her eyes were drawn to the grand shelves that rose from the marble floors, the ones that were filled with book. The moonlight danced across the floor, creating spotlights throughout the otherwise dark room. She took a breath, taking it all in, while I could only look at her. The way her hair tumbled down her back, her large blue eyes, wide with wonder. I shook myself, at this rate I might as well give up being a con artist and take up poetry.
I swore realising she was gone, no longer next to me. I limped round the shelves till I saw her reaching to for a book on a shelf that was out her reach. I stepped behind her, reaching for the book, when she swivelled around. Marley looked surprised and mildly annoyed and started to say something but none of the words made sense to me. She was so close. She went silent too, blushing and we were both standing there, silent and a breaths space apart. The moonlight danced off her eyes, she smelled like flowers with the slightest trace of the sea. I leaned in and maybe she did to, but I registered nothing until I found my lips against hers. They were soft beneath my own, her hands curled up against my chest, but the faint sent of the ocean made me sway. No, no, no. memories flashed in my mind I was drowning clinging onto a cold body, that body changed from Jordy then to her, lifeless blue eyes wide, staring at me.
I pulled away hands raking my hair, panting, trying to banish the image from my head.
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Marley