[4] Crazy Bastard (Female!Reader x Katarina/MNLAAV:ARLTD fanfiction)

66: Tears

"Lady Katarina..?"

Mary still called out to them even when her heart yearned not to.

Y/n turned around to look, "Oh! Lady Hunt..!"

She curtsied in front of her.

Katarina waved at her with a smile, going back into character, "Hello, Mary! What brings you here?"

Mary walked over to them, getting closer, she asked, "What were you two doing?"

Y/n meekly smiled as Katarina stood beside her.

"We were just talking." Katarina shrugged her shoulders.

"I see..." Mary hummed.

"And what are you doing here?" Katarina asked.

"I was looking for you." Mary said, "Everybody has.. for the past hour."

"Oh, then we should head there then." Katarina wasn't fazed with Mary suddenly hugging her arm as they walked off.

Leaving y/n behind who stood quiet in her place, 'There's no place for me to be with her..'

'Is that contract all that's keeping me tangled with her..?' she grits her teeth as she turns to walk the other way.

...

Y/n was crying in f/n's arms.

F/n didn't know what happened.

Y/n's been blabbering about how she confessed and how it sounded like she just got turned down.

It was such an ambiguous answer coming from Katarina.

Loyalty and love can't be the same thing, it just can't, right?

"Okay.." f/n sighed, "So the answer wasn't direct, but you still got an answer. All that's left to do is to make her answer more directly without any mysteries..?"

"You don't understand.." y/n sniffled as f/n gently wiped her tears with a handkerchief.

"She's so.. dense and clueless!" She argued.

F/n meekly smiled, feeling sweat trickle behind his neck hearing that as he nodded his head along with her complaints.

"Why can't she take the time to actually understand!?" Y/n groaned, "I have feelings for her.. and it's not because of fear or any of that stuff."

"But you said she hurt you a couple of times didn't she?" F/n frowned.

"Yeah... But she always ends up.... Apologizing about it." Y/n sneezed into the handkerchief f/n offered her.

'Uhh.... I won't be able to use this anymore.' f/n held the handkerchief with a pinch as he tossed it aside and took a new one out of his pocket.

Just how many does he bring around anyway??

"There, there..." He assured her it was going to be fine.

"Surely she'll recognize your feelings one day and reciprocate." He said.

"As if that'll ever happen." Y/n sighed.

...

"Were you crying?" Katarina snuck into her room.

"W-W--What are you doing here...?!?" Y/n almost screamed if she hadn't held it in not to.

Katarina reached a hand out and began caressing y/n's face, feeling around her swollen eyes, 'You must've been crying since after dinner if it's this puffy....'

"Did you tell your maid to get you something cold for your eyes?" She asked.

Y/n grits her teeth and brushes her hand away, "I'm fine! Just..!"

Katarina was perplexed.