Leslie Odom Jr. X Reader

"Im afraid I cant do that love"

Y/N's POV
Woah... I got no sleep AT ALL.
All night was filled with crying, overthinking, panic attacks, crying...did I mention crying?
Having the feeling of waking up by yourself when you knew you had everything at a time is...depressing if you will?
My phone was going off constantly lost night and you could guess who it was...
Les 💋
Y/N, when are you coming home? Everything is moved out the way 😘

Baby?

Baby? It's 3 in the morning, where are you.

Please just tell me you're safe.

Y/N

Baby please

I'm texting the girls.

They said you would text me hello?!

Y/n, baby, love, what's wrong?

(And the most recent one was an hour ago)

If you can't answer me back between today and the end of rehearsal, then I'm gonna find you, I'm not mad, I'm worried, I love you Y/N more than anything. Are you safe?!

Y/Ns POV
I'm staring at the messages. He cares. He doesn't want me hurt but I don't know what to say. If I tell him what happened then he could be in even more danger. Yes, Daniel will never figure out if you texted him but then you will grow more and more attached to the point where you can't stand living without him... like now.... 'SO Y/N JUST TEXT HIM'
Your mind screamed.
What's the words.
I can't tell him what's wrong so what do I say?

Typing. Delete. Typing. Delete.
Okay this might be bad but I decided to go with...

You
I'm fine

He read it almost instantly.

Les 💋
Why aren't you home? Are you okay? Why did you tell the girls you would text but you never did? Y/N I know something is up. You can tell me, Yknow I would never hurt you, gorgeous

Oh the nicknames. Shit I'm already growing back to be attached. Well I'm not going to leave him on read.

You
I can't tell you. I'm sorry. It's not for my health either, it's for yours. I cant come back.

Les 💋
Please Y/N just tell me what's wrong.

You can't tell him. You left him on read.
"I'm sorry Les, I love you, so much that I'm going to protect you." You whispered. Whimpering a bit, and tears brimming your eyes.

Les 💋
Love?

Will I see you at rehearsal?

Y/N

N/N (nickname)

Love, please

That was the last text. Before rehearsal.

You got in the shower and picked an outfit... blah blah blah.

*time skip*
You made it to rehearsal.
You made sure to show up early so you can stay away from the love of your life.
This was going to be hard. You were going to explain everything to your friends but just plead that they don't tell Leslie because he will fight for you and you love that but it just can't happen.
'It's for his safety. It's for his safety. It's for his safety.'
That was the only thought your mind was screaming.
You walked in and say literally all of your friends.
They looked at you and started running towards you concerned.
They all started asking you different question at the same time.
"Are you okay?"
"Have you slept?"
"No offense, but you have eye bags, what's wrong?"
"The eye bags do look sexy tho not going to lie"
"Leslie was asking us if we knew anything"
You finally said something.
"Okay, just follow me to my dressing room"
All the girls followed you into your dressing room. Luckily you haven't seen Leslie anywhere.
"Okay, so you know when I forgot my bag the other day and had to go in the theater?"
They all nodded their head in agreement.
"Well Daniel was there, he had a knife and u tried to get away, he started saying stuff where 'if he ever finds out I'm with anyone else he will kill them.' And I love Leslie with all my heart, so I made the decision to stop talking to him, so he can stay safe"
They looked at each other and then back at me.
"Y/N, you can't just not talk to him, if you stop talking to him you're hurting yourself and Leslie emotionally. Either way you're hurting him." Reneè explained.
"Then what do I do?"
They thought for a moment.
Jasmine spoke up
"What if you and Leslie get back together, and you both go to court and get Daniel arrested?" That was a good idea, but what if Daniel hurts Leslie before he gets arrested, or even worse what if Daniel finds out that you and Leslie told the police and Leslie gets killed.
"Y/N?" Jasmine snapped you out of your thoughts.
"I'll think about it" you said.
"Okay but if you don't tell Leslie, we will" Reneè explained.
"What?!" You screamed back.
"Sorry Y/N, but Leslie is our friend too, and we're not going to watch Leslie kill himself because you tried to help him hit destroyed him at the same time"
This was a fair argument.
"Okay...fine" you breathed out.
"We love you Y/N" Jasmine said.
"I love you guys too"
They all gave you hugs and then it was time for rehearsal.
You walked out, you saw Leslie talking to Daveed and Oak, it looked like he was on the verge of tears, his eyes wore glassy. You could tell he was probably venting to them, and you weren't mad of course because you literally just vented to the girls, your glad he has someone to talk to, Daveed noticed you staring and he motioned for you to talk to Leslie with eyes. You mouthed out a, "later" and he slightly shook his head.
'I'm so sorry Les' you thought
'I need to get him out of my head, or else I won't survive' you thought again.
God this was so hard.
You went to the bottom of the stage to play your piano.
There was a time during rehearsal were you had to play 'Dear Theodosia' and your mind kept falling back to the Study Night you had with Leslie.
You almost started crying and you're pretty sure Leslie did too.
Mainly because Tommy Kail decided to be a jerk, even though he doesn't know anything that happened, he said "Good acting Leslie, you made yourself cry and even Y/N cry" he chuckled.
You rolled your eyes and put your head in your hands.
It was time for 'Say No To This' and you got in your costume.
You walked out and Leslie started the song. You glanced over at him when he walked off and his eyes were glassy again.
'I don't even want to be here anymore' you thought to yourself.
You finished the song, again almost crying. You walked off the stage and started walking towards Leslie, forgetting what had happened, then remembering you stopped in your tracks and almost started crying again. Remembering the memories of the nicknames with Leslie, the kisses, the sweet whispers, the jokes, you couldn't take it anymore. You ran into your dressing room and started sobbing into your pillow.

Leslie's POV
It was the end of rehearsal. I saw Y/N approaching me and she looked happy, but then something changed. Like something just clicked in her head, her beautiful face, fell so quickly, she looked like she was about to break. I wanted to run up to her, squeeze her, kiss her, love her, cuddle her, tell her everything is alright, and just comfort her. Something was definitely up, I know Y/N would never just leave me, she loves me and I love her, I need to figure out what's wrong. She ran off and I watched her go to her dressing room. With tears falling from her eyes. The girls started to make their way to her door but I stopped them.
"Wait!" I whispered yelled.
"Let me talk to her"
They looked at each other then back at me and nodded.
I opened the door and lightly knocked. Even though it didn't matter that I knocked because I opened the door first.
She was sobbing into a pillow, I felt so bad, even though it wasn't my fault.
"Whoever you are, leave me alone!" She mumbled into the pillow.
"I'm afraid I can't do that love" I gave her a saddened smile as she slightly looked up.
"Les?" She sobbed out into her pillow.
I went and sat by her.
"What's wrong gorgeous?" I rubbed her back.
"I don't know if I can tell you" she whispered, and whimpered at the same time. It was kind of hot 'Leslie wtf' I thought.
"You can tell me anything" I pulled her into my chest.
She pulled away. Why? I thought. She would never and clearly she still loves me, what happened.
"It's for your safety" she put her head in her hands.
I took her hands and pulled them away from her face and she looked away.
"What about your safety?" Checkmate.
I grabbed her chin and made her look at me.
"I care too much to wonder about my safety, I just want you to be safe" she looked deep in my eyes, while I looked in hers.
"And I want you to be safe, so please, love, let me keep you safe" tears brimmed her eyes, I could see she couldn't take the pain anymore, she pulled me into a hug and sobbed in my collarbone.
"I'm so sorry" she sobbed.
"I didn't mean to hurt you, it's Daniel's fault" she sobbed.
"Daniel?!" I quickly pulled out of the hug and looked in her eyes. She nodded her head frantically.
"What the hell did he do?!" I pulled her back into the hug. She crumbled in my arms like a weak puppy.
"When you left" she choked on her sobs. "I left my bag in the theater and I ran to go get it back" she sobbed harder. "He was there, and he said that if he found out I was with anyone else, he would kill him" she hugged me harder.
"I'm so sorry" I hugged her back harder.
"Please, forgive me" she sobbed
"Why wouldn't I forgive you? You shouldn't be sorry in the first place, I'm sorry I wasn't there, I should've protected you" I looked at her.
"That's why I can't come back" she wiped her tears.
"Baby, please come back, how can I protect you if I'm not with you?" I rubbed her cheek with my thumb.
"You can't, but who's going to protect you" she looked down in defeat.
"You will" she looked up confused.
"We can protect each other"
"But I'm not strong" she said confused.
"You don't have to be, we will be there for each other" I kissed her nose.
"Les, I don't know, I'm scared" she whispered.
"Please" I cried out.
"Can I think about it?" She whispered
I nodded my head and gave her another big hug.
"Can we FaceTime tonight?" She asked in my collarbone.
"Of course" I whispered and I walked her out to her car.
"I love you" I kissed her cheek.
"I love you too, please, Les, stay safe" she kissed my lips instead.
"I promise" and she drove off.

*time skip*

Y/Ns POV
I got home and me and Leslie FaceTimed. The beginning of the call was sad and gloomy. But then we started to forget about the sad stuff and just act like little middle schoolers talking to their partners on the phone because their parents wouldn't let them see each other yet.
There was flirting and giggles. The flirting was usually Leslie and the giggles were usually me.
Leslie kept taking FaceTime photos of you and you would try and hide your face.
"Y/N your beautiful" he said
"No I'm not, I'm in pajamas and my makeup is off" you hid your face with your hands.
"Well I think you're beautiful, so I'm keeping all this photos" he stuck out his tongue.
"Oh whatever" you flipped him off with your pinky
"Can we call all night tonight?" You asked and continued with, "it's hard not sleeping with you" you slightly blushed.
"Same here," Leslie gave you a saddened smile. "But yes, we can" I giggled.

*time skip*

3rd person POV
They both fell asleep on the phone. Y/Ns soft snores on the phone and Leslie moving around like all the time.

(Hope you guys loved this chapter,
Word count: 2061. 🤭)