Valorant One-Shot Book

Overworked by her own design. (Killjoy-centric)

headcanon: Killjoy fights to keep up her appearance of being smart. she wants others to see that shes as useful as they think she is, and the stress is eating at her.

Killjoy wasn't feeling good. She didn't know what it was (she did), and had decided to just power through instead of resting her body. She was in her Workshop, tinkering on her bots, though very sluggishly, since she had to keep up appearances, show the protocol she was useful and that they could trust her(they already did). She whimpered softly as her head pulsed in pain, and she leaned over to rest her head against her desk, hoping the coolness of the desk made the pain go away. The steaming cup of coffee right beside her untouched as her stomach rolled in knots. 

In the cafeteria Raze was talking with Neon and Breach as she ate her breakfast, when the question was brought up. "Is Killjoy feeling okay?" Neon asked, turning to Raze with a slight worried expression. "Haven't seen her today, but she looked fine last night." Breach said almost immediately, shrugging the comment off, though Raze perked up. "Huh? Did she look sick?" Neon shrugged and put down her spoon. "She Came in earlier, to get some coffee like normal and Fade told me she looked sick.." Razes eyebrows furrowed at that, trying to think back to last night. "She was fine when I woke up... I'll go check on her." with that Raze pushed herself up, grabbing her plate to put in the sink and grabbing a water, since knowing her girlfriend, she had no water yet, and headed out towards the workshops, waving happily to her friends before she disappeared. "Should we get Sage just in case?" Neon asked, looking to the Swede who shrugged. "It's fine Neon, if shes needed Raze will get her." The lighting radinate simply nodded, not liking feeling useless when her friend could be sick. 

Raze passed Viper on the way to the workshops, an one look on the duelists face had Viper pausing. "Raze. What did you do?" she said sternly, turning to the duelist who paused at her question. "h-huh? Nothing i swear!" Viper raised a eyebrow at that response, studying the duelist carefully. "then why do you look so guilty?" Raze paused at that, if Killjoy was sick then getting more agents involved would stress the engineer out, though Viper was one of Killjoys closets friends, and besides you can't hide anything from the vicious snake. "Well?" being shaken out of her thoughts Raze sighs, deciding to just tell the snake. "Alright, Neon told me that Killjoy was sick.. so im going to check on her.." Viper stood quietly at that information. "She did seem abit off when she went to get coffee this morning. Just thought nothing of it." Raze nodded and fidgeted slightly. Viper just hmed softly before allowing Raze to be on her way. Reaching the workshop she shared with Killjoy she knocked softly, allowing the engineer to deny. "Hey Klara, are you in babes?" When that got no response Raze narrowed her eyes and pressed her hand against the scanner, watching it beep green before pushing the doors open.

the Workshop was just as much of a disaster as any other time he walked in, the only difference was the lights were off, the only source of light was a lamp on Klaras desk. sitting at said desk was Killjoy, slumped over in her chair and still in Pjs, which wasn't uncommon for the engineer. her head was against the desk, missing her normal beanie, and when raze moved closer she could see her face was strained. Setting the water bottle down on the desk the brazilian quietly reached over to feel her forehead, to find there was no signs of a fever.  "O que há de errado, meu amor?" Raze whispered softly,  unsure if she should wake the engineer, or if she should just let her sleep. Before she could make a decision, Killjoy startled awake with a whimper, and looked around extremely confused. Raze watched as Killjoys brain slowly caught up before speaking. "Hey baby.. Neon told me you didn't look well.. so i came to check on you.."

Killjoy mumbled softly, feeling her headache slowly returned as she turned in her chair and rested her head against her girlfriends stomach, hearing the soft laugh from said girl. "What's wrong meu Amor? hm?" raze said softly, running her hands through her hair, hearing the hum of approval. "Dunno.. just woke up with a headache.. but i gotta get things done today, and Brimstone is still waiting on a few notes.." Killjoy said softly, not moving from her girlfriends embrace. Raze hummed softly, though not fully accepting the answer her girlfriend gave. "Is that all Klara? your shaking lightly. you can take a break love. everything can wait if your not feeling good." Klara shook her head and slowly moved her head away from her girlfriend and turning back to her desk, and raze caught the exhausted look on her face. "Klara.. have you been sleeping?" 

Killjoy just mumbled softly, grabbing her tools and restarting to work on her turret, though her movement was sluggish and slow. Tan hands grabbed hers, turning her to face her girlfriend Concern clear in the brazilians face. "Klara, it's time for a break. Liam can wait another day for his reports. your obviously super overworked and tired." Killjoy shook her head, fighting back the tears that threatened to fall. "I-I can't.. this is how i prove my worth Tayanne, I can't just stop because if I do then people won't see the genius of germany, all they will see is a lazy engineer. I gotta prove im useful to the protocol befo-" "Klara Bohringer. You stop that right now. you are a useful part of this team. Everyone here know it. Who else could make the diffuser? Who else keeps our software update, and bots up and running perfectly. Liam and Viper trust you so much love, they don't care if you take just a day off. your place will not be compromised, and no one thinks your lazy. i can promise you this love." 

Now KJ was openly crying, though softly. She tried to turn her face away, though stopped when Raze reached out and gently cupped her cheeks, wiping away the tears. "please baby.. just one day okay? take a break, relax, let that brain of yours have a break. why dont we go mess with Pheonix or jett, or watch that show you love so much." Killjoy just simply nodded, slowly getting the tears to stop as she leaned into her girlfriends warmth, feeling her eyes slipping close to the soft chuckling of her Girlfriend