Misfits (ekko x reader)

XLI.

Author's note: I took a break... again... and I'm back now! But I will have to resort to posting once a week from now on, due to me not being able to write the chapters as fast as I am posting them anymore. Well anyway, have a great day!! xoxo

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"I made a few sketches, I'll show you, hang on."
You pushed yourself up off the ground and walked up to your desk quickly, swiping your sketchbook off of it and returning to Ekko, slipping onto the ground next to him again, scattering a few parts of the blown up board in the process. The book fell into his hands and you put the parts back onto the pile as the boy flipped through the pages of paper, looking at the drawing you made in the past instead of finding the sketches you told him about.
"You can draw pretty good actually, I had no idea."
Your eyes tore away from fixing the pile and registered what you just put into his hands, you quickly grabbed it away from him, skimming to the page with the sketches and handing it back to him.

"Don't look at a different page than this one, please."
"Oh uh, I mean yeah, sure? Why though?"
Ekko gave you a questioning look, before returning to the drawn on paper page, looking over the sketch, his face displaying various emotions as he went through the thought process of making the sketch a reality.
"There's some stuff in there that I don't want anyone to see."
"Okay, that's fair."
He shrugged and closed the book with a snap, giving it back to you and then standing up. You took the sketchbook from him again and looked up at Ekko towering over you as his hand stretched towards you, offering to help you up as many times before. Without much hesitation, you accepted it and stood up too, facing him, waiting for the boy to say something and explain why you were standing now.

"Let's get to work then."
He nodded to you and turned to the door to leave, and you went to take the sketchbook back to your table. Ekko waited for you outside of your room, and then headed towards the staircase, but starting to descend instead of going up, which surprised you.
"We're not going to your room?"
"And how would something as big as that fit into my room exactly?"
The boy turned his head to face you as you went down the stairs, following him a few paces behind, a smug expression painting his face, before he tripped and almost fell, catching the railing at the last second to stop himself. You laughed at him, waiting for him to regain his balance and continue walking and then answering him.
"Karma's a bitch huh?"

"Welcome to my... I actually don't know what to call this room, uh, I make bigger things here basically."
"Why did I have no idea a room like this was here?"
You asked and walked into the room after Ekko, taking in the many tools and almost finished projects, he really had a taste for mess huh.
"Probably because you haven't seen like eighty percent of the base yet."
"That... makes perfect sense actually."
You admitted, watching as the boy moved through the room, pulling out different parts and gathering them into a box. He mumbled something to himself and pulled the box towards a messy desk, probably the place where he worked on his inventions and stuff.

"I'm missing some things here,"
Ekko stated as he started to lay out the parts from the box on the desk and looked at you for a moment, quickly returning to what he was doing, before he spoke again.
"so I'll write you a list and you'll have to go get them, maybe take Heimerdinger with you, he'll help."
Metal bolts clattered as Ekko placed them onto the table, you made your way to him carefully, trying to avoid bumping into anything in the process. Ekko pulled out a piece of dirty paper from god knows where and took a pencil off the desk, scribbling down a few words, then he looked into the box again and added something to the list, repeating this a few times. You were watching with interest, before you realized you haven't answered him yet, you shook your head and blinked a few times.

"Yeah, of course."
"Great, well here you go, that should be all I hope, and please don't blow yourself up again okay?"
The paper with the material list got swept off the table by the boys hand and he turned his attention to you, looking up from his chair, while handing you the piece of paper.
"What, you'll miss me?"
You raised a brow and gave him a smug smile, swiftly taking the list from his hand, fixing your eyes on it and reading its contents.
"Oh yeah very."
The boy chuckled softly as you read through the listed materials.
"Who else will come and save me when I specifically told them not to?"