DARLING (yanderes x reader)

XXXV- family secrets

(Y/n) couldn't believe it.

She had spent so much time and energy looking for Grey, trying to run after every hint and every lead that could maybe guide her over to her sister. She never thought Grey would have been the one to find her instead, and take her away to the gardens of the mayor's mansion, the two of them cloaked in darkness and hidden from sight behind tall bushes.

But there was no mistaking it, the woman standing in front of her was indeed Grey, and she looked more like herself than ever, in spite of the obvious concern and disapproval in her hazel eyes. She probably didn't like the idea of (Y/n) in the Infected city, she'd always seen (Y/n) as weak and vulnerable after all, as someone she needed to protect from the outside world.

But Grey would have to get used to the thought of (Y/n) living in the city, because she wasn't leaving any time soon.

(Y/n) wouldn't be returning to the Uninfected Community. Never. Not now that she had built a life for herself in the city and had gotten a taste of sweet freedom. The very same freedom she had always been denied by both their mother and Grey herself.

Grey heaved a heavy sigh and flung her arms around (Y/n) in a tight embrace.

"I knew it was you the moment I saw you." Grey said in the crook of her sister's neck, squeezing her tighter still to compensate for all the times she had missed (Y/n).

Leaving the Uninfected Community hadn't been an easy decision to make. Truly, it had been the most heart wrenching choice she had ever made for herself. Leaving (Y/n) behind had been the hardest part of her escape.

But even so, Grey knew she had made the right decision. The Uninfected Community wasn't a place for her, it had never been home. Both herself and their mother knew it.

Running away had become her only option. That much had become abundantly clear when Grey had met Zeynep, her current girlfriend and the love of her life, the only person who had ever understood her and seen her for who she really was without hating her for it.

Still, this hadn't made abandoning (Y/n) any easier.

"What are you doing here?" Grey continued, stepping away from their embrace to hold (Y/n)'s forearms instead. "Do you know how dangerous the city is for you?"

When (Y/n) had imagined her reunion with Grey, she had always imagined the both of them hugging each other tight, crying into each other's arms and reassuring one another that everything would be alright from then on. But the scene currently unfolding in front of her was miles apart from that.

"I came for you." (Y/n) clarified, stepping away from their embrace to instead hold onto Grey's forearms. "I came because I thought you needed me."

Grey's brows furrowed with incomprehension. "Needed you?"

(Y/n) swallowed back the lump of apprehension in the back of her throat.

"You never came back. Mom and I thought something must have happened to you and- I just couldn't live with myself knowing that you were out there all alone and possibly in danger." (Y/n) continued, rubbing soothing circles on Grey's smooth skin, though she didn't know whether it was to reassure Grey or herself.

"(Y/n)..." Grey softened, understanding dawning on her. "I-I'm really, really sorry."

A comfortable silence stretched between the two of them, until Grey continued.

"You shouldn't have come." Grey said, "It's dangerous for you here. I'm fine, really. I promise. I'm sorry for worrying you and disappearing like this but I'm alright. You need to go back home."