Redundancy [Fyodor Dostoyevsky x Reader]

Chapter 6: Visit

A/N: !! Important

Hello team! I've missed you. How is everyone? I'm all settled in and starting finals T-T Either way, this is an important chapter even if it's all dialogue! Anyway. Back to law essay writing hell. Enjoy! Rei

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!! I was wondering where to take this in association with the anime or manga's plotline. I do want it to be predictable as a reader!

!! A few requests have been made for displaying fanart (e.g. like the one shown by my lil guy) and playlists, these will be featured, alongside the playlists I use while drafting. (Or we could do a communal one :3) Wattpad users, let me know if you need link access.

!! I have around 5-7 chapters of a new book upcoming. I'd like to post a few chapters, but here's a preview! Feel free to check it out, it has similar themes and I plan to make a version for a self-insert.

(An excerpt:

The large vase was fulfilled with begonias and mulberries. An odd combination, as she couldn't remember the symbolism. Things like this usually don't slip her mind. Towards the back, there had seemed to be doors that led further back, one door for the left, and one for the right. 'The building that extended beyond must've held the rooms for the clergy,' Lilith guessed. 'But, why is no one around?' she thought to herself, lips pursed in concentration. Knowing that the position she was in, exploring secluded land without a warrant, would've likely gotten her in serious trouble, she made a move to leave. However, just as she was about to escape from the devil's claws, he call ed out to her.

"Excuse me, miss. You seem lost." Once her eyes met coal black, she remembered the meaning of the flowers:

a warning,

'I will not survive you'.)

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Chapter 6: Visit. Unedited.

Stalked. LN was being stalked. She knew it, from the way her hairs on her arms would stand to attention every time she stepped foot inside her gaunt flat. The way a book or two would be missing from her couch or her nightstand. Her stalker was definitely not stupid–no, they were teasing her. It wasn't as if LN didn't know who they were.

She had a hunch, however, she just couldn't narrow it down. She couldn't put it past Dazai to do this sort of thing. Hell–perhaps it was one of Mori's stupid pranks, or some stray she picked up along the way. Whoever it is, the sleep-deprived woman couldn't care enough to figure it out. If they just wanted to be a little creep and move things around in her home like a poltergeist, then so be it.

However, there is a line that was crossed.

"Are you fucking kidding me?" LN's eyes seem to bulge out of her skull. Her new pack of cigarettes, her favourite ones from the shitty gas station a few blocks east–gone! Her fingers desperately searched, vying for anything in every pocket of every jacket she owned. Only to produce nothing.

A hand reaches out to her–a stark reminder of the hand hovering above her, a puppet manipulated by strings. Eyes narrowing, her lips pursed together as she felt her throat tighten. Her immediate instinct was to freeze, albeit she knew better. Freezing ultimately meant falling off life's raft.

Her arm jutted out, a stark uppercut directed towards the intruder's jaw. YN made contact with something, only to struggle to free herself from the intrusion's grip. Her head spun like a swivel to meet the stranger's eyes–fuschia–and her hand drops.

"Well, someone's happy to see me." Fyodor remarks sarcastically, yet not letting go of her hand. LN scoffs, swatting his hand away from her. His grip tightened on her hand, eyebrows furrowing as he took a step closer to her. His gaze wandered, noticing the little details on her hands.