(Chapter is on the shorter side, but another one will come tomorrow)
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By the time the weak warmth of sunshine left the League Headquarters, the League was gone too.
Y/n stood with Merlin and Agatha under a fungus-infected oak a few paces from the entrance hole, watching twelve old heroes go their separate ways into the Woods, satchels of clothes, food, and drink weighing down their backs. Peter pan, Tinkerbell, and Cinderella journeyed to the west, Pinocchio and Red Riding Hood to the east, Jack and Briar Rose to the north, and Uma, Yuba, and the white Rabbit to the south, with Hansel and Gretel wheeling their rickety chairs behind them.
Tedros sidled up to Y/n. "Just when I was starting to feel fond of the old farts," he said, shivering a bit in his clothes. "You think we'll ever see them again, Merlin?"
"I hope so, dear boy. Because it will mean we're all still alive," said the wizard, pulling two black cloaks from his hat, handing Tedros and Y/n one each. "In the meantime, there are bigger questions to be answered." Merlin fixed subtly on Y/n. "Like when Sophie will destroy the ring."
"What do you think she's waiting for?" Tedros asked, struggling to button his tight cloak. "Um, are you sure this one's mine?"
Y/n stared at Merlin and Agatha, silently asking whether they should tell Tedros the truth. Tell him Sophie had lied about destroying the ring. Tell him she wouldn't kill the School Master until he kissed her and saw what he'd been missing... until he took her as Camelot's queen.
But Merlin pressed his lips tight, his eyes dulled, and Agatha shook her head, taking a few extra bites of her breakfast sandwich in stress and anxiety, and Y/n knew what they were thinking.
Sophie had warned her. She'd know if Tedros was faking his intent before he even said a word. And if she did... there'd be no way back.
No, thought Y/n. If Sophie was to destroy the ring, she'd have to get Tedros for real.
Her gut twisted tighter.
"Well?" Tedros pushed, subduing his last button with a growl. "What is she waiting for?"
Your lips on hers, Y/n thought. "She needs a safe space where she can rest and think," she said quickly, her ears turned red and she looked everywhere but at Tedros. "That's what all of us need, to be honest."
"Relax, worrywart," said Tedros, massaging her shoulder. "I know you're not much of a liar, but this isn't grand theater. Just act insecure around me, like you don't know if you can be happy as my queen, and I'll act like I'm struggling to choose between you and her."
Y/n turned to look at him, eyes wide, as she realized this was more complicated than she believed. "Act?"
"Y/n, I thought you would have realized by now," Tedros said, giving her a sweet smile that made Y/n feel sick, considering the context. "Of course I never meant any of that with giving Sophie a 'second chance'. In the end, you're always mine."
Y/n said nothing, just gaping. She felt like the world was spinning, feeling like her mind was pulled in five different directions that were all playing tug of war.
"M, you said the safe house is beyond the Frostplains?" Tedros asked. "That's a two-day journey northeast."
"And the trail's quite narrow through the Never Lands," Merlin added. "Given there are five of you now, we certainly can't travel in a pack with the Dark Army on the hunt..." he looked at Y/n keenly. "Which means we'll have to travel two by two, with each pair a good ways behind to avoid drawing attention."
"Fair enough," Tedros surmised, clutching Y/n by the wrist. "You lead the way together with Agatha, M, and I'll walk with–"
"Yoo-hoo, here I am!"
Tedros, Agatha, and Y/n spun to see two muscular arms thrust Sophie out of the cave hole like a dancer bursting out of a birthday cake. She bustled towards them in the pretty new clothing Y/n had conjured for her, clothes that were not at all appropriate for a hike in the cold. But she looked even more beautiful now than Y/n had left her, for Sophie had extremely carefully washed her hair and skin to perfection, and applied extra makeup this day.
Tedros' cloak buttons popped open.
Agatha coughed on her breakfast sandwich in surprise.
Y/n dropped her satchel.
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Wizard's Wish - (Kinda) Yandere SGE x reader
FanfictionY/n was a normal village girl living in Gaveldon with her two best friends, Sophie and Agatha. Who could imagine how life would change for her when she was kidnapped to a school for the good and evil.
