Wizard's Wish - (Kinda) Yandere SGE x reader

Chapter 70: Rebel Hearts

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Once lunch was served, Merlin cleared his throat and prepared to speak, but no one paid the slightest attention. They were far too busy with the food.

With more than twenty people to serve– thirteen old heroes, three young witches, a former queen and her knight, a future queen and her future king and future advisor, and a weasel– Merlin's hat had hidden away in the kitchen, letting out shrieks of stress, until one by one, silver platters began magically floating through the swiping door. Soon the dining table was a smörgåsbord of colorful, cosmopolitan delights: truffled crab salad, curried venison with beetroot jelly, shredded duck in a citrus marinade, peppered-ham pizza on roasted pitas, a yogurt-and-mint olive tapenade, fennel and wildflower salad, and a chocolate bouchén cake with crispy honeycomb.

With the old League heroes starving from their travails in the Woods and the youngsters deprived of breakfast by the morning's events, the dining room quickly turned into a battle scene, so crowded and muggy with jostling bodies and hands stabbing for pizza and cake that Y/n couldn't even find Tedros nor Agatha or Hort. She didn't bother to find them after lunch either, for she'd eaten too much and too fast and had to hide behind a sofa in the den where she could clutch her belly and burp in private. Glancing up, she saw everyone else had the same idea; each nook and cranny of the farmhouse was filled with a young or old body, nursing indigestion or passed out in a food coma.

Y/n yawned and closed her eyes, about to join the comatose, when she felt herself being shaken violently again.
"After everything we did to get you in and out of that school, after risking our lives for you, you still managed to not convince Sophie to destroy your rings and even managed to get captured by her?" Hester's voice attacked.
Y/n opened her eyes. "I'm sorry, Hester–"
"First of all, you can't talk to your friends in a diamond crown. It's pretentious," said Anadil.
Y/n had forgotten she even had it on. She quickly pulled off the diadem and held it in her lap.

"Can I wear it for a bit?" Dot asked, mouth full of pizza turned chocolate. "I bet it'll look nice on me."
"If it can fit around your head," Hester mumbled.
Dot hurled her pizza at her, smacking Hester in the cheek. "Do you know how unfair that is, you contemptuous git! You made me gain weight in order to stay in the coven and now you're making fun of me for it? Are you that insecure that you need me to be fat to feel okay about yourself? Well, you picked the wrong piggy tail to pull, honey. I love myself no matter what I look like, so nothing you say to me will ever make me feel ugly again. Because unlike you, Hester, I'll never be ugly inside."
Hester gaped at Dot like she was a rabid bear. "Y/n. Give the girl the damned crown before she stays this way forever."
Dot snatched the diadem before Y/n could give it over and admired herself in a brass urn as she jammed it on (upside down and backwards, but no one said a thing).

"Now where were we," said Anadil. "Oh right. The part where Y/n fails us all."
Any pleasure Y/n took from Dot's tirade evaporated.
"Listen, I thought I could convince Sophie to destroy the ring. We'd even gotten close again in the last few days. It was like she was the old Sophie and we were twelve again. I even confessed my love to her myself, but she didn't believe me..." She remembered their last moments together in the cave and guilt rushed through her. "I had my chance. Maybe if I had said it differently or–"
"You don't have to defend yourself, Y/n. The truth is it doesn't matter what you would have done," Hester said with awkward sympathy, clearly smarting from Dot's words. "We've warned you since the day you got here. All three of us did. Sophie was sorted into the School for Evil for a reason. And no matter how much you love her or try to change her, that's where she was always going to end up."
"We just didn't imagine she would drag you after her in chains," said Anadil. "How are we going to make her want to destroy your rings now..."
A quiet doom fell over the witches' faces and Y/n realized why everyone had ignored Merlin when he'd tried to speak before lunch. They wanted a few precious moments before they had to face the truth.
The truth that Sophie destroying her and Y/n's rings was the only way to kill the School Master and stop him from killing them. And now that Sophie had returned to Evil, there was no hope of her destroying the rings at all.