Nothing to blame ~ Wriothesley x Reader

A cup of tea with stitches

After a few short hours of being on a boat, they finally made it back to Romaritime harbor. "Oh how I missed the fresh Fontaine air." Lucas said as he took a deep breath of fresh air.

The only thing on Wriothesley's mind right now is your wellbeing... Nothing else. The journey you both had together was only because of that one murder case and the disappearance of the child. Ever since you arrived in his territory, all you ever wanted is to get out and find your child. You did everything just to see your baby again.

But now that the baby was confirmed dead, there was no need for you to return back to Fontaine. He wasn't sure if he will be able to see you again. Not to forget.. you also lost your memories according to Agent 59. You would not remember a reason why you would go back to Fontaine.

His whole mind was about to split in two. he couldn't do anything about your wellbeing. He had to go back to the fortress.. that's where his duty lies.

"Your Grace!" he was suddenly cut off from his train of thoughts. "I called you like around 7 times. Are you alright? We still need to get your wounds properly treated. I don't think those bandages we applied are enough." Lucas was concerned about his wellbeing.

"Yeah.. looks like I'd have to get stitches again." Wriothesley chuckled despite being heavily wounded. "Your Grace, our aquabus is here. We better not miss it." One of his men informed him.

"Let's get going then." Navia said as she hopped on to the aquabus, Lucas and Wriothesley followed right after.

The usual cheerful melusine Aeval was shocked to see all of her passengers conditions. "oh my... are you alright. You all seem a bit.. fatigued.."

"I'm glad you noticed miss Aeval, if you don't mind we will rest for awhile." Navia informed the melusine. Aeval nodded at her words "As you wish miss Navia."

the men who were on watch finally got their well deserved rest. His vest was slowly turning into a crimson red color within seconds "Your grace.. once we are off this aquabus.. you have to get those wounds stitched up immediately. You look like a wreck.." Navia expressed her concerns about his heavy wounds.

Wriothesley agreed with Navia about his appearance. He looked like a mess with all those blood stains on his vest. He also had to get his clothes fixed due to the cuts. Navia also took notice to his clothes, after noticing the red spread across his clothes.

"I'll gladly bring your damaged clothes to Chioriya boutique if you like." Navia offered but Wriothesley kindly refused "No need miss Navia, I don't want to trouble you with such trivial matters. My men could easily handle such responsibilities."

The Aquabus ride felt quite quick after talking for a while. I didn't take long til they were in the city. The group of fontainians made sure they wouldn't alert the gardes about their appearances. Especially Wriothesley... he's the most wounded person among all the people that accompanied him to Sumeru.

There were a few people there and there taking glances at them, but they didn't really notice anything suspicious, even though Wriothesley was halfway covered in blood.

Before they knew it, they were at Navia's house in Fleuve Cendre. Also known as your temporary home.  "Being here gives me so back many memories." Navia smiled softly at the sight of her second headquarters. "Demoiselle.. we were only gone for a few days.. but I kinda feel the same way." Lucas added his own opinions as well.

After they made themselves comfortable in the house. It was time to treat the injured aka Wriothesley. "I don't think Sigewinne will be able to treat His Grace anytime soon." Oscar said as he walked over to Wriothesley who was sitting on the couch. " I don't think anyone from us has studied in the medical department." Oscar added as he inspected all of his colleagues.

It was now Lucas time to shine, he stood forth and volunteered himself  "I may have studied medicine for a while, but I can't promise you the stitches will look good." He paused before continuing "There's a med kit in the bathroom and some other supplies."

Lucas approached Wriothesley to ask for his permission to look at his wounds, while the others were searching for the supplies. "Let's get this over with." Wriothesley said as he took his vest and his shirt off.

Navia quickly rushed over with the medical supplies. "Do you think we have anything anesthesia like? Or does Wriothesley have to bear through the pain." She asked while opening the med kit and searching through its contents.

"We found a needle and some threads." A group of men came down the stairs, with some supplies in hand. "We got now most of the stuff except anesthesia. All I got in here is Ibuprofen and I'm not sure if that will bring us any use." Navia informed Lucas as she took everything out of the med kit.

"I can work without anesthetics, just do your thing." Wriothesley was already prepared to be sewn on, but Lucas was still hesitating about something. "Your Grace... but I think it's best for you to be on anesthesia."

Wriothesley sighed when he heard Lucas words "I prefer not being injected with drugs. I can handle the pain.. I have a high pain tolerance." Wriothesley tried to convince him to not use anesthetics on him, even though they also didn't have any.

Lucas still felt hesitant with the thought about not using any anesthetics, but since Wriothesley was giving him permission to start stitching.. he had no choice but to do what the duke says.

"If you say so your grace, but at least take some ibuprofen afterwards.. just in case." Lucas suggested as he put the thread through the needle.

Wriothesley nodded at his words before he started the procedure. "Just tell me when it starts to hurt." Lucas told him as he was half way done with his first wound.

"Yeah, yeah.. just do your thing." Wriothesley grumbled as he sat there surprisingly calm despite being sewn into. He did say he had a high pain tolerance. Other people would've been groaning and crying in pain. Lucas took his words as a joke when he first mentioned high pain tolerance. He didn't believe people had that. He knew that everyone was a bit different with getting stitches. But feeling nothing while getting them (without anesthesia), he didn't believe that at first. But Wriothesley has proved him wrong.

What he didn't know.. Wriothesley was a complete different breed, even Sigewinne was surprised by his behavior. Most inmates were scared by needles but Wriothesley didn't care at all. The head nurse herself even mentioned once that she never saw a tough man like his Grace.

Before they knew it Wriothesley was all stitched up and good to go. "Thank you for your service.. Lucas." Wriothesley thanked him as he stood up from the couch. During all that stitching, Wriothesley's men have decided to make themselves comfortable. Navia offered them some tea and they all gladly accepted her kindness.

Wriothesley knew there was a whiff of tea in the air, his patience was running low as he heard tea being brewed from afar. Now that he finally was done he quickly hurried to the kitchen where the tea was being made.

"Oh.. your Grace! You're alright! Do you want some tea?" Navia offered him a cup as well. "What do you think I rushed over here for?" He chuckled as he accepted the cup with gratitude.

Before he could even take a sip, Lucas has called his name "Your Grace! We still have to disinfect your stitches!" He yelled from the living room. Wriothesley let out a loud sigh before returning from where he came. Navia tried to hold in her laugh as she just witnessed his grumpiness.

I'm very sorry for slow updates, I have a lot of exams to do. This is a filler chapter, but I still hope you liked it. Please leave a vote if you enjoyed this day's chapter, I would be very happy :) I can't believe this book has made it to 1. #wriothesley

I never thought this book would get this far. I want to thank every reader for joining me on this journey. After this book's end. I will start a new fanfiction, a Mydei x reader one. The first chapter is already uploaded for you to read. If there are any questions about this book, I would do a q&a soon. I hope you have an amazing day <3
~Tem