Y/N's pov:
"Alrighty- here are the last forms!" shouts Y/B/F/N as she lazily throws a packet full of paperwork pertaining to Taylor and Laural Gates. Nodding, you grab it without tearing your eyes from the other reports you were reading. In one ear, you had your earpod listening to the military's system. Keeping an ear open for any last-minute updates on the court's attempt to snag the maniacs that attacked Nevermore last autumn. While also, looking for any clues connected to what happened to your cousin.
The moment you felt your contract with Atredis activate one of the agreements of your contract with him- which was protect your followers/friends from your now father's mind controlling ability, the acidic taste of betrayal burns your mouth. Swallowing it down to accept it was impossible to do because you knew you would set your entire body on fire with the idea of your father playing dirty with your brother. But spitting it out would make you feel emptier than you've ever felt. Now that you had gained back all your memories of Y/B/N, your heart and soul demanded closure on the odd case surrounding his betrayal. In none of your memories do you remember his hatred for normies. Yes, he did indeed find them annoying, but to be disgusted by them in such a manner? It was like he was an entire different person. Hell, the times you would meet him in secret when he claimed his name was Fedrick, he didn't act like the evidence claimed he did.
Guess I'm not meant to have a loving, normal family, you think as you flip through the last form quickly and yank the new one open. "And of fucking course this bitch is here- FaIrBuRn."
Your cousin/best friend laughs as she plops herself on your desk, spinning Dr. Fairburn's psychological book on Outcasts' mentality and brain on her finger like a basketball. "Good to see a known face again."
You scoff, scanning through the papers. The detailed notes from Neo showed that Taylor wasn't making any progress. No matter what the twisted doctor did, he didn't budge. Shockingly, making you smile for someone you found annoying and untrusting was struggling in the very area they claimed was their expertise. At the same time, Taylor was being a pincushion for her.
However, that smile didn't last long, for the reports on the visits he has had made you ponder. When his father visited, he tried to kill him and kept screaming about wanting to tear him into shreds. "Do we still have the old documents on that thing's therapy sessions?"
"Yeah, I would need to fish them out- why?"
"His relationship with his father is very interesting. Something his dad did was the main key to unlocking his hyde form. I need to know what it was." Her Y/B/F/E/C ask you if your being serious. "The better I know the bastard the better I'll know how to fuck with him and why he would let someone like Laurel to use him like that. I mean- unless he was secretly a freak, then sure- why wouldn't he follow an unknown older woman dressed as a teacher to the woods to be chained up in a cave? But he gives vanilla-"
"EXACTLY-"
"But so do I." She gags and wacks your shoulder. "But honestly, the more we know the better. Know thy enemy and know thyself; in a hundred battles, you will never be defeated. We can't afford any more fuck ups."
"Aka no more self-sacrificing yourself for people and taking breaks," she yanks the report away from you. The shadows behind her swap the report Neo made with a random class assignment. Sliding the forms open right on the page you left off on.
A throat-scraping cough splutters out of your mouth. Crumpling you in half for the pain in your stomach and chest shredded your soul a bit more. Y/B/F/N jumps down from the desk and grabs your shoulders to guide you to your bed. Flicking your arms from her grip, you continue to read the report with one watery eye open. Through heavy breaths that took more of your energy than giving you any, you highlight and pin areas of high interest. While using your shadow magic to drag your now annoyed and cursing ride-and-die comrade further from you.
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Of Woes and Shadows (Wednesday x reader)
Vampirey/n returns to Nevermore after being away for a while due to doing her duties as Earl of the Vampire court. However, upon her arrival, she receives news that the monster cases she was investigating had escalated even more during her absence. But als...
