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

Chapter 123: Back to the Beginning

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When you're sure you've died, it's strange to wake up.
Especially by something licking her face, and the sound of two boys who are very clearly in love.

"Look, Willam, she's got it. She'd got Merlin's beard!"
"Shouldn't have it her that hard, Bogden. She's a girl! Tedros will probably have your head for this!"
"My sisters beat me up all the time. You're the one who told me to stop her—"
"I meant call her name, like a civilized person."
"Snake would have heard us!"

"Do you clods ever shut up?" growled a third voice, deep and gravelly, as Y/n felt rough fingers pry apart her eyelids.
"Pupils dilated... nostrils flared... Just a bit of shock. It's how I wake up after a good night at the Arrow. Or used to, at least."
Y/n's eyes flickered open. The first thing she noticed was the white kitten licking her face. The second was the ruddy, handsome face, floppy red-brown curls dangling over his brow.
"R-R-Robin?" she sputtered.
"Nice dress," Robin cracked, glancing at the white dress. "So inconspicuous. A wonder no one noticed you."

Y/n sat up in a dark vault, the faces of Willam, Bogden, and Robin lit by the weak flow of Merlin's ear, She could feel a lump rising off her skull, pain pulsing behind her. More disconcerting, the floor was moving. Y/n looked down at a mass of gold coins shifting beneath them like cold, harsh sand.
"Where are we?" Y/n breathed. "H-h-how are you here?"
"Remember when Reaper gave us our missions in Gnomeland?" Willam started. "Bogden and I were supposed to keep our eye on Camelot—"
"Then that shady Mistral Sister leaves the castle, so we trailed her to Putsi," Bogden finished. "Plus, Willam is obsessed with geese."
"I fed a duck at Camelot once and now I'm obsessed with geese—"
"You should be happy I care enough to pay attention, Willam. Can't say you do the same for me."
"How was I supposed to know you're a vegetarian?"
Definitely in love, Y/n thought.

"Meanwhile, I was on my way here," said Robin. "Couldn't stay in Sherwood. Not after the Sheriff and I joined forces. So I left Marian in a sanctuary on Glass Mountain. Figured she and I could sail across the Savage Sea, starting somewhere fresh. I needed money first, so I came to my vault. All those years of raiding the rich to help the poor.. skimmed a bit off the top in case Marian and I needed a nest egg."
"A nest egg?" Y/n said, ogling the swarm of coins. "This looks like the entire nest."
Robin ignored her. "Left clues at the Arrow about where I was headed, in case you lot tried to find me. Soon as I get to Putsi, I run into Willam and Boggins, and before I know it, guards seize us and bring us to the woodpecker's office."
"Turns out Albemarle needed our help. He'd heard the Snake was coming for Vault 41, where the answer to Arthur's first test was," Willam picked up. "Bird said he'd try and stop the Snake from getting in. But if he failed, it'd be up to us."
"So we hid in Robin's vault nearby... then eavesdrop on the Snake and the tree and find out Merlin's beard he'd after..." said Bogden. "And we wait to ambush him--"
"Only to see you come out with the beard instead of the Snake," said Willam.
"And here we are," said Robin. "A girl, a cat, a beard, two idiots, and me."
"It's not like you did anything to help!" Bogden heckled.
"Who do you think was distracting the scims from chasing the lass!" said Robin.

"But how are we supposed to get out of here?" Y/n asked, cleaning the last soot on Lepus. "The Snake's hunting us! Not to mention the Empress and her geese and the bank guards. The second we leave the vaults, we're dead!"
"Bird said his spy would get us out of here when the time came," Robin touted. "Same spy that told him the Snake was on his way."
"Albemarle was killed," Y/n shot out, making Robin flinch. "And so is his spy, no doubt."
"Plenty of doubt I'd say," spoke a voice.

Behind them, a body surfaced, rising out of gold like a wakened dragon. Coins sloughed off tan, young skin, the whites of two eyes piercing the darkness.
"Woodpeckers plan for everything, remember?" said the stranger.
Y/n held up her finger, and let out a f/c glow, lighting up a familiar girl with brown hair, a pointed nose, and a tooth smile.
She was sucking on a red lollipop.
"Bettina is the name. Executive Editor of the Camelot Courier," the girl said, sitting up in a tall pastel dress. She honed in on Y/n. "Nice to meet you for a second time. I don't count the last time when you were being mind-controlled by a twin-killing Snake."
Y/n's eyes widened.
It was the girl from the press briefing.
It was the girl who interviewed her before she left for school a month ago.