a poor woman's tale offendermanXreader

ray the helping hand

"Pssst! (Y/n)!" I hear from behind a tree. I slowly prepare to walk over to it, my katana at my side. After getting a few feet closer toby came back and asked "whatcha doin?". "Oh i heard something" i joke it off, not wanting to kill what i think was ray. We walk back to camp and i realize how much better the forest is with shoes. We see masky and hoodie come back with nothing and just laugh it off, we caught enough fish for the night. We start to tell our epic story of the fish catching and masky gets angry when toby mentions how he left me when he put the fish in a cooler. "Shes fine, she has a katana-" "She doesnt know how to use it, idiot!" Masky yells before toby can finish. "Hey, i know what im doing!" I object. "Yeah, sure. Toby you cant leave her alon-" "we have to disobey orders if its for the better of the team" hoodie buds in. Masky seems angry but his mask covers it. "Fine. We need to map the location of where he is staying tommarrow and (y/n) could get injured if he becomes hostile. She can stay here while we find the target and catch him" masky says after a long silence. After a while of silence we say goodnight and go to bed, akwardly. I sleep well, no distractions and no bears.

(Timeskip)

"(Y/n)! We're heading out! Dont do anything stupid!" I hear toby yell. I yell "ok, dont die!" And get out of my tent. I decide to watch them leave and masky yells "WE'LL NEED MORE FISH AND KEEP THE FIRE GOING GET FIRE WOOD AND KEEP THE FOOD SAFE CAN YOU COOK TRY TO COOK THE FISH WE BROUGHT TONS OF SPICES!"    Thats alot of things to do..... "ill try!" By now they were out of sight but thats ok, i know he heard me. I walk to the small river that was more like a big creek, just like yesterday, and wait for fish. "Hey (y/n)!" Ray says from behind me. I yelp and jump, almost stabbing him. He laughs and says "careful, dont need a dead man near the river. Need help?". Should i have him help me...? There were a lot of tasks....."sure! Do you know how to cook...?" I ask. He smiles and says "i cook often, i think i can cook some fish. You catch ill gut and cook, deal?" "Deal". I start to catch fish and the smell of the ones he was cooking drifts in. I smile and bring in a few fish, shoving them in the cooler and walking to a tree. I grab a bunch of twigs that had fell and threw them into the fire, making the flames roar. I smile. 2 things off the list. I grab as big of sticks and logs as i can and bring them back to camp, making a small mound next to the fire. 3 things. Now all i need are the fish. I walk over to ray and he overs to teach me how to cook and i accept.

(30 minutes of perfecting fish later)

I know how to make them and after ray made us lunch we decided to sit around the campfire and just talk. He tells me about how he lives in a hut and is alone most of the time, so he goes into the forest for walks. While he was talking about how he enj9yed hunting he saw something behind me and stopped talking. I turn to see a dear next to a tree, just outside of camp. "I got this" he runs into the forest and comes back 20 minutes later with the deer, dead. "If you use the same technique on this as the fish itll be good but i think you should make jerky. I dont know how to make jerky but maybe your friends will...? Anyway i gotta go, have pets to feed. Bye!" He drops the deer next to the fire and runs off. "Bye!" I yell after him. I didnt realize it was past noon, weird. I start cooking the fish for the proxies, knowing they would be back soon even though they said they would be gone till nigh. The proxies walk back into camp, all angrily mumbling. "(Y/n) we're back. Did yo-" masky starts, but he stops when he sees the open cooler full of fish, the wood pile, the warm fire, and the fish on plates for them with the spices organized and put away. "Wow! Im impressed- you got a deer?!" Hoodie runs over to check the deer. "How did you...? There are like 4 deer in this entire forest" he looks at me. "It walked into camp and i thought it would be useful for jerky, if you guys know how to make that" i leave out ray yet again even though he deserves full credit and it KILLS me. They laugh and walk to the fish, smelling them before tastin- aaand its gone. That was fast......thank god ray taught me to cook that. We sit around the campfire and they start to talk about how it went

A/n
ugh my fingers hurt