Six of Crows Collection of One-Shots

Chapter 1

*takes place after Crooked Kingdom*

KAZ

It had taken him months to track down the precise location of Inej's family, but the look on her face as she rushed towards her equally rejoiced family had made it all worth it.

Gods he had missed her. Surely he'd known that they'd all part ways in the end, she'd made it perfectly clear that she planned to voyage across the seas; claiming justice for the weak and the helpless. Heck he'd even encouraged her to, paying off her contract with the Dregs, knowing that she'd deserved better out of this life. She was kind and brace and gods she deserved to be treated like a queen, like a goddess. She was too good to stay in the Burrows, too good to be his.

And yet he couldn't let her go, he'd been weak and selfish, practically begging her to come back to him. And if he were honest with himself, perhaps he'd had spent those many months tracking down her family in the hopes that if she couldn't stay in the Burrows for him that she would for them.

He was a god damn fool

And he'd put on his facade as she proudly introduced him to her family, they'd embraced him too, her mother crying profusely onto his shoulder, thanking him a thousand times over. And then his eyes locked once again with Inej. The way she looked at him rocked him to his very core, he could interpret every raw emotion on her tear stricken face.

And later that night when her family had settled into their suite in the Dregs, she'd snuck into his room. Eyes blotchy with the tears she couldn't help falling, she spoke her Suli proverbs, voice quivering.

"Thank you Kaz"

And fuck, if he couldn't give her the world- he'd let her go because she deserved someone better then him.