All Sorts Of Enough

A/N: Too late to be fashionably late but I won't let this fade into my drafts so here we are :) Please be kind about the mistakes this probably has x  

Cress has officially had enough of this dumb plan.

She can't figure out why on Earth or Luna they couldn't find a more sensible plan that didn't involve sacrificing the integrity of her relationship.

As Thorne casually flirts with the brunette Iko had told them to approach, anger burns in her stomach.

If Iko's girlfriend needs to get evidence for a revenge plan aimed at the girl who's cheating on her oblivious brother, surely there was a way to do so without using someone already in a committed relationship?

But she hadn't complained; she'd trusted Thorne to know what he was doing and anyway, their squad - as Iko had taken to calling them - obviously wouldn't endorse anything that was problematic anyway.

That's what she keeps telling herself as she watches him guide their target across the room to where Cinder and Scarlet are acting as the bartenders.

Oh, and they're in a club.

Of all places for something to go wrong, this is the one that holds the most risk.

"Hey, are you doing okay?" Kai asks from next to her, having appeared from amidst the crowd without warning.

She jumps, accidentally nudging him, but he doesn't mind, only smiles and puts an arm around her comfortingly.

"It's painful to see people flirting with your significant other, isn't it?" he asks, as if abbreviating words is illegal or something.

It takes her a second to wonder how he can relate to her situation but then realises that his girlfriend is probably the subject of many tipsy attempts at seducing the bartender for a variety of benefits.

"Way more painful than it should be," Cress agrees, leaning on him to try and get away from the mass of people swarming around the dance floor.

He's not the type for parties and crowds either but he's much better than her at pretending he is, probably a side effect of being the Emperor.

She's far more comfortable being behind a screen where she can control how many people see her and how many people she needs to interact with but she's not about to leave Thorne in a place like this without supervision. Not that she doesn't trust him or anything but for her own peace of mind.

Still, everything goes alright.

Except that it doesn't.

Everything goes alright until she loses sight of Thorne.

Ordinarily, this wouldn't be much of a problem but, considering the circumstances, she doesn't want to risk anything and losing sight of her favourite human after having put so much effort into keeping track of him for hours is nothing short of a crisis.

She catches sight of Kai's lowkey pretentious velvet jacket and makes her way over, poking his shoulder rapidly.

"Ow- Cress? What's wrong?" Kai asks, concern laced in his voice as he looks at her worried expression.

"I've lost Thorne," she mumbles and, for the briefest moment, she doesn't even know which kind of lost he is, but then she takes a deep breath and remembers the conversation she'd had with him before. "He said to just keep his eyes on me but I don't know where he went."

Kai takes a moment to process this before nodding firmly. "Don't worry yourself, Cress, we'll find him. Don't forget that Wolf is tall enough to see over just about anything, right?"