Three Houses Reader Inserts

The Locket (Dimitri and Reader) (Claude x Reader)

This continues the story of "You'll do great" and "The star filled sky".

You were lying on your bed staring at the ceiling, trying to will yourself out of embarrassment. 

Yesterday you had confessed your feelings to Claude and he had turned you down. 

Well, he was nice about it and you were still friends, but that didn't change the fact that you felt incredibly uncomfortable, almost to the point of making you sick. 

To make matters worse, your brain decided to remind you that there were only two weeks until the Battle of the Eagle and Lion.  You felt like throwing up.

These were too many emotions for one person to handle.

You closed your eyes planning to take a nap to maybe ease your anxiety, when you heard a knock on the door.

"Uhg..." you stood up unhappily and walked towards the door.  You opened it and you were slightly surprised by who you saw standing there. "Oh, hello Your Highness."

Dimitri stood there, looking very nervous for some reason.  "Hello, Y/N. I- uh- Can I come in?"

"Uh, sure." Something was off, but you had no clue what.

He hesitated a moment before speaking, "You left this yesterday." he said holding up your locket.

You gasped as you took it. "Oh goodness! I didn't even realize, thanks so much. My mom would have killed me if I lost this." you looked back at Dimitri with a smile, but you saw that he was looking at the floor with a frown. "Your Highness, is something wrong?"

"I- uh- think it's best if we sit down before I start explaining." 

Well that didn't sound like good news. You sat down on your bed while Dimitri sat down on the chair that was next to it.

You waited patiently while Dimitri gathered his thoughts. "Not long after I was born my mother passed away. Some time after that. My father fell in love again. I was too young to remember any of this, but from the stories I've heard it seems that my father was ready to spend the rest of his life with her." he paused for a short moment, "The only problem was that this woman was a commoner... From the Alliance." He looked at you, seemingly attempting to gauge your reaction.

You sat in silence for a while. Why would he be telling you this? 

Unless.

"So..." you prodded hesitantly as you fiddled with the locket in your hands.

"That locket." he continued. "I was taken aback at first, because it has the same engravings as a lost family heirloom I had only seen in paintings." 

How could you respond to this? "Y-you, er, you're not saying that..." but your voice drifted off in uncertainty.

"There is a way to find out." said Dimitri and you looked towards him. When you did, you saw that he was holding a small key.

You wordlessly handed him the locket.

As he took it your mind was running wild with questions. There was no way, right? But then again, your mother never told you anything about your father. But there had to be other reasons for that, right? There's no way your father was the...

No. There couldn't be. Right?

You were just a poor commoner girl who lived on the streets of the Gloucester territory along side her mother.  A poor girl who had resorted to stealing and scamming with the use of her talent in magic in order to survive. A poor girl who would be locked up right now had it not been for the Gloucesters's interest in her magical abilities.