don't guess the rest | jean x reader

"You've done this before," I say.

"Yes."

"How many times?"

He shrugs slightly. "Enough."

I nod, considering that. "And do they ever surprise you?"

A pause. "No."

I offer him a small, knowing smile. "That's a shame."

With a reputation built on steady hands and quiet extractions, Jean Kirstein expects familiarity when he climbs another tower. Instead, he encounters a girl who seems intent on testing the edges of his predictability. As their journey to deliver her home unfolds, the routine rescue threatens to become something less certain, and far less controlled.