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Kaz Brekker x Gender Neutral!Reader
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A/N: I can’t believe how long it’s been! Writer’s block has been a nightmare the last 6 months, but I’m really excited to jump back into it—especially with Shadow & Bone requests (hint, hint). I wanted to leave the reasoning for their conflict open to interpretation, so I hope I succeeded! As always, I hope you enjoy. Feel free to leave any feedback you have in the comments and if you like my work consider leaving a tip! Thanks:)
Rating: General
Word Count: 300+
Warnings: Angst, Death Mentions, Touch Aversion, Implied Friends to Lovers, a smidge of Fluff.
Kaz felt trapped, pinned by your steady gaze, smothered by the silence. He didn’t look at you. He couldn’t.
A bastard like him could never be known, not in any way that held meaning.
Without his permission, his throat burned and his lips suddenly twitched with the urge to form the words.
He wanted to tell you to leave Ketterdam. He wanted to tell you how twisted and wrong he was, in all the ways that you were good. He wished to tell you that he wanted you—regardless of his own failings, regardless of how selfish it was. He wanted to convince you that you should run and never look back, because he knew the mere thoughts of longing were enough to put a target through your soul and a price on your head.
Bile bubbled in his gut as an image of you with a bullet between your eyes flashed across his vision. Gloves straining under the tension, his grip on his cane tightened, abating the waters lapping at his ankles.
Kaz Brekker’s decision wasn’t fueled by spite. He didn’t speak from a place of revenge. But the words that finally escaped his grasp were crueler, more heedless than anything else he could have said.
“Stay”, his eyes met yours, a depth to them you had never known before, “Stay in Ketterdam.”
You stepped close enough to feel his warm breath fan your face, your fingers tentatively wrapping around the cuff of his shirt, the pressure just light enough for him to feel along his wrist. A silent question.
Kaz drew in a sharp breath through his nose, fighting the waves of memories that loomed over him like a storm in the distance, focusing instead on the steady sensation of the pulse that lay beyond your fingertips.
He ached with the unbearable urge to return the touch, but for now he knew his words would have to be enough.
“Stay with me.”
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"This is really nice tea, Wylan," Nina said, lounging back on a lawn chair she had found somewhere, the tea poured into a whiskey glass she had also found somewhere, topped with a tiny umbrella. "Would pair well with some ginger biscuits."
"Are you sure you didn't want it in a teacup?" Wylan asked, giving Inej a smile as he finished pouring her a cup."No way! This makes me feel fancy, like I'm at the races watching actual horsemen riding and not… those two."
my piece for the @grishaversebigbang, god this was so fun to do. click for better quality my god tumblr
Etherialki: @sankttealeaf with the glorious fic Race to the Finish Line
Materialki: @beani-ed who made this masterpiece
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Amita, reading fan questions: Does Kaz Brekker have a middle name?
Amita: I know
Freddy, surprised: Do you? Amita: I do. Freddy: Because he doesn't. He has a different name that he was born with
Danielle: Kazzle Dazzle
Freddy: Kazzle Dazzle. Kazzle Dazzle Rietveld
Please, I love them 😂😂
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I WISH poison made me see my crush basically professing his love for me!!!? I think I would never stop poisoning myself?? I would die. And Kaz would let me. (Iykyk)
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And now, Inej to match the Kaz!
Uhh yeah once again, Crooked Kingdom is also perfect. What I found the most interesting was how different SoC and CK are in structure.
The Hunger Games trilogy is an example of a series that, imo, couldn’t break from its own mould. The first two books are great, but then Mockingjay is vastly different and also terrible.
I think SoC and CK are such a great duology because they feel so different from the other and are executed so well in their own right.
Anyways, book good, I guess.
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THE WAY I CANT TAKE PROPER SCREENSHOTS OR MAKE EDITS OF THE INEJ AND JES SCENE BC I AM NOT HOME EATS AT ME SSDDFFGHHJ
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