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maybe inej comes back to ketterdam after idk 2 years and she doesnt want to see kaz right away, so she just goes for a walk. she ends up outside the menagerie for some reason and remembers everything
but she doesnt know someone is approaching her, so when she turns back, she sees kaz. and he's smiling at her like he's seeing the most beautiful thing in the entire world
inej, of course, blushes cause she does that. but she smiles at him too as he is walking towards her. they stay silent for a while just looking at each other. kaz seems... cleaner, like he is putting himself together. there are no bags under his sparkling eyes
and he studies her too. he thinks inej couldn't have gotten any prettier, but somehow she did. he thinks it's like looking directly at the sun.
and then inej says "hi" and after that, is just her telling kaz everything that happened during all that time she was away. they have sent some letters to each other, but they were always so short and straight-to-the-point, with no feelings at all.
they start walking towards the slat, which has been renovated after inej's trip. kaz tells her about all this new things and new people. inej thinks that he doesn't sound that mean like he used to, although he still has that strong and fierce look.
they just talk and sometimes even laugh, which is so strange. but somehow it makes sense. everything starts to make sense.
it's almost midnight, so kaz says she can sleep in his room while he's out doing god-knows-what, cause that's how he is. inej, for a second, feels like no time has passed, but when she realises kaz isn't wearing his gloves, and in fact, she doesn't see any pair laying on his desk
she reminds herself that they haven't seen each other for almost two years
he opens the door to leave, but turns to see her one last time and says "I'm happy to have you back, Inej". and leaves before she even replies. and how was she supposed to do that? kaz telling her he was happy was one weird thing.
kaz being happy because of her was another. and that made her cheeks go so red she has to sit down on his bed and try not to think about him, but his sent is everywhere. and i mean, everywhere. when she lays down, she considers breathing through her mouth.
is kaz wearing cologne these days?
she falls asleep for a while, thinking about what happened before she left, how kaz had found her parents. they were now on their own home. they had spent so much time together, but somehow she still wanted to go back to ketterdam.
no, of course it wasnt ketterdam. and she knew that.
a sound wakes her up. for a moment she forgets where she is, but then she sees kaz, walking to his desk and taking things out of there. his moves are quiet, like he doesn't want to waker up. too late, inej thinks.
she sits up, and when she realises kaz is trying to clean blood coming out of this head, she stands up quickly and almost runs to him, suddenly aware that he's a real person, made of flesh and bone, and not an ilusion like her past dreams.
"inej" he says when she is standing next to him. he seems a little bit surprised. he frowns. "sorry, i didn't mean to wake you up".
did kaz just apologise? inej tries to forget that and focus more on his wound
did kaz just apologise? inej tries to forget that and focus more on his wound
he says he was against these two guys that tried to take some money from the new safe. of course, they didn't get near there. but in the process of taking them out, he got injured and almost passed out. he says that he was thinking of something else
inej takes the cloth from his hands, barely touching him, and stars to clean the left side of his forehead. it doesn't look that bad, but inej doesn't want to tell him that. somehow she needs an excuse to be this close to him
she feels his breathing, already matching hers. he doesn't even look away from her. he studies every part of her face, which stars getting pink. she lowers her hand a little bit and kaz puts his own hand over hers.
and it's like time freezes. it's just them, their hands touching like that day on the harbour looking at the sea. he leans in. she doesn't move.
he whispers her name like it's a song. inej opens her mouth to say something, to stop him, to ask him if this is okay, if he is okay with it. but she doesn't have the time.
and it's like her saints have been hearing her. seeing her dreams. and even though so much time went by, she still feels like that day when she realised she was in love with dirtyhands, the last boy she should have even think about.
