Breaking Up (Part 3-Final) Albedo x gn!reader
Scenario: Breaking up and getting back together again
Characters: gn! reader x Albedo
Warnings: This is the FLUFF part. Not proofread.
Categories: angst in Part 1, comfort in Part 2, Fluff in Part 3
Read: (Part 1) (Part 2)
You hummed a light tune as you walked around fields, gathering herbs from trees and shrubs. The sun was about to set, and it painted a slightly orange hue on the sky.
“Y/N,” You stand and turn, sunsettia gathered around your arms and other herbs in your backpack. Albedo is walking towards you with a soft smile, and you return it with a bigger one. “Albedo,” you pipe up and jog to meet him halfway. He thinks you’re a little bit like a puppy sometimes, it’s just not possible to resist the eyes that look up at him expectantly.
All his fears came crashing down on him once more and he half-panicked.
He wraps one arm around your waist and leans in for a quick kiss on the nose as a greeting, before pulling away and helping you with the sunsettias. “You lost track of time again,” he states and you just laugh sheepishly. “Ah…yeah, I get too into ingredient gathering sometimes…”
Albedo had gotten home and found a note on the table stating where you were. Just like he had requested. Weeks following the two of you getting back together there’d been an incident where he came home and found that you weren’t there yet again.
Had he done something wrong?
Did he say something bad?
Where were you?
Did you leave again?
Only to have you strolling into the house the next moment, smile on your face, saying that you went out to do some shopping. He swept you into a hug that confused you. He was beyond terrified that it might have happened again.
He’d go as far as to say that it was borderline PTSD.
“Can you kindly do me a favor and leave a note if you’ve gone out? It would really… make me feel better,”
And you understood. Perhaps you would’ve felt the same way. If you came home late at night and found that he wasn’t home yet. You’d tend to think that something happened to him, and so you complied to his request.
He’d become a little better at managing his time. He figured Sucrose could handle more responsibilities and figured that he could also work a little bit at home. Readings and research did count as work, the only downside was that he had to borrow books from the library and bring it all the way back home, but he didn’t care much about that. You kept the house so warm and cozy that it was the perfect place to concentrate and be productive.
“Come,” Albedo beckoned you from the chair of his makeshift office at home. You tilt your head, as you were about to leave the tea on his table and leave him to work again but he’d grabbed your hand and tugged you towards him.
“Can I help you?” You asked with a slight grin to your question. He pulls you over to his lap, arms around your waist and has your back flush against his front. His head hovering above your shoulder as he continues his reading as if everything was normal, and as if you weren’t sitting on his lap. “Am I just going to stay here?” You giggle and tilt your head back to look up at him.
A small smile cracks on his face as he shushes you, “Shh, absolute concentration is needed during research, Y/N,” but he lets go of the papers he was holding and leans back into his chair, nuzzling into the crook of your neck. “You’re required to stay until my energy levels are back to normal,”
“And what’s your energy levels now?” You play along with his little game, him starting to pepper kisses on your cheek. “I’m at zero, you’ve only just come in after all,”
Sometimes you wonder if he really gets any work done, but it looks as if he does, and is even more determined to keep researching certain things. Of course, there were still days where he was incredibly busy. But he’d made up for those days by being considerate and aware of the time he spent at work.
“I apologize… It got busy again this week…” he nearly sighs as he wraps his arms around your waist, the same nose kiss as a greeting. You’re a little more understanding of his predicament, but mostly because he communicated more. Where before he would come home and not say anything, now he would apologize and tell you about what was going wrong in his schedule.
And the next day he was free, you’d wake up without worrying about breakfast because he had prepared it–granted he wasn’t the best cook in the world but he knew some recipes–and he knew just how you wanted your coffee or your tea.
Turns out those little things did add up and made everything much easier.
“What’s for dinner today?” He asks as the two of you walk home. You put on a thinking face, “Maybe some cream stew?” the small talk the two of you engage in is peaceful and natural. “Would that be okay?” You glance at him, expecting an answer, but didn’t get any. You blink and turn your head to look at him, he’s lost in thought it looks like. “Albedo?” and he blinks back to turn and look at you. “Yes?”
“I was asking if cream stew was okay,” there’s a slight crease of worry on your eyebrows, but his smile takes it away. “Yes, that’d be nice,” he simply says and for some odd reason, he doesn’t talk about his day today. It’d almost felt like a routine now, how he would tell you what he and Sucrose had been working on, or maybe if Klee barged in again today, or maybe even Kaeya.
He was a little too quiet, and you kept stealing glances at him.
Even as the two of you arrive home and close the door behind you, immediately going towards the kitchen, it was a little tense and you weren’t quite sure why. He had this…frown on his face, but he didn’t look angry. “…Is there something on your mind?” you ask as you start prepping the ingredients.
He visibly stiffens up and just stands there. At this point you know that something is wrong. “Did something happen? Did I say something wrong?” You question as you’re about to wipe your hands on a kitchen towel. He suddenly shakes his head, “No, not at all. I–”
and he starts his story as you put on an apron.
“Kaeya came by today…He says that…” his eyes dart away from you. “That I should consider…getting a ring,” You stop tying the apron around your middle and focus your attention on him. Eyes going a fraction wider. “But I… That is to say… If you would like a ring then I will gladly get you one, Y/N,” you’re not sure where this is going but your heart is starting to patter louder in your chest. “But I just don’t think it would change a thing. A ring is not enough to really tell you how much I…” he pauses and his eyes finally find yours. “How much I adore you. A band around my finger or your finger…can never represent the gratitude,” he emphasizes his next words “the comfort, the love that I have for you,”
It’s starting to feel like there’s an elephant in your throat, and you start to blink a little faster because you don’t want to cry. You just thought it’d be a little silly.
“I just… I hope you’re aware, ring or no ring… My intentions are the same. I don’t plan on spending the rest of my lifetime with anyone else,” you secretly bite your lip, “…It’ll only be you,” and he scratches the back of his neck, tearing his eyes away from you once again, mumbling–and it’s so rare to see him in such a vulnerable state– “Kaeya mentioned that if I don’t get you a ring… that you might leave… I’m aware he’s not the most trustworthy but… I just… wanted to make sure,”
And despite the few small happy tears that finally cascade down your cheeks you laugh a little, picturing the mischievous glint in Kaeya’s eyes as he tells this to Albedo.
Albedo smiles a little and brushes the few tears that managed to slip out, but you reply to him. “You know how Kaeya is, Bedo,” which translates to ‘don’t listen to him,’. Albedo knows. But when it came to you he wasn’t going to take chances. You contentedly wrap your arms around his middle and he hugs you back around your shoulders as he whispers into your hair. “But you know… Perhaps I should get you a ring, when the time comes,”
“Hm?” You merely murmur, asking about his sudden change in opinion.
“Just to let others know you’re taken,”
Another rumble of laughter lifts from your chest. This time, he joins you.
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