Anything IV (König x Reader)

Summary: A lack of information from the chain of command results in König mistaking you for an enemy sniper.

Requested by: Literally fucking everyone.

A/N: WHY WAS THIS SO HARD TO WRITE???

Category: Angst || Hurt/Comfort || Forced Proximity || Enemies to ?

Warnings: Graphic language

PREVIOUS CHAPTER

You were exhausted.

Sleeping was a luxury that you couldn’t afford, not that you hadn’t been trying. You weren’t fond of the night terrors that came to visit whenever you closed your eyes. They were the worst part of it all, you thought.

It was early, too early for training but, nonetheless, you slowly crawled from your bed. It didn’t take long to get ready but it did take time to pull yourself from the mirror.

You couldn’t stop staring at the reflection. Saying that it was you staring back seemed far-fetched in all honesty- the creature you observed was unrecognizable. You considered some makeup to cover the bruising, but there was nowhere to hide the ragged divots in your face, dragged through by your own nails.

You couldn’t hide a swollen nose, puffy eyes and a busted mouth. Your jaw was ballooned, and although the stitches were finally out from your face- the scars remained. You decided that no amount of money could hide your ugliness. Everyone knew what you looked like, everyone knew how fucking disgusting you were. It was almost more embarrassing to try and hide it, than to embrace it and pretend that you didn’t care.

But you did. You cared too much.

You threw on some sweatpants and a hoodie, your training gear hidden beneath. You needed coffee- you needed something. Anything to get your blood moving in your body and force some adrenaline through your system.

You were so early.

You didn’t want to go.

You’d been attempting to train with König for a couple of weeks now, never engaging in conversation and never looking him in the eye. Ghost had volunteered himself to chaperone your sessions and since then you’d been able to work more comfortably, though you knew it was selfish.

It was nobody’s job to have to babysit you. This was an elite fucking task force, the best of the best and you had to be nursed back into health by one of the most renowned soldiers in the British Special Forces. It was embarrassing for everyone, to say the least. You felt disgusting, you felt pathetic- though, you supposed that’s exactly what you were.

Fucking pathetic.

You’d expected the gym to be dark, the lights off and abandoned at this early hour. Especially on a Saturday, there was no one at work. Those who lived on base would usually leave the night before to go drinking or camping, crawling back in shame on the Sunday afternoon. Ghost would be around but this early in the morning you knew he’d be out on his motorcycle, waiting for the sunrise to light up the highway.

Upon further inspection, you realized that the door was open. The blinds were still down but the light was on, illuminating the hallway you stood in. There was a low hum from inside, melodic and seamless. You raised a brow as you approached, peering into the doorway.

Your heart skipped a beat at the sight of König.

The beast was leaned over, singing a wordless tune that you didn’t recognise, voice as smooth as silk. He was laying out the foam mats, running his fingers over the raised surface until it was completely flat. Finally, the sniper stood straight to observe his handiwork with a nod.

He was larger than life when he stretched his arms over his head, groaning at the movement. Some part of you, deep down, was in awe of his sheer size. The other, more dominant, part of you reminded you that he’d been too big for you to stop.

You were frozen in place, unable to move and unable to take a breath in fear that he’d hear you. König’s senses were sharp and the slightest noise would tip him off to your gawking.

When he sat down on the bench with a solemn sigh, your blood began to simmer beneath your skin.

“Did you want to come in, Birdy?” König’s voice was gentle but you still jumped at the sound of it. A gasp slipped from your lips at the exposure and he tilted his head at the noise, leaning his elbows against his knees.

Your mouth dried. How did he know that you were there? You hadn’t made a sound.

“Not particularly,” you cleared your throat, as he pulled the balaclava from over his head. Dark hair spilled from beneath the fabric, messy and thick. He never kept a mask on when you were around, regardless of whether it was a balaclava or that damned hood.

“I thought we were past this,” he sighed, putting the mask down by his side. He never turned to face you, giving you the option to leave without the pressure of his gaze.

I thought we were past this.

Heat flushed through your system like a volcanic eruption, originating in your chest and shooting across your nerves.

“Past you ruining my life?” You offered as calmly as you could manage. “No. No, I’m actually not past it.”

“I meant,” König corrected firmly, turning around to face you with narrowed eyes, “are we not past this."

While he didn’t say anything different, the meaningful stare told you enough.

Are we not past you coming inside every time, even though you say that you won’t?

You stared at him for a long moment, that emerald gaze unwavering. It was nothing like what you’d seen that night, he was a completely different person. You wondered when he would snap, you wondered when you would snap.

You saw hints of the man you’d encountered sometimes during sparring, never with you but occasionally with Simon. He targeted König, always making a point to put him on his ass but a part of you wonders if the soldier was letting him do it. It was almost too easy sometimes, as though the man had just given up halfway through.

You stepped through the doorway tentatively, eyes never leaving König’s. He held his body so still that you wondered if he was breathing, reminding you of the way a snake freezes before it strikes.

You moved to the other side of the mats, sitting down on the bench opposite your partner.

"I figured you’d be up,” König rubbed the back of his neck, his shoulders relaxing the second you took a seat. “I got you a coffee."

You blinked at him.

"What?”

“I got you a coffee?” The words were uncertain now as he leaned back slightly. He gestured towards the cup tray beside him, two drinks in foam cups steaming at his side.

You couldn’t force a response from your lips- you couldn’t do anything, really, other than gawk at him. Why he’d gone out of his way to get you a coffee was beyond you, obviously he was guilty but you’d made it clear you wanted none of his pity.

“Don’t overthink it, Birdy,” König raised a brow. “It’s a coffee. Just take it."

"Yeah,” you rasped. “Yeah.”

But you didn’t move.

Your limbs felt like they’d been filled with lead, your heart beating against your ribs violently. Grabbing the coffee shouldn’t have been an issue, getting up is not difficult, so why were you not responding to mental commands? You felt helpless, the realization that your mind and body were no longer yours to control- rather you were ruled by fear that you couldn’t grasp.

You clenched your jaw tightly.

Move, Birdy.

The Austrian tightened his lips awkwardly, fingers running through his hair like an anxiety tic. The both of you sat in uncomfortable silence before finally he reached for the cup, standing to his feet.

You remained deathly still as he approached, stopping a safe distance away before he stretched his hand out. The semblance to extending an olive branch was too obvious not to take note, although you’d be the first to snap any branches this man offered.

But this wasn’t some stupid peace twig. This was coffee. König had bought you a drink. You just needed to take it, you needed to move.

Move, Birdy.

“It’s just a coffee,” the man offered you a weak smile but you could see the apprehension in his gaze. He was wondering if you were going to break, every fiber of his being preparing to restrain you if you had another episode.

If you had another psychotic break over a fucking cup of coffee, you’d be out of the 141 for good.

Move, Birdy.

It’s just coffee.

“It’s just a coffee,” you whispered.

Your fingers wrapped around the cup, the heat jarring from your thoughts. König let loose a shaky sigh that you knew you weren’t meant to hear. You’d become so unstable that even the man who had destroyed you was afraid.

Your skin brushed against his as you forced yourself to tighten your grip, the brief touch electrifying and jarring.

He snatched his hand away as though you’d burnt him with the contact. It wasn’t like you’d never touched beyond the incident, you sparred with him nearly every day. But that was sparring, this was not.

König took a seat, his gaze averted and his nails digging into the bench. You took the first sip, eyes never leaving his form.

Just a coffee, Birdy.

You took another swig, reminding yourself to taste the drink. You thought of the texture, the temperature, the flavor- anything to ground you from your thoughts and drag you back to reality. When your mind began to settle and you could finally register the taste, your eyes widened.

It was exactly your order.

You almost choked.

Before you could ask anything of it, the soldier returned his attention to rest on you, briefly taking in your visage. He was still concerned, the twist of his mouth clearly apprehensive.

“We’ve never really spoken about what happened,” König rasped, the vulnerable tremor in his voice ringing clear.

Your spine straightened and the cup creaked beneath your grip.

“Because I don’t want to talk about what happened.”

“You can’t avoid it forever, Birdy,” the man bit, sharp and surprising. You leaned away from him, taken aback by the frustration woven through his tone. He always made an effort to be calm and speak in dulcet tones, going against his nature to appear disarming wherever he could help it.

The smouldering coals in his gaze reminded you that König was neither soft nor gentle.

“No,” you snapped, “but I can avoid talking about it with you.”

König grit his teeth.

“Who else was there, Birdy?” He hissed, leaning his elbows onto his knees. The question was rhetorical but you almost felt compelled to answer him. Those jade eyes flashed with a bitterness that you couldn’t understand, intense and pleading. “It was me and you and no one else.”

“What do you want me to say, König?” You spat, standing to your feet. Rage blistered through your being, buzzing beneath your skin and electrifying your nerves. You wanted to throttle him, you wanted to grab him and shake him until it finally shut him up.

“I want you to just listen to me,” the soldier implored, moving to stand but thinking better of it. You saw his hesitation, the understanding that once he stood up it wouldn’t be a conversation it would be intimidation.

Shut up.

“I don’t want to hear a word from your fucking mouth,” you growled, pointing an accusatory finger at his frozen silhouette. “Unless it’s to get me back on the job that you stole, I don’t want to hear a thing from you.”

Just shut up.

“I’m trying to fucking apologise, Birdy!"

Shut up. Shut up. Shut up.

"Just shut up!" Your voice had escalated into a barely legible scream, storming towards the seated beast. You pushed through the barriers of his personal space, but König stayed solid, his eyes hard and his mouth set.

You were toe to toe, nose to nose and eye to eye.

Your mouth twisted into a sneer.

"You think you can buy me coffee and that’s it, we’re friends?” Your voice was low, and your fingers dug into the thighs that you stood between. His cheek twinged at your grip but other than that, the mountain of a man made no move to budge. He observed you from beneath his lashes, his eyes as hard as stone and you wondered if he was breathing.

“No,” König replied simply, his words tracing your lips. “What I do think is that we need to get past this, one way or another."

You glared at him, your fingers trembling against his legs.

"I’ll get past this, the day I can look in the mirror and get past the mutilated thing staring back at me."

"I’m sorry-” he began but you grit your teeth, leaping to interrupt those goddamned words from leaving his stupid mouth.

“I don’t want-”

König’s hands suddenly landed above your own, holding them tightly as a growl tore from his throat.

“Listen to me."

You fell silent immediately.

Emerald eyes searched your own, imploring you to just hear him, even if it was for a moment. If you were going to ignore everything he said, he wouldn’t care because at least he got them out. At least he knows that you’ve heard them.

"I’m so, so sorry for what I did to you, Birdy.” König murmurs, swaying forward and taking up precious inches in the space between you both. His eyes were soft, vulnerable as he bared himself. “As far as I knew, you were an enemy sniper and I was trying to protect my family. I know that you understand that, Birdy, because the 141 is your family."

You stared at him, furious with the tears burning your eyes, embarrassed by your emotionally fragile state.

"I know that you don’t want to forgive me, I don’t expect you to. It’s okay to be angry but you have to help me fix this. For both of our sakes, Bird, let me fix this.” The words were whispered by the end of it, searching your features with hopeful eyes.

“I don’t trust you,” you wanted to shout at him but the sentence was venomless on your tongue. König’s lip quirked upward, his shoulders pulling into a small shrug.

“You trust me enough.”

“I don’t trust you at all."

There was venom in that and the soldier’s features became solemn once more. You were not his friend, you did not forgive him and you would not be tricked into believing that this was something worth just getting over.

"You trust me enough.” König repeated himself, raking over your silhouette from head to toe meaningfully.

Suddenly, you realized where you stood.

Wedged between his thighs, your fingers gripping his legs and his hands covering yours. You flinched backward, eyes flickering at your proximity. You could taste his sentences on your tongue, so close you noses would brush if you had moved an inch.

You had allowed yourself to be in a room alone with König and willingly put yourself in his grasp.

A cough from the doorway had you leaping apart from the man as if you’d been burnt.

Your chest heaved as your heart smashed against your ribs, begging to be let loose from its constraints. A low exhale fell from the man beside you, as though reminding himself to breathe.

“Well,” Price whistled, shifting on his feet uncomfortably. “That’s sure a sight at 6am."

You cleared your throat, rubbing the back of your neck. A lot had happened in the time that you and König had confronted each other, none of it was easy to explain. In fact, none of it was easy to even understand yourself.

"We were just waiting on Ghost,” you rasped, shrugging nonchalantly.

Price raised a disbelieving brow but up didn’t press, only shooting König a look dripping with warning. He didn’t like that you were alone in here with him, but the man had no right. He was the one that assigned König to you, he was the one that took him in as your replacement.

John Price was just as guilty as König, except his charge was betrayal.

A sneer settled on your lips at the reminder.

“Well, guess you can meet our newest member a bit early then."

Newest member?

König sucked in a breath from beside you when a figure moved around behind Price’s frame. They stood straight, appearing taller than they were with confident posture.

Immediately, you knew that they would be trouble.

Not by the smirk gracing their lips and not even by the distinct look of distaste that was smeared across their expression- but, the way that they stared at you as though you were a challenge waiting to be conquered.

Like you were easy game.

"As the 141 grows,” Price began, gesturing to the small part of the team in the room, “we need more members to join roles that were previously left to one person."

Your stomach churned.

"Obviously, Birdy, you’ve been our main sniper but now we need more than one.” The Captain was careful with his wording, watching you as though you were a ticking time bomb set to detonate any second now.

You fucking felt like one.

As you observed the newest addition, they stared right back, raking in your visage from head to toe. Their crooked smile had you on edge, had you unnerved- but it also thrilled you. This person saw you as a threat.

They didn’t see a broken bird, someone helpless. Behind the arrogant smirk and the cocky body language, there was a hardness to their gaze. They weren’t underestimating you, they still saw something across your face that indicated that you weren’t done.

But they were ready to meet you head on.

Your expression turned stony.

“And who is my newest replacement?” You ground out, eyes never leaving theirs. A feral grin pulled at their lips, amusement flooding their expression. It fucking made you seethe. Price opened his mouth to either introduce them or reprimand your clear rejection, but the sniper stepped forward with a snort.

“They should have called you ‘Sunshine.’”

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