Deadly Little Leo - Inej Ghafa

Cut Her Puppet Strings

"Your guess about my gender is one many would bet against" she told him, placing down the glass rocking horse ornament back in the shelf,

"I consider myself quite good at making bets"

"So Iv heard" she replied to his quip "so, what bet would you make that I'm going to put my dagger in your little puppets heart?" She was still yet to turn around,

"I wouldn't place that bet" he said with no hesitation,

Her voice sounded confident "afraid to lose?" He had no reply to that.

"I don't have time for games I-"

"You came to me Mr Brekker, one would assume you have the time" she cut him off,

Something clicked in his mind, the name he had given her wasn't Brekker. She knew who he was,

"You've heard of me?" He asked, his hands tightening on his cane.

The girl huffed a laugh as she turned of her heel and finally looked at him, her face was familiar to Kaz.

He froze, even without him moving in the first place. His breathing hitched, he felt the familiar chills on his arms and shoot down his neck. This was not what he had suspected, he's usually always right with his either assumptions or brain storms. He was wrong this time.

"Oh Iv heard of you alright. But I'm sure you know that now, right Kaz?" She gave him a tight lipped smile, no happiness or joy from the smile. It was cold and held no emotion.

Kaz was silent, at least for a long while before he regained himself again to speak "Lee?" He sighed, still not breaking from his demeanour. His guard still up,

"Leo. That name is only for those I trust" she sneered at him,

"I'm sure that's a small number of people" he bit back,

She gave a short hum of thought "one"

"Must be lonely"

"You're one to talk" she scoffed "having your little puppets follow your every command, naming them after a bird of vengeance, Ha!" She name humoured herself at her own jab, she really wanted to laugh in his face right now.

"I don't-"

"Do friendships" she finished for him "oh I'm I'm well aware" her face lips downwards, a distasteful look showing. Kaz' face was blank as normal.

There was a pause, Kaz was letting the reality sink in whilst analysing any weapon she possessed. That included the gun in her holster that wrapped around her middle and the many daggers strapped to her legs arms and waistband.

"Take the target off my crow, Arrow" he finally spoke up, Leo laughed humourlessly,

"Or what? You gonna peck my eyes out with that thing?" She gestured to his cane,

"What do you want?" He asked, taking one step closer,

"My watch" her cold voice cut through again,

"It's not yours" his voice was stern,

"Don't! Don't give me that bullshit. It's mine, he gave it to me!"

"After what you did-"

"I did what I had to!" She raised her voice, "I was trying to hel-"

"And look what happened because of that!" It was his turn to shout, Kaz wasn't one to raise his voice, but he snapped more than he wanted to admit.

She said nothing, for once she was taken a back by Kaz' words,

Instead she walked towards him, she was close to him now, nearly a forearm length away. She looked him in the eyes, Kaz couldn't recognised the cold heartless eyes that looked at him. No emotion could be found in them.

Oh how they had changed.

"I want my watch. Or I'll cut the her puppet strings clean off" she hissed at him before she barged past him, leaving the room with a door slam.

Not moments later Orteg timidly pushed open the door, a drastic change in his demeanour from before, to escort his out of the Tilted Flats.

The whole time Kaz thought of the changes in the girl he had once known. But one thing he did notice, one small detail that gave him a sense. One that the girl he had known hadn't completely changed, maybe he could save Inej.

He noticed that she avoided contact when she stormed out. She didn't touch him.

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Okay this chapter is really short for me, but I'm very sick atm and it really won't fuck off 😭

My sleep patterns is fucked so I'm running on 3 1/2 hours sleep currently and my breathing is terrible cause of my asthma 👍🏼

But I felt bad so here's the chapter, I'm not a huge fan of how this panned out but it's similar to what i wanted just with less detail.

And I don't want to be that person but I had an inspiration for Leo's look, and the hair is the length I  imagined aswell!!! So I couldn't not include a pic,
Obvs you can make your own creations with Leo. I don't give much description on her outfits and look for that specific reason!

so it's this but the bags aren't there nor are the heels.

Change the-

Heels to flat boots

Bags to gun holsters and dagger holders

ITS CUTE TOO! WTFFF

ANYWHOOOOO!