Arcane Oneshots [In-Progress]

Ekko's Choice (Pt 1) [Timebomb]

|| A/N: Sorry if my grammar sucks :') I don't write often and haven't written in MONTHS minus like 1-2 small edits to my old story. Also, this is my first time EVER writing fanfiction lol... ||

Tags: Friends to Lovers, SFW, Arcane Headcanon, Mild Angst, Fluff, blah blah blah...

Preface: This is S2 E7 of Arcane if Ekko chose not to/never found a way back to his timeline and stayed with Powder. This is a Timebomb ship fanfic/oneshot and episodes that are suggestive will be marked as such. (Both of them are 18+ in S2 guys I'm not a freak). Obv Spoilers hope you enjoy :)

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His head throbbed. He blinked, hand to his head stumbling he looked around dazed.

"Woah hey there, lack of sleep got ya loopy." A strangely familiar voice said with a laugh behind him.

He turned sharply, feeling the hair on his arms rise as he met the pale blue eyes the voice came from.

She took a step back. Surprised.

"Are you ok?" Her eyes showed worry but he saw malice.

"What are you doing here?" His voice was harsh. Angry. "Haven't you done enough?" He felt himself stand and she responded with another step away.

"What's going on Ekko?" Her voice was... worried?

"It's me...Powder.." He felt his body respond in shock as his head struggled to keep up with what was happening.

"Powder?" He said barely above a whisper. He looked at her conflicted...this wasn't the jinxs he knew. It wasn't jinxs at all.

She half smiled at him stepping back closer.

"You need way more sleep Ekko all this work is making you a mess" Powder put her hand on Ekkos as she guided him towards a nearby door.

"Come on you need a drink" She smiled as she pushed open the door revealing The Last Drop's lively lobby.

"Your hair looks different" Ekko mumbled as he rubbed his temples.

"So does yours" She chuckled softly in reply.

They sat at a nearby empty table, the sunlight shone comfortingly and an upbeat tune played on the jukebox as the room rang with laughter and conversation.

"You got another headache?" She slid him a warm orangish drink "This stuff always works for me"

He noticed how she looked at him while he hesitantly took the cup.

She messed with the straw in her cup while he drank, picking it up and swirling it in circles while humming. "How's your project going along?" She finally said looking up at him. "Figure out that renewable energy stuff?"

"Oh...no I scrapped it" He replied, not quite sure what she meant but providing an answer to simply buy him time as he figured out what was happening.

"Scrapped it!?" She said dropping the straw. "But that took weeks?"

"Well yes it was meaningless- anyways I was looking at it wrong...and we can work on it later" He faltered over his words as he doubled down on his lie hoping she'd drop it so he could look for Heimerdinger.

"Well, we will hardly have time for it now Ekko" Powder scoffed, looking at him perplexed and slightly irritated.

"I- I just don't think I want to precipitate this year at all," Ekko said as he stood up ending the conversation, now intent on finding Heimerdinger.