⍟ Broken Strings {A Chaos Theory x Male Reader Story - Ben}

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"So where do we think Brooklyn and the Broker went after they left Senegal?" Yaz pipes up.

"Did anyone see the tail numbers on the jet?" Ben looks around, "Maybe I can--"

"Sorry for interrupting, "Sammy cuts in, "But are we really gonna ignore this dino curse Gia's Nonna mentioned.

"Basta!" Nonna slams her hand down on the table, doing a zipped lip motion with her hand.

"Nonna!" Gia scolds, "It's okay, Sammy."

Nonna stands up and begins lecturing Gia from across the table, nobody else catching a single word.

"Uh..." Sammy pauses, "What'd she say?"

Gia sighs, "My Nonna thinks dinosaurs are otherworldly creatures sent to punish humanity."

They all turn to Nonna again as she begins ranting, seemingly telling them some kind of story. At the end she claps her hands together like giant jaws, the loud sound spooking everyone around the table, besides Gia, who's seemingly heard this story many times before.

"She's saying someone she barely knows allegedly knew someone who got 'eaten by a dinosaur'." Gia rolls her eyes.

"I mean, we would have heard if there were dinosaurs running loose in Italy, right?" Kenji shakes his head.

"It was probably a wolf." Gia shrugs, "And it definitely wasn't trying to teach him a lesson or punish humanity."

Nonna goes on with her seemingly deranged rambling, stabbing her knife into the table at the end to possibly prove a point.

Gia sighs and ducks her head in embarrassment.

"My Italian isn't great, but did she just say she wants to rid the world of all dinosaurs?" Ben swallows hard.

"Your Italian seems fantastic, because I don't know where you got that from." Y/N shakes his head in astonishment.

Kenji frantically gets up from the table, "I-- I have check on... something." He rushes out of the room leaving everyone confused.

After a moment Darius gets up too, "I should... go check on him."

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Y/N takes a seat on the bed that was so graciously granted to him and Ben by Gia and her Nonna. It's a twin, but it'll do.

He takes off his shoes and jacket as Sammy enters the room, taking a seat on the matching twin bed across from him.

"Hey, N/N." Sammy looks up at him, "Do you think Brooklyn--"

"Abandoned us?" Y/N cuts in, looking up at her as he unties his shoe, "Do you?"

"Well..." Sammy sighs, "I just feel like... we're family-- Or, we're supposed to be. And if it was my family... I'd want to go back to them." She pauses a moment before taking off her shoes as well.

"Yeah." Y/N sits there thoughtfully, "Yeah, me too. But we don't know what's going on with Brooklyn. Maybe there's an explanation... or something."

"Maybe she's in danger."

"I hope so. I mean-- I don't hope so, I just--" Sammy stumbles over her words.

"I know what you mean." Y/N nods, laying down.

Sammy nods, "Just... don't tell Yaz I said anything, okay? She's not--"

Yasmina suddenly opens the door, stepping into the room and glancing at Y/N and Sammy as they suddenly go silent.

"What?" She smirks.

"Nothing, nothing." Y/N waves it off.

"Okay, weirdos." Yaz chuckles as she slides off her shoes and gets in bed with Sammy.