Art by ollysop from deviantart
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Picking a single flower from the messy collection, he carefully placed them into what looked like a tiara. It was well done even though making flower crowns wasn't his everyday work.
"It would look so beautiful on her" he couldn't help but smile as he put another flower together. Where was she?. Hadvar glanced around, looking carefully at his surroundings. "I thought hunting something wouldn't take so long" he said to himself and shrugged before going back to what he was doing.
"By Talos, these rabbits should be named Daedra and given their own Daedric plane! Little devils they are!" A familiar voice appeared closer, cursing and angrily bantering to herself about rabbits. Hadvar couldn't help but laugh at her words, he looked back, she was angrily stomping the grassy ground and heading to the small camp that they made, where Hadvar was in.
The woman entered the camp "you won't believe what I had to go through to hunt today!" She said, annoyed. Hadvar hid the flower crown when he had realized that she was already in the camp.
"Ah! You're back" Hadvar turned around and smiled at her but that didn't seem to help the bad mood at all
"I thank the Divines that I could return! I thought that I would die from chasing these little bastards!" She cursed at the rabbits and threw the rabbit carcasses aside
"You caught them right? Cheer up!" Hadvar chuckled
"Right, I had been stalked by a sabre cat, then when I thought I had the rabbits easily in front of my bow then a stupid stag just came out of nowhere and chased them away! Can you believe it?!" (Y/n) shouted
"You should've let me go and bring game for dinner" Hadvar replied after a few moments
"I cannot let you do everything now, can I?" She looked concerned "you've already done a lot for me..."
"Yeah, like what?" Hadvar sarcastically said
"You really don't want to get me started..." she was interrupted when a loud roar sounded from the bushes, then before Hadvar could even reach for his weapon, a large sabre cat leaped from the bushes and attacked (y/n).
Luckily, she ran from the animal as it chased her, however, she would soon be outrun by it.
Hadvar was surprised that so many things had happened in just a few moments, he didn't lose his composure though and followed the sabre cat and (y/n).
They hadn't gone too far, Hadvar was quick to chase them and found them nearby a stream. (Y/n) was terrified as she was cornered by the sabre cat, her eyes were widened but soon eased a bit when she saw Hadvar.
"Stay calm" Hadvar signed her and aimed for the sabre cat, the beast however looked behind it and saw that it was being aimed at by a bow. The sabre cat growled viciously and leapt at Hadvar, he was quick to his actions and shot the arrow before the beast could injure him. Hadvar fell on the ground with the beast's corpse on him, (y/n) gasped and rushed to him, with his help, she pushed away the carcass from him.
"Are you alright?!" She stared at him, terrified and concerned
"I'm perfectly fine" Hadvar said, sitting up. Though she couldn't say if he was being sarcastic like usual "are you...sure?" she stared at him. The imperial soldier laughed slightly before reaching for her hand and holding it, her hands were cold and shaking from the unexpected attack but seemed to have soothed a little by his touch.
(Y/n) was pulled towards him, she lost her balance and clumsily fell on top of him,
the woman gasped and stared into his eyes before speaking "is there another sabre cat behind me?" she teased before laughing
"No... but if you want me to call you one..." Hadvar was interrupted when she lightly punched his chest. He chuckled and placed the flower tiara on her head "did you make this?!" She happily asked
Hadvar nodded "I did..." he said in a low voice
"I guess we should go..." she blushed and tried to get herself away from such an awkward position
"Come on... let's stay a while" Hadvar mischievously smirked and tucked a strand of her hair behind her ear....