actually if you squint its all the imf x reader, but with a focus on benji and ethan. i just wrote this because i’ve been having a hard couple of days.
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You were minding your own business, sitting at the hotel room’s desk typing up a report on the mission you all were wrapping up, when you felt a hand duck under your chin and tilt your face up and to the side. You glare a little bit at Ethan, who is examining your face.
“Do you mind?” you asked, mildly annoyed.
“You’ve been crying,” Ethan states. At this, you jerked your head out from his grasp and turn back to your computer.
“You don’t have to point it out.” Biting your lip, you add “Is it that obvious?”
Sighing, you hid your face in your hands. “So it’s super obvious. Well, at least he noticed something about me…but why couldn’t it have been, oh, I don’t know, how nice I look in blue?”
“Actually he likes you best in red.”
“Seriously?!” you asked excitedly, peeking out at Ethan between your fingers. He’s always teasing you about your crush on Benji.
Just then Benji and Luther returned to the room.
“You guys ready to go home? Brandt’s waiting in the van,” Luther said cheerfully, ruffling your hair before grabbing his suitcase.
“God, yes,” you said, slamming your laptop shut and jumping up from your chair. You went to grab your bag but Benji reached it before you could. “Oh, you don’t have to -” you started, but he cut you off.
“Don’t worry about it.” He smiled at you and you had to fight your face from flushing.
The rest of the men left the room while you gathered up your phone and its charger from the night stand and Benji shut the door behind them.
“I actually wanted to talk to you, [Name],” Benji said softly.
You glance between him and the door. “You realize we’re in a hotel with paper thin walls, right?”
“Then let’s talk quietly, away from the door.” He gently touched your elbow and led you to the window on the opposite side of the room.
“What’s wrong?” you asked, looking up into his blue-gray eyes.
“That’s what I wanted to ask you, actually.”
You shift uncomfortably. “Nothing’s wrong, I’m fine.”
“I don’t want to talk about it, Benji.”
“Then is there something I can do to make you feel better?”
“You can lose when we play Mario Kart on the plane.” He rolls his eyes at this but it also earns you a slight chuckle.
“But seriously, [Name], you know that all of us would do just about anything for you, right?”
“Yeah,” you say, smiling at him.
“Good,” he says, and he moves like he’s going to hug you, but just gives you an awkward shoulder pat instead.
“Thanks, Benji. Now let’s get out of here before Brandt takes off without us.”