#I feel like it's been a whiiiiile since I posted a jesper fic

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Second chance - Jesper Fahey

Request: yes “Would you please be willing to write a fic with Jesper from Shadow & Bone where he is so busy gambling that he forgets your anniversary and stands you up at the restaurant where you agreed to meet which turns into a fight and he wants to make it up to you. So a lil’ angsty that ends in fluff?? 🥰🥰” Pairing:  Jesper Fahey x reader Summary:  after waiting for jesper at your favorite restaurant for an hour, you finally leave the place, only to run into jesper, who was just about to enter Warnings: angst, language Word count:  2.2K A/N: oooh I like this !! thanks for requesting and enjoy reading! :) TAG LIST (grishaverse): @ayushmitadutta @mrs-brekker15 @dancingwith-sunflowers @thegirlwiththeimpala @parker-natasha @story-scribbler @romanoffstarkovs @daliareads @itsnotquimey @sanktaesperanza @whymyparentscheckmyphone @aleksanderwh0r3 @ilovemarvelanne1 @marlenaisnthappy  TAG LIST (jesper fahey): @mufnasa add yourself to my tag lists here

You play with the cherry in your empty glass. You’d already bought yourself two drinks, drinking them as slowly as you could, waiting. The people who are working tonight had sent you sympathetic glances at first, since it was clear you were waiting for someone.  

But the longer you waited, the more angry looks they gave you. The restaurant is very popular among locals as well as tourists. It’s not good for business if one girl kept one table for herself, waiting for someone who still hadn’t shown up.

Just as you want to signal to one of the waitresses to order another drink, someone already approaches you.

You smile briefly and want to order another drink, but she’s the one who talks first.

‘Ma’am, I’m sorry, but I’m going to have to ask you to give up the table.’ she says.

You feel your heart sink to your stomach. 

‘Can’t I wait a little longer?’ you say. ‘I’m sure he’ll be here soon.’

‘You’ve already sat here for an hour. We can’t give you any more time, I’m sorry.’ she says.

You sigh softly and get up, smoothing out your dress. You follow her to the bar and pay for your drinks. As you walk toward the door, you start to think where you could go. You don’t feel like going to the Slat.

Inej and Nina would probably be waiting up for you, ready to hear all about your dinner with Jesper, and you didn’t feel like going down there only to tell them he didn’t even show up. You might just take a walk around the city, or go to a nearby park to sit down.

Just as you walk through the door, you bump into Jesper. 

Normally, you’d be delighted to see him. But now you can’t even bring yourself to smile at him. His face looks flushed, as if he ran here. 

‘I can explain.’ he begins, but you push past him and step out onto the street. 

You ignore Jesper calling your name and start to walk away from him. You don’t even register which direction you’re going, you just want to be away from Jesper. 

‘Y/N, wait!’ says Jesper, running after you and catching up with you. 

You start walking faster and curse yourself for wearing such high heels. Then again, they’re Jesper’s favourites, he loves them. Right now you wanted to take them off and throw them in the nearest canal.

‘Look, I can explain.’ he says again.

‘Do me a favour, Jesper. Don’t.’ you say as you keep on walking, refusing to look at him. 

‘Sweetheart-’

‘Don’t you fucking call me that!’ you say loudly.

You stop walking to get in front of him. Jesper looks hurt at your loud voice but in the moment, you couldn’t care less. Anger rises up in your body as you look up at Jesper.

‘You fucking forgot our anniversary dinner, Jesper!’ you say loudly. ‘We don’t get to celebrate a lot around here, and you knew how much I was looking forward to it. I picked out the best restaurant, I got a new dress which I look really good in, and I had something else planned for us after dinner.’ 

Jesper doesn’t say anything, merely looks at you as you catch your breath and continue.

‘I told you time and time again to please remember it, and then you fucking didn’t! This was important to me, I thought it was important to you too.’ you say.

‘Look, I know I stood you up, and I’m sorry for that, I really am. But I knew you had some things to handle for Kaz, so I decided to kill the time and went to the gambling hall-’

You cut him off by a groan and throw your hands up in frustration. ‘Of course you did, because gambling is all you care about!’ you say.

Jesper frowns. ‘That’s not true.’ he says. ‘I care about you.’

You step closer and jab a finger in his chest. ‘If you cared about me, you would have remembered instead of wasting time and money gambling.’ you say.

Shaking your head, you step back from him. Jesper looks hurt at your words. You tear your eyes away from his face and bend down to take off your heels. 

‘These are fucking killing machines.’ you mutter as you take them off, choosing to walk barefoot instead. 

You look at Jesper once you’re standing up straight again, and can tell he wants to say something, but you don’t give him a chance. You turn around and start walking away, blinking furiously to stop the tears from falling. 

Part of you expects Jesper to chase after you, and you have to force yourself not to look over your shoulder. He screwed up and he knows it. And you aren’t ready to forgive him just yet. 

But when he doesn’t follow you, you’re still upset. You walk until your feet hurt. Eventually, you can’t ignore the aching feeling in your chest any longer, and you sink to the ground.

You let the sadness take over and the tears stream down your cheeks. You had told Jesper multiple times a day to remember it, that it was important to you. And yet he still forgot. Because he decided to go to the gambling hall. You really thought you meant more to him. 

When the tears have stopped falling and you’re noticing how tired you actually are, you push yourself to your feet and start walking back to the Slat. 

It takes longer than you thought it would, you must have wandered off further from the restaurant than you’d initially thought. You briefly close your eyes and sigh in relief when you finally see the crooked building of the Slat in the distance. 

Your shoes feel exceptionally heavy in your hands as you push the door open. There are a few people sitting downstairs, including Inej, Nina and of course, Jesper.

He hopefully looks up when he sees you, opening his mouth to speak to you, but you turn your attention to Inej.

‘Can I stay in your room tonight?’ you ask her.

She looks from you to Jesper. You didn’t know how much he had told them. Even if he didn’t tell them anything, your puffy and red eyes told them enough. 

‘Please?’ you say. 

Inej nods at you.

‘Thanks.’ you say, turning around to go to her room. You hear how someone gets up behind you, and immediately assume it was Jesper.

‘Don’t.’ you say without turning around. 

You climb the stairs to Inej’ room and let yourself in. After preparing a bath, you let your aching feet soak in the water. You lean your head back and close your eyes, letting your thoughts take over. 

After a while, you hear Inej knocking on the bathroom door. 

‘You alright in there?’ she says.

‘No.’ you say truthfully. ‘I’ll be out in a second.’

Inej opens the door a bit and you see her hand as she flings you one of her shirts to wear to bed. You put it on after drying yourself and comb your hair.

She’s sitting on the bed when you leave the bathroom. Thankfully, your eyes aren’t as red as they were. But Inej still gives you a comforting smile.

‘Jesper said he forgot.’ she says.

‘Did he tell you why he forgot?’ you say as you climb onto the bed and lay down underneath the covers. 

‘He only told us he forgot, and kept saying how much of an idiot he was.’ says Inej. ‘But that’s all.’

‘He forgot because he was too busy gambling.’ you say. 

Inej frowns. ‘He was? But you told him so many times not to forget. And he went to a gambling hall?’ she says.

‘Hence why I ignored him.’ you say. 

‘Do you want to talk about it?’ says Inej.

‘No.’

‘Do you want me to shut up so you can go to sleep?’

‘Yes.’

Inej doesn’t reply anymore, instead she lays down as well. It takes a while for you to get comfortable. You’re used to sleeping next to Jesper. Inej is one of your best friends, but of course it’s still different. After what feels like hours, you finally fall asleep.

For some reason you feel even more tired than the night before when you wake up. It’s like your entire body feels heavier for some reason. Inej must’ve already went downstairs for breakfast, because she’s not in the room with you.

You get up and briefly stop by the room you share with Jesper - after checking he’s not there - to put on a clean outfit. You’d hoped Jesper would be away, but he’s sitting downstairs with the rest of the crows when you enter the room.

You want to turn around and get breakfast at a cafe, but Jesper is faster. He’s quick to walk toward you with just a few steps. You want to walk out the door, but Jesper reaches out and grabs your arm. 

‘Just hear me out, okay?’ he says.

You ignore him and keep your eyes fixed on the floor, determined not to look at him. 

‘Look, I was an idiot. I can’t apologise to you because me forgetting our anniversary dinner because I went gambling is unforgivable. Especially since you told me so many times not to forget. It was fucking stupid, and I promise you it won’t happen again.’ says Jesper. 

You have to physically hold yourself back not to throw yourself into his arms. Because yes, Jesper was an idiot last night, but at the end of every day, you still love him. He’s still yours and you are his.

‘What do you say, love, do you want to give this handsome face a second chance?’ says Jesper. 

You finally look up at him. You missed looking up into his eyes. He’s searching your face for a reaction.

‘Promise me next time you won’t forget.’ you say softly. 

As a response, Jesper holds out his pinky finger to you. You chuckle and raise your hand to hook your pinky finger around his.

‘I promise.’ says Jesper. ‘I’ll make it up to you. Let me make you breakfast, since I missed dinner last night.’ 

You look over his shoulder. ‘Everyone’s still there.’ you point out.

‘Consider it taken care of.’ says Jesper with a wink.

Before you can ask him what he meant, Jesper has already turned around.

‘Ladies, gentlemen, I’m going to need you to clear the room.’ says Jesper. 

Almost everyone gets up, except for Matthias and Kaz. Matthias seems confused, Kaz just seems like he doesn’t care.

‘Right. I have to address all of you.’ says Jesper. ‘Ladies, gentleman, drüskelle and Kaz, please clear the room.’ 

Nina has to drag Matthias away and Kaz only gets up after Inej raises her eyebrows at him, but they do clear the room. 

‘I can’t believe they listen to you.’ you say, watching all of the crows leave. 

‘No one can say no to someone as gorgeous as me.’ says Jesper.

You laugh at his words. ‘Good to have you back, Jes.’ you say. 

You follow him to the small kitchen and hop onto the counter. As Jesper starts to move around, getting ingredients for a nice breakfast, you can’t help but to smile.

When he walks past you, you reach out and grab his arm. 

‘Thank you.’ you say. ‘For making it up to me.’

He leans in and kisses your forehead. ‘Thank you for putting up with my idiotic and annoying ass.’ he says.

‘Hey!’ you say and you playfully slap his arm. ‘You forgot ‘forgetful’.’ you say.

Jesper pouts and you laugh. ‘Forgetting anniversary dinner because you went gambling, I’m going to hold that against you for the rest of your life.’ you say. ‘It’s a perfect summary for your personality.’ 

‘Wrong.’ says Jesper, moving closer to you so he can wrap his arms around your waist. ‘The biggest part of my personality consists of my undying love for you.’ 

‘You’re so cheesy.’ you say.

‘You’re the one who knew what they were getting themselves into when you agreed to be my girlfriend, so that one’s on you.’ he says.

‘Alright, I’ll give you that.’ you say. 

‘I’ll take you out for dinner as well, but for now you’ll have to settle for breakfast.’ says Jesper, letting you go and continuing to make you breakfast.

‘That’s alright.’ you say. ‘It’s been a while since we had the kitchen to ourselves. So, what’s for breakfast?’

‘Well, Inej taught me how to make waffles, but I do have to confess I forgot half of the recipe already.’ says Jesper, looking at the ingredients he gathered. 

You chuckle and hop off the counter. You walk around it and nudge Jesper’s side. 

‘Move over, I know her recipe.’ you say.

‘I was going to make you breakfast, love.’ says Jesper.

‘Perfect, you can help me then.’ you say. 

‘Deal.’ says Jesper.

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