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Jean had never thought about it at first, but it all came crashing down on her at the moment.
“I’m sorry, love.” Lisa says as she pulls the dagger out of Jean’s stomach and turns around, pulling out a handkerchief to wipe away Jean’s blood on her weapon as Jean clutches the wound, falling to her knees before collapsing into eternal sleep.
story starts here. please click off of the story if you are sensitive to violence/death (there isn't a lot of it but it is mentioned!)
Lisa remembers the day her and Jean met. She had just been dispatched out on her job to go take down the Acting Grand Master of Mondstadt and she thought it was an easy task, seeing as she rarely sees the Grand Master herself go out on expeditions and all. She’d remember a face like hers, especially after taking the life of one.
After all, she was a Fatui spy.
The spy walks up the stairs to the Knights of Favonius headquarters, her dagger strapped to her thigh ready to get the job done quickly and easily just like she had done with all her other tasks. The guards let her in after seeing the fake diplomat badge on her chest and she went straight to the door of the Acting Grand Master. She knocks.
All she came to do was to kill the woman and leave. That was all she came to do.
But yet those plans flew right out the window as soon as she opened the door and locked eyes with Lisa. Those ocean blue eyes poured right into Lisa’s emerald green ones, as if they were attempting to purify Lisa of her darkness.
It worked.
Well, for a while.
“Hi, are you the diplomat I’m expecting from…” She glances at her paper in her hand. “Inazuma?” Lisa gives a nod and a small smile. They shake hands and Lisa swore she could feel such pure aura coming from the woman in front of her.
She couldn’t possibly kill someone with such good intentions like her.
“Come in, we can discuss.” The blonde haired woman ushers Lisa inside and the spy nearly shuddered at their clashing auras, with Lisa’s strong murderous intent that “mysteriously” faded and the woman’s own radiating vibe.
“So, Acting Grand Mas-” Lisa begins, but is cut off.
“Please… call me Jean.”
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Lisa also remembers the day she ended up having to come back about a month later to ask Jean for a job. She refused to come back to the Fatui empty handed, and she thinks that was the only reason. She came back to kill her.
Just to not come back empty handed.
“Jean! Hello.” She greets, opening the door to her office and Jean gives her a smile, walking around her desk to go give Lisa a hug. “Lisa. It’s so nice to see you again, what brings you here?”
They were so close. Lisa could have taken the chance to get the job done right then and there but of course…
She didn’t.
They pull away and Lisa clears her throat. “I was hoping you’d have something you need me to assist with? I know with the sudden wave of ruin guards in the area you’d have a few knights… missing.”
That was a lie. Lisa killed them all on the way.
“Oh! Yes… well,” She looks into the distance, scrunching her nose and furrowing her eyebrows. That was apparently her thinking face.
“I have been meaning to hire a librarian. It’s been very taxing work to go to and fro looking for books wanting to be read. I think you’d be perfect for the job, seeing as you’re a diplomat and all.” Jean beams and Lisa nods, the two going over to the library.
Lisa doesn’t know the first thing about books or how to find them and all, but for the job she’d learn.
Just for the job.
Right?
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Lisa and Jean had now been working together for a while. Lisa currently sits on the edge of Jean’s desk as she listens to Jean talk.
She’s not really listening actually, she’s simply staring at Jean’s passionate eyes boring into hers. Her aura is so strong whenever she’s talking about the things she’s passionate about. She smiles subconsciously at the feeling that you could trust her with anything. Jean was like that person who drew you in no matter what. Like you could trust her with all your secrets.
Lisa suddenly frowns.
“Lisa? What’s wrong?” Jean asks seeing the sudden change in her expression. Lisa sighs and looks her in the eye. “I haven’t been completely honest with you.”
Soon the frown spreads over to Jean and the blonde takes Lisa’s hands in her own. Lisa’s heart skips beats. Multiple beats, actually.
Say it, Lisa. Tell her. I’m a Fatui spy that was sent to kill you. Cmon, Lisa. It’s not that hard.
“I love you.”
…
That wasn’t what she was supposed to say.
Shit. You’re in too deep, Lisa.
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Lisa doesn’t know why she said that, because now she’s in a relationship with someone she doesn’t truly love. Or maybe that’s just her in denial.
“Mmph…” She snaps back to reality and looks down to see a sleepy Jean in her hands. She sighs and snuggles into Lisa’s side and Lisa’s first instinct should have been to kill her right then and there but she didn’t. Instead she wraps a hand around the blonde.
Lisa reaches for the dagger strapped to her thigh, just where it’s been for the past year or so. She even goes as far as to take it out and point it towards her girlfriend. She sucks her breath in and gets ready for the kill.
“...Lisa? Good mowning.” She says in her oh so very cute sleepy voice, snuggling up to Lisa and opening her beautiful ocean eyes. “Good morning, love.” Lisa responds.
The dagger goes back to it’s rightful spot on the side of her thigh.
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Lisa and Jean have been dating for two years now. It’s unrequited, but Jean doesn’t need to know that.
Is it really though?
“This tea is simply amazing, Lisa. Thank you, this is exactly what I needed.” Jean says with a gentle smile, giving Lisa a small peck on the lips.
“You’re welcome, my love.” Lisa returns her kiss and smiles back, watching as Jean sips on her tea, writing some sort of document that Lisa still doesn’t understand after two years of dating the Acting Grand Master of Mondstadt.
She watches as Jean spills a drop of her tea. Jean says something but Lisa doesn’t listen. Her eyes follow Jean’s ring finger coming up to wipe the tea from the edge of her mouth.
“Jean, marry me.”
Lisa, why did you do that?
Jean chokes on her tea. “What?”
“I said… marry me.” Lisa repeats and Jean smiles at her.
She’s just buying time.
Just buying time.
“Sure, Lisa.”
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Lisa is confused.
She’s standing at the altar with a forced smile on her face. She’s waiting for Jean to walk down the aisle and marry her, but why? Why is she getting married out of impulse? Lisa came to Mondstadt to assassinate the Acting Grand Master but instead she’s marrying her.
Talk about a breach of contract.
She sees Jean walk down the aisle in her white dress and suddenly those thoughts are gone. The Fatui spy in her is temporarily gone as all she can see is Jean walking down the aisle. To her.
I thought your love was unrequited, Lisa.
“Lisa, I’ll love you as long as I live. You’ll be my one and only love for eternity. I love you so much.”
Lisa wishes she could say it back.
The rest flies right by Lisa’s head and as soon as she realizes, she’s leaned in to kiss her bride and that’s when she knew.
Fatui Electro Agent Lisa, you’ve gone off course.
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BACK TO PRESENT TIME
Lisa closes the door behind her, leaving Jean’s lifeless body in there. The same body she loved and cherished. She takes out her communication device meant for members of the Fatui association and dials three digits.
“Hello?”
“This is Fatui Electro Agent Lisa. I’ve eliminated the Acting Grand Master of Mondstadt.”
The person on the other line chuckles. “I’m afraid you’re six years too late, Lisa. Your Fatui membership status has been eliminated ever since you missed the deadline for the task.”
“...What?”
“Congrats on the marriage, by the way. So sad you had to kill your wife as soon as you married. And it was all for nothing, wasn’t it Lisa?”
Lisa is silent.
“I’ll leave you to your own then. Goodbye, Former Fatui Electro Agent Lisa.” They hang up.
As Lisa walks out of headquarters and out the Mondstadt gates, the panic and sobbing of the town behind her over the death of their Grand Master, she can’t hear it over her own regret of not being able to tell Jean she loved her back.
Their love wasn’t unrequited after all.