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Viper admits, she had not been as starstruck of so affected by another person so much in her life, especially for someone who is considerably younger than her. The girl in question, a beautiful, tall German woman with gorgeous eyes; Klara Böhringer. The two had grown closer over the last few months she had spent at the protocol; it was like love at first sight. Viper was holding down B site with her, Split only seemed to get better every time she came. Cypher, Brimstone and Neon were on the opposite side. Brim thought that Viper and Killjoy were capable enough to defend a site alone.

“Viper…? Were you listening?” Viper was snapped out of her trance by the woman in front of her, she was glad her suit had a mask, the controllers face ran hot.

“Ahem… Sorry. Please repeat.” Although Klara makes Sabine feel warm and soft inside, she would prefer to keep her cold, sharp demeanour. This was just her nature. She wanted to open up to Klara, but something was holding her back. Maybe it was the fact that the scientist had noticed Klara’s affections toward a certain Brazilian. Just the thought of it, Klara and Raze, it was enough to make her feel sick to the stomach.

“I am going to set up a trap here, I don’t want you to get caught in it too.” Klara was holding one of her swarm grenades and gesturing towards the entrance on B site.

“Would you be able to hold mid from tower?” Sabine nodded in response, gaining a warm smile of appreciation from the German. As the older woman turned toward the zipline, she let out a long exhale from a breath she didn’t know she was holding. Killjoy could just look at her and it’d knock the air right out of her lungs. As killjoy was preparing on B site, Viper heard faint steps coming from Mid Bottom.

“Footsteps mid. B Link.” Viper whispered through her comms as to not give away her position, but soon heard killjoy join her on tower. The zipline would have been loud enough for enemies standing in Mid to hear. Klara mouthed a quick sorry before tucking herself behind a box.
Soon enough, rushed footsteps walking through what sounded like the sewer could be heard by the two women, they both decided to follow the omega agents through, trying to catch them off guard. After a while, the two snuck up to the entrance of the sewer, trying to stay as quiet as they could.

“Scheiße. It stinks in here.” Klara held her nose, trying to block out the stench. Sabine tried to stifle a laugh before noticing something on the floor.

“A polaroid?” Sabine bent down to pick it up, the picture in question made her eyes widen in shock. It was a small polaroid of Klara and herself… Kissing? It must be their omega doubles; they were in a relationship?

“What are you holding?” The young engineer peered over Sabine’s shoulder, trying to see what had made the scientist stop dead in her tracks. As she eyed the object in Viper’s hand, her face flushing a beet red. The polaroid depicted Viper and Killjoy, well, Omega Viper and Killjoy, kissing under a mistletoe. Christmas from last year, she assumed. It was a beautiful picture; Sabine just wishes she had been as lucky as her omega double. Killjoy continued on ahead, choosing to ignore the polaroid Viper found. Sneakily slipping the photo into her back pocket, she followed the engineer through the sewers.

Gun shots could be heard throughout the whole map, Viper and Killjoy quickly rushed, hearing frantic yells over the comms. They managed to catch a few off guard, Viper, Breach, and Killjoy. Viper lifted her gun to shoot, omega Killjoy had been there, completely blind to the two behind her. She felt remorse. Killjoy had shoved Viper out of the way, as omega Killjoy’s Alarm Bot had gone off. A clean headshot.

“One down.” She tapped her earpiece to turn it off.

“Are you ok?” Killjoy quickly repositioned herself at the entrance of sewer. Viper nodded and peaked around the corner to see her omega double trying to drag the lifeless body, although she was wearing a mask, her face was ridden with shock and grief. She aimed and let her bullet fly. She figured it would be better to put her double out of her misery. The enemy Breach was nowhere to be seen.

Viper decided to push first, as she prepared to turn the corner she got blinded through the wall. Killjoy swung out to catch the Breach trying to get a pick on Viper.

“…I need to be more careful. Thank you, little mouse.” Killjoy smiled at the nickname and continued on, they found Brimstone with a few bullets to the leg, with cypher supporting his weight.

“The enemies have retreated; they will not be able to win this battle with three of their own gone.” Brimstone grunted next to him.

“Well done you two, however their Sage will be back to collect them. Her powers are beyond our Sage’s.” Brimstone had kept grumbling about his injuries, it made Viper feel sorry for the old bag. Neon arrived back from her scout around the whole map, confirming that the enemies from omega had left Split. With that, the group of five had returned to VALORANT headquarters.

Raze was waiting in the lobby for killjoy, she was overjoyed to see Klara was safe. As she ran over to greet the Brazilian, the pits of Sabine’s stomach had seemed to get deeper. Her chest started hurting, watching Raze pick up Klara and twirled her around, she wished that was her more than anything. She watched as Klara wrapped her arms around Raze’s neck, how she laughed, how sincere she looked. All she could do was watch.

Sabine solemnly walked away to her quarters, preparing to retire for the night. As she took her suit off, the polaroid from the mission flew out of her back pocket, almost like a sick reminder. Sabine scooped it up in her hand, caressing the sides of the picture. It was not her Klara; it never will be. Not that Klara was hers in the first place. She will never be hers.

Images of Klara and Raze began to rush forward in her brain, it was so obvious to everyone in the protocol that she was in love with the chaotic duelist, everyone except Raze. That idiot had no idea how lucky she was. To have the most beautiful girl pinning after her.
She set the picture down in a drawer next to her bed, deciding to sleep on her emotions again. What else could she do? She didn’t want to risk her friendship with Klara. As much as she would hate to watch her be with someone else, she had no right to stand in between their relationship.

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Klara was ecstatic, after her mission on split had ended, she finally got to have some downtime for a week, as a reward for her performance during the mission. A week she could have some one-on-one time with Tayane, to say she was excited was an understatement of an understatement. The young duelist had an injury to her arm from her mission, her mirror version putting a few bullets in her. Klara had done her best to try and help relieve her pain, catering to her and bandaging her arm, but Sage was probably a better fit for that role. The German was practically skipping to her lab, running into Jett along the way.

“Whoa where are you going? Meeting up with Raze?” Jett snickered at her own comment, making Klara scoff and roll her eyes, her face turning slightly red.

“Actually, yes, I am. We’re working on a project together.” Jett looked at her, smirking.

“Alright, have fun ‘tinkering’ with her.” The Korean left, stifling a laugh as she looked at the beet red sentinel.

Klara continued on, these hallways always seemed to get longer for her. The butterflies started to rise from the deepest depths of her stomach the closer she got to the lab, Tayane always had that effect on her. She always knew she liked the Brazilian, when she first joined the protocol, the German found her slightly annoying and loud. But after getting to know her, she slowly fell in love. She’s really easy on the eyes. With her gorgeous skin, it glowed like glitter, and everything about her face. She was perfect in Klara’s eyes.
Just before she entered her shared lab with Tayane, she felt someone tap her shoulder from behind. A little startled, she turned to be faced by Viper, holding a cup of coffee.

“Hey… Wanna come with me to breakfast?” Klara was a little surprised, Sabine rarely invites her to do stuff with her. Was this a special occasion?

“Uhh, what for? Is there something special on today?” Viper’s eyebrows knitted together, but she quickly regained composure. Her face is always so hard to read, even without her mask, but she almost looks… hurt?

“Uhm, no… I just wanted to- never mind, have a nice day.” She quickly walked away before Klara could respond, let alone react. With a shrug, she turned away and opened the door to the lab to see a certain duelist hard at work. Klara caught herself staring again, Tayane worked out a lot, and it showed. She always wore cropped shirts, showing off her toned abdomen, but she still curved perfectly. The engineer couldn’t fathom what it was like to be that beautiful.

“Like what you see?” She was snapped out of her trance by the sound of the Brazilians voice, smirking at her. The sentinel’s face was burning up at the realisation that she was caught checking her colleague out.
“No- I mean yes! No wait- I’m sorry.” Klara looked away in embarrassment. Tayane could only laugh in response, getting up from her seat.

“Wanna get breakfast together? I figured we’d better eat something before starting. I know how you get when you’re hungry.” Klara rolled her eyes playfully and punched the taller woman, making sure it wasn’t her injured arm. The punch earning another laugh from the duelist, her laugh was beautiful too. Everything about her was just intoxicating.

“Race you?” Tayane took off before Klara could respond.

“Hey!” Klara yelled as she started to run after her.

The both of them reached the dining hall together, Tayane had underestimated just how fast the other engineer was. Klara was first into the designated eating area, finding Viper, Sage and Reyna all sitting on a small table near the window. She saw viper look up at the pair briefly, but quickly turned away, so the two could no longer see her face.

The loud duelist dug through the fridge for something to eat, pulling out uncooked bacon.

“Yes! I love bacon!” Klara could only laugh in response as Tayane scrambled around the kitchen to start cooking her breakfast. The German boosted herself on the bench, watching the Brazilian hard at work. Her face features glowing beautiful, with the help of the sunlight. This woman was unreal.

The sentinel caught herself staring again, turning away, she was willing to look anywhere but at Raze. She spotted Viper across the room again, getting off her spot on the table, she decided go head over to talk to the older scientist.

“Hey, mind if I sit?” Klara gestured towards the empty seat on the table, Viper blankly stared for a few seconds before nodding.

“Ahh look at the time, Reyna, we have something that requires our attention.” Sage grabbed Reyna’s arm and tried to drag her off her seat, Viper shot daggers at the pair as they both stood and left. Reyna winked at viper before leaving with her girlfriend. The scientist cleared her throat and took another sip of her coffee before realising it was empty.

To say it was awkward was an understatement.

“So… how is your morning going?” The German tried her best to engage in conversation with Viper. The woman looked…Jumpier than usual.

“I was just about to head out so…” As Viper stood up out of her chair, she was stopped by the younger woman.

“Wait! Are you ok?” Viper was turning red; did she have a fever? Maybe she was sick. Klara wanted to help her friend, as cold as she was, she did care about her. And she wanted to make sure her friend was ok.

“…Yes.” With that, Viper hurried out of the dining hall. Klara got back up and made her way back to Tayane, who had been watching the entire time.

“Is Viper acting weird lately?” Klara was worried about her, she had been acting weird for a while. Tayane shrugged and turned back around to her bacon.

“Maybe she’s just tired, you know how she gets.” The German nodded, satisfied with her answer as she stole a piece of bacon of the Brazilians plate.