What None Saw: Chapter 5 (Rita's)
I could not wait one single more second to post this one. This chapter may be my favorite thing I've ever written, and I hope you all love it, too! It's so fun, giggly, teasy, tensiony. Think violently protective, obsessed, pathetic, comPLETEly unhinged Azriel. Also, Azriel wearing a leather jacket is my permanent headcanon now 🫦
Chapter summary: Azriel reaches new levels of unhinged when Elain joins the family at Rita's. He leaves her with an enticing offer.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/61087384/chapters/156827896
“You look very nice, Azriel,” Elain said with an unmistakable touch of shyness. Azriel felt a blush of his own bloom on his cheeks.
He looked down at himself. He had forgone leathers and armor for a simple yet- he hoped- elegant black silk shirt and tailored pants. There was little he could do about the unruly waves kissing his brow and neck but his hair was at least washed and going in the right directions.
He kept the siphons atop his hands and Truth-Teller at his side, naturally. He never knew when he might need them.
“Thank you,” he murmured. “You…”
Fuck. What was he supposed to say? You look like a flawless goddess, Elain? You look like every sublime dream I have ever conjured? You look like a heavenly creature of moonlight and forgotten worlds and everything good in the universe? You look like your body may kill me slowly and happily?
Say something you godsdamned fucking idiot.
“You look rather dashing,” is what came out of his mouth.
Dashing? Dashing, you miserable fucking bastard? Azriel had never hated himself more.








