Second ending
Sera was angry. No,she was more than just angry, she was infuriated, and an infuriated Sera was no good sign for the wellbeing of everyone in Skyhold.
She was peacefully daydreaming near the door that led to Josephine's office and what she heard made her boil with wrath. The ambassador just told to the inquisitor, her lover, that she was going to marry this Antivan lord. And for the first time since Sera knew the inquisitor, she heard her Worship Evelyn Trevelyan cry.
The ambassador broke the heart of one of the only person who cared deeply for Sera.
And she was NOT happy about it .
Of course, Inky didn't cry in front of the idiot who broke her heart, she waited to be outside the door of the ambassador to leave a broken sob out of her lips. And at this exact second, Sera knew she couldn't just leave and pretend it didn't happen. She had to do something.
The elf heard the footsteps of her leader climbing down the stairs. Probably to the huge place with tons of spiders, the place Vivienne carefully avoided.
Sera knew this place very well, for she has come pretty often to collect enough spiders to scare the people who pissed her off ( Maker knows she comes a lot to this place) but she also knew that the Inquisitor hated spiders, so she also came often to take them away, so Evelyn could peacefully read without being afraid of these littles hairy stuff.
Sera would never admit it was her. She doesn't want the inquisitor to think that she is a big old softie, right ?
Sera used all her stealth to be discreet enough to sneak on the heart broken leader, the heavy breathing of the woman who killed a bloody dragon alone was the only thing showing that she was still alive.
Sera watched with pain the inquisitor fall to her knees, her body slightly shaking from the silent sobs. She was about to say something, anything, even a bloody fart, just to make her do something else than crying. Because Sera was suffering too, because Sera cared for Evelyn more than she was willing to admit .
The prank master lost count of the time, watching her dear friend weeping over her lost love. By the time her ragged sobs stopped, the moon was probably high in the sky. And Sera was still by her side. She knew she was never an agreeable girl, but she couldn't tear her eyes away from Evelyn.
The leader fell asleep against the raw wood of the ancient desk, her eyes still puffy and circled with red, with tears marks on her cheeks. Sera crawled next to her, she also knew that she couldn't leave her like this, the guards shouldn't see their leader in such a compromising situation...
Sera closed her eyes and let out an exhausted sigh, she wiped away the tears of the inquisitor with her thumb, and slowly and carefully pecked the eyes of her leader. She took a deep breath and carried her to her quarters, hiding her face with her own hood.
When she opened the door, Varric was the first one to spot her, it was dinner time, she would get noticed easily. But the dwarf was smart, and understood what was happening within the second, and started to tell a story to divert the attention from the elf and the unconscious woman.
Sera made herself a mental note to thanks the dwarf later, he saved her ass on this one, the man deserved at least some booze.
She carefully opened the door with her feet, grateful for her rogue skills, and climbed the stairs.
Maker, there were a bloody lot of stairs.
When Sera finally arrived to the room of the inquisitor she was breathless and a little bit sweaty, the human was not so heavy, but still...
The elf put the inquisitor in her expensive orlesian bed, pulling the cover up, before kissing her forehead and vanishing into the night, hoping to catch some dinner.
When Evelyn woke up , she noticed she wasn't in the same place, she was slightly worried,and a little bit ashamed, what if Josephine found her ? She was mortified , the ambassador must have been amused to see how heartbroken she is... The inquisitor groaned, Josephine wasn't like that, but still... She broke her heart... Trevelyan needed to go somewhere dangerous, she needed to feel alive again , because all she felt right now was pain and numbness. She took her bow, enough arrows to take down an empire by herself, a warm coat, furry boots, a few healing potions, and she left Skyhold, hooded, anonymous.
She didn't look back, didn't ask anyone to come with her. She was walking alone, with the inquisition's soldiers around her. An army, who didn't know their leader was among them, with her head low, and her casual clothes and armor, she truly looked like one of them.
She decided to take a breakfast before jumping right into hell, one of the few thing that she learnt from her mentor was to always eat before defeat. What an optimistic man.
She sat down with the soldiers, and asked for something to eat.
A gentle waitress brought her some soup, a few pieces of meat of poor quality. She made note to buy better meat for her soldiers next time. If there was a next time, that is.
She ate in silence , listening to the colorful language of the fighters, to the snickers of the rogues, and the calming voices of the healer. A man spoke about the Herald, and all started to praise her name
" She saved us " Started a young blonde, his eyes shimmering with admiration.
" A bloody hero ! " Yelled a veteran, with one eye missing, and a curious yellow-red armor.
" Zaeed is right ! A fucking hero! Even the Tevinter lass would let down his calibrations for her !" Said a bald woman, covered in tattoos, maybe a fan of the Dalishes ?
" Without her, we are nothing, this woman is our savior ! " Claimed an elf, with weird tattoos-like colorful squares on the right part of his body.
" Looks like someone has an hard-on the Inquisitor!" Joked a young Nord looking raven haired beauty.
" Well, you can't really blame him, can you ?"
The inquisitor smiled. She couldn't leave these men and women down because of a silly love affair. She didn't come this far to abandon. She listened to them a little bit longer, before letting her hood fall on her shoulders.
She raised from her seat, all the people at the table raised their eyes in her direction ,and a lot of gasps left their lips. She winked with her scarred eye, and left without any other word than " you guys are going to get better food, I swear".
All the soldiers who spotted her paid a reverence,full of respect and of pride to be noticed by their leader.
At Skyhold, Sera was fumbling on her seat, her baby blue eyes restless. She hasn't been to sleep that night. She spent the night walking in pointless circles, thinking about what she could do to help the inquisitor, she wanted to help, she didn't know why, she just had to.
Dorian noticed something was off when the inquisitor didn't show up for the breakfast. She usually sat next to her beloved ambassador, but neither of them came this morning. Dorian was friend with Evelyn, he watched upon her like a brother, and Bull shared this bond with him. Both of them wouldn't allow anything to happen to their precious Evie.
Dorian investigated the tavern, the tabouret where the inquisitor usually sat on to listen to the bard's songs and tales, and often to sing along to her favorite songs. She was so adorable, when she had that dreamy look, like a child who daydreams about being a knight, a savior.
But she was already both of them.
The mage went upstair to discuss about the strange disappearance of the inquisitor with Sera, the elf was quite a stalker, so she probably knew were Evelyn was. But when Sera told him she didn't know where Evie was, Dorian started to freak out. He stormed out of the tavern, and ran into the seeker, who shot him a deadly glare
" Huuum, lady Pentaghast m-" Started the mage, full of his usual self-confidence
"Seeker Cassandra" She corrected coldly.
"Seeker Cassandra... Maybe I should inform you that our dear inquisitor is n-"
"Our 'dear' inquisitor is what she wants to be, Dorian, and I think that you should leave her be with who she wants to be" Interrupted Cassandra, thinking he was referencing to her sexual preferences.
" I don't object on this subject, lad- seeker Cassandra, but I just wanted to tell that-"
" May-"
" STOP INTERRUPTING ME " Yelled Dorian, not in the mood to deal with the seeker.
The shocked look on Cassandra's face was hilarious, and he could've sworn to hear Sera's laugh from her room in the tavern, but there was no time for childish behaviors.
" The inquisitor is nowhere to be seen " Whispered Dorian.
" Maybe she went back to the Emerald Graves to train Cole, she told me something about it last week"
"Everyone else is still in Skyhold. She can't venture alone, not with all the assassins who want her head on a spike" Said Dorian, growing more and more worried.
And from that very moment, every member of the inner circle freaked out, and searched in the entire castle, even Vivienne was worried.
Josephine was worried and feeling extremely guilty. She went upstair to find her favorite spy master, feeling observed.
While this was happening Sera was preparing a big, big prank on Josephine to make her understand that she was going to suffer A LOT for what she did. She knew she couldn't do this alone, so she asked the help of a certain dwarf. Whom accepted without a second thought.
Of course, Dorian learnt about it within the second.
Of course, he said that he will join the prank project.
When all was ready, every member of the inner circle was asked to go in the war room to find a quick way to find the inquisitor.
A lot of seats were brought to the room, but everyone was focused on Cullen's speech about the fact that the inquisitor was probably just wandering a little bit, nothing wrong.
Josephine sneezed once, twice, and when the thrice sneeze came, she literally evacuated fire from her nostrils.
All took a step back, while Leliana, surprised and worried, was about to ask what the hell happened but then another fire sneeze fired, Vivienne said something, Josephine turned her head to face the mage but she sneezed again.
Vivienne was not quick enough to dodge the fire who burnt her horns-like hat. She was trying to stop the fire with her power but it didn't seems to work.
" Who DARED to use an anti-magi spell in here ?" Asked the Dame De Fer, while getting helped by a snickering Solas and a smirking Cole.
Josephine felt that another sneeze was coming, so she took a few step back and fell in her seat. Which literally exploded in a swarm of bees. The high pitched scream that the ambassador let out made Sera roar with laughter. Varric quickly put his hand on the elf's mouth to cover the noise as much as he could.
Leliana tried to help Josephine but the ambassador was too scared and ran off the room, but when she opened the door, a bucket of blood fell on her.
"Sweet maker, is that blood ?" Asked Cullen, his eyes widening.
"... Swine... Period... Blood..." Said Sera, between laughing fits.
Josephine turned around, her eyes full of wrath.
Leliana was about to catch the elf to prevent any escape, but she couldn't move.
"You idiotic bitch, you shouldn't have toyed with OUR Evelyn " Said Sera, in a ice-cold voice. " Be prepared for more, you whore"
And with that, she vanished into smoke, Varric and Dorian pretended that they couldn't move either .
The door opened again, everyone turned their heads to spot...
... The inquisitor...
" That is why I can't take you anywhere nice "