Chapter 10: Katarina Gets Her Shit Together
Riven walked into her dorm room following her walking in on Diana and Leona in the hall way and saw Katarina sitting at her dining table. The red head was carving some lewd drawing into the wood.
"Do you mind not damaging my stuff?"
"I think it looks great, besides, your room has nothing to decorate it so I'm helping," The assassin replied. Riven peered over Katarina's shoulder looking at the drawing, it depicted Katarina stabbing Irelia. Riven sighed, placing her rune sword by her bed and began removing her armour, "I'm finally ready to talk."
This caught Riven off guard, causing her to stop taking off her armour. "How'd that happen? You never feel like talking."
"Let's just say, Sarah helped me get my shit together."
"Sarah?" Riven eyed Katarina, "Nobody calls Miss Fortune by her first name. You sleeping with her too?" Katarina stabbed her blade through the dining table.
"If I were, it would be none of your business." The assassin hissed.
"Well it is if you want to dictate whether I see Irelia or not, which clearly upsets you." Riven said, gesturing at the drawing on her table.
"I don't want to talk about Sar-Miss Fortune or Irelia. I want to know why you left me and didn't come back." Riven was shocked by the vulnerability in both Katarina's tone and choice of words. She wasn't going to waste the opportunity to have an honest conversation with her.
"Do you know what actually happened in Ionia? To Fury Company?" Riven turned from Katarina while talking, she walked to the dining table and began pouring glasses of whiskey for the two of them.
"All the reports I could find said that Fury Company was ambushed by some Ionian's, slaughtered and that they couldn't find your body afterwards so the assumption was that you fled and left your men to die on their own before dying elsewhere."
"Yeah, I figured it would saw something like that. Have you ever wondered how I got the burns on my body? On my face? It certainly wasn't from an Ionian ambush. We were betrayed Katarina. Friendly fire by the Zaunites, they were willing to kill us in order to get the Ionians we were fighting. It killed my men and almost killed me but I was the lucky one, if you could call it that."
Katarina was eyeing Riven suspiciously, she clearly wanted to trust Riven with what she was saying but didn't want to believe that Noxus would let that happen and cover it up. "If that were true and you weren't a coward, why wouldn't you have just sent me a letter or come to find me?"
"And what would you have done? I would have gotten you involved in something that could get you killed. Assisting an exile is worthy of execution or at the very least something similar in severity. Even if I had manage to get word to you and you had believed it, would you have chosen to leave Noxus as well? Leave your family, wealth and status to be with me in exile?"
Katarina hesitated to answer after Riven's accusation. "I don't know. I would like to think that I would."
"Leaving everything behind would be the cost of being with me, you know? It would be delusional to think that both of us could keep this a secret until I reached my goal."
"Your goal?"
"Yes, my plan to bring Noxus back to its former glory, remove the corruption from High Command and the military."
"That's… a very ambitious goal." Katarina frowned, looking away.
"Katarina, I'm sorry that it seemed like I chose to leave you and Noxus for no reason and let you believe I died. I've always loved you, what I did I felt I would be leaving you better off by doing nothing." Riven reached out, touching the assassins hand, "What comes next?"
"I think we both need time to consider this," the red head said before downing her glass of whiskey, "good thing I have something we can do without thinking." She smirked at Riven. Riven finished her glass in return before Katarina pounced on her, dragging her to the bed.
Katarina quickly stripped Riven of the remaining pieces of armour and her clothes, taking off her own quickly after, straddling the exiles waist.
"I missed you, you know." Katarina gave a kind smile, something that was rare from the assassin.
"I missed you too, Riven," She said while leaning down to kiss Riven's neck. She kissed her way down Riven's neck, to her collar bone before pausing, "You know, if this does work out, I could take over teaching you how to read." Riven reddened at the comment, she had forgotten that Katarina knew about that. Katarina chuckled at her embarrassment, returning to Riven's chest. Kissing along the scars that she could see, seeing them in a different light now that she knew the truth about what had happened in Ionia. She smirked up at the exile before moving south.