Familiar. That's the word wylan was stuck with.

It's been six months since the heist, yet it feels like years.

The cool autumn breeze pulls back his curly hair.

Him and jepser have been living with his mother alone in their huge mansion. He missed the nights where they would all eat dinner in the hall when inej was around. When they had been filled with joy after successfully stripping his father of his power. Him and jesper have been fighting, wylan arguing with him that because he gambled he taking away his guns is the best thing to do, and jesper trying to get wylan to read. He came up with word of the day. He had to try to use it naturally. He felt like a 5 year old.

Familiar.

Wylan was so deep in though he didn notice the tall dark zemini sit down next to him until he said,

"May I join you?"

"Your already sitting"

"Good point. What are you thinking of."

Wylan stood there. Should he tell him? Was he thinking the same thing?

"Last I heard, Nina is still in Ravaka, inej is happy with her family, and kaz is still one of the most feared barrel bosses in ketterdam." Jesper said, almost like he was reading his mind.

So he was thinking it

"Do you ever feel like, you wish, you want to do another heist, '' wylan said, his face turning pink as he looked up at jesper.

"Yeah sometimes."

They sat in silence. Moments pass until wylan says something again.

"Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if Kaz didn't take me."

Jepser seemed to be staring into nothing. He looked directly at the sun set. The one night that it has not rained, and here we are. Hoping for another chance to fight for our lives.

"Do you remember when we first met?"

Of course wylan remembered. He was working at a dye factory, killing his lungs by the second, trying to make just enough to stay in a hotel with a bed. But all of that changed when Jesper walked in wearing yellow and green trousers

"Yeah".

"That same night we became the people we are. In that den, that table. That was the beginning of a new life for all of us. None of us knew it, but it happened."

Wylan looked at jesper like he was crazy.

"Who are you and what did you do with my boyfriend" wylan asked. Had he been out drinking?

"What?"

"since when were you so, poetic,"

"And since when did you become so cute?" Jepser said flirtingly.

wylans face went redder than before.

Jepser held his chin and brushed his lips against his. Wyland leaned in and pushed jesper onto the forest floor, sitting on top of him.

"Sorry to interrupt". A voice came out of the forest.

Wylan jumped off of Jesper and was on his feet.

A hooded figure stood before them.

"Who are you?"

"Who do you think," the figure said in a ,familiar voice

Wylan could see the dark brown eyes piercing through him. He stared. Only two people in ketterdam have that stare, kaz, and-

"Well i'll be damned" gawked jepser

He ran to the figure and just before grabbing onto her and hugging her, she took off her hood, and there revealed the beautiful suli acrobat, inej gafta.

Jesper reliced her, but it was not a smile that was plastered on her face, it was a stirn expression.

"What's wrong?'' Wylan asked. He was confused why she wasn't happy to see them.

"Call up kaz, we got a job"