Who Fell First? (Year 4) [Wednesday Addams x Male Reader]

The Truth

Y/N and Wednesday had learned their spells for the second task and Harry said he was working on it.

That left them time to get back to the next big mystery, who put their names in that cup.

As they sat in the room of requirement, Y/N and Wednesday had drawn up a list of potential suspects.

"I need to go and talk to someone." Y/N said suddenly as he put on his scarf.

"You're going to tell her, aren't you, that it was all fake." Wednesday asked as Y/N nodded.

"She deserves to know why." Y/N said as Wednesday graciously nodded in agreement.

"See you in a minute." Wednesday said as Y/N was suspicious. "Did you expect opposition?"

"To be blunt, yes."

"Our job in this world is to uncover the truth for people. If we start hiding truths like this from people. We're no better than the liars and snakes we face." Wednesday said as Y/N nodded.

There was a brief pause.

"It was never serious you know? Me and Fleur. It was always just for cover." Y/N said as Wednesday looked at him.

"I know, just like I know that you started to get the slightest hint of sentiment for her, how I know you started to feel for her. Yet you came back to me, you kept a small handkerchief she gave you, it's embraided with her initials, blue silk. If you didn't feel something for her you would have discarded it, so you're sentimental about it. I knew it would happen, it's only natural, yet I agreed that we do this. What does that tell you?"

"You're not worried about me leaving."

"No, because I know you wouldn't leave." Wednesday said as she walked up to Y/N and kissed him on the lips. "I trust you Y/N. You're the one person that I can trust to never betray me. Go and tell her the truth. She deserves it." 

Y/N nodded as Wednesday looked him in the eyes.

"Now go."

When Y/N arrived at the Beauxbaton tower, he used the password and looked around, noting that Fleur was the only one present in the room, Fleur looked up from her book and saw Y/N standing there.

"Hello."

"'allo." Fleur said as she looked at him with the slightest hint of resentment.

"Do you mind if we talk?" Y/N said as Fleur closed her book and pointed at a chair. "I want to explain why I lied to you. Just after my name came out of the cup I figured out that a criminal known as Moriarty planned on trying to cause an international incident by having assassins undercover in each of the participating schools assassinate another student of reasonable fame from another school, we had no clue who the assassin was, for all I knew, it was you, or for all I knew you were the target, but I couldn't run the risk of telling you in case you were the assassin so I had to get close to you, mingle with the Beauxbatons and find out who the assassin was. Just friends wouldn't work, I had to nose around the dorms, that's where I found the wand."

"It's just for when I'm alone and bored." Fleur said as Y/N looked at her.

"What?" Y/N asked as Fleur realised she misjudged.

"Nothing, forget it." Fleur said hurriedly.

"Anyway, there was a pool of 45 suspects and potential targets, so I had to get close to you all, best way was through the champion, the wand I found in the dorms helped me realise what to look out for when the assassin struck, and then the Yule Ball announcement was when I realised that was the intended venue of this crime. The rest, was elementary."

"So if you didn't do it, people would have died?"

"Correct, potentially you and your sister. Maybe even my sister and Wednesday." Y/N said as Fleur nodded. "For what it's worth, I am sorry."

"You saved my life, zey tried to kill me, and zey tried to kill your sister, you were doing what it took to protect your sister, zat, I can understand." Fleur said as Y/N looked at her.

"You're not angry?" Y/N asked as Fleur looked at him and shook her head.

"A little. But I just ask myself, if you hadn't, would I even be alive, what of Gabrielle?" Fleur said as she looked at Y/N before smiling. "I believe I can live with the knowledge zat at least it was for a good reason."

Y/N looked at her and smiled.

"Thank you." Y/N said as Fleur nodded. Holmes stood up and walked to the door, taking one look back at Fleur before leaving, his hands in his pockets as he began walking through the castle, his pipe in his mouth as he thought about the case at hand, about who could have put his name in that cup...