◈◒ APPLES OF MY EYE ◓◈ [Demetrius Desmond x reader]

[Demetrius Desmond x Genius Reader(or oc)]
[Redacted] hides the fact that she's a human lie detector and an Esper with the ability of retrocognition. One of the mildly successful but nonetheless disappointing "failed" experiment from whatever their exact goal was.
Years later, now as [Lapis] working her current mission at an all-girls boarding school, she was rudely slapped in the face with Operation Strix.
Aid Twilight, get close to a Desmond, they said. It'll be easy, they said. Well, they lied.
After all, how are you suppose to get closer to someone who has no humanity?
How are you suppose to understand them if you don't even understand yourself?
How are we suppose to live when all we've known is survival?

In the locked drawer of her desk, she places all of the things she keeps dear: A hand carved chess set, the latest edition of a highly proclaimed physics textbook, a little wooden puzzle with salted peanuts inside, a personally embroidered handkerchief, a baked unidentified not-flying object that's just pure carbon at this point, and many more.

Memories of a life built off lies. Maybe she'll let herself relish in it for a bit longer. Just... a little longer...