? Broken Strings {A Chaos Theory x Male Reader Story - Ben}

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"Forgive me if this is rude, but, you're missing one of your Nublar Seven. Brooklyn, right?"

"Is she why you're in Senegal? Because she's working with one of the biggest dinosaur traffickers in the world?"

Ben perks up, "You know Brooklyn is..."

"French intelligence, remember?" Barry smirks.

"Brooklyn would never do that." Darius waves it off.

"She's not working with Soyona Santos?" Barry raises a brow, "What do you think, Mr. Kon?"

"How long before we land in the states?" Kenji scoffs.

"First to Munich." Barry explains, "They have a medical center to help dinosaurs, and a place for us to talk."

"No need to worry. You'll be protected there." He slips out of the room.

"Munich?" Kenji's brows furrow.

"He didn't mention that before..." Darius sighs warily.

"Why do I get the feeling 'protected' involves bars and orange jumpsuits?" Kenji proposes.

"Why would he think we're involved with Santos?" Darius shakes his head.

"I don't know." Kenji shrugs smugly, "Since you two are such buds, maybe you should ask him."

Darius exhales deeply before rising from his seat to go and speak to Barry.

Ben glances at Kenji, "So..."

Kenji rolls his eyes and gets up to follow Darius.

"Cool, I'll just... stay here then." Ben clears his throat.

Sammy and Yaz get up and move over to the pen where the injured dinosaur is being kept. Ben glances over at Y/N and clears his throat once again.

"My love..." Ben begins.

"I don't wanna talk to you, Ben." Y/N sighs.

"Really? Y/N, are you mad at me too?" Ben frowns, taking Y/N's hand.

"No, I'm not mad at you." Y/N leans his head up against the wall, "I just don't wanna talk."

"To me?" Ben leans in.

"To anyone." Y/N turns away.

"Right, right, okay. Becauseee...." Ben pries.

"Ben." Y/N groans, dragging his hands down his face, "I don't--"

"Don't wanna talk. Got it. Yup." Ben nods, turning away, "Love you."

The two men sit in silence, the only background sound being the whirring of the plane engines and Sammy and Yasmina chatting by the pen.

Soon enough Darius and Kenji come back into the room, looking curious as ever.

Ben stands up confidently, "Kenji, look, I know you're mad at me, but it's not cool--"

"Ben, shut up." Kenji holds a hand in front of the other man's face, "Darius, what was that?"

"Wow. Okay. This is exactly what I'm talking about." Ben huffs.

"Hey, no-- Look, okay? No-- Seriously, Ben. Shut up." Darius waves him off, turning back to Kenji, "I thought If I could make him understand--"

"Jeez! Is this Hate-on-Ben Day?" Ben folds his arms and pouts.

"No!" Darius groans, dragging a hand down his face, "Dude, I was wrong. We shouldn't have trusted Barry."

"I told you!" Ben laughs before quickly catching himself, "What happened!?"