Because my choice has always been you (AO3)
In which Bu-yeon remembered that she's Naksu and Jang Uk has to pick up his wife from Jinyowon.
Continuation of previous one shots "I would choose you in every lifetime" and "You are spring to my winter heart"
Preview:
“We can't break off, we are having a baby.” He crossed his arms.
We are what? The words were so out of touch with reality that made her pause in all her agony.
“How can you be so sure? We sure tried a lot.” He cocked his head in arrogance. “A consume marriage can’t be undone, anyway.”
“So you rather trapped me in?” She inquired in a dangerous tone, Naksu could at very least intimidate him.
“Don’t be so dramatic, dear, the one who came back to her prison cell was you.” She opened her mouth to argue, but it was truth, that room had been her prison for years. “I’m not letting you g…” He paused for a moment staring at her.
The Ice Stone user’s strange silence lasting for three heartbeats, she narrowed her eyes in puzzlement.
“You have beautiful eyes.” He babbled stunned, Naksu looked away sheepishly, her cheeky burn embarrassed.
“Don’t change the subject!”
“You should come back home.” Her husband announced.
“Of course not! I don’t… What are you doing? Put me down!” She shouted outrage as he simply threw her over his shoulder. “UK! YOU’RE STUPID BASTARD, LET ME GO! GUARDS!”
Jang Uk ignored it all as he opened a portal to their home, and only let her go when they reach her bedchamber, where he dropped like a potato sack on the bed. Naksu leapt to her feet, snarling at the arrogant little shit, chasing him out of the door with slaps and curses. Her husband easily deflect her attacks opening the door.
“Keep in mind if you ran away, I’ll pick you up again.” The mage warned as she closed the door on his handsome face.
“What’s going on?” She heard Maidservant Kim through the door.
“Maidservant Kim, don’t let her leave the house for now.”
“What? Why, Young Master?”
“She wants to dissolve our marriage and let our child be fatherless.”
“C-child? Young Master? Wait!” Maidservant Kim shout behind the door.
Naksu stared at the door speechless to what she had just heard.
Her hand went to her stomach on pure instinct, before she jumped in fear. She wasn't pregnant, she was going to die!
With the knowledge of true identity it didn’t only came back her despair and pain. Hate, revenge, fury, violence. Naksu turned to these familiar feelings, and let them consume her to distract herself from the pain, she was used to them. A lifetime of it actually.
And who made me like this? She didn’t need to think much about it, the answer came as easy as breath. Danju.
She didn’t have much time though, for the assassin knew now, her soul would fade away with the wind. The real Bu-yeon explained after pulling Naksu out of the storm of emotions inside her heart after remembering. Soon the priestess would gain back her divine powers and Naksu’s soul would be gone. With that warning came a vision, of the world’s fate.
A world of ashes. The fire bird shall awake very soon.
A world that Naksu once dream of while blind by her fury. But that was before him, when she had only been a child, trained to be an assassin, now she had lived through many lifetimes. The world shouldn’t be destroyed, it should be protected, and the one who was going to do it was Jang Uk.
“You lost enough to understand.” Bu-yeon observed her with the face of Mu-deok with a blindfold.
“I’ll help.” Naksu promised.
Naksu went to Jinyowon to plan, to make them all pay for their sins. It was much more than a just petty vengeance. It was justice. To right the wrong. For the people she failed to protect.
And now here she was again in the household Jang.
After a few moments thinking, she called Maidservent Kim and send word to Lady Jin, so that the woman would not come demanding her daughter back. That was no used to avoid Jang Uk by running. Hurting him didn’t work either.
Why I’m so charming? Why did I seduce him? She blame her face, although her body was different from her original one, her beauty was back.
Not that Mu-deok was ugly or anything, after all she belong to the Jin family of Jinyowon, but Naksu was aware that her original face carried a distinct beauty.
Wait, does that mean that Uk fell for a beautiful woman? The bastard resisted her for how long? Definitively it was less than a month. Perhaps he recognized her just like she recognized him as her husband…
“I did it first this time.” She murmured going to get a bath, it was an awfully long day, after all.
After that she went to sleep, a peaceful dreamless sleep. It was already dark when something woke her up, Naksu tense up for a moment, confused about her surrounding, until she recognized the cool breeze around the room. The invader gently lifted the blanket to join her on the bed.
“Get out.” She said quietly as Uk snuggled against her body, it took a moment to realized he was naked. Not an unusual thing for him, they usually slept like that. Naksu cursed yet again their marriage. “Get out, Uk.” She urged him.
“Shut up.” He cut her off holding her hand, she fought him. “You are the only one who can get rid of the wraiths, let me have one peaceful sleep, wife.”
“You can do that in your own room, husband.” He turned his back to Naksu, ignoring her, and forcefully pulled her arm to wrap around his middle. “Stop it!”
“You were the one who got me used to this warm, dear, doesn’t matter if we are fighting. Now, go to sleep.”
“You are too cold.” She complained.
“I lied.” Her husband had the nerve to chuckle quietly.
“What else did you lie about?” He whisperer to the dark, she felt a vicious urge to bite him.
“Well, every single time I came for starts…”
“I’ll kiss that insolent mouth of yours until you begged me to take you, if you don’t stop.” He threatened her who scoffed against his neck. “I’m tired, wife, I just came back from the Dark Forest.”
Silence fell upon them, in the last months that became a sort of code for them. Dark Forest meant that the wraiths were fighting him after using the Ice Stone power to kill soul shifter. Her arm slowly tighter around him, this usually were the worst days, where even thought she send the wraiths away, the ice magic took a toll on him.
He sighed in contentment as she cuddled against him, giving a softy kiss in her hand before intertwine their fingers. Seeing him so fulfill with her presence alone made her want to cry in despair, at same time it made her want to giggle in joy.
