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After 'after,' after 'we'll sort it out when you come back'---Yoo Joonghyuk comes back. He doesn't have a job. His accounts are all inactive.

Even before he'd left, Han Sooyoung isn't really sure where he'd been sleeping—sometimes she'd wondered if he had ever left the industrial complex, but she hadn't cared enough to ask. Yoo Joonghyuk was a big boy; he could sort out his living situation by himself. But then he comes back, and Kim Dokja wakes up, and suddenly everyone's talking about that house Kim Dokja'd mentioned idly in the way all of them had known meant it was something he really, truly wanted.

Han Sooyoung doesn't care about where Yoo Joonghyuk sleeps, but the kids do, and That Guy probably will too, once the meds start wearing off. So she asks, casually, after visiting hours are over and they're heading back to her car, "Where are you planning on staying after this?"

He doesn't answer her at first. When she glances over—surreptitiously, lashes lowered, casual—he looks a little surprised.

"Why are you asking?"

"Weeell," she wheedles. "You know."

"I don't."

Can't he just play along!?

Han Sooyoung coughs. "It's just in case. You know. If someone asks about all of us living together, say no alright? I need some space. It's way too chaotic when all of us are under one roof."

Feeling that familiar craving hit as her embarassment climbs, she pats her pockets. Yoo Joonghyuk thrusts a lemon candy in her direction. She unwraps it and pops it into her mouth with a muffled thanks that he ignores.

"I spoke with Mia about getting a place closer to her school," he says slowly.

Han Sooyoung snorts. "With what money? Did you stash aside some coins in an investment account before you left or something? They don't take any of that stuff anymore, you know that right? It's all about the Unified Won or whatever..." She trails off. Yoo Joonghyuk has that look on her face. The one where he looks totally uncomfortable but he's going to do something he doesn't want to do anyway.

He opens his mouth.

"No."

"You haven't even heard what I'm going to say."

"I don't need to hear it." She claps her hands over her ears. "In fact I can't hear it. I'm deaf. La la la la la."

Yoo Joonghyuk speaks over the sound of her protests. "Han Sooyoung, let us stay in your apartment."

This is why she never asked this freeloader anything before!!!!

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: 괴담에 떨어져도 출근을 해야 하는구나 - 백덕수 | Even If I Fall Into a Ghost Story I Still Have to Go to Work - Baek Deoksoo Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Agent Choi & Kim Soleum & Ryu Jaekwan, Eun Haje & Kim Soleum & Lee Jaheon & Park Minseong Characters: Kim Soleum, Eun Haje, Park Minseong, Lee Jaheon, Agent Choi (Even If I Fall Into a Ghost Story), Ryu Jaekwan Additional Tags: Dismemberment, Haunted Houses, Ghosts, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence Summary:

Chapters: 1/? Fandom: 무한 회귀자인데 썰 푼다 | I'm an Infinite Regressor But I've Got Stories to Tell - Sinnoa Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Undertaker (I'm an Infinite Regressor But I've Got Stories to Tell) Additional Tags: Missing Scene, Other Additional Tags to Be Added Summary:

In the middle of an otherwise uninhabited and hostile environment, the wayward traveller finds a mountain lodge where they can shelter from the elements and rest their weary souls.

RUBS HANDS TOGETHER. ok so there were a couple of ideas that immediately came to mind (The Divorce key among them) but this one was very fun

When she first hears them say it (off-hand, as if it were something she should have seen coming) she thinks they're joking. It isn't until her mother looks at her, expecting her to be happy—to be grateful—that she realises no one here is kidding themselves aside from her.

The journey from the port in Hansburg to Akitsushima had taken several months, and as the days had turned to weeks, then dragged on even longer, the spite roiling in Hellena's stomach had burned itself away. By the time they'd docked at Yesso, Hellena had been tired and heartsick enough that she'd thought perhaps she would never return to Stalia (a place she had and would refuse to call home for many more years to come). So, certainly, she hadn't set out to make enemies.

She imposes herself upon Akitsushima. The traders at the port are familiar with her crew, used to outsiders and all too happy to take their coin. The further inland she goes, the more she draws attention; a single white woman accompanied only by her translator is a strange sight, even in this world that has some of the sharpest edges of reality sanded away.

She'd always thought she'd make this trip with Al, but now she wonders if he would have been even more miserable after realising how different he had become. With his pale blond hair, his eyes, his height—would the stares he'd undoubtedly attract only serve as a terrible reminder that he could never again be Yuuya? The thought makes her quietly sad and then angry, and it makes it her reckless. She drives harder bargains than she might've, otherwise, and isn't until after she's stepped on toes by securing suppliers she didn't know not to touch that she realises she'd fucked up somewhere along the way.

Shō is one of several assassins to come after her, but he's the only one who tries to seduce her first. She lets him into her bed out of curiousity, wondering if he'll slit her throat while she sleeps, then is bemused to wake the next morning and the next. By the time she eventually gets around to asking if he's still planning on killing her, she believes him when he swears he won't, even after she tells him she won't haunt him if he does. She'd prefer to haunt Al, honestly, to keep him company the way they'd promised each other when they'd married, and Shō laughs when she says this. He understands, in a way no one else ever has, and when he finally meets Al, she thinks he gets it.

Al gets Shō, too, even when no one else does. She could cry for it, for the lack of judgment in this when every other person thinks the worst of her for it, thinks the worst of Al when it's not his fault, when she's the one that's always wanted something he couldn't give. It's not Al's fault there's a hole inside Hellena that's been there ever since she was Vivienne. It's not Bastian's fault either, or even Lysander's, and she has to drag those words out from inside her before she can explain why there's nothing in her that remembers what forgiveness feels like. It's no one's fault but Hellena's that everything came crashing down all at once, that the hunger inside her spilled out and she destroyed everything good she created. She'd thought they were just as ugly as her and dragged them all down with her.

The kids had never deserved this. Cecil shouldn't have had to step in when she ran away. Nia should be in school. Fuck, Al should have been left a hero, instead of his name being dragged through the mud because of her. Hellena could have left it well alone. Should have let them believe that they'd all been brought in isolation.

Shō laughs when she tells him this, too. He didn't ask and yet she finds the words spilling from her lips. At first, hesitantly, like the curve of her hands around his, then more assuredly, in the dark where she can't see his face, murmured into the spaces between their bodies. She finds herself telling him more than she'd ever planned, more than she's told anyone except Al or Bastian. The nature of Hellena's relationships has always been like this—all-encompassing and obsessive. She hands herself over to the people she shouldn't love at the barest sign that they might reciprocate, if only so that other more dangerous confessions don't spill out of her treacherous mouth.

He tells her she's overthinking things. He tells her that he loves her, even when he doesn't, and it's a nice enough fiction that she closes her eyes to it. He tells her she can't blame herself for the choices other people make. She knows that he gives up everything when he sails to Stalia with her but can't stomach the thought of telling him to stay.

But Al just wears the same expression he always does, inscrutable and unmoved in the face of her emotion.

"Alright," he says, scratching the back of his head. "Why don't we get divorced?"

send me a 💫 and i’ll set my music player on random. i’ll then pick my favourite line from the song that comes on, and write a drabble based on it.

daylight by 5 seconds of summer (🎧 )

 favorite line: “now I’m not happy unless, I’m close enough to you”

Hope you like it!

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: 괴담에 떨어져도 출근을 해야 하는구나 - 백덕수 | Even If I Fall Into a Ghost Story I Still Have to Go to Work - Baek Deoksoo Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Kim Soleum Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Darkness, Ghosts, Horror, Near Drowning Summary: