You'll remain here (You'll remain dear inside)
LITERALLY FUCK ME I GUESS. SPENT THIS WHOLE DAY DOING NOTHING BUT WRITE FOR THE BLORBOS AND YOU KNOW WHAT. IDC. IT'S WORTH IT. THEY'RE WORTH IT.
anyways this are parts of the besties' pov, because I have unresolved feelings and half baked personifications of them screaming at me to write!!! them!!! down!!! so i am blaming my own issues but also James bc SIR. augh. my love for your goddamn blorbos is terminal and i succumb gladly :(
ok but honestly i was originally just going to write a meta fic of Helene actually becoming a self-aware character, that her choices were all predetermined, that it was a game etc etc on the second part but HEY things happen and next thing i know i wrote like 10k words instead of her choosing to fuck the narrative that good things have a price, and love is always enough in this three (?) part series of the endgame that never is, was, and hopefully never will be!!!!!!
ANYWAYS
forgot to say but stream GODSENT by BEN&BEN LIKE AUGH PLEASE.
again, María x Helene, but arching POVs from Sam, Cleo, Esme, Rémy, Zhu, and Dominique in the start of it all <3
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Helene died, cradled in María's arms. They saw her breathe her last, focused on nothing but the woman who held her.
Sam almost wants to be bitter at that moment, because she'd gone and left, and her eyes never strayed. She didn't notice anyone else, had no other words to say except for María, and then they remember.
("It's always been her, Sam." She whispers, smiling brokenly as she stares straight ahead.)
So instead, they turn that bitterness into one part grief, nine parts wonder because throughout their adventures, the woman they consider their idol-turned-mentor-turned-friend was still as true to their heart, even in the face of broken dreams of the future, in the face of death.
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"It feels like i'm playing God, when I hold these things in my hand." She whispers.
Sam remembers the island. Of how the Carxite podium held her, gripped her. The way inhuman rage looked at her, and how she ordered the island's defenses to activate.
Sam remembers the ozone smell, like fresh struck thunder; of vision of half-melted bodies of her enemies, of all the Nazis who set their boots into the shore.
Sam remembers calling out for her, and her cruel reply; remembers the light in her eyes gone, replaced with a dead-eyed imposter in her place sneering with cold contempt.
Of her breaking out of it, as they approached her, and as María, even then, stared at the woman with no ounce of fear.
Then Sam thinks about the silver-eyed goddess who stood in that place just moments ago, radiant with power, untouchable, but alive in the way the first one forgot; of how they snapped their fingers, and used the stone's powers like a familiar extension of their limb—not to kill everyone like she did then—but to delibitate and injure her enemies enough to stop them from interfering.
(Of how María, themselves, Belby, and in extension, the rest of their team shot Heidi Hahn in cold blood as Helene turned her wiles against the slippery snake beforehand.)
And of how they decisively struck down, with no measure of mercy, the other woman who made this endgame happen.
(Because if Sabine Schneider never found about the Archive, never subscribed to the Aryan ideals, never descended into a madness so familiar, then this clash of titans would have perhaps never borne fruit.)
(Atleast, Sam would like to think so.)
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"Of all the people you included for this deathride of a mission, I didn't think you'd be the one to die, Helene."
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Cleo looks at the woman she just helped lay down the couch, then towards Esme who was looking at Helene with a curious gaze. She looks as heartbreak settles in the woman's eyes, but not grief. She's seen enough people in the entirety of this war mourn and break into grief, but Esme seems to just breeze past that and go straight to acceptance.
Cleo feels discombobulated.
"It doesn't feel right, no?" The blonde's crisp tone shakes her out of stupor. The woman would be embarassed at being caught staring, but she's kind of past that.
"I don't—I mean, She is—" Cleo starts, trying to give words to her thoughts. Esme understands though.
"The first time I met her, I knew she was a star. She burned so fierce and brightly that day that she and my..." Esme shakes her head, voice pained but a broken smile painting her lips. "the day she and I met. Did you know we met during her dig in Jerusalem in '34? We crossed paths outside the Colony, and I felt something was about to happen after a brief moment our gazes met. Not even 10 minutes later, she was running out the Grand Salon, Nazis on her heels after she pissed them off— Next thing I knew, I was out there with the shattered remains of a pot, saving her from certain death by gunshot after she got herself cornered by one."
"I knew Spillane was a bit of a disaster, but to hear that she's just like that since then—"
"Oh no, don't get me wrong, Helene's a great big daredevil, but I was kind of a foolhardy self-proclaimed adventurer then, dragging Abdul all over the place, then it just clicked, you know? I do so hate bullies, and that day... made things clearer. Somehow."
"I kind of get it. She's a trailblazer, with almost 0 regards to conventional boundaries of society, then she drags you along for the ride."
"I went there willingly, i'll have you know!"
"Oh yeah? Well I was the one dragging her through it first!"
Both women look at each other, and laugh. It's painful, and others would say a touch hysterical, but it's something true, a release.
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"I did her wrong, kinda a lot. Is it selfish of me to wish she was back, so I can apologize for some of the things I did?"
Esme keeps quiet for a few moments, before she replies.
"Helene got my man killed, you know. In '38, during that quest for that man looking for his ancestor's grave."
Cleo turns to look at her, shocked.
"I'm sorry, that's unkind." Esme sighs, but continues.
"It's just partly her fault. This... cult, they attacked our home because Helene was there, because I missed an adventure and it was a perfect excuse to get to see her. We were down to one floor, trying to survive, and it was a bloodbath, because their members so many, then Sam was clobbered down, and then Helene had to make a choice between me and Abdul."
Cleo wanted to ask so many things, but kept quiet.
"It was a split second, and I saw her looking at Abdul, thinking that my honeybear was going to be the one she saves, because to be quite honest, those two are more alike than I really would like to admit. And I was okay, I was ready for death because I love him, I loved him, I loved Abdul Al-Maliki, and I was alright as long as he lived—"
"But she chose you, instead."
"She did. And I wanted to hate her, because she saved me, instead of him, my light and the reason I loved so freely—And for a while, I did."
A slow smile curls into her face.
"I hated her. For all 10 seconds of it."
Cleo wants to be shocked. But she can't. Helene was, fundamentally, never unlikeable. She may be a clown at times, infuriating and stubborn; but never unlikeable.
(It's like a power of hers, they think. Helene has a great capacity to befriend people, soothe tempers, and charm others.)
(But she also was unflinching, unabashed, and unremorseful, especially against her enemies.)
"Helene has a great capacity for love. I was privelleged to part a small part of her heart, along with Abdul, and it was that part that I think, that gave her the instinct to save me. Love is not quantifiable by any means, but I think, Abdul told her just how far the depths go, and that moment made her choose differently."
Esme clenches her fist.
"I didn't understand then, but looking at how María held her, God, how she broke—She asked for my forgiveness before we left for this, y'know? I said I forgave her then, even if I didn't know why. Because even if his death hurts, he tried, she tried, and that's all I can really ask for."
(Abdul is a kind, good, gentle man. Slow to anger, with an infinite well of love. Helene is a kind, somewhat good, gentle woman. Slow to anger, with an infinite well of love.)
(Demons run when good men go to war.)
(So what would good women make run when they go to war?)
(Everything. Everyone.)
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"You're right. Helene being dead feels surreal, because she survived far worse things. Most of which were my fault, because I kept omitting parts of the truth."
Cleo says after a while. She closes her eyes, thinking about every adventure she shared with the woman.
New Orleans. Congo. Romita. Kuzco.
All adventures fraught with deep, heavy things. Goddamned Racists, secret Nazis and murderous Natives, a Cannibalist group, and again, even more Nazis, except this time not-so-secret.
"I should be dead, to be honest. All the way back from Congo."
Cleo takes a deep breath.
"Our story starts in New Orleans, like I told you. She invited me to do a guest lecture in her fine, prissy, whites-only college, because she was like that; and we attracted the attention of the local Ku Klux Klan because of it. Things happened, and I dragged her to solve a mystery, we solved it only to get captured; she got lightly tortured for our troubles, almost maimed by a dog and then a croc. Then I invited her to Congo, she accepted, omitted that the jungle locals were growing more agressive, stumbled to a Nazi conspiracy, got captured, AGAIN, almost got branded as slaves, DID work one shift as one, staged a coup, overthrew the local soldier garrison... THEN HAD TO STAGE ANOTHER BATTLE YET AGAIN, but we survived; hell, we lived!"
Her hands shake, imperceptibly.
"We lived because she sent Sam and our guide, Jeff, with me, and she braved the north side alone with her part of the troops until we had to regroup as one, and then she saved me, while I was lying prone on my back, about to get skewered by their bayonets; but there she was, like an avenging little angel, smoking gun being reloaded faster than I could comprehend. And all I did get to say was thanks, because our adventure wasn't done, and after it all she was just—"
Cleo smiles, thinking about the Helene who literally flopped down on a bed and slept 48 hours straight.
"She went straight to sleep, heedless of everything else, didn't she?"
"Yeah."
They both take a second to collect themselves. Then Cleo continues.
"The next time we met was months after that, but she waved me off, getting me a drink 'til we went home drunk, and then I didn't talk to her about it again, and see her in person until Romita. I can't tell you want happened in Kuzco, but God, Romita? That place was a hundred ways more personal and fucked up than the whole back-to-back siege in Congo, because that... the monsters we encountered there? Truly Inhuman."
Cleo twists her fingers, trying not to remember the way her student flinched away from her, scared and emaciated; of the broken body of the girl, Mina–no, Stefania, flying down to the earth, and the crunch that followed after her self-made descent off the ravine.
(She tries to keep the chilling image of Ariadne Stokes smiling at them beforehand out of her mind, and shivers as she tried to think of what monster Helene faced. Because the ravenette was so silent and withdrawn afterwards, and she wouldn't speak of anything that transpired, even prodded.)
"Alone." Cleo says, and Esme searches her face, trying to understand. Then it clicks.
"You left her alone."
A statement, not a question.
"Yes. I'm not proud of it, but I've left her more times than I should have, all these years."
"...I won't ask why, or tell you what you should feel, because that's yours alone." Esme finally says, after a while. "But I'd like to think she's forgiven you anyways. She did that, kind of a lot."
"...Yeah, I know. I want to think that too."
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"You saved... kinda a lot of asses, Spillane. But nobody's ever been able to save you, when it mattered."
"No, someone did."
And their gaze slides towards María, who's still looking out the window and into the empty night sky, looking for something only she could see.
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Rémy can count on one hand the times he'd been out of words. As a learned man, he never had a lack of them, loving the way his voice sounds, especially at the throes of passion.
But hearing that his dear friend, the woman who dared him, once upon a time, to fuck one of his paramours in the top of the Eiffel, has been lost. Well, people can forgive him for not gracing them with his presence, right?
("You, you, you fiendish Frenchman!" Helene shakes with indignance, trying to pummel your back with her tiny fists as you carry her on your shoulder.)
(You laugh, real and deep. "Oh yes, I am a fiend, and I am indeed French! Congratulations on your astute observation, chérie." This is one of the many times you've met after a seminar, but the first you've seen the professional woman crack. Who knew all it took was getting her drunk and embarrassed?)
("Augh, damn you. The only person who should be handling me like this is Spanish and she's farrrrrr more cuter than you, Fournier!" She declares, and you almost colide with a post.)
("Well, well, well! Sounds like a juicy tale, Chérie! You should tell me all about it!")
("No." She pouts, and you feel her tense. "Talking about her makes me sad. And I don't like that.")
(You want to press, but it slips your mind, because the next moment, she's out like a light.)
Miles grimaces beside him, bone deep weariness hitting in the moment the news hits.
"—o can you guys come pick everyone here up?"
"Oui, hang on tight. We'll get the island secured."
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"How does it go again? Ah, yes. Too rich for use, for Earth too dear."
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Zhu feels numb, as he sits quietly on his perch, just back from staring from the corpse of his friend.
("You are better than this, Jian Zhu, and you better listen to someone who knows and believes that there IS a goodness that exists within you, with all that want to be a better man! It starts that this moment, by acknowledging that this is bigger than you, than Kao, than everything else you've planned for revenge; So please—" Her voice is five parts pleading, five parts command, and oh. There it is. "Please stay, and help me finish this once and for all.")
(It's at this precise moment you knew you'd come to the ends of the earth with her, for her.)
("Okay." You whisper. "Okay." You say again, more full, more forceful. Because you know your need is selfish, is stupid, but Helene understands, and she knows better than anyone else a part of your story now, and all she asks for is this time, to help her save the world.)
(And you couldn't disobey, even if you tried. Because she is part of your absolution, and you will be a supplicant for her earnest devotion, the same way you feel her protégé(?) does as they cling to her.)
(Helene Spillane may physically be the smallest woman in the room, but the magnitude of her presence fills her with unnatural grace and strength that she dons on and off as she pleases, like a cloak.)
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"...I'm not surprised, because I know how far devotion can run. I... I understand."
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Dominique has had some of the shittiest days lately. It nearly tops the moment they uncovered the camps, but—
Helene is still, and if they close their eyes, they could swear the woman was just sleeping, the way she was no less than 48 hours ago, deep in the jungle wilds while in Japan.
It looked deep, you thought, with the way she was so still; but the brief rest didn't last, and she handily opened her eyes to stare towards you, unseeing yet, but her hands flying to the throwing knife hidden in her side at a blink of an eye.
Then awareness fills them, and you shake you head, opting to get her to prepare instead.
(So no, denial is a bad look on you.)
It doesn't feel real, the assault on the fortress taking almost instantaneously after their mission, after a brief hour or two to get ready with tools and wait for the team to be assembled. Then the bloodbath, of fighting the ground troops, teaming up in several pairs because manpower, time, and the path to the end is limited, and you all needed to make sure the assault is fast and efficient for the world, the fate of the world hangs in this one mission, and you loathe to think the end of it fails.
You don't want to fail. Death is inevitable, and you are nonetheless proud for being included in this ragtag bunch of people fighting for a better tomorrow. Included in the imposible last defense of this mystical mumbo-jumbo, because of course alien and magical powers are goddamn real.
(Fires blaze in your heart as Helene makes the final rounds for one last time before the endgame starts. Final goodbyes were already said awhile ago, and everyone tenses in anticipation.)
(In a better world, you think, Helene would have made a great motivational speaker.)
(And then you snort. Because Helene actually hates speaking in front of a crowd, and most, if not all her extroverted tendencies were a front. You'd know, because for all the showmanship you've done for the sake of your career, part of it was just for you to show off your skills in a relatively anonymous manner.)
(Show a clown to the circus, and get your bread and gold, and all that jazz.)
You're going to miss her, you think. You look around and spot Sam cringing on the side, trying their best to patch themselves up with one hand.
And you can't help but sigh, because the woman you observed who'd have patted their head and give them a noogie before doing the patch-up themselves is gone.
(And never coming back...)
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"Our time was brief, but hey, we always had fun, didn't we Helene my dear?"
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They say death is the end.
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Helene is dead.
And then she wakes up.
There are many questions to be answered. But looking into her eyes, even though something inside has fundamentally shifted, something added, something lost; it's still her.
So they hold off, and take the gift as it is.
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The word of her death does not spread far. Everyone else agreed to keep it under wraps, the cost of victory still too raw, too dear to talk about.
They settle on half of a lie, that yes, she was briefly gone; but life-saving maneuvers got her back.
But everyone in that island remembers. Her friends; her chosen family— something will forever be changed, because they knew the finality, had lived it, and mourned it, however briefly; before she went and changed all the rules.
(Helene loves to defy expectations. This happening is no other. Everyone is safe, and it's free real estate.)
And because of it, they will all have the chance to talk, really talk, and a chance for a future. Altogether.
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Helene sits in a bench under the shade. Silver strands caress her face as the wind shifts, blowing a gentle breeze against her face.
Beside her, María sits, saying nothing aside from quietly slipping her hand into hers, and squeezing it. A stray beam dapples from the trees, making the golden bands on their fingers glint in the fading light.
"Do you have any regrets, Helene?"
"Before? During? or After?"
"In any of them."
Helene is quiet, as she is most days. But María has grown to be patient, because love is kind, and makes better fools of them both.
"No."
Short and succinct, with a finality in her tone.
(María, as most of the years that have passed, had grown to understand her new language.)
"Okay. Me either."
And silence reigns.
It’s a loaded but comfortable silence, their two hearts beating as one, and for that moment, everything is enough.
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"Hey, María?"
"Yes, Helene?"
"Do you know I love you?"
"Yes. Do you?"
"Know that you love me?"
"Yeah, that."
"I don't need to know. I always felt it."
"Even after all I put you through?"
"Even then. Even now. Forever will, and even then."
"How?"
"You're a masterful liar, María, but you can't fool someone like me."
The book snaps shut. And she looks down on her lap, where Helene lies as she wants.
"And what is 'like you', huh?"
Helene looks up at her, eyes bright, and ever so full of love.
"Someone who knows. Someone who sees. Someone who percieves."
She says, quietly, but confidently. Then the brunette shifts, bringing herself up, so different in the time she lied there unmoving, craded in the redhead's arms. And she cups her face in her small, warm hands, and brings herself close, close eneough that they can see the flecks in their irises; of the yellow and gold intersped in María's hazel, and the subtle silver that settled in Helene's dark, grey-brown.
"Most importantly, Someone who loves..." she whispers. "you."
(María kisses her, and it's heady, sweet, and everything Helene ever needs.)
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"Why did you come back?"
"...Because I wanted to."
"And it's enough?"
You understand that she speaks from a fear, a fear that you'll abandon her for your chase of power. The fear of being left alone, because you already left this mortal coil once, and something hums in you, calling for the void.
You can't explain in words, so you capture her in a kiss. And then try.
"I fought the universe itself to come back here because I believed, María. I believed in humanity, in myself, and the people here I do so love."
"That doesn't answer if it's enough." She answers, her grip tighter at the second.
Am I enough, she what she really asks.
It should hurt, after all these years, this doubt; but instead, it teethers you. And you blink, and everything finally slots into place. So you match her, and hold her close.
You smile.
"I love you, María."
You are enough, is your reply.
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Could you maybe do hcs of beings bestfriends with Momo and Mina (seperate)? Can the reader be female too? Love your writing! xx
bestfriend! reader (very platonic)
characters : yaoyorozu momo, ashido mina
legend : [Y/N = your name] f!reader, quirk not specific
notes : i love momo yaoyorozu and mina ashido :)) so to see this request was practically GODSENT, (mild mention of a ship i really like in one bullet, so ignore that if you don’t like todomomo)
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yaoyorozu momo
she’s pretty much a mom to you in a way
when it comes to help, she’ll jump to your aid first (not like she also wouldn’t go to others when they need help)
if you need help stretching? no problem! she’ll help you
need help studying? she’ll host a study session with you, and she’ll explain it in the best way possible
depending on your personality, it’ll go out differently
if you’re more timid, she’s always the first one to check on you— because she’s quite aware that you need to check up on people constantly
if you’re more outgoing, she’s always there to make sure you don’t get into trouble— so she’s always there watching you
(and she’ll pull you out of a situation if she thinks you’re going overboard)
the support also goes her way, when she gets insecure— you’ll jump to her aid and hype her up till she feels better
momo has.. tendencies to flash people unintentionally
so regardless of your personality, you’re very quick to jump infront of her when she opens her front to create items.
when it comes to cheering you up, she will never force you to tell her what happened— but she will make you drink some tea and have some rest
her advice is amazing
the both of you have each others backs :))
if you ever get periods, she’ll always have sanitary items just in case you need it as an emergency
and she’ll create a jacket to swing across your waist so no one can see the stain
not even caring about the economy for a second
also! your wing woman (not in the way you think)
if you have a crush, she’ll give you constant reassurance that it’ll go well for you :)
and your crush is practically off limits to her so if you’re worried about best girl snatching them from you, it’s not a concern.
you’re also a wing woman to her, so if she gets shy over todoroki then you’ll reassure her too!
overall? a very good best friend. 100/10
ashido mina
the both of you guys are very chaotic
ranging from sneaking out of school when theres a lockdown, to eating cookies at 2am
even if you’re not very chaotic— mina somehow manages to bring that side out
but let’s say you’re not quite chaotic
you’ll be like momo— watching mina doing her chaotic antics from afar (until it becomes too much.)
and mina ALWAYS knows when something has happened, so if she notices that you’re down— she’ll probably know the situation in a matter of minutes
(even if you don’t tell her. don’t ask how)
unless you stop her, she will use colorful methods of dealing with meanies :))
mina’s advice is worded so weirdly, but it actually makes a lot of sense.
mina has a tendency of holding onto people when she gets scared
so if she’s scared of a horror movie, she’ll always cling onto you
one time she was so scared, being in one of those haunted house booths
but she couldn’t find you at all— so she was just screaming while running to you. it’s pretty loud.
2 words— dancing sessions
y’all will also dance at the most random times.
you know that tiktok sound thats like “hey y’all it’s me and my best friend. bestfriend, show me your moves. yuh, get it i guess.”
THATS YOU AND MINA AS BESTIES
depending on you— you will try to help mina with her grades as much as you can
(if you’re also failing, well then— you guys will crash together.)
wing woman mina will always try to talk to your crush, kinda like “HEY! Y/N REALLY LI— mina!”
she tries y’know— and you know what? she succeeds!
when she sees you and your crush on a date— she’ll be so cheeky like
😏👍 i see you very clearly
again, mina ashido is not a homewrecker. so if you’re worried about your crush liking her— it’s not possible
it’s just not
and you’re a wing woman to mina too! she gets pretty anxious before confessing, or dates
but you’re there to always reassure her with a Y/N prep talk.
overall? another good person to be besties with! 100/10
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likes and reblogs are appreciated, thanks for reading!
i do not own bnha/mha and it’s characters, boku no hero academia/my hero academia belongs to horikoshi kohei, i only own the writing
do not plagiarize my work :))
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Rain With a Chance of Sweet Drops
Genre: Soulmate au, fluff
A/n: Hiiii a small story to keep y’all fed. I’ve been so so lazy and feel awful about it. I suggest you listen to these while reading: Sanctuary by Joji, I’m closing my eyes by potsu, A while by a[way], and Cutie by haroinfather. Or this playlist that has those songs and more.
I wonder why it is what it is? Why an umbrella? Seems so dumb and common. You thought to yourself as you sat inside the small coffee shop across from your friend Haechan. It’s raining today so... maybe today is the day...
“-llooo? Earth to Y/n! You really have a talents for zoning out, you know?” You finally gain back full focus on your bestie after a hand was practically shoved into your face. “Stop thinking about it too much.”
“About what?” You scratched at the back of your neck timidly as you ended the very particular train of thought you were on completely.
“Your partner. Your staring at your mark so what else could you be thinking about.” Haechan smirked and leaned down to take a sip from his iced Americano with a mischievous grin.
You lived in a world of everyone having their heart on their sleeve. Literally. Everyone was born with a small mark on their wrist, similar to a birthmark that developed into a select few images, letters, symbols, etc. Once you met your special someone there’s supposedly and instant sense of attraction wether you know you share the mark or not. The symbol ties into how you meet or fall in love. When you meet them and gain a connection the color of it will appear. Some people have hearts, a meaningful word, or even a specific place. But you were left to ponder over a stupid umbrella seemingly tattooed on your wrist.
“I can’t help it! How are you not curious about finding ‘the one’?” You looked down at the simple shape of a cartoonish umbrella once again before glancing over to Haechan’s wrist, adorned with a triangle, ish shape. It was all black. Rather odd really. Most people could tell what their mark was but he was at a loss. You couldn’t imagine how he felt.
“Honestly, I couldn’t care less. Isn’t the whole point of it to be fate and all? Trying to think about it logically makes no sense at all.” Plucking his drink swiftly from the table with one hand at the top he leaned back and eyed you with it almost up to his mouth again. “Just let things take their course Y/n. It’s more fun that way.”
“I guess your right. Thanks man.” The hesitance was still slightly present in your voice but nonetheless he had a point.
“Wanna hangs out with me and a group of friends this weekend? Small dorm party. Only cool kids allowed. You in?” His eyebrow quirked up curiously as his tone raised for the question.
A party sounded like something you needed at this point, even if you gut feeling was that it spelled trouble. Just like your bestie said, you needed to ease up and live a little. “Screw it, I’ll be there. What time?”
“It’s at the Nu Chi Tau frat house. I’ll pick you up at 8:30.” He leaned over the table suddenly, farting all up in your face with a stern look. After a second that seemed to pass ever so slowly he spoke out again. “You better not flake on me!”
“I won’t, I won’t I promise!”
~•Time Skip•~
You currently are sitting at the doorstep of this stupid frat house, abandoned by your friend and no ride home. You venue well could walk but there was one complication to that plan. Rain. Horrible, intense rain. People inside were using it as and excuse to keep the party going but you’d shyer you real quick as soon as the one person you really knew (Haechan) ditched you to leave with someone. Wasn’t his style really, so it really has you confused and alone. Trying to push your pity party along and over to the side you focused on the splash and plop of the heavily falling water from the heavens. The house had and overhang for you to chill on, godsent in your opinion, where you started to pace about and pray that the rain stopped soon.
“Have fun lover boy!!” You whipped you head around to see the door fly open and someone get shoved out onto the porch harshly. Before you knew it a small click, barely audible over the thrumming of the rain was heard. The lock you had presumed. Still slightly scared from the uproar you were left to stare at the strange boy who now was sitting there in his knocked over position hand over his forehead. He looked hella stressed out as he rubbed at it and then munched his nose with a sigh. One thing worth mentioning was what you swore was a red hue to his cheeks and even ears, yet you still couldn’t make out his face from you stance. Wait, this dude just took a pretty good tumble. Shit, do something you loser! “Uh, hey are you okay? You landed on your hands pretty hard to catch your fall there.” You approached him cautiously as he got up, still looking down as he brushed his knees off with his hands a bit.
And then he looked up with a smile. As dumb and cliche as it is, time moved slower for a moment. This mystery boy was both the cutest and most handsome person you’d ever seen. How both worked you had no idea but here he was, living proof it was possible. His eyes were almond shaped and had a certain twinkle, his slightly pouty lips upturned into a playful grin, and his jawline was both rounded and pronounced at the same time. He sure was a looker. Staring! You’re staring at him! You yelled internally as his slightly pinkish cheeks were now accompanied by yours and you looked down to his knees that peeked out of his ripped blue jeans. No scratches there, good.
“Yeah, I’m all good I think. Jerks though it would be funny to lock me out, but at least I’m not alone.” He had lifted his hands in a casual shrug type of gesture when you saw that he had a nasty scrape on his palm, just like you had suspected. Without quite thinking you reached out and grabbed his hand to look at the damage.
“You did get a cut. Aw, I looks bad too. One sec,” while cupping his hand above yours the other reached into your back pocket to fumble for a bandaid. You were quite the clutz so you always had them on hand.
While you took your moment to retrieve the remedy, the boy was left to stare down at your hands meeting. Yours was so warm, especially in contrast with the cool dew seemingly spreading through the air from the rain. It was so gentle as well. You barely held his hand at all and yet it was effecting him so much. But most importantly he saw your wrist. That’s all he needed to be brave enough that when you handed him the bandaid he look your other hand as well.
“Hey, I’m Na Jaemin. It’s really nice to meet you and all but I think you need to take a look at something.” He have you that childish smile once again and you could just feel your heart tense up for some reason. It was so precious. That plus the added bonus of the simple yet sweet contact from your hands holding slightly was enough to leave you a bit flustered. You were to shy to look at exactly what he was getting at.
“What do you mean? Look where?” He simply chuckled and let you other hand with the bandaid still in it go slowly, as if he didn’t want to have his hand leave that spot.
“Ah! Ow... Ya know, my other hand really hurts too. Could you maybe put the bandage on for me?” His voice had a certain sing song quality to it joined by a rather obvious tone of whining. He sounded like a little kid trying to get something without saying just what it is to trick their mother. It was oddly charming in it’s own way even if it was whining.
“Um, sure. Are you sure you don’t need to go back inside? We can knock-“
“No!!” He paused and cleared his throat a bit to regain composure. “I mean, it’s fine I’m sure. Thanks though.” Kinda awkward as well. Cute. You were surprised at the boldness of your own thoughts. You undid the packaging on the bandaid and placed one sticky side with care over his skin to line it up over the wound. As you ever so gently slid your finger over it to stick the other side you froze in place with shock.
Umbrella.....CODE RED! This is not a drill, I repeate this is not a drill. We have an umbrella mark on the wrist! You looked back and forth a million times, eyes flicking over the two marks again and again as Jaemin chucked at how cute you were. As you continued your antics you thought to yourself, Not like they’ve changed colors yet. I-I mean I have seen someone else with an umbrella but nothing happened.
“You’re pressing into my cut a bit cutie.” He chopped up after staring down at you as if he had found a precious diamond in the rough. He was starting to get the whole ‘instant attraction’ thing. He didn’t even have your name yet and he felt like he could just spend the rest of his life with you from then on. It was both weird and comforting in it’s own way.
You jumped back a little and rubbed at the back of your neck. It was a nervous habit, but you don’t particularly feel nervous. It was more calm, but still had your heart racing. It was a promising sign in the least. “I-I’m Y/n. It’s nice to meet you Jaemin.” You looked back up to him and finally returned his smile with your own. You hadn’t felt so genuinely happy or smiled to full-heartedly in what felt like forever. You were starting to hope this boy was the one because well, he was so sweet and kind and funny and playful.... and you just met him!
“Glad I can put a beautiful name to the face now. Nice to need you too.” He sighed and looked down to see the mark on his wrist still filled in pitch black. Brushing aside the thought that it was odd he took a seat at the steps, next to where you had been before and patted next to his spot. “So what brought you out here?”
You plopped down next to him happily and sighed as you wrapped your arms around your knees and rested your head atop them. “Got ditched my the only person I knew at the party. Not really my kind of scene if I have no one to hang with so I just wanted to go home and go to bed buuut,”
“But the rain right?” You both giggles at how he finished your sentence with perfect timing.
“Yeah, the rain.” You looked over to Jaemin to be met by his charming gaze. There was a comfortable beat of bliss in that moment before you leaned back with a smile. “Now I have someone to hang with at least.” As you slid your hand back you felt something brush against it. It was kinda cold and felt odd. You looked over your shoulder to see a small red umbrella left there on the deck.
“Jaemin, look! An umbrella...” as the last word left your mouth the syllables slowed as you realized this really could be it. Hell, if this isn’t a sign I don’t know what is. You picked the umbrella up with a grin and a small laugh. “Looks like we lucked out!”
“Yeah, I think we did.” Another wave of a comfortable moment of sweet silence and adorning eyes passed over the two of you again before he snapped out of it and took the red thing from your hand in a flash. “You live on campus, right? I can walk you home if you’d like. It’s late and all so,” He let out a small hum before going back on his thoughts. “Actually, non-negotiable. I’m walking you home.”
You let an audible “Huh?” that had him chuckling at you once again. He opened the umbrella up and tipped I out into the rain before looking back to you with a smile. “Ready to go?”
“Yeah. It’s not too far.” You took a few eager and bouncy steps to meet him under the umbrella with another full fledged smile spread out across your face. “Thank you Jaemin.”
You two set off for the maybe two minute walk tops happy with small chatter and lots of laughter and smiles. You were tempted to get closer, but shoulders brushing and all was just toooo cliche. It’s just too much this is fine for now. Unbeknownst to you Jaemin saw you shoulder getting dropped on and was having none of it. Without hesitation he wrapped his free arm around your shoulder and gave you that heart melting look once again. “You can’t just be all quiet about small stuff like that when there’s a much better solution like this” He nudged you closer playfully and you decided to be bold and lean into his shoulder a bit.
“Okay, I promise I’ll keep it in mind for the future Mr. Gentlemen.” You took your turn to nudge into him with a laugh and relish in the moment. Things just felt so natural and comfortable with Jaemin already. This had to be the real deal.
“Here it is.” You said with much dismay. You didn’t want your time with Jaemin to end. Especially without knowing how to talk again or meet with him. You both faced each other under the tiny shield of the umbrella, the calming taps against both the roof of your dorm and the ground adding to the moment. “Thanks again Jaemin but um-“
“One sec. Gotta check something.” He pulled your wrist up gently with his own that had the mark to show a now brilliant red umbrella upon both your wrists. Once again, Jaemin didn’t need anymore confirmation. Without any reservation he pulled you in for a kiss. It was as if the sound of pattering rain had dulled, the slight cold had disappeared, and everything was right. He pulled away, keeping it short and sweet yet full of passion and feelings. You were left to reach up to your lips with a small smile before beaming up and him and leaning in to steal another small kiss, this time placed upon his cheek.
“Hey soulmate, I’m Na Jaemin. Nice to meet you.”
“Nice to meet you too.”
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