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If we believe in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, we will too go through it and rise to the glory of God. Sounds discouraging, right? I get it, because we know how much the Lord had to suffer through to get it all finished (John 19:30), but it shouldn't be, since it is to the good prepared for those believing. God wants all of us to repent and believe in Him (2 Peter 3:9), but He won't force it upon us. Rather He will give us a chance until death to repent and start following His Will. Some believe that it is by going to church, reading the Bible, and praying, that one becomes a believer; but it is not the case. Some can do all these things and still not be the believers Hod calls us to be. If we are to follow Him, it must be in Spirit and Truth (John 4:24), which is through having a personal relationship with Him. This is how we get to knowing Him personally, and in this way can we be assured that we have eternal life. Let us turn to Jesus Christ today and start our walk with Him into the promise He keeps for all. Bless you in the Name of Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour! Amen. :)
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Truth bombs from Matthew 7... brace yourselves.
Handle yourself first and address your own sin before you even think to open up your mouth in judgment against anyone else (verses 1-5).
Don't bother giving anything of great value to anyone who won't appreciate it. They'll only show a lack of reverence for and abuse what is precious (verse 6).
Not everything is going to be handed to you by God. There is action required on your part, so you shouldn't have an idle faith and expect for things to just fall into your lap. A hole isn't going to dig itself when God gave you the shovel.
7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:
8 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
Treat others the way that you want to be treated.
12 Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
There are many roads that lead to hell, but there is only one that leads to eternal life, and that's Jesus. Jesus is the strait and narrow gate. Don't be deceived.
13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
You can learn a lot about a person by observing the kind of fruit(s) that (s)he bears (verses 16-20).
It is possible to know the name of Jesus and not person of Jesus. You can profess to be a Christian all you want, but if you don’t have a personal relationship with Christ, at the end of the day, you're only fooling yourself and are in a very dangerous place. Truly get to know Him. Trust me, He's worth it (verses 21-23).
The Word of God, Jesus' commandments and sayings, aren't suggestions. Choosing to keep or ignore them is a life or death situation. The ball is in your court, and you have free will to choose to do what is wise or to do what is foolish (verses 24-27).
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What if I ate your hair
I’ll just replay myself back when I had hair and use the old mes hair as my current hair
FUCK YOU
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anon is lê creme de lê creme of dumb b*chs ignore the anon. As someone who dabbles in history for fun I know for a fact that what you usually write is sound and accurate. And you're smart as f*ck. And probably pretty. I'm jealous now.
I usually dont mind people disagreeing or disliking my hot takes but the "please repent" anon got under my skin. Just pls i dont mind changing hcs if they are legit off, just speak to me like a person ffs 🥲
Ahhshanahsbsbhs "sound and accurate", "smart as fuck", "probably pretty".... my good sir, I might acquire an ego with such flattery. I'm already in my robe a la reine, reading your prose in the rose garden 💐
Not but fr thank you. I like my hcs but to have other people like them??? Unreal. Fantastic. Scandalous.
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#but you have to admit the please repent line is a knockout#thats my hc tag now#god thank you again i doubt i deserve those words but i am glad to hear them or read them#ask meli#meli speaks
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i have to be honest, everyone has the right to interpret art differently so i'm not going to be a tyrant about this if you disagree, but GEEZ i just do not buy into the theory of the winter's tale that hermione never really died and she and paulina faked it to punish leontes and shock him into repentance. it doesn't feel like it fits into the oracle's prophecy to me; it doesn't feel like it fits the overall magic of the play. hermione DID die and she DID get brought back to life as a statue through the power or art and magic and love and forgiveness, thank you. that's also how perdita and florizel got together obviously. great horrors great dread great repentance great redemption. wonderful art wonderful catharsis wonderful expressions of emotions. works WONDERS works MIRACLES. close your eyes and believe it brother.
#text post#shakespeare#the winter's tale#also since mamilius is Really Dead For Real. i feel like the queen faking her death would add Nothing#like leontes repents his actions leaving him with no wife or heir (and swears by paulina never to remarry out of sorrow and grief)#(and honor for hermione!!! his innocent wronged queen!!! and so paulina makes sure he can never repeat his mistakes)#like he already is left without an heir. i can believe well enough that that grief shocked hermione to her death#leontes didnt even believe the words of apollo when they were read out to him in court!!!!#im getting so nerd-mad about this.#i prefer the magical interpretation so so much more. it's just fated. it's just more romantic!#i do love shakespeare's romances so much. i love the winter's tale i love the winter's tale#that's the most fucked up shit i ever read. it's beautiful
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The so-called "Christian" witches are on the rise nowadays, and they are really trying to convince people that Christians can be witches. Isn't that controversial? You can't sit at the table of the Lord and at the table of demons at the same time. It would be like trying to give half your love to your family and half to the crowd that misleads you. It is not right to be a Christian and to practice witchcraft. That is not Christian. We should not show our Father partiality, but be completely committed to Him, as He has shown us His love through Jesus, in giving His all for us on the cross. He didn't give fifty percent, but a hundred percent of His blood for our salvation. We should learn to show Him the true thanks He deserves through our faithfulness, and not division of heart for these rituals, which do not even come from God. I pray you see things the way God teaches to, and read the Word in order to learn of God's true will for us. He is no tyrant or dictator, but a loving Creator Who knows what is for our good. Bless you in the Name of Jesus Christ our Saviour. Amen.
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THE LORD IS PATIENT HE WISHES NON TO PERISH IN THIS WORLD THAT IS RUNNING TO IT'S DESTRUCTION BY THE ENEMY OF OUR SOULS WHO IS BEHIND EVERY EVIL NARRATIVE.
COME TO THE LORD BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE.

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#Rapture of the Body of Christ next biblical event#Isaiah 53#Lord Jesus Christ Yeshua HaMaschiach Saviour of the world#Book of Revelation coming through#Book of Daniel declares our times perfectly#Repent Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ Call on His Name Read His Word from Genesis to Revelation#Pray pray pray
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me when I see the phrase "are you normal" at the start of a sentence and instantly feel nauseous.
#i automatically think that i am the precise target of the post. even if the post is like 'are you normal about [demographic i am a part of]'#it feels like im getting screamed at and that i should die for repentance because i am an evil person who only does harm <- read a few word#is this extreme? obviously. do i wish it didnt happen? yes. do i know how to stop it? no.#emeto#sui mention#(implied)#i have the phrase blocked btw. but seeing those few words make me feel like im avoiding accountability for my innaction
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My jaw dropped! I could not watch half of that! This is insanity! God, save our children! Have mercy on us all!
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Some people on here act like that if they read the word cock or sex written by another person they'll combust and be fire marked as sinners...is it what being protestant feels like?
#please Don't write inappropriate tags or comments under MY PUBLIC post that i begged to reblog or else kys i must read#obsenities im a 23 yo child!! oh my word i was scrolling my dash and someone talked about k*nķ!!! what?? you shan't bc i might read that??#gross weirdos who types that?! i must repent i must pray you must be jailed shame shame!!'#dude not even the fucking nuns at my school back in the day were as sick as some of yall maybe a demon possession would do u good#non è normale né
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WOULD THAT I.
he has spent four lifetimes repenting for his sins and searching for you. in the fifth, he finally gets it right.
pairing: jinu x fem!reader tags & warnings: romance, angst, hurt/comfort; reincarnation!au, previously established relationship!au. changes to canon. mentions of death & sins, blood, injuries, past lives, jinu remembers all his lives but learns how to love you in each one, profanity, alcohol consumption, historical inaccuracies, implied sex, etc. inspired by hozier’s would that i. word count: 8.7k

SEOUL, KOREA. EARLY WINTER, 1936.
It’s become a habit now, for Jinu to walk the alley behind Hwaryeohan Cha-jip every morning. He tells himself he’s just passing through, just out for air, but his feet always take the same turn—past the ink shop, past the frozen rice fields. The snow came early that year, dusting the rooftops of Bukchon in white. Jinu walks until he finds the teahouse, half-tucked between two aging hanoks, with its faded wooden sign and wind chimes made of porcelain spoons.
You work there. He knows this now.
You sweep the floors with your hair tied up in a red ribbon, humming songs no one else seems to know. You boil water in the back room, your sleeves rolled up past your elbows, wrists red from the heat. Sometimes you lean out the window to shake out a cloth, and Jinu watches from across the street, heart in his throat, as if looking at you might somehow unmake the curse.
It doesn’t.
Gwi-Ma’s words still echo like older thunder in his ears. One lifetime for every sin, the demon king had said. He doesn’t remember what he did to deserve this; only that it was enough for the king to curse him with memory, and longing, and you.
You, who never remembers him. You, who are always just out of reach.
Still, this life feels different. He’s not a lonely musician. He’s just Jinu. Just a man in a wool coat with frayed sleeves and too many lifetimes folded into the lines around his eyes.
Somehow, that compels him to step inside.
The bell above the teahouse door is delicate and cracked, like it’s been broken and glued back together a dozen times. It tinkles faintly as he enters, and you glance up from behind the counter. He orders ginger tea. It’s too hot, a little bitter. He drinks it anyway.
You don’t say much to him at first, just slide the cup forward with a polite nod, fingers dusted with flour, and return to kneading dough in the back. Jinu sits in the corner, watching steam curl from the rim of his cup, pretending to read a book he’s read a thousand times before.
He returns the next day. And the next.
Sometimes you smile at him now. Sometimes you ask if he wants something sweet with his tea. He always says yes, just to hear your voice again.
“Do you work nearby?” you ask one morning, wiping your hands on your apron.
“No,” he says. “I walk a lot.”
You tilt your head. “Even in the snow?”
“Especially then,” he says, and you laugh. The sound cuts through every century he’s lived without you. It makes something ancient in him ache.
You tell him your name one day. He already knows it, of course, but he pretends it’s the first time. He says it softly, rolls it on his tongue like a promise.
He brings small things sometimes: a book of poems; a silk ribbon the same colour as the one you wear; once, a tiny jade rabbit charm that he leaves near the register when you’re not looking. You find it later and keep it in your purse. You never ask if it’s from him, and he never tells you.
Some days, he helps. He carries water from the well; repairs a broken chair leg; teaches you how to fold paper cranes when the shop is slow. You sit across from him at the low table, your hands awkward at first, and he watches you fold the wings silently.
You crease the edge of the paper with your thumbnail, tongue poking out slightly in concentration. Jinu doesn’t laugh, though the sight of you furrowing your brow over something as simple as a paper crane is enough to pull a smile to his mouth. He leans forward and gently adjusts the angle of the folded wing.
“Like this,” he says quietly.
Your fingers brush, briefly, barely. It’s nothing—but to him, it’s everything.
After that, you start leaving out an extra cup when you brew tea in the morning, even before he walks in. You stop pretending not to notice the way he always sits in the same corner seat. You learn that he prefers ginger tea with honey, that he likes his bread warm and his jam unsweetened. You listen to him hum under his breath when he reads, even though his eyes don’t always move across the page.
He learns that you braid your hair when you’re nervous, and that you’re saving up for a trip to Busan, and that you talk to the teapot when you think no one’s listening.
Sometimes, when it snows harder than usual, you don’t get any customers and the city stays quiet. On those days, you sit across from each other on the heated floorboards, sipping tea and listening to the wind rattle the windows.
Once, you fall asleep like that—cheek pressed to your folded arms, exhaustion shuttering your eyelids. Jinu doesn’t wake you. He watches the snow gather on the windowsill and thinks about how peaceful your face looks in this life.
He wonders if this is enough. If friendship is enough.
You wake, embarrassed, and he just smiles and tells you to rest more. You blink at him, still sleepy but shake your head, so he asks if you want to learn how to fold a lotus next. You do.

PARIS, FRANCE. SUMMER, 1890.
It’s your honeymoon. At least, that’s what the world thinks.
The hotel is charming in the way French hotels are supposed to be—wrought-iron balconies, velvet drapes, and wallpaper the colour of old pearls. The floorboards creak under his feet, and the hallways smell faintly of orange blossoms and candlewax.
Below, the Seine coils through the city, meandering long and slow. Gondoliers shout in lilting voices from the water. The bouquinistes have already opened their green boxes along the banks, selling secondhand poetry and crumbling maps to tourists who still believe Paris belongs to lovers.
Maybe it does. Just not to the two of you.
Jinu stands by the window, shirt half-buttoned, tie discarded somewhere near the settee. The silk catches on the carved wooden leg. The breeze lifts the edge of the curtain, letting in the sound of clattering dishes from the café downstairs.
The light falls soft on your face where you sit at the vanity, brushing your hair in long, even strokes, the red ribbon that you’d used to tie your hair back wrapped around your wrist. Your nightgown is lace-trimmed and far too sheer for the cool morning. He thinks it must be uncomfortable. But you wear it anyway, spine straight, chin lifted, always composed. You don’t look at him. You haven’t looked at him all morning.
There are two coffee cups on the table. One is untouched. You didn’t like the roast, but you won’t tell him that. You’ll let it sit there and grow cold because indifference is your sharpest weapon, and you know exactly how to wield it.
The lace shifts again as you move, bare shoulders catching the gold light. It’s almost enough to make him forget; almost enough to believe this life could be different. Maybe, if he just reached out—if he touched your shoulder, softly, just once—you’d remember something. The way your fingers once curled around the fabric of his hanbok, or the way you said his name.
It’s your honeymoon, and you can barely stand to be in the same room.

TOKYO, JAPAN. SPRING, ONE WEEK AGO.
Jinu promises to take you to see the cherry blossoms after work.
You’re half-asleep on the sofa when he tells you, legs tucked beneath you, your blouse rumpled and your slacks creased at the knees. Your fingers are curled around a mug of ginger tea you’ve forgotten to sip from, the steam long faded. The apartment glows in the evening light—low and golden, brushing everything it touches with warmth. It rests on your cheek, your collarbone, the line of your neck.
The window is cracked open just enough for the air to carry the sound of birds and distant footsteps. Someone laughs downstairs—the neighbour’s kid, maybe, or a passing couple. In the kitchen, the rice cooker clicks off with a soft chime, and the smell of jasmine rice begins to mingle with the faint perfume of laundry soap and honey.
The sakura have started blooming early this year, soft clouds of pink dusting every street, like the city’s been dipped in blush and left to dry slowly. He noticed them that morning on his walk to the train: the way petals clung to the sidewalk like confetti, the way one landed on the shoulder of your coat and you didn’t notice.
“Don’t forget,” you mumble without opening your eyes, voice warm and worn out, lips brushing the rim of the mug. Your feet are bare, and you wiggle your toes sleepily when he sits beside you.
“I won’t,” Jinu says, and he means it.
He never forgets, not in this life.
He reaches over and gently lifts the mug from your hands, careful not to spill it, and sets it on the coffee table beside your phone and a half-finished crossword. Your handwriting is in blue pen—curvy, a little impatient. He glances at it, then turns his attention back to you.
“You should change out of your work clothes,” he says.
“M’comfy,” you whisper, not moving an inch.
He laughs softly. “You say that. Then you complain about the wrinkles in the morning.”
You hum noncommittally, already slipping towards sleep. Your head tilts until it rests against his shoulder. He shifts a little to make it easier. Your hair smells like lemongrass shampoo and the rose spray you use in early spring. Jinu leans his cheek gently against the top of your head.
“Are we going tomorrow or Saturday?” you ask.
“Tomorrow,” Jinu says. “I want to go before the crowds come.”
“You hate crowds,” you agree, nodding.
“You hate them more.”
You smile. “Smart man.”
Jinu slides his arm behind your back, warm and solid and steady. He closes his eyes and listens—to your breath, to the tick of the clock on the wall.

NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA. EARLY SUMMER, 1972.
Jinu slings his arm over your bare waist, and thinks that this might be the life.
Maybe Gwi-Ma took pity on him. Maybe this is a loophole, and it comes with jazz and heat and the way your lipstick smeared against his collar an hour ago. Maybe it’s not a trick. Maybe, for once, he gets to stay.
Your breath is steady now, but your skin is still flushed, slick with the last traces of sweat. The cotton sheets stick to your thigh where it’s thrown over his hip, and your fingers twitch against his ribs, still restless in sleep.
He lets his hand drift up the slope of your side, slow and gentle, the way a man touches something he knows will leave him. He watches your lashes flutter, the corner of your mouth twitch as you stir.
“Are you awake?” he asks.
You hum without opening your eyes. “Barely.”
He presses a kiss behind your ear. “Should I stop?”
“If you’re asking that, you already know the answer.”
So Jinu doesn’t stop. His hand moves, slow and familiar now, tracing the curve of your hip. You shift closer, still half-asleep, until your leg slides between his and your mouth brushes against the underside of his jaw.
It’s easy like this. Too easy.
Your bodies know each other even if your minds don’t. There’s no fumbling anymore, no pretending. Just heat and breath and the memory of your name whispered into the crook of his neck, again and again, like you’re trying to brand yourself into him. Maybe you are.
He holds you afterward, and listens to the rain starting up again outside the window—soft at first, then steadier. Jazz spills in from the bar two floors down, muffled by distance and glass, but still there. Like everything in this city, it lingers.
“You’re staring,” you say eventually, not unkindly.
“I do that,” Jinu says.
“Why?”
“Do I need a reason?”
You make a soft sound in the back of your throat, somewhere between amusement and disbelief, and burrow deeper into his chest. Your fingers trace a line over his collarbone, idle and absentminded, like you’re not really thinking about what you’re doing.
“You always act like you know something I don’t,” you mumble. “Like you’ve been waiting for me to figure it out.”
Jinu swallows. “Figure out what?”
“Whatever it is you keep hiding behind your eyes,” you say. “You always look so sad, Jinu.”
His arm tightens around you just slightly.
You’re not wrong. You never are, not in any life. Even without memory, your intuition is as sharp as it’s always been. You’re like a compass that always swings toward the truth, even when the truth is something you have no idea about.
Jinu considers lying, or laughing it off. But you shift again, and your thigh brushes against his. You’re close—so close, close enough that he almost lets the truth slip past his teeth. You’ve died in my arms before. You’ve looked at me with your last breath. I’ve been cursed to find you again and again and again.
Instead, he says, “Maybe I just like the way you look when you sleep.”
“Poetic.”
“I try.”
You lift your head to look at him. There’s mascara smudged beneath your eyes, and a tiny crease on your cheek where it pressed against the pillow. Your mouth is a little swollen from kissing, and your voice is hoarse in the way that drives him insane.
“You know this isn’t forever, right?” you say, softly, like you’re offering him a kindness by saying it first.
“I know,” Jinu says.
You nod, like that’s what you needed to hear. “Good.”
But you don’t move. You don’t pull away. You rest your chin on his chest and look at him like you’re memorising the shape of his nose and the colour of his eyes.
“God,” you whisper after a while. “This would be so much easier if you were an asshole.”
Jinu laughs and says, “I can be, if it helps.”
“No,” you say, shaking your head. “You’re good. That’s the problem.”
He kisses your forehead and tries not to think about the way your voice cracked.

JOSEON, KOREA. WINTER, 1798.
It is snowing the first time Jinu sees you, and your name forms on his mouth like habit.
It’s not the name you carry now—not the one assigned to you by court records and a royal appointment, or the one embroidered into the hem of your hanbok in gold thread. It is the name you’ve had in your previous lifetime. The name he’s whispered into your skin, into your dying hands.
Jinu doesn’t say it aloud. He doesn’t dare.
He watches you from the far side of the courtyard, where the snow has muffled the world and the stone paths disappear beneath white. His breath fogs in the air. A court servant speaks beside him—something about a grain levy in Jeolla—but Jinu isn’t listening. He couldn’t, even if he tried.
You walk gracefully, holding a lacquered tray to your chest, with your back straight. Your hair is pulled into a sleek bun, adorned with a single ornamental binyeo shaped like a plum blossom. It is the sign of a new concubine: favoured and untouched. The wind catches your sleeve and flutters it gently, and his chest clenches at the sight of your wrist. A thousand memories flicker through his mind like reeds in the current.
Yet, your face is unfamiliar in this first life. Younger, and softer. Your eyes don’t carry memory. You don’t look at him with recognition or contempt. You don’t look at him at all.
You pass through the courtyard, and Jinu stands frozen under the shadow of a ginkgo tree, as though time itself has collapsed.
Later, in his private study, he asks about you. He pretends it’s nothing—an idle inquiry wrapped in courtesy, spoken to the right eunuch over warm rice wine.
“The girl who came last month,” he says, carefully. “The concubine gifted by the Governor of Gangwon. What do we know of her?”
“The new Lady?” The eunuch says your new name, the one that doesn’t feel right in Jinu’s mouth. “She is quiet and well-mannered. Literate, I believe, though she comes from no family of rank. She entered the palace under the northern court’s petition—her village suffered a flood, and her people sought mercy. The Governor offered her as tribute.”
“Tribute,” Jinu repeats, tasting the word like ash.
“She was chosen for her beauty,” the eunuch adds. “Nothing more.”

PARIS, FRANCE. SUMMER, 1890.
You married him because you had to.
It was a bargain struck behind closed doors, a compromise made with fathers and fortunes and convenience. He had wealth, and you had a family in debt. It was all very civilised, very French. The papers printed your photograph beside a headline that called it a union of elegance and fortune. They didn’t print the part where you refused to meet his eyes.
At dinner, you speak to him in French, formally, like a woman who doesn’t wish to be misunderstood, and doesn’t care to be known. You order for yourself. You never ask if he’s read the books you quote. You let the silence stretch until it breaks and sip your half-finished wine instead.
Jinu lets you. He nods when appropriate, smiles when it seems polite, swirls his wine, and pretends not to watch the way you cut your food too carefully.
He thinks about how different your voice sounds in this life. How your laughter is a stranger to him. He remembers the you who laughed easily, the you who danced barefoot in the snow, the you who wrote him letters in the margins of books and left pressed flowers between the pages. That version of you isn’t here.
In this lifetime, you wear gloves to dinner and never once let your fingers brush his.
But you’re beautiful. God, you’re beautiful.
It kills him a little, every time.
You look like a painting he’s seen before and can’t quite place; one he’s spent lifetimes trying to find again. Now that you’re here—flesh and blood, name and ring and contract—you’re more unreachable than ever.
You don’t sleep in the same bed. The suite has two, and that’s something you requested specifically. He remembers the clerk glancing at him with a look that hovered between pity and apology.
The bellboy had asked, “Madame, shall I draw the curtains between the beds?”
“Yes, thank you,” you had said.
You don’t ask him questions: not about his work, not about his past. Not about the faraway look he sometimes gets when the light hits the Seine just right. He doesn’t ask you, either. The truth is, you are not his, in this life.
He wonders if you dream of him. He wonders if somewhere deep in your chest, beneath the silk and bone and flesh, something stirs when he says your name. He wonders if you ever wake in the middle of the night with a pang in your heart that you don’t understand.
Jinu hopes so, because he has woken up like that every night of this life.

SEOUL, KOREA. WINTER, 1937.
By the time Seollal passes and the paper lanterns are taken down, the people in the neighbourhood begin to notice—not with suspicion or idle gossip, but with a kind of slow, blooming fondness. They don’t whisper behind their hands or snicker when Jinu walks by. Instead, they smile.
The old woman with the parrot—Madam Kwon, who lives above the fermented soybean shop—starts referring to Jinu as your shadow. Every morning, as she feeds her bird sesame seeds and counts her prayer beads in the sun, she croaks out, “Your shadow’s early today,” when Jinu turns the corner near the tea shop. The parrot repeats her, mangled and gleeful. Sha-dow, sha-dow!
You glance up from the window, smothering a smile.
The boy from across the alley, barely thirteen, who runs errands for the ink shop, has started tipping his cap at Jinu each morning. One day, when he passes, he calls out with the overconfidence of youth, “She likes persimmons, you know. Bring her some. The kind with the wrinkly skins.”
Jinu hides his amusement behind a polite nod. The next day, a small cloth pouch of dried persimmons appears on the tea shop counter. You don’t say anything, just tuck them into the cupboard—but you save one, and when Jinu comes in at closing, you place it on a small plate beside his tea without a word.
The grocer, Mr. Baek, an older man with a permanent frown and a weak knee, lets Jinu pick through the fresh vegetables first whenever he sees him on the path to the tea shop.
“You work too hard, boy,” Mr. Baek grumbles as Jinu hoists a basket of firewood onto one shoulder.
“He’s not a boy,” Madam Kwon snorts from her usual perch. “He’s a man, Baek. Can’t you tell?”
“A man, huh?” Mr. Baek eyes Jinu’s hands, callused from helping with the heavy work around the shop. “Well, even a man needs to rest his back before it breaks.”
Jinu only smiles. “I’ll rest after I’ve swept the steps for her.”
They all approve of him, though none say it directly. The world is starting to tuck Jinu into your corner of it without him needing to ask.
One afternoon, while the snow still clings to the gutters but the breeze carries a hint of plum blossoms, an elderly couple walks in from out of town. They speak in slow dialect, asking for ginger tea and warmth for their aching bones. Jinu is seated by the window, sketching quietly in his notebook. As you prepare the tea, the woman glances at him, then at you.
“Your husband doesn’t say much,” she remarks.
You nearly spill the water. “He’s not— I mean, we’re not—”
Jinu looks up, and the couple laughs kindly. “Ah, forgive us,” the man says. “You have that look about you.”
“What look?” you ask, wary.
“The look of people whose silence with each other is comfortable.”
You don’t respond, but when you set the tray down in front of them, you notice Jinu watching you closely. After they leave, you go to clear the table. There’s an extra coin left on the tray, and the old woman has pressed a paper fortune beside it: “Love that arrives quietly stays the longest.”
You crumple it without thinking.
But later that night, after the shop has closed and the windows are shuttered, Jinu finds it smoothed out on the back counter, your handwriting scribbled in the margins: “Don’t get any ideas.”
He smiles.

NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA. AUTUMN, 1971.
Jinu finds you by accident, really.
He’s searching for a bar—any bar—on an unnaturally rainy Friday night, his collar turned up against the warm drizzle, the air thick with the smell of sweet olive trees and fried catfish. The city hums with life even in the storm. Neon flickers on puddles like oil slicks, and brass spills from half-opened windows.
He’s already passed three places too crowded, one too quiet, and a fourth that reeked of stale beer and cigarette ash, when he turns down a narrow side street he doesn’t remember the name of.
He finds a wooden door, warped with time and painted a moody red. It sits beneath a hanging sign with chipped cursive that reads: The Red Ribbon. A string of paper lanterns hangs overhead, glowing soft through the rain like a trail of fireflies.
Inside, the bar is low-lit and warm, a haven from the storm. The air smells like cinnamon smoke and lemon rinds, and something old—like velvet curtains and perfume that clings to skin. There’s a quiet hum of conversation, the clink of glass on glass, and music.
No—not music. A voice.
Low and rich, not quite singing, not quite speaking. Like honey melting in a warm cup of tea. It curls around the room before he sees you; dips into the cracks between shadows; holds him still.
You’re on stage, beneath a gold spotlight, wearing a black satin blouse tucked into high-waisted pants, one heel perched on the edge of the stool as you croon into the microphone. Your voice doesn’t beg for attention. It commands it, slow and sultry and effortless. You sing a cover of I’ll Be Seeing You, but it’s yours now, softer, smokier, as if the song’s always belonged to you.
In your hair, tied just above your ear, is a red ribbon.
Jinu stops breathing.
You’re older in this life. Sharper. Your voice curls like cigarette smoke, and your smile doesn’t reach your eyes. But it’s you. Of course it’s you. He would know you in any century.
You don’t see him. You never do, not at first.
The room fades. Jinu’s heart hammers.
Gwi-Ma’s curse, so old now it’s half-forgotten, curls tight in his ribs like a warning. This is the fourth time, he thinks.
The bartender is young, with freckles scattered across his nose. “What can I get you?”
“What’s her drink?” Jinu asks, nodding toward the stage.
“She switches it up sometimes. But mostly it’s gin and tonic. Extra lime.”
“Then one of those. And whatever you recommend.”
He carries both your drinks over when you step off the stage, undoing the ribbon in your hair deftly and shaking your head. You wrap the ribbon around your wrist and raise an eyebrow when he stops by your table.
“That for me?” you ask.
Jinu sets the gin and tonic down. “Extra lime.”
“Let me guess,” you drawl. “First time here, heard me sing, got curious?”
“Something like that,” he says.

JOSEON, KOREA. SPRING, 1799.
It is well past curfew when you slip into the old library pavilion.
The moon is high, its light diffused through the paper lattice windows, casting soft patterns on the wooden floor. The scent of old parchment and ink wafts through the air. Outside, the plum trees stir in the breeze, petals tumbling like tiny, perfumed ghosts.
You shouldn’t be here. No one comes here anymore—not since the roof began to rot, not since the scrolls were moved to the new annex.
But you know the door that creaks just slightly less. You know which floorboards to avoid. Most importantly, you know no one will be looking for a concubine in the archive of forgotten histories.
You light a single oil lamp and walk the aisles barefoot, your skirts brushing against shelves of neglected poetry and old Confucian texts. You’re looking for something. You don’t know what; only that your chest has been heavy lately with something unnamed, and that reading makes it easier to breathe.
You’re so engrossed in a worn volume of Tang poetry that you don’t hear him until it’s too late.
“What are you doing here?”
You whip around, heart slamming in your chest, the book nearly slipping from your fingers.
Jinu stands in the doorway—half-lit by moonlight, half-shadowed, like something conjured from the very pages you were reading. He’s shed his ceremonial robes for the evening, wearing only a dark overcoat tied loosely at the waist. His hair is unbound at the nape, a sign that he, too, thought the night would pass without interruption.
You gasp. “I—I didn’t think anyone—”
“You’re not supposed to be here,” he says, though there’s no bite to it. Just curiosity, and a hint of wariness.
You lift your chin. “Neither are you.”
He arches a brow, and you realise your mistake. Of course he’s allowed anywhere he wishes—he’s one of the King’s closest ministers. But instead of correcting you, he steps further inside, eyes never leaving yours.
“What are you reading?”
“Poetry,” you say.
“May I see it?”
You hand him the book with reluctant fingers. He takes it carefully, as though it’s precious. You watch as he scans the open page. His lips move as he reads silently. Then, softly, aloud:
“In the quiet night, the moonlight before my bed perhaps is frost upon the ground. I raise my head and see the moon, then lower it and think of home.”
You say nothing.
“You miss it,” Jinu says quietly. “Your home.”
“You can’t miss what you barely remember,” you say, shrugging.
“Still, you’re here,” he says, closing the book. “Risking punishment for poetry.”
“I thought this place was empty.”
“It is. Mostly. You’ve been here before,” he says.
“Will you report me?” you ask, finally meeting his eyes.
He watches you for a long moment, and shakes his head. “No. But if you’re going to read by lamplight, you shouldn’t sit so close to the paper screens. It casts a shadow.”

TOKYO, JAPAN. SPRING, ONE MONTH AGO.
On Jinu’s birthday, you surprise him with a picnic beneath the sakura.
It’s a Tuesday, technically a workday, but you convince his supervisor to let him off early and drag him, half-confused, half-laughing, onto the Marunouchi Line. You refuse to say where you’re going, only grin over the rim of your coffee and tap your knee against his like you’re buzzing with a secret.
He figures it out by the time you’re walking down the path at Shinjuku Gyoen, past couples and families and students with cameras, every tree dripping in soft pink petals. The wind is light, enough to lift your hair and scatter a few blossoms onto his shoulder. You swipe them off with a delicate touch, fingers brushing his collar.
“Here?” he asks, looking around.
You point to a quiet spot beneath a tall cherry tree, where the ground is dappled with sunlight and pink. “Here.”
He watches you set the blanket down and unroll the bento boxes you packed that morning, tied in checkered cloth, still warm. Tamagoyaki, onigiri, simmered daikon, the pickled things he likes. There’s even a small chocolate cake hidden in your tote, which you keep sneakily tucked behind your legs like it isn’t obvious.
“You didn’t have to do all this,” he says, sitting beside you. His voice is warm. He never quite knows what to do with being loved like this—not when it’s freely given.
“I know,” you say. “But I wanted to.”
Jinu looks at you for a long second. You’re wearing that soft blue sweater he likes, the one that slides off your shoulder when you’re not paying attention. The sunlight hits your cheekbones and catches in your lashes, and he thinks—like he always does—that you’re the most beautiful thing he’s ever seen.
You open a thermos, pour him tea, and he raises it in mock solemnity.
“To thirty-three,” he says.
“Thirty-two,” you correct.
“Am I?”
“You always forget,” you say. “You’ve been forgetting since we met.”
He laughs. “Feels like I’ve lived a hundred years already.”
You don’t say anything. Sometimes, when the light hits his face just right or he says something echoes in your mind, you wonder.
You’ve always had strange dreams: places you’ve never been, languages you’ve never studied, and a man who always looks like him, even when he wears a robe, or a bloodied uniform, or a wool coat in the snow. You never tell him this. You’re afraid it will break the spell.
Instead, you offer him another onigiri and press a kiss to his cheek.
“Happy birthday,” you whisper. “I’m glad you were born.”
Jinu closes his eyes and laces his fingers with yours, lets you lean your weight into his side; lets the breeze scatter petals in your hair; lets the warmth spread down his spine like he’s standing in the sun after a long, long winter.

MANCHURIA. WINTER, 1944.
It comes as no surprise, then, that when the war begins, you and Jinu get married and business at the teahouse dwindles with every passing day.
The papers are signed quietly one late afternoon, in the cramped back office of the local administration hall: two names written in black ink, side by side, binding you together not by love but by survival. There is no time for anything else. The world is already falling apart.
The Japanese occupation deepens its grip. All around you, men vanish into forced conscription, women into labour camps, into silence. The air grows tighter with fear. Propaganda posters replace the poetry on the streets. The teahouse shutters for good.
You and Jinu are sent away within the month. He becomes a soldier. You become a nurse.
You are not the only married couple split between posts, but somehow, impossibly, the army places you both near the front. You meet sometimes between camps. Once every few weeks, maybe. Sometimes longer.
Each time, your reunion is brief and practical. You sew up the tears in his uniform. He shares what little rations he’s stashed away for you. He never forgets to hand you a pair of gloves or wrap your scarf tighter, or tie your hair back with that red ribbon with shaking fingers. You always insist he sleep for at least two hours before returning to his unit.
There is no time for affection. There is barely time for sleep.
But sometimes, when you are alone—when the tents are quiet and the snow piles against the canvas—he touches your face in the dark, and you lean into him without a word. Sometimes you rest your forehead against his shoulder, and Jinu runs his hand up and down your back.
The night you die, it is snowing.
The war has reached a new fever. There are no longer clear lines, no longer rest stations or warning signals or predictable patrols. The world is burning in patches, and no one can remember what day it is.
Jinu is stationed near the ravine when the call comes—medics down, supplies hit, critical injuries. He runs before they finish speaking.
He doesn’t recognise the wreckage of the medic tent at first, just the shape of it, torn open by gunfire and winter wind, canvas flapping in the air. The snow is tinged red. Bodies are scattered everywhere.
You’re still alive when he finds you, but barely.
You’re half-buried beneath another nurse, shielding her even in unconsciousness. Your side is soaked through with blood, spreading dark and fast across your uniform. Your breathing is shallow, more rasp than breath. Jinu drops to his knees beside you.
“Hey,” he says, voice breaking. “Hey—look at me. It’s me.”
Your eyes flutter open. Focus. Unfocus. Finally, they find him. “...Jinu?” you breathe, your voice thready.
He laughs, because it’s either that or scream. “Yeah. Yeah, it’s me. You stubborn woman, what were you doing here? You were supposed to be safe.”
“I stayed.” You cough, wet and small. “One of the children… the boy with the bad leg…”
“I know,” Jinu says. He does know. He always knew you’d stay. He presses his hand to your wound. His other hand cradles the back of your head. Snowflakes melt on your cheeks.
Later, they find him still holding you, long after the snow has buried your boots and the blood has dried stiff on his uniform. He won’t speak for days, won’t eat. When he finally returns to his post, he doesn’t say what happened; he only writes your name on the inside of his sleeve in black ink, where no one else can see.
Years later, when the war ends and the country forgets the names of its dead, Jinu does not. He leaves a folded paper crane at every teahouse he passes, and he never remarries.

PARIS, FRANCE. SUMMER, 1890.
On the third day of your honeymoon, Jinu takes you dancing.
It is a Friday evening, and the city glows with the kind of gold that never quite fades, even as dusk creeps in. From the hotel balcony, the streets below shimmer with laughter, carriage wheels clattering against cobblestones, parasols twirling, violins warming up in salons beyond shuttered windows.
He waits for you in the sitting room, dressed in pressed trousers and a charcoal waistcoat, a pale lavender cravat at his throat—the one you picked, absentmindedly, on your first day in the city. The silk still smells faintly like you.
You emerge from the bedroom without a word, gloves drawn tight over your wrists, gown cinched neatly at the waist. You’re beautiful, but distant.
Always, always distant.
“Shall we?” he asks, offering his arm.
The carriage ride is quiet. The air smells like summer rain and perfume, and Jinu watches your profile in the glass—the slope of your nose, the way your eyes follow the shape of the Seine like it’s memory. You haven’t touched him since the day you arrived. Your hand rests lightly on his arm now, like you’re afraid even weight might give too much away.
He wants to ask about the letters.
The ones you receive from a different postbox. The ones you tuck away before he enters the room. He’s never opened one, but he doesn’t need to. The handwriting is always the same: slanted, and familiar only to you. He doesn’t ask. He never does.
Tonight, he only wants to pretend.
The ballroom is in Montmartre, crowded and warm, lit by chandeliers that make the dust shimmer. The band plays slow waltzes, the kind that linger in your throat even after the music fades.
Jinu places a hand on your waist. You let him.
Your fingers rest against his shoulder, delicate as frost.
He draws you closer, searching for something in your eyes. He finds nothing. Nothing but the practiced smile of a woman doing what is expected.
“You’re quiet tonight,” he says, voice low.
You look away. “I’m tired.”
“Of dancing?” Of me?
You don’t answer. Jinu guides you in a slow circle. You follow, graceful, perfect. A doll in silk and pearl. Yet, every few beats, your gaze slips towards the doors; towards the windows; towards something far away. He’s used to it now. Gwi-Ma’s curse has hardened him, but just because he is used to it, it does not make it any easier to be the consolation prize in this lifetime that never belonged to him.
“Do you love him?” he asks suddenly, before he can stop himself.
“It doesn’t matter,” you say.
You’re right. It doesn’t. Not in this life. Not in this world where your father sold your hand to erase a debt, and his name was the one on the contract. Not in a marriage made of cold sheets and polite lies.
Jinu exhales slowly. “It does to me.”
You meet his gaze, then, and something flickers in your eyes. Not love, or forgiveness—just sadness, deep and quiet, like the kind that seeps into your bones and never quite leaves.
“You’re not a bad man,” you say softly. “You just aren’t mine.”
He closes his eyes. The music swells. Couples spin around you both like falling leaves.
Jinu doesn’t say another word. He just holds you a little tighter, for as long as the song lasts. Because after tonight, you’ll drift further away. He can feel it, that tide pulling you towards a life you’ll never have and a man he will never be.
But for this dance—just this one—he lets himself imagine you’re his.
The next day, the divorce papers are finalised and the money is settled. You move to Vienna the week after.

NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA. AUTUMN, 1972.
The bartender tells Jinu you moved to Chicago.
He says it like it’s nothing, like you didn’t leave a hollowed-out space where your voice used to sit on stage at The Red Ribbon, smokey and golden and soft as dusk.
“Packed up two weeks ago,” the freckled boy says, polishing a glass. “Didn’t say much, just left a note for Missy in the back. Said she got an opportunity, somethin’ better. Maybe a record label.”
Jinu doesn’t ask for details. He doesn’t need them.
He nurses his bourbon in silence for a while, and lets the saxophone on the radio spill into the half-empty room. The walls feel thinner without you—less velvet, more echo. The stage is dark now, the piano covered in a wrinkled sheet.
When he asks for your address, the bartender raises an eyebrow. “You a friend?”
“I was her lover,” Jinu says, and it’s not wrong.
The man shrugs and writes it down on the back of a bar napkin, sliding it over with two fingers. It’s smudged at the edges, ink bleeding from moisture left behind by someone else’s glass. But the words are clear.
South Side. Chicago. Apartment 2B. ℅ Langford Records.
Jinu stares at it for a long time. He folds it once and pockets it.
That night, in his apartment above the bakery on Dauphine Street, he sits at the kitchen table with a cigarette burning low and a single lamp flickering behind him. Rain taps gently against the window, steady as a metronome.
He finds a sheet of paper, ivory and heavy. He doesn’t plan to write much.
October 12th, 1972 New Orleans
You left without saying goodbye.
That’s not a complaint. Just… an observation.
The bartender said Chicago. He said you packed light, but you always did. I used to wonder how someone could carry so much in them and still leave so little behind. I guess I have my answer now.
I keep thinking about that night on the balcony. You, with your lipstick smudged and your heels kicked off, humming some Ella Fitzgerald song that only you knew all the words to. You asked me if I believed in fate. I said no. You laughed like I was missing the joke.
I think I get it now.
Maybe it wasn’t fate. Maybe it was just timing. Bad, as always.
I don’t know what you’re chasing up there—music, love, a version of yourself you can finally live with—but I hope you find it. And if you don’t, I hope it finds you anyway.
I won’t write again. This feels like enough.
But if it ever rains in Chicago, and you think of me, just know I was thinking of you too.
– J.
Jinu folds the letter carefully and slides it into an envelope but doesn’t seal it. He stares at it for a long time. Then he sets it on the counter beside his keys and goes to bed without turning out the lamp.
He never mails it, but every now and then, when the rain hits just right, he reads it again.

JOSEON, KOREA. LATE SUMMER, 1799.
They charge you with treason.
No matter how many times Jinu kneels before the King, no matter how many sleepless nights he spends rewriting every record, begging the court historian to leave your name out of the final script, no one listens.
It is easier to silence a concubine than to question a minister, easier to blame a woman for sin than to hold a man accountable for love.
So, on the last evening of your life, they dress you in white: a shade meant for funerals; for forgetting.
Your hair, once combed and oiled and pinned with mother-of-pearl, hangs unbound down your back now. The servants didn’t bother with ceremony. They gave you water, and left you in a corner of the gardens, as if you were already half-gone. You sit on the edge of the low stone wall, staring at the lotus pond, legs tucked neatly beneath you and wrists bound.
The ropes around your wrists bite into tender skin—tight, too tight—but you won’t ask them to be loosened. The guards know better than to keep an eye on you. You’re not dangerous, just inconvenient.
You know he’ll come.
You don’t look surprised when Jinu appears between the carved columns, breathless, his topknot hastily tied and robes disheveled. His boots make no sound against the wooden floor as he drops to his knees before you.
“Please,” he says, his voice shredded down to the bone. “Please tell me you’ll hate me for this.”
You blink slowly. Your lashes are damp with the humidity. “Would that make it easier?”
“No.” Jinu shakes his head. “But I want you to have something.”
There’s no moon yet, but the light from the lantern by the steps is enough to see him properly. His lips are chapped. There’s ink on his sleeves, on the soft crease where his palm meets his thumb. He hasn’t stopped writing letters, then. Petitions. Pleas.
“You should go,” you say quietly. “If they see you—”
“I don’t care.”
“They’ll strip you of your title.”
“I don’t care.”
His hands are trembling when they reach for yours. He cups your bound wrists with reverence. His touch is a contradiction—soft, but desperate. His thumbs brush over your bruises. You don’t flinch.
Between his palms, you feel something cool press against your skin, smooth and weightless. Your fingers twitch, instinctively curling around it.
A jade rabbit.
The kind children carry for luck. The kind lovers carve when words aren’t enough.
You remember once, weeks ago, a charm just like it left behind on the counter behind the Queen Dowager’s quarters—no note, no name. You’d tucked it into the folds of your robes and told yourself it didn’t mean anything. Now, you understand. You clutch it tighter.
“You said once,” Jinu whispers, “that you didn’t believe in reincarnation.”
You manage a faint smile, remembering his stories of the demon king and the curse of love and memory because of sins past. “I still don’t.”
“Well.” His eyes close briefly, lashes dark against his cheek. “I’ll believe for both of us, then.”
The cicadas outside scream like they know how little time is left.
“It’s just a story,” you say. “No one remembers their past lives.”
“I do,” he says, and something deep in you twists, aching. “And I will. I’ll find you again.”
“I don’t want to be remembered like this,” you whisper.
“I won’t remember the ropes,” Jinu says. “I’ll remember the way you fold paper cranes, and recite poetry, and the sound of your laugh when you think no one’s listening.”
Your throat tightens. There’s a sob there, buried deep, but it won’t surface. You’re too tired for crying. “Don’t—”
“I’ll remember,” he says. “And one day, somewhere—when you are free and unafraid—I’ll press this rabbit into your palm again, and you’ll know.”
“Jinu—”
He leans forward slowly, and presses his forehead to your bound hands. The lantern’s light glows between you. The cicadas hush. Far in the distance, a temple bell rings the hour. It’s almost time.

TOKYO, JAPAN. PRESENT DAY.
These days, you find it harder to sleep. The dreams are worse now, beguiling and long and sad. They stretch like old film reels behind your eyes, full of half-familiar cities and names that slip away when you wake. They end with Jinu, always Jinu—but not Jinu at the same time. He wears different clothes, speaks in languages you don’t remember learning.
You shift in bed, sheets tangled around your legs, one arm heavy and warm across your waist.
This version of Jinu sleeps with his mouth slightly open, his breathing even, steady. His chest rises and falls against your back, his palm curled gently beneath your navel. The window’s been left ajar, and the scent of sakura drifts in on the night air. You press your hand over his absentmindedly. His fingers twitch in his sleep and close tighter around you.
You sigh. Your forehead presses into the pillow. It’s too early or too late to be awake, and you’re tired—so tired—but your body doesn’t know how to rest anymore. Not when your mind insists on wandering. Not when you wake up crying into a man’s arms and can’t tell him why.
You almost speak, but he stirs before you can.
“Mmh,” he mumbles, lips brushing the curve of your shoulder. “You okay?”
“I… had that dream again,” you tell him.
Jinu lifts his head. He’s groggy, eyes swollen with sleep, but he’s already frowning. Already reaching up to tuck your hair behind your ear.
“The one with the snow?” he asks.
You nod. “And the red ribbon. And a jazz bar.”
He doesn’t laugh, though you’d expect anyone else to. Instead, he kisses your shoulder. “Come closer.”
“I’m already close.”
“Closer,” he says again, like the space between you could ever be enough to stop the ache. Like if he holds you tight enough, he can keep the dreams at bay.
You turn to face him, legs brushing his under the blanket. He touches your cheek with the backs of his fingers.
“Do I do something wrong in the dream?” he asks.
“No,” you say. “But you’re sad. Like… you know something I don’t.”
His throat works. His thumb runs along the apple of your cheek, just once. “Maybe I’m dreaming it too.”
You stare at him. It’s too dark to read his expression clearly, but something in you catches at the thought. Maybe he’s dreaming it, too: the same ink-stained hands, the same gardens, the same unfinished goodbyes.
“You think so?” you whisper.
He nods. “Remind me,” he says. “I found this antique rabbit made out of jade yesterday at the market. It reminded me of you. Remind me to give it to you.”
“Okay,” you say, and bury your face against his chest and let him wrap both arms around you. You press your palm over his heart.
“You talk in your sleep, too, sometimes, you know,” you murmur into the dark. “Who’s Gwi-Ma?”
You’re teasing, mostly—half-asleep, your words loose around the edges—but there’s a small, curious lilt to your voice that makes Jinu still for a fraction of a second. Barely perceptible, just long enough for you to notice.
You continue, lightly, unaware. “Should I be worried?”
He should’ve prepared for this. He’s had five lifetimes to come up with a better answer. Five lifetimes of choices and mistakes and prayers spoken into temples and alleyways and bomb shelters. Five lifetimes of watching you slip through his fingers, of losing you just when he thought he might have a chance.
He should’ve been ready.
Jinu exhales slowly, lets his palm slide a little higher on your stomach, grounding himself in the warmth of your skin. Your breathing is calm now. You trust him.
He leans in and kisses your shoulder again, and says, “No one.”
You shift a little in his arms, not entirely convinced. “Sounds like a someone.”
He smiles against your skin, but it doesn’t reach his eyes. “Just a strange dream. One of those names that sticks for no reason. You know how it is.”
“We’re weird,” you mumble. “I mean… you and me.”
“I know,” Jinu says, and he means it more than you’ll ever understand.
You don’t see the way his gaze always rests on you in the dark after you drift off. You don’t feel how tight his arms become, how he pulls you closer like he’s afraid you’ll vanish in your sleep.
You don’t know that he remembers everything.
The snow in Bukchon. The teahouse. The library in the palace. The battlefield and your name on the inside of his sleeve. Paris and silence. New Orleans and the ribbon in your hair. The prison courtyard and the jade rabbit you clutched until the rope took you. All of it.
He remembers the taste of your ginger tea; the colour of your blood on his hands; the sound of your voice in French; the way you looked at him in a jazz bar in 1972 and said, “Don’t fall in love with me.”
Too late, he’d wanted to say. Too many lives too late.
Now, in this quiet Tokyo apartment, with your fingers unconsciously curled into the fabric of his shirt, he knows Gwi-Ma has finally allowed him to keep you. The king has grown tired of watching him suffer. That was the promise, that in this fifth and final life, he can keep you safe and warm, tucked into his side, where the only real concerns are whether he’s put the laundry to dry, or what to cook for dinner.
Jinu watches the sky begin to pale through the window, watches your lashes flutter in sleep. He watches your mouth part like you’re about to say his name, even here, even now. He thinks about the red ribbon he keeps tucked inside his coat pockets, and worn-out letter in his dresser, and the jade rabbit he keeps underneath his pillow, and he smiles into your hair.

a/n: hi! thank you so much for reading :) i watched kpop demon hunters on sunday and i could not stop thinking about how little we know about jinu’s past and about how rumi’s mother met and fell in love with a demon. that little thought about jinu’s past turned into a full-blown fic that i wrote imagining that jinu’s past sin was abandoning his family (except i obviously tweaked it) & that gwi-ma is more like hades in terms of punishment as opposed to like. a demon king. the poem that jinu reads out aloud is a translated version of quiet night thought by li bai. have a wonderful day!
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𝓨𝓸𝓾 𝓬𝓪𝓷 𝓫𝓮 𝓶𝔂 𝓭𝓪𝓭𝓭𝔂
Father in law!Javier Peña x afab!fem!reader
Summary: Your soon to be husband leaves you at the alter, but you should have guessed since the practice seemed to run in the family. It’s hard to be upset however, when his father comes to repent for not only his own but his son’s wrong doings. Aka fiancé’s dad Javi fucking you in your wedding dress after his son ditches you at the altar.
Warnings: 18+ only minors DNI you will be blocked. Minimal editing, unspecified but thicc and legal age gap, infidelity, daddy kink, heavy breeding kink, insane dirty talk, toxic father son relationship, reader is delulu, praise kink, petnames, sex in front of a mirror, veil pulling??, a few spanks, creampie, Javi fucks you into the mattress, unprotected P in V [don’t do it!!]. Let me know if I missed anything 🫶.
Word count: 2.6k
A/N: Literally just porn without plot, lotsa fucking, I want father in law Javi. Minimally edited lmao I just banged this out Can’t wait for you to read it!! Hope you enjoy, nasties! Mwah!
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You rich and I'm wishin', um
You could be my mister, yum
Delicious to the maximum
Chew you up like bubble gum
You love me, he wants me
I think I want you too
Best day of your life- yeah, what a fucking joke. But what were you expecting? Ditching people at the altar seemed to run in the family. Okay, maybe that was a bit of a harsh assessment of the Peñas, especially Peña senior, who, despite all you had heard of him from your ex fiance, had always shown you kindness.
The thing is, it becomes really fucking hard to be charitable to a family when their son humiliates you infront of the entirety of Texas. Leaves you high and dry on the steps of the biggest church in town in your great grandmother’s silk dress. It becomes even harder when you learn his mother had been in on it all along, sparing you not even a little apology, or a comforting embrace after her son's little getaway plan had been revealed.
Instead of extending you a supporting hand, she ran away to make sure her baby boy was okay, and that this entire ordeal hadn’t taken a toll on his emotional and psychological well being.
How thoughtful.
Of course, you were the pathetic one– unable to look anyone in the eye, sobbing on your fathers shoulder till you couldn’t breathe any longer. So distraught and unwell even getting out of your wedding attire seemed impossible. It only made you feel even more pathetic. At some point you ended up curling up in your hotel bed, still in the “happiest day of your life” outfit, and pleading for some time alone from your friends and family to wallow in your own suffering.
You would eat your feelings in the from of the apology chocolates the hotel had complimented for you, but you couldn’t manage to even do that without feeling like a total fucking looser.
After all that had transpired, and after years of hearing nothing but sour things about your soon to be father in law, safe to say you were surprised to see him at your hotel room door at midnight as the ambassador the family seemingly sent to smooth things over.
For it being only your second time meeting the man, this was far from the most opportune scenario. In fact, him showing up all sorrowful and apologetic for his shitty excuse of a son, in his navy blue suit and loose tie, made your already pathetic day all the more difficult to get through.
Your whole relationship you had blamed every fault of your boyfriend on his absent, detached father. You’d heard plenty about the lack of childhood visits, quality time, and playing soccer that had plagued your partner’s life, and had found it quite easy and comforting to pile on every relationship problem you ever came across as the consequence of Javier Peña’s lack of responsibility and good parenting.
What you didn’t expect, was to find that Javi Peña was a whole lot more normal and level headed than you anticipated. He was just a guy trying to make a good living and provide for his family. Sure, he was a little bit reserved, but he was only ever warm and sweet and even quite chatty with you. To be frank, you should have seen your boyfriend’s shitty behavior as a consequence of his insufferable mother from a mile away. God knew you weren’t expecting Peña Sr. to be the better of your two soon to be in laws.
That being said, you would have never expected to be on your hands and knees, on what was supposed to be your marital bed, being pounded from behind by your ex soon to be father in-law.
Because that's where you are now, eyes rolling to the back of your head thanks to the most intense pleasure you've ever felt. The drag of Javis cock against your walls has been building a steady heat in your belly, the stretch of him so perfect and delicious it has you pushing your hips back to meet his every thrust.
Any other day a man like him wouldn’t have needed much to woo you– with his cut jaw, handsome features and those chocolate brown eyes you wished his son had inherited. Safe to say on a day like this one it took even less, just a few rubs on your back, a hand smoothing over your head and trailing down your waist, a few “pretty girls” and “poor things” and some fucking sympathy from someone from your boyfriends sorry family.
Fucking pathetic.
But Javier knows his son is pathetic, knows he is a good for nothing moron who doesn't even know what he was losing out on when he walked out on you.
“He’s a fuckin fool- look at this tight little pussy, squeezin’ me so fuckin good. Bet he didn’t fuck ya like this, huh baby? Didn’t make ya cum over and over, make ya scream… stupid fuckin boy..” Javier’s grip on your hips tightens on hearing your moan, and he curses under his breath when your pussy flutters around his cock.
Your legs are threatening to give out under you, your knees tender from how long you've been leaning on them. Javier’s hand moves to grip the fabric of your veil, using it to pull your head back and make you face the mirror that's been teasing you all evening. “Look- Look at ya- fuckin cryin’ on my cock. ‘S the only reason ya’ shoulda’ be cryin’ in this pretty dress..” With drooping eyes you're faced with your own reflection– stains from your mascara running down your face now less thanks to the sorry of the afternoon and more thanks to the way Javi’s cock has been nudging your sweetspot.
You watch your tits spill out of your beautiful silk dress, the fabric now disheveled and a far cry from the sophisticated, simplistic garment it once was. You can barely recognise it, but then again you can barely recognise your own reflection. “Look at that pretty little body- fuckin made for me.”
“Yours-” you cut yourself off with a gasp, Javi’s hands squeeze your hips and your cheeks set ablaze at the way he looks at you when you catch it in the mirror. The whole sight is so debauched and depraved– you on your hands and knees for a man who could easily be mistaken for your father. But somehow it's even dirtier- the possibility of your ex finding out sends you into overdrive.
The silk of your dress brushes against your hot skin, flipped lewdly up to reveal your bare ass, bunched at the waist, the straps drooping and threatening to fall. Javi pulls the zip down even further, watching as it hangs off your body, draped like fabric from a 15th century painting.
Javi’s voice calls your attention back to the present moment, lewd words showing you he doesn't hold back the way his son does. “Gonna fill this tight little cunt up..” The stretch is so delicious between your legs, you feel the steady throb continue to tighten the coil inside you and you can’t help but moan. “Yeah, you want that? Want daddy to put a baby in you?” the thought makes you shiver, that name makes you shiver, has your cunt clenching around his cock. What an image- you, belly round with your father in laws child, well, your ex father in law. Unlike his son you were sure he would be the perfect husband, would bend you over ever surface in your picket fence house and fuck you just like he’s doing now.
Deep, and hard and fast, just like you need it. Just like you've always needed it..
“Please daddy, want your babies, wanna be yours…” Your voice is so broken and wrecked you're afraid he can’t understand what you're even saying. To be honest you can’t be bothered much, it feels so good, his thick, hard cock feels so good pounding between your thighs there's little else you can keep your mind on.
“Yeah? you like that sweetheart? we can play house..” you nod your head and his hand tightens its grip around your veil, exaggerating your movements, bending you to his will. “Wanna play house with daddy? can be my pretty little wife” you fist the sheets, pushing back against him with his every thrust. You do want that, you’ve always wanted that. And what better person to do it with. Sure, his wife always complained about how he was never around, but that's looking a lot more like a her problem– especially with the way Javi’s tip continues to kiss your sweet spot.
“Yes daddy, please..”
Javier lets go of your veil, and pushes his palm between your shoulder blades, forcing you down into the mattress till your cheek is pressed against the warm, fluffy duvet. One hand keeps you there, the other lands a quick spank to your ass and kneads at the flesh with a newfound desperation. “Won't be able to even say his goddamn name after I'm done with ya. Stupid boy doesnt know how to treat a pretty thing like you– so sweet, so gorgeous, so fucking smart. Too fucking good for him.”
With your lips parted and breathing heavy you drool onto the covers, letting Javi pound you into the mattress and overshadow every other thought that dared cross your head earlier in the day. If his plan is to make you forget about anything that isn't him, it sure is working. You don't think you’d even want to sound out his incompetent son’s name after he’s done with you.
As if he can read your mind his voice calls from behind you. “Want ya to be drippin with me.” the wet schick of his cock fucking into your tight, wet, hole reminds you of just how needy you are for him, and the prospect of having him dripping out of you– down your thighs, between your legs, leaving you all messy for him to come back and do it all over again, drives you absolutely insane.
“He’s fuckin useless, just like his ma. But look at you, so fucking tight ‘round me, making all those pretty sounds, she fuckin’ wishes she was you.” His words have your cunt squeezing around his cock, and a lewd, pornographic moan slipping past your lips. “My girl’s gonna be the perfect lil’ mamma, aren’t ya, so fuckin’ pretty.” You would certainly like that- in fact you’re almost surprised with how appealing it sounds to you.
“Gonna be perfect for you daddy, only for you.” your dress rides up even further, the front slipping further down.
“Thats my fucking girl.” That growl of his sends shivers down your spine– possessive, and confident and dripping like honey from his lips. It was almost like it could send you over the edge by itself. The lewd creaking of the bedframe fills the room, the sound of skin on skin driving you wild. The way he handles you– firm and deft but gentle and passionate, it's nothing like his son.
He’s nothing like his son.
“Yeah, bet it feels good don’t it, bein’ fucked by a real man? Feel daddy so deep in ya? Nothin ever been that deep before, huh..” You shake your head ‘no’ and he coos at how pathetic you must sound, barely able to make a coherent sound, forget string together a whole sentence.
“Make me go fuckin’ crazy, babygirl.”
What he says is fucking filthy, there’s no denying, no justifying it. It makes you squirm, makes you even wetter, makes you want him even more.
“Think you wanna go back to him? With daddy’s cum drippin between those pretty thighs, show him how a real man treats his girl?”
“Gonna make ya beg him to stay, gonna talk some sense into him, just so daddy can have ya all to himself, ain't that right? You gonna sneak into daddy’s room in the middle of the night? All wet an’ achy? Beggin’ daddy to fuck ya how ya need?”
“Wanna run away with me baby, live in a perfect little house, let daddy give ya his babies, fuck ya full’ve my cum every single night?”
His hands roam your body, smoothing over your hips, reaching forward to squeeze at your breasts, pinching and kneading the flesh. He bends down to trail light kisses along your spine and the feeling is like nothing you’ve ever felt before. Your head twists side to side against the sheets as you squirm, each sensation like it's heightened to the maximum, the heaviness and the throb between your thighs at an all time high.
You know you're close, you can’t hold it off much longer. Your cunt squeezes and your toes curl. You also know Javi won't last, you can feel him pulse against your swollen walls, can feel the way he desperately thrusts into you, pushes you further down against the mattress, grips your skin with that renewed fervor, with the desperation of doing anything to hold on to the incredible sensation.
“Come for me, babygirl, come for daddy, show daddy how much ya needed this, show daddy how bad ya need his cock.”
Your legs part even further under you, if that's even physically possible, your entire upper body being smashed into the mattress. You call out Javi’s name, followed by a string of desperate, strained, whiny daddy daddy daddy’s.
With a strangled moan that's partially muffled by the covers you come undone, your head spins and your heart pounds in your chest, you feel yourself gush and clamp down around his cock. You feel Javi’s hips stutter behind you and his cock throb against your wet walls. The feeling only prologues and intensifies your orgasm, your body going slack and eyes rolling back into your head.
“Please daddy, need your cum, please, give it to me..”
Javi’s groans catch your attention as you come down from your high, still reeling from the aftershocks when you feel his cock twitch inside you and paint your walls with his hot spend. Your words are strained and slurred, but they clearly get the job done. You shiver and press your ass back against him to meet his stuttery, sloppy thrusts, and bite your lip when you feel him tighten his grip on your hip, feel him land a final spank to your ass for good measure as he slows down.
You keep your ass in the air, face still pressed against the mattress as Javi pulls out. You hear him mutter a few strained curses under his breath as he does, and catch him looking between your legs to see his spend obscenely leak out of your used hole. He reaches his fingers to rub against your messy folds and you whine, feel him gather up your juices and push them back inside your cunt in a way that has you almost cumming right there again.
Your dress is still pooled at your waist and he unzips it entirely, sneaking his hands under your thighs and flipping you over and yanking you towards him.
“You really want daddy’s babies?” Your head falls back against the bed when you feel his hand cup your cunt, rub your messy, swollen folds with the calloused tips of his fingers. You barely manage to nod.
“Then I ain’t done with ya yet pretty girl.” You tilt your chin to catch his gaze, now in nothing but your stupid little wedding veil. You’re not sure about the best day of your life, but this sure as hell contends for one of the best nights.
You can be my daddy tonight-night-night
I'm neon phosphorescent
Open like a Christmas present, oh
You can be my daddy tonight-night-night
If you're seeking heaven
Then you wanna come and get it alright
Be my daddy tonight
What's up what's up
What's up what's up
Be my daddy be my daddy
Be my daddy be my, be my daddy tonight
AHHHHH feel like I’m going to hell for this one. Thanks so much for reading!! Please please please let me know what you think. I’d love to know your thoughts!!! Thank you to everyone who engages with my work, you keep me writing!! 💗🐝
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Thinking of clan leader!Gojo who cannot seem to decide if he wishes to hate his newlywed wife or adore her until the point of madness.
Clan leader!Gojo who has always abhorred the concept of marriage. He's a force of nature, a deity walking amongst the seas of mortals—he can never be bound by rules or by duties—the least of all, by some notion as archaic as that of marriage. The man simply laughs—much more of a scoff than anything else—when the elders (a handful only, whom he has left unscathed by his rage) tell him of a girl and how a wedding with her clan will assist in stabilizing the Gojo clan, maybe even the Jujutsu society, and bring a breath of fresh air into a world filled with smoke in the wake of the havoc wrecked by Sukuna.
Clan leader!Gojo who shows no response other than a derisive laugh, no matter how many times his clan elders pester him to agree to their demands, disguised poorly as requests. (Sometimes, Gojo repents he did not kill them all.) But then, The Strongest might be The Strongest but he is only a human being at the end of the day—and his fight with Sukuna has left him more scarred and tired than can be seen by one's naked eye—it is hardly a surprise then that he lowers his defenses for just one day, and the crafty old men of his clan utilize that moment to get him to bow and bend to their wishes.
Clan leader!Gojo who somehow finds himself getting married (read: lowkey forced into getting married) to you. And, pissed beyond what words can convey and extremely eager to get his freedom back, the man resolves to hate you like there's no tomorrow—so much so that, there will be no option for you except to leave him and return to your clan, lest you wilt and die in his stifling company.
Clan leader!Gojo who never sees his masterpiece of a plan fail, but as quite some things in life are destined to do, it backfires immediately—miserably, almost magically.
Clan leader!Gojo who never expects his bride to be so... un-hateable. You are dutiful, deferential and well-mannered—simply everything an elder will expect the wife of the Gojo clan head to be. It's a no-brainer why those old geezers chose you to be the leash on Gojo's neck. But, boy oh boy, isn't it too difficult to hate you even when you're a perfect symbol of all the tenets he has deemed to be his life's bane.
Clan leader!Gojo who just cannot find one flaw in you so that he can start loathing you for it. You are not cloying. You are not overbearing. He has never seen you once seem starstruck by him. Nor has he ever seen you see him as a ladder to reach some place higher. You do not even make a face or roll your eyes at any of the innumerable facets of his personality, the way many others do and have always done. You... are merely a presence, nothing more and nothing less, in the plane of Gojo's life—and no matter how much the man tries, it is awfully tough to hate someone who is doing nothing but just existing.
Clan leader!Gojo who then resolves to ignore you if he cannot make himself hate you—a goal rather easy to attain when the person one's trying to brush off is merely existing—only to realize just how wrong he's been. You are not, in fact, just existing. You, his wife of not even one half of a year, are existing and enchanting Gojo—all in the same breath. (And the worst thing is—you don't even seem to be aware of it!!)
Clan leader!Gojo who finds himself drifting towards you—no matter just how much he actively tries not to. What you are doing then is of absolutely no importance. You might be scrolling on your mobile, or reading some book, or talking with the staff, or just walking past him while humming the tune of a song from decades before either of you were born—regardless of anything and everything, he finds himself wanting to follow you, wrap his arms around you, nuzzle into you and maybe—if you do not mind—trace the curve of your neck and the line of your jaw and the flesh of your lips with his mouth—
Clan leader!Gojo who never lets such thoughts form—no, fester—for long in his mind. But even while fighting them, he knows he is waging a war he's doomed to lose—but that doesn't mean he is going to give up fighting!!
Clan leader!Gojo who, thanks to his personal emotional storm, finds himself developing a sometimes-warm-other-times-cool demeanour towards you. He has always been a touch temperamental, but in this moment, he sees himself becoming moody—something he couldn't have guessed would occur to himself—not even in tens of thousands of years. Yet—yet, yet, yet—this observation doesn't distress Gojo as much as the unruffled way you always handle his mood swings—you make his brows furrow in concern and confusion more than anything else he has ever encountered.
Clan leader!Gojo who watches you not even bat an eyelash when he does not speak with you more than a few cursory phrases for several days at end—only to burst into your quarters, one fine day, and ask a multitude of questions about your childhood, simply because he has been too curious about you to stay away for one more moment. Gojo does not catch any show of excess emotion from you even when he's leaving on a mission for nearly a week and informing you only fifteen minutes before he is to leave—you only frown for a beat, then ask him if he has packed everything properly, if you need to help him or not—and you show the same normal degree of emotions when he returns after a fortnight instead of a week, but with a new diamond necklace he spotted while he was on the trip, and he bought it because he was of the opinion it'd suit the dress you bought some time back—even in this case, you only frown once before he shows you the necklace, and you study it for a second, before accepting it with a small smile and a sentence of gratitude—and that's it. You take everything about him in stride—very literally, everything—both him choosing to sit kilometres away from you at the dining table, and him not letting you be without him, without his hand resting on your back, for even one fraction of a second, at the public events. You just are beside him; and you just let him be—unbothered if he's beside you or not; you just check if Gojo is alive, if he's alright, if he's eating well, if he's sleeping well—and that is pretty much it.
Clan leader!Gojo who wishes—from time to time (all the time), in the dead of the night (throughout the day and the night)—that his wife's concern for him was not pretty much it.
He wants more of it. He wants more of you.
Your husband, clan leader!Gojo, who would probably never admit to this but the man wants—both literally and metaphorically—all of you. Each and every inch and ounce of you.
(If only Gojo does something about this, about himself, and sends for you from your quarters, assigned by him, to his rooms—if only, if only, if only.)
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𝔣𝔦𝔩𝔱𝔥
♱ preacher’s daughter x remmick. religious guilt. dubcon. fingering. period oral. 18+
note: guess who watched sinners
what fear a man like him brings upon a woman like you!
poor thing you were, sweet lamb of the reverend’s blood. the mattress creaked under your weight as you tossed restlessly— long abandoned by any sleep.
your sheets were damp with sweat, even with the breeze’s bitter cold streaming in through the crack in your window. outside, the cicadas sang their mournful hymn just beyond the windowsill. the moon hung low, waxing gibbous swelling like a watching eye as the night pressed heavy on the old clapboard house— thick as sin and twice as quiet, which your mind was far from.
inside, you clenched your thighs tight beneath your cotton nightgown. warmth pooled in your panties, slick with the sin you swore you’d repent, and yet failed to feel regret for.
it happened yesterday, the day’s heat still clinging to the chapel as the golden glow of the evening bled through the windows. you’d been alone, splinters sharp on your skin as you recited Psalms on your knees— head bowed, hands folded tight, when his knuckles came rapping at the wooden doorframe.
a stranger. white singlet bronzed with sweat from a day’s work, suspenders loose around his hips and worn boots on his feet; face plastered with a devil’s smile. said he was in need of salvation. said he’d been walkin’ all day.
you could catch the way one’s eyes would gleam when their motives didn’t match their mouths. the cloth raised you— you could tell when the preacher’s gospel was falling on deaf ears. you could tell purity from filth masquerading as it. and this man, you knew what he was asking for was far from what he really wanted. nothing that you could offer him in the Lord’s house.
when he realised you weren’t letting him in, the light in his eyes shifted to something you couldn’t describe— not with any words you’d read in scriptures. you should’ve called for your daddy. you should’ve slammed the door shut in his face; God help you, that handsome face of his.
but his voice— low and sweet like molasses, a honeyed drawl dripping from his words— had coaxed you to come outside with him. he led you by the hand ‘round the side of the church where the sun couldn’t see.
there, beneath the shade of the old cedar tree, he’d kissed you. little sips of your lips, slow and deep like he was drinkin’ up your resolve. and when his hands slid beneath your skirts, you didn’t stop him.
in the quiet of the dusk, he took what was sacred to marriage. not cruelly, nor with force. he’d cradled your neck in his palm, his fingers slow as they worked at you— thumb drawing little circles over your nub, his index finger slippin’ into your damp core.
wordlessly, you had let him. spreading your legs for his hand to dig deeper, parting your mouth for his tongue to slide against yours.
he was gentle with you, but there was a hunger simmering under the surface, you could tell. like he’d been wanderin’ the desert and your pure, pretty body was the saving grace for his thirst.
your cries echoed soft against the chapel wall as you came undone on his fingers. shame rose in your throat like bile, only to be swallowed down with a moan as he’d kissed you like a crazed man.
he’d left without so much as a name. only the ache of him between your thighs lingered.
and now, alone in your bed, the memory haunted you out of any rest. you couldn’t stop thinkin’ on it. on him.
his voice in your ear, his hand on your throat, the taste of him on your tongue. he’d been no man of God. he was temptation dressed in sweat and skin. the Devil himself, with eyes like dying embers, offerin’ you that apple. and foolish girl that you were, took it right outta his hand. lapped it up like a starvin’ dog.
you ain’t prayin’ tonight. tonight, you’re beggin’.
tentatively, your fingers creep beneath the cotton hem. you’d found yourself slick and ready. you press onto your sensitive bud the way he had, calling him back with nothin’ but the memory of his touch. whispering the name you’d never learned into the night, you slipped a finger into yourself. warm, wet. thick. you gasped.
you jolt as you retract your hand from yourself, holding it up to the moonlight streaming in through the window. your fingers were painted crimson.
you stifle a retch, about to stand from your bed when a scraping sound on the windowpane has you jumping. long, curved talons casted a shadow across your room as they scratched the glass. you tell yourself to breathe, that it must just be a stray branch, until on the wind came a man’s humming; a soft lullaby. the Devil’s call.
you know it’s him. it’s why you wipe your hand off on your sheets, why you creep to the window and push the frame up over your head. you peer over on the porch where the deep tune’s drifting in from, heart poundin’ like a fist on a coffin lid.
he’s sat in the rocking chair, legs stretched long as the wood creaked under shallow sways. he draped lazily on the chair like he had a right to it. like he’d been welcomed onto your property.
you hear him clearer now: mumbled words strung in between his hums, the rhythm of a man who ain’t in no rush. his eyes, or what should be his eyes— twin stars in pools of black— flicker up to you. he smiles at you. crooked. nothing good to come of it.
“well now,” he drawled, voice syrupy and low, “fancy seein’ ya here.”
you gripped the windowsill tighter. “how did you find me?”
“oh, you can thank daddy for that,” he chuckled under his breath, the sound laced with something sinister. you swallowed thickly. “some nights ago down at the tavern, he was tellin’ me all ‘bout this daughter of his. pretty lil’ thing, nice girl of the cloth. had to see for m’self.”
your breath dissolved in your throat. you knew your father’s tongue turned loose when the drink spoke for him— spillin’ gospel and whiskey in equal amounts. but like some other story at the bottom of a bottle, he’d offered you up to some stranger at the bar.
your voice faltered. “and you… you only found me to—”
he tsked softly, leaning forward. the old rocking chair squealed. “now, i know i heard you singin’, missy. wasn’t no song they teach in the church choir.”
silence stretched between you. even with the cold nipping at your skin, your cheeks burned, replaying the memory of how you’d moaned for him outside the chapel— voice cracking as his fingers strummed at you. a stranger.
you exhaled a shaky breath. “who are you?”
“name’s remmick, sweetpea.” he tipped his head, eyes gleaming under the porchlight. “now why don’cha let me on in, huh? ain’t that what you want?”
“i’ll scream for my daddy,” you lied. daddy wasn’t home. tonight, like any other night, daddy was half-drowned in whiskey by now. save for you and remmick, the house was an empty one.
remmick smiled wider, but not kindly. “you and i both know daddy ain’t comin’ home.”
your eyes faltered, falling to the floorboards. you were out of excuses, whether to him or to yourself, to not succumb again. remmick slapped his knees with a sigh.
he stood, crossing the porch over to you with the grace of a man who’d been welcomed with open arms. that stare of his, it’s like he wanted to eat ‘cha right up.
“or, you can c’mon out in the cold with me.”
you think over his offer once, but you don’t move. your knuckles curl into fists on the windowsill, and he sighs at you recoiling away from him. so he steps again, invading further into what little air separated you from him.
“c’mon now,” he coaxed, voice powdered with gentleness. it could almost fool you. “ain’t no shame in wantin’.”
another step closer. “i know it’s in you, girl. heard it. felt it.” he makes a gesture with his hand, recalling that evening at the chapel. your face goes hot. earnestly, he puts his palm on his chest. “i ain’t here to judge. just wanna give you somethin’ warm to hold onto. somethin’ real.”
don’t you want that? you may say your prayers to the sky, but the Lord doesn’t answer. you know he’s plucking your loose strings. you know he’s just telling you the right words so you give him what he wants. but God forgive, you wanted it too.
your body leans forward before your mind can catch up. your thighs press together, already aching.
remmick reaches out, his hand hovering in the air as he offers it to you. a question.
“i ain’t gonna bite, girl.”
he’s smiling, but not in the way that it’s a joke. you don’t linger on that thought, perhaps foolishly, as you hike a knee up to the windowsill. you hear remmick inhale as your nightgown ruches up your thighs, and he damn near moans.
with a hop, you push yourself up onto the windowsill, your tender skin erupting in goosebumps at the night air. you steady your breath— then, you reach out, take his hand in yours.
his palm is rough, calloused from travel and work you’d assumed, and somehow cold, like stones in a riverbed. his fingers curl around yours slow and deliberate.
remmick’s watching you like he’s starvin’, a predator on an empty stomach— like his patience is about to boil over. his eyes follow every shift of your body as your legs slide down on either side of the sill. the cotton parts with the motion, and you wiggle forward, settling. open, vulnerable. his to take.
and then he’s there.
remmick’s between your thighs in a blink— hands on your knees, spreading them wider without askin’ and without resistance. you almost flinch at how quick he leans in, and you cry out when his lips latch onto your neck.
his mouth’s hot on your skin, tongue swirling on the flesh like he’s memorising your taste. you wince, his canine teeth nipping at a sensitive spot under your ear. you shudder at how heavy he was breathing as he kissed you. if you didn’t know any better, you’d think he was resistin’ the urge to bite a chunk outta you.
his mouth trails over your jawline, kissing to your chin and then finally, his lips find yours. you meld against him with a sigh, body curling closer to him as his hands glide up, up, up on your thighs. you muffle against his lips— frantic.
“w-wait, i’m—”
fruitlessly, you try to push him away, but the fabric of your nightgown’s already hiked up to your stomach. instinctively, you try to shut your legs— trembling at the cold air on your exposed crotch, blooming red— but remmick keeps them pried open with a firm grip on your knees.
you glance at him— you almost don’t want to, but you do— jaw going slack when you see he’s droolin’ over the sight.
you’d been raised to believe that your monthly blood was something dirty, something you speak of in whispers. you don’t talk ‘bout such filth around men of the Lord. but remmick, he was gawkin’ at the blood between your thighs like it’s a river runnin’ through the Garden of Eden— and God, girl, was he parched.
you thought you couldn’t be any more speechless, but then he drops to his knees.
remmick’s head cranes in, breath ghosting up your inner thigh, his lips brushing soft against the skin— like he’s barely restraining himself. right there on the porch, only the night to bear witness.
"you smell so sweet, preacher’s girl," he murmurs, voice low, tongue flicking out to wet his lips.
then his mouth is on you.
you damn near scream out— but he’s quick to hook two fingers in your mouth and stifle your cry. you bury a hand in his hair for dear mercy, gaspin’ as he licks a slow stripe up your pussy, copper slick on his tongue.
stars blink down from above. remmick’s mouth moves slow, soft— like he’s savourin’ a peach fresh off the tree. he leaves kitten licks on your tender bud that have your spine arching, head tipping against the frame. his open-mouth’s hot on your pussy as his tongue swirls, like he’s spellin’ his name between your legs.
his sweetness don’t last much longer.
he groans against you— low, guttural— before his depravity bares its teeth. he grips your hips tight, nails leaving crescent moons as his tongue works at you with unholy skill. he devours you like a man possessed, mouth wet and desperate, eagerly lappin’ up every last drop of blood you got.
your knees shake, his fingers on your tongue breaking your moans into the night, only cicadas and pine to hear. your fist tugs hard on his hair when he sucks that little sweet spot, and a growl reverberates on your core— like he liked it.
there’s a sensation bubbling low in your belly; a warm serpent coiling there, like you’d felt that evening outside the chapel. every swipe of his tongue had your voice crackin’ in your throat.
it seems forbidden, what he’s doing to you: it feels too good, it must be bad. every wet sound he draws from you, wrong in all the right ways. but you can’t push him off you. you’re long past saving now— what he’s givin’ you may be the closest you’ll ever feel to Heaven, not after you’ve let the Devil mark you with his mouth.
your whole body seizes, back arching as blinding white burning through your vision— holy and hellish all at once— as you come apart on his tongue.
and remmick don’t stop, not when your thighs quake tight around his neck, not even when you whimper like you’re beggin’ for mercy. he keeps on licking, agonisingly slow and deliberate, savorin’ every last drop. he finally looks up, mouth comin’ off with a wet pop. slick coats his lips, adorned with blood red down to his chin. his eyes are dark— sated.
“tell me, sweet thing,” he murmurs, voice a low thunder rumbling against your overstimmed cunt, “that little prayer of yours… it get answered?”
your chest heaved with pants as you came down from your little glimpse of Heaven. remmick almost forgot himself.
the metallic taste of blood still lingered on his tongue, heady and addicting, and for a moment he’d nearly let the fangs slip. he’d been entranced, in the wet heat of your pleasure, that instinct nearly won out. his claws had already betrayed him, dragging down your thighs to leave welts blooming behind.
he’d almost broken his promise— not to bite. not yet, that is.
it took centuries worth of resilience to not sink his teeth in, not to claim you then and there. but remmick couldn’t strip you down just yet. no, not when the sugar of your purity clung so sweet to his tongue. he’d developed a taste for it— rot beneath ripe fruit.
he wanted to peel you back, inch by inch. to watch your innocence fall away, layer after layer, until there was nothin’ left of the good little preacher’s daughter.
only then, would he mark you with his teeth, leave a lovebite between your thighs that’d ache for days. you’d carry it like a brand, like a promise. so when the last light in you flickered out, when the sweetness soured and all that was left was a primal lust— then you’d be his. to worship and adore. to keep, forevermore.
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notes: ooc maybe i just wanted him to b soft also not my usual fandom content but idc i am free
#remmick x reader#remmick sinners#remmick x you#jack o'connell#sinners x reader#remmick smut#remmick fanfic
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