ℬℯℴ𝓂𝓰𝓎𝓊 /w 𝒴ℯℴ𝓃ℬ𝒾𝓃

I silently cried holding Soobins strong shoulders... watching the ethereal dance of flame imprisoned in the glass colosseum, until I couldn't hold back my sobs anymore.

Soobin looked at me confused and immediately stopped with everything, recognizing it wasn't the pleasure that made me cry.

"Hey... hey," he whispered and wiped away my tears, "shh, did I do something wrong?"

I looked at his innocent eyes turning ocean blue and started crying even more. "You know you didn't."

Sigh.

"... and you know you can confide in me... so?" the water fairy asked while gently fixing my messy hair.

But what can I tell?

"Did you- did you light that candle?"

I couldn't even be surprised that Soobin was taken aback by the question. I must have sounded like a fool to him, but he still looked like he was thinking about an appropriate response that wouldn't hurt me.

"Well I felt... The room felt somehow lonely after the pixies left, so I thought it would feel more warm and cozy if I light it..." Soobin took a look at the candle.

Of course you... you felt lonely deep inside... bleeding... missing your torn away half.

"... but I can blow it out if it doesn't make you feel good."

Before I could object, Soobin was already on his feet and smothered the flame with a glass lid.

I anxiously hugged the blanket, whilst Soobin quickly put on his shorts. Then he came back to me, sat on the bed and kissed my forehead, putting the strand of my long hair behind my ear.

My eyelids closed.

"It's about Heeseung... something happened to him."

Half truth, but I had to continue before he could take a chance to interrupt me.

"I already told about that to Hyuka and Tyun, when we met in the town... I was scared so I wronged them with my behavior, but I'm sure they went to check on him anyways... I just- I just needed you to help me."

Soobin listened to me caressing my naked body.

"Instead you let me hurt you..."

After a while he chuckled softly to ease the situation: "Paboya..."

Although I didn't feel much better at all, I had to grin at the nickname he called me.

"Shup... Get up, little bear. I'll be efficient now and wash away your negative energy."

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❦︎ʸᵉᵒⁿʲᵘⁿ'ˢ ᶠˡᵃˢʰᵇᵃᶜᵏ

The nights filled with Soobin's suffering were more and more frequent. His sudden gasps, tired wide open eyes... watching something horrifying I couldn't see. Sweat drops on his forehead.

It didn't look like his usual visions, nor did it look like usual nightmares from which I could safely rouse him. But what can I actually do?

I hid the flame illuminating his face into my palm, as he started to moan.

For how long am I supposed to ignore this?

Biting my lips I dug my fingers into my hair and covered my ears out of desperation.

That was when I heard the spirit's voice for the first time.

"Actually... you don't have to ignore it at all," it purred out of nowhere.

I looked around the room startled.

"You'd do everything for the Archer... true, isn't it?"

I backed off covering Soobin with my body, searching for the unknown in the darkness.

"I would die for him," I tried to keep my voice stable.

"Hahaha... how adorable you are, Guardian."

"Where are you?" Gulp.

"Look in the mirror, sweetie."

I fleetly checked on Soobin who was breathing heavily, before I slowly got out of bed. Insecure I walked to the round body mirror.

First I only could see my dark silhouette, but then my irises shone blue and green, what made me back off again and bump into the chest of drawers.

Something even fell on the floor, but Soobin remained unconscious.

"What a daring parasite I am, right? However, it can be a symbiotic relationship."

"What do you want?"

"Well, we both want his prophecies to end..."

Prophecies?

"Oh? You guys still haven't figured it out? The Archer is a prophet... the greedy fire eating everything from the Otherworld he sees... it is not a nightmare or a mare vision, it's a prophecy of the end."

I glanced at Soobin shaking in pain and gnashing the teeth.

"If that's so... then why would you want to end it? Shouldn't we try to reverse it?" I whispered worriedly.

"Uhm... well, the prophecies wouldn't be gone. You are twin flames, souls that used to be one. You're the only one, who can carry or exchange his burdens... and actually the only one capable to make a certain deal with me."

"Talk to the point," an impatient order left my mouth.

"What a hero! Cheeky... Good, good. The deal is - I'll allow you to take over the Cassandra's curse and give you the power to deal with it... in return you'll become a vessel for the fire of alwaysness."

"... why?"

"That's none of your business, dear," the purring voice chuckled and the reflection in mirror showed me a blue fire covering my hand.

"Yeonjun?"

I flinched at Soobin's hoarse voice. He sat on the bed... wiping his sweaty forehead and dark lower eyelids that kind of reminded me of panda.

"When you make up your mind, come to the dark forest... make sure you keep quiet about it..."

The strange eyes disappeared and the pink magic circled back into my irises. As soon as that happened, I fly-jumped to Soobin and pulled him into a hug with a sigh of relief.

"You're not sleeping again... I'm just bothering you," he mumbled into my chest still finding the strength to stroke my back.

"Oh shut up... We are in this together," I hissed pouting my lips into his wet bangs.

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❦︎ᵇᵃᶜᵏ ᵗᵒ ᵗʰᵉ ᵖʳᵉˢᵉⁿᵗ

When I got out of Soobin's magic shower, I felt like a new born puppy. The dark clouds were gone and so was the tension... the streams of water washed it away little by little. My body was so light and my mind alike a carefree clear sky.

I smiled widely as I finally felt like I fit the light heavenly room and saw Soobin fleetly fixing his wet hair, looking in the mirror.

After a while he smiled back to my reflection, turned to me and put his palms on my jaw, looking at me lovingly.

Then he gently stroked my cheeks with his fingers, faint smile blooming on his lips.

We started kissing each other with such love...

... being a healing balm for our souls.

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+x+

I died, goodbye!

Jk, jk. This is not the end at all, but we are probably getting close to it... it depends on how much I'll decide to put into this book and which scenes will be later in the second one... we will see hehe. Anyway! I hope you enjoyed this chapter with Yeonjun, because I def did *burning heart*
Muse wouldn't let me fall asleep until I wrote something after all... so... yess