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1. post anonymously unless linking to a fill posted somewhere else
2. use the subject line to indicate pairing (in alphabetical order using stage names i.e.baekhyun/chanyeol) prompt details go in the comment.
3. use trigger warnings
4. do not embed on meme. link to images/videos. label nsfw content.
5. do not repost prompts ( Read more... )
“It’s going to take you forever at that rate,” Baekhyun chides. “You’ll never get him open.”
“What do we do, then?” Kyungsoo asks, hands yanking at a strip of cardboard too thick to tear. “I -- I want him out here.” Baekhyun’s smile vanishes as he sees the resolute jut of Kyungsoo’s jaw, the steely slant to a pair of eyes normally wide an. He recognizes that Kyungsoo’s serious about this, that he’s never wanted anything so badly in his life (except, perhaps, to go back to sleeping in the bed with the soft pillows). That Kai is important.
“Sehun?”
The rabbit sleepily pops his head up from the bottom shelf. “Hm?”
“Where’s that pair of scissors you found? The ones we gave Chanyeol a haircut with.”
Sehun strokes his chin for a moment and disappears, emerging a moment later with a pair of safety scissors tucked under his arm. “They’re blunt,” he reminds the bear as he hands them over. “It took forever to cut through Chanyeol’s yarn.”
“I’m sure these will work,” Baekhyun says, thrusting the point against the back of the box. It gives a little under the sudden pressure and Kai wails.
“What are you doing?”
“Relax,” Kyungsoo says, splaying his fingers against the front of the box. “You’ll be out of there in no time.”
“No time” ends up translating to roughly forty-five minutes of sawing and stabbing through the heavy packaging. Baekhyun rattles off a string of curse words he must have picked up from listening to parental fights in the next room when he peels back the box and reveals half a dozen twist-ties that need to be undone before Kai’s finally free. Sehun makes quick work of them while Baekhyun rests his paws and it’s a final, anti-climactic tug before Kai is free, toppling into Kyungsoo’s outstretched arms.
“Ow,” Kyungsoo moans. “My key.”
“You alright?”
It’s unfamiliar territory to Kyungsoo when fingers push through the spaces between his to pull him to his feet but he thinks he already loves it. He flashes forward to the future, thinks about sitting on the edge of the shelf with someone by his side for once, looks forward to late night conversations, hushed, whispering into each others’ ears like they’ve got secrets to keep. He feels something where his stomach should be. Butterflies? he wonders. Maybe I’m melting. It’s warm in here all of a sudden.
“Yeah, I’m fine,” he says. He feels woozy, overwhelmed at what’s just happened. He makes the unnecessary motions of dusting off his knees as something to occupy his hands as he looks up at Kai’s face in wonder. He’s even more beautiful out of the box. “Are you?”
“I’m not worth anything anymore,” Kai sounds wistful but he’s smiling. “Is that okay?”
Kyungsoo reaches out and grabs Kai’s hand to hold it tightly, face split with a broad grin. “You’ll fit right in.”
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this was really beautiful. and sad -- knowing they're all abandoned toys with feelings (but at least they got each other.) it hurts me and makes me guilty lol
thank you for writing this!! ♥♥ xo
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Kyungsoo reaches out and grabs Kai’s hand to hold it tightly, face split with a broad grin. “You’ll fit right in.”
Ahh this kills me. I'm assuming that by Kyungsoo's "You'll fit right in" comment he's saying that not one of them is worth anything anymore- at least to the girl and I don't know why but that cracked my heart a little bit ;;
WONDERFUL STORY BTW ;;
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