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[fill] (baekhyun/kris) untitled (5/5)

[anonymous]

Baekhyun tried to put up a fight. Kicking and screaming until he had finally wrenched himself free from Kris’ grasp, he stumbled blindly towards the ruins hell-bent on finding them. At that moment, Kris wanted to throw up again because he didn’t know how to tell Baekhyun that it was all a lost cause without crushing his hopes and describing the devastation that only he could see.

It wasn’t fair. Baekhyun had shards of glass embedded in his eyes and his sight stripped from him. Kris only had superficial gashes and purpling bruises yet he was the one who was plagued with such crippling hopelessness. By some sick trick of fate, Baekhyun couldn’t see what he could. He didn’t know that there was absolutely nothing left for them to salvage. And Kris didn’t know how to convince him otherwise.

*

“Are we indigo too?” Baekhyun laughs, amusement tinging his smile, after Kris withdraws his hands.

“Perhaps. Indigo is loyal.” he pauses and the guilt is back. It makes him sick but he continues anyway. “It’s the colour of the never changing sky and never ending seas. It reminds us not to lose ourselves in amongst the commotion. So, what do you think? Are we indigo?”

Baekhyun frowns in contemplation but it takes him only one second to nod vigorously, “yes, I think we are,”

“You do?” Kris questions, surprised at Baekhyun’s sudden enthusiasm.

“Yeah. I haven’t lost my voice and I haven’t lost my dreams to become Seoul’s most talented celebrity. I’m still hoping that we’ll find the others one day because I’m still set on standing on the world stage, twelve as one,”

Kris wants to laugh at the absurdity as much as he wants to cry at the impossibility. But he doesn’t make a sound because Baekhyun can’t know what he has witnessed. He can’t tell him that his dreams have been crushed ever since they crawled out of that hellhole to find a barren landscape that spans for miles and looks nothing like what they used to know.

“Don’t you want all that too?” Baekhyun asks, this time, a lot quieter as if they’re sharing a secret.

And, truthfully, Kris does. Everything feels like tiny grains of sand slipping through his fingers, but Kris still wants to be part twelve and not just two.

So, with his eyes closed, he makes a wish to block out reality and believe as naively as Baekhyun as does.

“Of course I do. Of course.”

*

Some say that life is better with two only because it’s easier. No one tells you that the transparency is maddening and even secrets are loud in amongst the silence.

No one had warned Kris about how exposed he would feel in front of Baekhyun’s unfocused gaze.

He conceals it well. But that doesn’t mean that Kris doesn’t live with the guilt of having to lie to Baekhyun from day one. Kris chokes it down nicely, though, because protecting Baekhyun from the truth is something he should do. Baekhyun has lost enough and Kris isn’t sure if he can take anymore.

But why does it have to be Baekhyun? Why had the world decided to punish him, make one blind and save only two?

*

“There’s still violet. What’s violet like?” Baekhyun asks.

“Violet is power. It’s passion and resilience intertwined. But most importantly, violet is love,”
Kris still has his eyes closed when he answers and the world seems even more daunting without his sight.

He doesn’t know how Baekhyun does it. Everything is pitch black yet Baekhyun still manages to speak, laugh and smile as if he can see all of the colours that Kris had mentioned with his own eyes.

Kris is supposed to be the pillar of strength but, somehow, Baekhyun is stronger. It’s strange and imperfect. He’s so afraid but he takes a deep breath in because if Baekhyun can do it, there’s no reason he can’t.

There’s still miles to go and he knows that it’ll take much more than hesitant actions and colorful words for Kris to reach redemption. But Baekhyun has shown him a glimmer of hope and he no longer wants to be a coward.

“Baekhyun--”

He wants to start over; he doesn’t want to leave Baekhyun in the dark anymore.

“I have something important to tell you…”

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[anonymous]

omg im tearing up damn
this was so!!!!!!!! YELLS!!!! i do not know what to say except that my insides have gone all mushy sad sigh