The Angel Experiment: Chapter 1
Title: The Angel Experiment [Chapter 1]
Pairings: Main couples of Yonghwa/Seohyun, TeukTae, HyoHyuk, HaeSica and SiFany. But there is JeTi, YoonYul, HyoYoung and SunYeon if you squint :)
The Cast: Principal characters of Girls' Generation and some Super Junior members, but expect appearances of various other Kpop people, including but not limited to 2AM, Beast, Rain, Kara etc.
Genre: Supernatural Romance
Rating: PG 13 for some strong adult themes, but no sexy times. For now.
Summary: Seo Juhyun has ruined it for herself. She's cast out of the order, banished to Earth and stripped of her memories. There she is taken under the wings of eight girls who shelter and protect her, but she is alone at her new school and vulnerable to the danger of this new world which would take every opportunity to corrupt her. Danger and temptation comes in the form of Jung Yonghwa, and the newly named Seohyun can do very little to resist...
Light filtered in through her eyelids, the golden glow rousing her from her blackout sleep. She sat up on the bench she was on, momentarily distracted by the yards of white material she was encased in and how she didn't appear to be wearing any shoes.
It hit her like a ton of bricks. The sudden realisation a cold shock to her entire body.
She couldn't remember anything. Couldn't seem to recall her name, where she was, or how she got here in the first place.
-banished from this Realm.
Pain, short and sharp behind her eyes made her slap a hand to her forehead in an attempt to dull the ache. She hurriedly blinked back tears, the words that had run through her mind already white and hazy as she grasped desperately to remember what they were.
Realm? What Realm? Banished? She couldn't even remember what she could have done to make her be banished from anywhere. She couldn't even remember her name.
-exile.
This time the pain made her cry out and bury her head in her arms, trembling with tears. She was scared, so awfully terribly scared of everything because she couldn't remember anything. Air couldn't seem to reach her lungs fast enough and she felt like she was drowning in her own fear.
“Are you okay?” The voice - familiar and yet, unfamiliar - belonged to a petite girl with huge, warm brown eyes whose hand was suddenly resting on her shoulder. Immediately she recoiled from the touch, almost hyperventilating in her terror.
The girl retracted her hand, shock and pain in her eyes. “Don't you remember me?” The girl's eyes darkened when she shook her head. “Do you remember anything?”
She shook her head slowly, and for some reason wasn't scared when the other girl whirled around and screamed a curse word very loudly into the air. When she turned back to face her she didn't feel any fear towards her at all. Inexplicably she felt... affection.
“Do you remember your name?” The girl's words were stilted, but her voice was low and coaxing.
She cleared her throat, her mind desperately grabbing onto a thread of a sound that became a word then- “Seo... Hyun.” The syllables felt right in her mouth, her voice somehow ringing clear even though she felt like she hadn't used it in a century.
“Hello... Seohyun. My name is Taeyeon.”
“Taeyeon,” she robotically repeated. Those syllables as well, those felt right in her mouth too. As if she had used them before, and used them often. Had she known this girl before?
“Do I know you?” The words tumbled out, her need to know canceling out the need for propriety. Besides, Seohyun figured if they had known each other before a small show of bad manners wasn't going to be the end of the world.
Taeyeon blinked. A sad smile - slow and small - spread on her face. “Yes, Seohyun, yes you do.”
That stopped her in her tracks. Then, feeling like she needed to offer some kind of explanation for the guilt she inexplicably felt, “I'm so sorry, but I really can't remember anything. Do you know why I'm here and not, well, at home?”
“Well Seohyun,” Taeyeon replied after a moment, stepping closer and offering an outstretched hand to Seohyun, which she took. “You've been living with me and my sisters for a while now.”
“My sisters and I,” she corrected automatically. Seohyun stood up shakily, ignorant of just how much of her balance was reliant on Taeyeon. “Your sisters?” She finally questioned, looking up from her feet.
“There are eight of us.”
Seohyun almost fell over. “Eight!”
“Our parents were very productive,” came the dry reply.
“But what about my family?”
There was a moment of silence when Taeyeon would not meet Seohyun's eyes. With her head still down, “There was... an accident. Not so long ago.”
“Oh.” Strangely there was no sadness. She felt as if she'd lost something, but some part of her knew that it wasn't about her parents. But Taeyeon was looking at her expectantly, as if she was waiting for tears to come and all Seohyun could offer in return was a soft, “I don't remember that.”
A sigh. “I know, babe, I know.” Taeyeon tucked Seohyun's hand into the crook of her elbow. “Come on Hyunnie, let's go home.”