title: Blue
chapter: oneshot -
30emotions prompt #22: Pity
author: Cross (
xmachina_writes)
rating: PG
genre: romantic drama
pairings: Changmin/Lee Soo Young (Lee Jiyeon)
warnings: AU, het
disclaimer: Not mine, no profits being made
summary: She was beautiful to him, he didn't understand....
notes: This fic bears no relation to any of my previous works. Honestly, by using 'Jiyeon', it could be anyone or even an OC, but it was SooYoung's image I had up and in my mind when I was writing this, so....
“Don't think, don't hesitate, just go.”
“But....”
“Just go, Min, just walk away.”
How could she expect him to leave so easily? The only happy times he'd found in the last ten years had been here, inside these walls. This place had been his own peace, his sanctuary from his second life.
“Leave! Begone from this place, demon, and never return!” Jiyeon spat at him and he recoiled at the heat in her words. Ten years had taken some of the luster from her hair, added deeper lines to her face, but in his eyes she was even more beautiful than when they had first met.
“Jiyeon....”
“I tire of you! Begone! Do you think me blind? Leave this place!”
“But why? Jiyeon, please, at least tell me why!” he cried out, perched precariously at the very threshold of her house. Another brush backwards and he would be beyond it, unable to return. He wanted to move closer, to sweep her in his arms as he had a hundred times before, pepper kisses in her hair and hold her for hours. He loved her, and if he had not always been at her side, well ... it could not have been helped. That he had been allowed to love her at all had been a rare gift. Surely he deserved explanation for this sudden change.
“I am not stupid. I will not have you staying here, feeling chained to me. You with your eternal youth and your brilliant charm, watching me grow old. I'll not allow that love to change to pity, to ruin what joy I've had in you.”
“Jiyeon....” Changmin pushed against her anger, surprised to feel it shatter into broken tears. So easily the strength fled from her, allowed him close enough to embrace her once more. “Jiyeon, Jiyeon, my silly bird.... That will never happen, I promise you.”