When The Cherry Blossoms Fade; for ambulanceu

[perfectingart]

Title: When The Cherry Blossoms Fade
For: ambulanceu
By: ANONYMOUS
Word count: 4.5k
Rating: R for themes.
Warnings: Major character death, non linear storyline, angst, so much angst
Summary: Maybe Jongin's selfish, but he just wants to hear Baekhyun sing one more time, wants to drape himself across Baekhyun's stomach and listen to how his heartbeat matches

Comments

[ambulanceu]

Okay so. First of all I just want to say thank you. Like, thank you.

I must admit that I forgot what prompts I gave but even after going back to check and realizing what prompt you wrote, my heart still wasn't prepared enough for this gjfsbkjrbjgsebrkj this was really pretty with all the descriptions and those little details and all those lines that just continuously broke my heart (am I allowed to say that I cried because I did) this entire story was just so wonderful and it flowed well and those descriptions of spring gave a really nice imagery considering that I live in a place which only has one season I could almost see it ;___;

"You're my only regret you know, if it doesn't work." has definitely got to be one of my favourite lines (I think the tears started around there but shhh)

And yet, Baekhyun is still smiling, weakly but beautiful, and Jongin wonders if Baekhyun smiles because that's all he knows, or if he smiles because that's all Jongin is supposed to know this line hurt a lot because Baekhyun had always been smiling

[belovedtaozi]

I usually hate reading angst, especially major character death, and I had opened it and I was going to close it because I'm too emotional for stories like this. I didn't close it obviously, I started to read the first couple of sentences and got hooked immediately. I wanted to know what happens. This is written so beautifully and my heart is breaking for Jongin. I cannot imagine losing someone you love so slowly and not being able to be there with them until the end. I think that was the worst part for me. I think you really captured the despair and helplessness. Jongin watching Baekhyun steadily getting worse through the videos. The last video killed me. The "I tried really hard you know?" was the worst part, because of the helplessness. That even trying really hard didn't save him.
God, this really broke my heart and I knew it would! That's why I avoid fics like this lol. But this was very beautiful, it broke my heart beautifully. Thank you for writing!