Healed | Haechan

thirty five

Haechan stared at nothing infront of him, just a few soul passing by infront and behind him, but it didn't seem to distract him for his thoughts and a few words Zhi Ping said a few weeks ago. He was thinking, maybe the best decision was Zhi Ping's choice. He guessed it should be that way and is right.

At that exact same time, Zhi Ping stared at the hourglass right beside her. "Time flies by, and still I'm here not able to move and do barely anything. Guess I'm just that dumb." She pouted and decided to lay on bed. She actually dreamt, a weird dream last night. It was a poison that Haechan must drink, in order for her to go back to the real world, to her regular life.

But, it's impossible. How can she possibly do something too risky and it could take lives of others, of Haechan, the person she needed and loved the most till this day. She feels frustrated that she can't hear the sound of her surrounding. That's until someone knocked on her door, and she thought it was definitely Haechan.

She's wrong. It was Melissa carrying a baby in her hand and smiled right at her. Zhi Ping cursed under her breath but still manage to calm herself down and wait for Melissa to talk about what she wanted to discuss. It's been a long time since she saw Melissa walk around, but she didn't give a second thought and wanted to know the point.

"I was thinking, to give you a challenge. If you keep forcing yourself to think of ways to escape, then I guess you're just too gullible about everything. We're in another dimension dear, how can you possibly runaway? Cry a river and you'll never get it. But now I feel pity of you, so I decided to give you a job, at least if you want so that you won't just be wondering around the corridor. It's a special task, and you must of course do it with Haechan or else the promise would be broken. If you're able to raise the child until she's 3, I may let you and Haechan go. But, if not, especially if it escaped or died, then you'll die too. Remember."

"First off, why do you always make such promises and break them? That's manipulation and I know much and enough that you're just tryna let us get in your tricky game and will be left off with nothing but stupid choices at the end. How cunning."

Melissa smirked and smiled, "I gave you a choice but seems like you gave me no choice." Fire started to appear from one of her hands and she burst it right to Zhi Ping's cheek and it made a burning scar. Zhi Ping didn't want to lose and shifted fire as well and attacked it right at Melissa's heart, but she managed to dodge right through it.

"Powerful enough, but not quick enough." Melissa used her ice ability and now she was able to knock Zhi Ping off the ground. "You !" Melissa packed ice and filled it into her mouth, making Zhi Ping faint and didn't fight any longer. "Such a pain." Melissa walked out of the room, leaving the baby in a white basket with lilies infront of it as a decoration.

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Haechan was about to knock on her door, telling her to eat dinner when he saw Zhi Ping lying on the ground and the sound of a baby crying near Zhi Ping. He first went to Zhi Ping and softly hit her cheeks to wake her up, after checking her pulse, he laid her down on bed and went to the basket next.

"A baby ?"

He carried the baby out of the basket and looked at it closely. "Your eyes, it's like Melissa's !" After waiting 3 hours, skipping his dinner for once in a while and making sure that Zhi Ping is resting well and the baby is asleep, he went to get light snacks from the kitchen and left some for Zhi Ping.

He exhaled a deep breath, "Why does this always end up worst than I thought? Seriously, a baby Melissa? That's gonna drive me and her crazy everyday. How can we possibly be a match to this."

Zhi Ping woke up feeling better and was confused with Haechan beside her bed staring at the baby. Haechan felt that Zhi Ping was looking at him, and they held eye contact before Zhi Ping started coughing. "Why are you here?" Haechan smiled, "You were lying on the ground, how can I possibly just pass by and let you be there?" Zhi Ping wanted to smile as well, but was interrupted by the sound of the baby crying.

"Such a pain in the ass."

"Right."

Haechan carried the baby and sang a lullaby, made sure once again the baby was fast asleep before carefully with his whole heart put in inside a small carriage near the table. Zhi Ping mouthed a 'thank you' before grabbing the leftover Haechan saved her. "Are you feeling better?" Zhi Ping smiled and caressed softly his hand. "I'm fine and you're not. You must be tired go get some rest."

Haechan smiled as well, he missed her smile. They miss the presence of each other, more of their happy memories back then, when all this mustn't have happened. "Let me sleep here, don't worry I'll take the sofa." Zhi Ping hesitated at first, but seeing the tiredness that's shown of Haechan's face, she nodded and they laid on separate place.

"Zhi Ping, you asleep ?" Zhi Ping laughed, "How can I possibly sleep when I just laid on bed you dummy." Haechan laughed as well after not being able to in a long time, "You're right but hey that's rude." Zhi Ping stared at the ceiling, "Well sorry. Anyways gotta babysit tomorrow, better get enough sleep."

"You're right. But I just remembered something."

"What is it?" Zhi Ping felt nervous and taken aback by the sudden change of intonation in the way Haechan spoke. "What will we name the baby?"

Zhi Ping tidied her hair that's covering her face and thought hard, after some time, she answered, "Haera, her name would be Haera."

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you think it's over when we're just about half way through, but this time, it must've been a pretty calm chapter i wrote. listening to chill music does help after all <3

make sure to have enough sleep and take care of your health !