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7. EXO Lay - Protection

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Genre: Angst & fluffyish | AU!Guardian Lay, AU!Supernatural Reader|

Pairing: layXreader

Word Count: 2.3k

Summary: Yixing is your guardian angel, but he hates you. The reason? Yixing started to care for you and feel emotions that a Guardian wasn't supposed to feel for their human assignment. One day, Yixing has to save you from your own worst enemy - yourself and he learns that hating you is impossible.

Notes: Suicidal themes.

Loosely based off of a prompt,"Your guardian angel hates you, but they still have to do their job".

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Yixing watched you from a distance your entire life. You had never noticed him even though he had always been right under your nose and he was thankful for the ignorance of humans.

He had many assignments over his years as a Guardian and you were just supposed to be another tally to his record. Another human he had protected and guided. Sure, the humans were always special in some way, either possessing powers or sharing a bloodline with Angels – but Yixing always tried to treat them as objects. There were cases of Guardians getting attached to their humans in the past and he refused to be another sorry case of that. Regardless of if he liked it, he had to separate himself from his assignments and only focus on their safety and not necessarily well-being.

Being the person he was, it was hard for him to not put his emotions into his job but he tried and he had yet to have an issue with that... until you.

Yixing had his eyes on you since you were a baby and watched over you as life inevitably tried to bring your demise at an early age. You were, of course, special, as his typical cases were. You had some strange powers, being able to feel others emotions, you could persuade the truth from others, and you even had a slight mind reading ability that you hadn't fully accessed. They were powers he hadn't seen in a while and it had him in awe. Your bloodline was also one of the most interesting he had seen in a while, you coming from a mix of Angelic backgrounds that left him confused when he tried to dig deeper.

Alongside the powers and your ancestry, you were kind, gentle, and patient. You had characteristics that he hadn't seen in his self-involved assignments in the past. It was hard on him that you were so pure because even being the Angelic Guardian he was, he wasn't sure he had met someone as caring and unconditional as you. Especially not a human. He struggled to not protect you from the simplest of conflict. His job wasn't to stop the world from wronging you. His job was just to help you go down the right path and to avoid untimely deaths. Yixing had to remind himself that he couldn't stop your co-worker from putting you down, couldn't take you away from your mother and father's harshness, or stop the way other humans walked all over you.

It wasn't his job to care about those things...yet he did.

The moment it had hit him had been one he had yet to forget. You had just turned twenty and although he had been upset with the way you had been treated as you grew up, it just got worse as you grew. Yixing watched you return to your parent's house after a night of heavy drinking. You were upset that your boyfriend of two years had cheated on you with a friend of yours, so instead of lashing out on him, you took it out on your own body.

He was amazed by the way you handled the situation when you found out about the cheating. Instead of screaming and throwing a fit you just told him that you were breaking up with him so he could have a better life since he clearly didn't want you. You wished him and your friend the best and you left without a tear.