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9. SVT Hoshi - when the heart lingers

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"How could somebody look the same but look so different at the same time?"

Genre: Angst | soulmate!AU, Requested.

Pairing: soonyoungXreader

Word Count: 1.8k

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Instantly, you could feel the shift in the air. The tense atmosphere that surrounded you felt like rain clouds bundling up on a cool spring day. Goosebumps dotted your arms as you watched the tiny hairs stand on their ends. Your skin felt as if there were tiny spiders underneath each cell. Undoubtedly, it was that time again.

The time that happened every so many years when you thought everything was finally coming to a standstill.

He was back.

You could practically hear each breath that he took. His heartbeat was like a familiar sound that had etched itself so deep in your veins that you swore it was your own.

Almost.

But you knew better.

Years ago, you were foolish thinking a love like this could strive. Years ago, you still had hope.

Now you were a hollow being. A hollow being who didn't have wishes or dreams or ambitions.

You weren't sure why you continued living. Maybe it was because you didn't know how to stop. Maybe because living was the only thing you could hold over the man you had once claimed to love.

It was as if the love wasn't even real. It was so long ago that you couldn't even feel his skin on your fingertips. It felt surreal.

Were you that stupid as a teenager? So stupid you couldn't even see the killer right in front of you?

You knew it all too well now. You knew that all of the warm moments in the past were just those of a facade. The mortal part of you still clung to them sometimes but the immortal part, well it knew better.

As you walked further into the dark parking garage, you wanted to scoff but you kept quiet. It was so typically him to corner you in a place like this.

Your eyes darted around the dark space and when they lingered a little too long in one direction, you knew that was where he was.

His every movement was silent. If he was anything, he was calculated - although, not calculated enough. The moment he was in front of you was the same moment you raised your blade pressing it against his neck as he pushed you back into a concrete pillar.

An "oof" escaped your lips but you kept your resolve as you stared him in the eyes. How could somebody look the same but look so different at the same time?

He was dressed in all black, his eyes and hair dark enough to blend right in. By the looks of his gaunt face, you could tell he hadn't slept in a while.

Soonyoung gulped as his eyes searched your face. For a moment, he looked like the sweet boy you had once fallen for but it was quickly gone and his eyes were like ice.

Shaking your head, you pulled yourself away from your thoughts, "It seems like you meant to surprise me but yet, as always, you don't succeed in that," you pressed the blade closer to him and the grip he had on your wrist that you hadn't realized, tightened. "I will always be several steps ahead."

He let out a choked laugh. "Shouldn't I say the same to you? If I even give you a fragment of affection, your guard is torn down." His free hand touched your cheek, fingertips grazing the skin of your face.