Mystic Messenger- Say You'll Stay- SaeranxReader (MC)

Firsts

You open your eyes in a dim room with a breathless gasp. Your eyes are puffy, and they sting with each blink. You must've passed out. Your emotions immediately flood you, and you remember the face of the woman that had abandoned you so long ago. How different she looked now, you hardly remembered what she looked like; you were so little when she left. It was odd how you could see yourself in her children, too. You sit up and try to swallow the lump in your throat. You feel strange. You feel terrible for what has happened to her, but at the same time, you feel special for what Ray did. You hadn't felt protected since your father died and here was this man that you didn't know existed telling you that he would destroy whomever you wanted.

It is my job to protect you from now on.

Your heart flutters remembering the resolution on his face. That darkness just underneath the surface in a soft boil. The emotion swirling in the intensity of his eyes.

"Mmm," Saeran mumbles beside you, and immediately you turn his direction.

Your heart thumps in your temples as you realize who is sharing your bed. You were so lost in thought that you hadn't noticed his presence. You grope over your body and sigh with relief to know you are still dressed.

"Ray?" You question shifting slightly. He is fast asleep, on his side, his back to you. He groans again, this time more painfully, and turns until he is face up.

"P-please...don't leave," Saeran breathes heavily, his forehead beading with sweat.

Your heart seizes as his face contorts in what you are sure is a nightmare. You get them too. You know how tormenting it is to relive the painful instances of your life. You reach towards him, and just as your fingers make contact with his arm to shake him awake, he speaks again.

"Saeyoung, wh...at...d... did...I do?"

"Wake up," you plead panicking, shaking his arm. "It's a nightmare, Ray. Wake up."

You get on your knees and continue to shake him, but he doesn't move. His terror intensifies as his chest heaves.

"W... hy...d... did you abandon...me...Sae...Young..."

The impenetrable sadness of his words makes your heart wrench as you discover that you and Ray were truly the same. You both were abandoned, and from the looks of it, both of you have been betrayed, but you at least had your father...he had no one.

He had no one.

Your tears fall for him again, and you place your head against his chest hearing the drumming of his heart. You hold him there, and you ride his nightmare with him knowing well that you are caring too much, that you are feeling too much for him, and that you have to leave before you are convinced to stay...

"Wake up, please," you beg, caressing the stretch of his shoulders, the side of his face. "It's alright. You are fine."

You feel him calm in your embrace, and the sucking of his teeth informs you he is awake. You immediately sit up to find golden eyes greeting you sleepily. He looks away slightly embarrassed and annoyed. But you don't see that because you focus on how lovely his actual eye color is.

"Y-you were having a nightmare," you tell him, he notices the concern in your face. "Y-you were calling for someone."

His jaw clenches turning away; he is afraid that you'll see the vulnerability that overcomes him when he remembers Saeyoung.

"I can't be free of that piece of trash even in my sleep." His voice sounds deeper, huskier. "That trash is in the R.F.A, YN. He betrayed me. That is why I need your help. I can't destroy him as easily as I destroyed your mother and uncle."