Infallible (Stray Kids x Reader Angel AU)

Key to the Gates

Word count: 1084

Chapter warnings: Mild language

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"Hello, again, Y/N." A voice said from behind her as she was trying to figure out if the windows had any openings. It was definitely familiar, and she knew the face she would see before he had even turned. "I told you I would come back for you." Seungmin was standing there, just as he had been before, now with a slight smile washing over his face. What did he have to be happy about?

"Let me go." She snarled angrily, annoyed by his smug expression.

"You can leave if you can figure out how." He said with a shrug. "Or, you can make this easier for all of us and just do what I'm asking of you."

"I don't even know what you want!" She argued.

"I told you, you're going to help me and Jeongin get back into heaven." This again? She had no idea how to get this fallen angel back into heaven. She didn't even know the logistics of heaven. She hadn't been there, she didn't know anyone who had, and, oh yeah, the person asking her to do it was an ANGEL. Did she mention the angel part?

"I don't know how to do that!" She yelled back. "How can you expect me to-"

"Oh, we don't need you to do anything," he corrected her. "We just need you." Before she jumped to argue back, she paused. That was a new development. She had been assuming this whole time that he needed her active help. But that still begged the question, how would her person even help?

"Why? Am I half angel or something? Or like, a god?" Seungmin began laughing.

"Are you serious?" He put a hand to his face in amusement. "No. You're just a human."

"Then why do you need my help?" She asked, skeptical. "I don't know anything about heaven."

"See," Seungmin started, holding out his hands like a middle school teacher. "Heaven has doors that only angels can use. Sort of like the doors in this house. You can't use them, an animal couldn't use them, but an angel can go through."

"So how would I help? And if they're like these doors, how did I even get here to begin with?"

"He's getting there." Jeongin cut in, trying to keep her from interrupting. "Just hold on."

"Thank you." Seungmin continued, "Anyway, angels can bring other people through the doors. You're in here because I brought you through one of the doors. The problem," he sighed, obviously irritated, "is that heaven's doors are only open to pure angels. It's almost like an I.D., and I've been blacklisted."

"That still doesn't explain how I'd be helpful."

"Hold on." He shook his head. "So, if I could find an angel to let me in, I'd be good, no problem. Unfortunately-"

"There's not an angel on the face of the Earth willing to let you into heaven?"

"Exactly."

"What did you do that got you in this much hot water?" She asked. She wasn't sure she even wanted to know the answer, but she was just morbidly curious.

"It's a long story, and honestly I don't even know the whole thing. The point is, I can't get into heaven. But." He paused. "The way the doors I.D. people is through their soul. Our incarnate bodies aren't actually real, we just create them. Therefore, if I'm escorted by the soul of an angel, I can get in. Which leads me to you.

You have pieces of angel soul all mixed up with yours. I'm going to remove those pieces, take them with me, and use them to get me and Jeongin into heaven."

"I have angel soul?! In my soul?!"

"Yes."

"What angel?"

"Hyunjin. Your original guardian angel." This surprised her. How did Seungmin know about him? And not just about him, but his name. Not only that, but he was aware that it was Hyunjin's soul wrapped up with hers. She couldn't even feel it- what did this mean? Noticing her expression shifting through a million different emotions, he continued to speak.

"I'm not sure how he managed to get his soul all mixed up with yours. No matter what, though, that means I can use it to get into heaven. If we're lucky, your soul remains intact, and then I'd owe you one."

"Is he still alive? I thought he'd disappeared, I-"

"Yes. If his soul's still existent, he's still alive. When an angel dies, they dissipate."

"There's no, like... angel heaven?"

"We live in heaven as you live in Earth, but to kill an angel is to kill an immortal being. They dissolve into a million fragments. Technically they'd still exist, but on the equivalent of an atomic level. The good news for you, though, is that means you may still be able to find him. If part of his soul is in yours, some of yours may be in his. I don't know your soul well enough to tell you if the whole thing is present."

"Do you know where he is?" She asked, eyes widening slightly. She didn't like the idea of her soul being split up, and she was inclined for some reason to try and find her real guardian angel. She didn't know if there were some logistics that surrounded what guardians get matched to what humans, but after hearing everything about him, and then Felix... it was something she was a bit attached to.

"No." Seungmin answered. "If I did, I'd just use his soul." That... contradicted his earlier point. Still, she'd have to find him later. For now... she was actually considering helping the fallen angels. Felix obviously hated them, but they hadn't hurt her, and they had promised to do their best to leave her unharmed. There was still a lot of risk, though, maybe more than they let on.

"I guess I-" She started to say, wanting to ask a few more questions. As she did, though, she heard an earsplitting, high pitched ringing resonating within her skull, almost incapacitating her. Sinking to the floor, she fell onto her knees, holding her hands to her head. It only took all of ten seconds to stop. She could barely see as it faded, headache jumping to her brain in a matter of an instant.

"Ugh, demons." She heard Felix's voice above her, although she was struggling to look up to him. "We're here to take back Y/N. Just what do you think you're doing?"