Infallible (Stray Kids x Reader Angel AU)

Global Positioning System

Word count: 1038

Chapter warnings: None

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When the three angels returned, they weren't exactly in the best of shapes. While none of them seemed too heavily injured, they were covered in blood and grabbing various parts of themselves in pain. Minho had a very obvious, patterned bruise where he must have been struck by Jeongin. Chan looked relatively unharmed, holding his hand over Changbin's gut with a soft light, presumably trying to heal him.

"Jisung," Chan said with a tired smile. "You made it."

"You invited him?" Minho asked with a glare.

"No need for that," Jisung said in response, "I'm just here to work out our little soul problem. I'm sure Chan explained it to you."

"Actually, Felix did." He responded with a bit of annoyance in his voice.

"Couldn't care less. Anyway, we have some talking to do, let's sit down." Minho moved to sit down on the far end of the bed next to Felix, but Jisung beat him to it, sitting between the angel and Y/N. Rolling his eyes, Minho sat in a chair while Chan and Changbin sat on the floor, the former still trying to assist.

"Now, about the topic of Y/N's soul." He started. "I'm actually having a slight bit of trouble seeing it, as she's surprisingly complex." She didn't know whether that was a compliment or an insult, so she just chose to ignore it. "I assumed that Seungmin had just been sensing residual energy from her relationship with Hyunjin, but that turned out to not be the case. Her soul really is tangled up with his."

"Has something like that ever happened before?" Chan inquired. She was a bit surprised by this- she'd assumed that as an archangel he'd know that kind of thing.

"Not... exactly."

"What does that mean?"

"See, there's been instances of tangled souls in the past, but it's usually in the instance of a nephilim." At this, Felix practically jumped off the bed, staring at Y/N in horror.

"Are you serious?!"

"Calm down! We don't know if that's the case!"

"What's going on?" She asked, starting to get nervous. Was something wrong with her? "What's a nephilim?"

"The child of a human and an angel." Minho explained.

"What?!" She exclaimed, having an almost identical reaction to Felix. "I'm pregnant?!"

"Stop!" Jisung said, holding his hands up between them. "I never said that. I said that it was the most common intense of tangled souls. Did you have a relationship with Hyunjin?"

"I didn't even know he existed until I met Felix!" She yelled.

"Well then that settles it." He said with a sigh. "No nephilim. Stop panicking." Making sure they were all resettled, Chan smiling in amusement at their outburst, he continued. "To remove the soul, I need both parties present, otherwise it may dissipate once out of the body."

"We can't do that." Felix said. "Hyunjin is gone."

"Well, he has to be alive, otherwise we'd be having complications in Y/N. Do you have any idea where he could be?"

"We haven't heard from him in months." Bang Chan said. "We've looked, but..."

"That isn't really an option." Jisung finally said, almost rudely. "Just, to be blunt, if I try and take the pieces of Hyunjin's soul out, best case scenario they return to him. Likely case, they dissipate and he loses some, if not all of it, and in the worst case, it takes her soul with it, killing her as well." She didn't really know what to think about that. She didn't want to die, especially not because she was honestly fine at the moment. Sure, she may die at Seungmin's hand, but it seemed like a far less certain death.

"That option," Minho offered, "You said the pieces may return to his soul. Why?"

"That's a stupid question." Jisung said, rolling his eyes.

"No, actually, why?" Felix asked, head tilting in curiosity.

"Oh, because souls are like... magnet dust, I guess." He started, far more willing to explain to him than to his cohort for some reason. "They're attracted to themselves. Souls aren't meant to be split up, so when they are, the pieces drift towards each other."

"Is that happening now?" Changbin asked.

"Uh, yeah, probably." Jisung shrugged. "Not enough that she's moving towards Hyunjin, but I suppose there could be a tilt one way or another."

"So we could use her as a GPS!" Bang Chan offered, excited about this prospect.

"Um, doubtful." Jisung crushed their little idea. "I can barely see her soul as it is, trying to figure out what direction it's tending could take ages."

"But if you took it out, it would move on its own?" Changbin posed.

"Yeah, generally."

"Is there any way to... kind of do that?" Bang Chan asked.

"You mean like... partially remove the pieces?" Jisung asked, tilting his head.

"Wouldn't taking out little pieces just cause them to dissipate faster? We'd just be killing him slowly." Minho said.

"Well someone knows everything."

"He's right." Chan sighed. "We can't risk disintegrating his soul." After a moment though, Jisung tilted his head.

"Well, actually..." He looked to her briefly. "I can't promise this would work, but I could potentially just tug on the pieces of his soul. It wouldn't pull it out or remove it from the bigger mass, but it could agitate it enough to start trying to get back to its counterpart. It's that same GPS idea, but with a little... push."

"What are the risks of that?" Felix asked.

"Uh, I accidentally pull too hard and a piece splits. I'm not sure if I'd be able to grab it and repair it quickly enough."

"That seems too shaky." Minho said.

"I think we should go for it." Jisung decided immediately afterwards. "We'll just have to trust Y/N to tell us when she feels like a piece is going to split." Her head snapped towards him.

"Hold on, I don't even know what all of this soul business feels like, how can you expect-"

"You'll be fine." He laughed. "And we may be able to get your guardian angel back!"

"I'm her guardian angel." Felix mumbled, but no one caught it.

"So," Bang Chan asked. "What do we have to do?"