Summary: Young-mi wakes up crying from a nightmare; thankfully, Hyun-ju is the first to hear and goes over to comfort her before anyone else can reach her.
Genre: hurt/comfort, angst, fluff, sort of ambiguous ending (I'm delusional)
Rating: Mature
Relationship(s): Hyun-ju/Young-mi
Character(s): Hyun-ju, Young-mi, briefest mentions of Thanos, Nam-gyu, Gi-hun, Geum-ja, Yong-sik
Word count: 2.3K
Tags/Warning(s): (NOTE WARNINGS MAY BE SPOILERS) insomnia, mentions of dehydration and hunger, anxiety, intrusive thoughts, suicidal thoughts, spiralling, nightmares, talks of death, trauma (specifically around watching someone die), brief mention to surgery, pet names used, implied transphobia, references to paranoia, mutual attraction but no one initiates romance, forehead kisses and cuddles
Author notes: I've been crying a lot recently (watching squid games) and have been missing my doomed lesbians so cooked this up. I didn't mean for it to become as self indulgent as it did but insecurities have been screaming in my face as well recently so. Yeah. This takes place the night before Mingle game when Hyun-ju comes back from the bathroom btw <3
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