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tk ([personal profile] thembocollector) wrote in [community profile] 17hols 2023-01-03 01:39 pm (UTC)

[FILL] i did it all for love

op are you me because i was about to prompt this. thank you so, so much
xposted on ao3

Ship/Member: gyuhan
Major Tags: major character death, minor character death
Additional Tags: female original character, just watched glass onion aha !, non-linear narrative
Permission to remix: Yes

***


There's an email from Dr. Kim Haesoo about how Jeonghan's missed his last three appointments in a row. Jeonghan marks the email as read on his phone and looks up to stare at the garage. Mingyu's Merc W123 headlights are on. The engine's running. Jeonghan doesn't dare touch the car.

It was Mingyu's idea to move into the woods. He'd wanted to get away from society. Something that Jeonghan had scoffed at when they'd signed the lease together, but, well. It's clearly working in his favour, now.

***


Yuri looks just like Jeonghan. She has a nasty smoker's cough like him, too. Jeonghan was immediately able to clock her within the first hour they'd met.

"I've heard so much about you," Jeonghan had said, extending a hand. He tucked his hair behind his ear and smiled sweetly.

Mingyu looked like he wanted to throttle him. "Jjong-jjong," he says, by way of warning.

"You don't get to call me that anymore," Jeonghan says, still smiling.

Yuri looks at the two of them. "Should I make tea for us?"

***


The first half is easy.

Jeonghan crushes four strips of Valium into strong, black tea. All prescribed to him from his psychiatrist. He's not stupid. All he had to do was endure a hellish two months without his own meds.

Yuri is easy. She takes Jeonghan's tea with a smile. "Is this an olive branch of sorts?"

Jeonghan has to laugh at that. "Yeah, you could say so."

Even when she falls over, she slumps daintily to the ground. Jeonghan picks her up easily and puts her in Mingyu's bed.

Mingyu returns from the gym not too long after that.

"Yuri?" he calls out from the entryway.

"She's asleep," Jeonghan says. He makes the mistake of looking at Mingyu.

Jeonghan still loves him.

"Take this," Jeonghan says, handing over the second mug of tea. He retreats to the hallway bathroom and throws up.

***


Mingyu is asleep on the sofa when he returns; mug cradled carefully in his hands. Jeonghan reaches out to touch the side of his face.

***


Jeonghan has a gas mask on. He leaves the engine running. Stares at the both of them. Yuri's head is buried in the crook of Mingyu's neck.

Strangulation would be easier, Jeonghan thinks.

***


Yoon Jeonghan is in border control by the time the news breaks out. Something about a young couple found dead in a rural cabin in the middle of the woods. A tragic incident. Gone too soon, etc.

Once he gets through, he opens his phone and begins typing.

To: kimhaesoo@daum.net
From: yjhyjhyjh@daum.net
Subject: N/A





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