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"If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more."
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The most beautiful part of your body
is where it's headed. & remember,
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Thinking about these two quotes together and the idea of on/off-stage personas:
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Hello, hello there, is this Martha?
This is old Tom Frost
And I am calling long distance
Don't worry 'bout the cost.
'Cause it's been forty years or more
Now Martha please recall
Meet me out for coffee
Where we'll talk about it all.
Tom Watts - Martha
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i have faith but don't believe you
Major Tags: vampirism, major character death (and maybe rebirth?)
Additional Tags: poison comparison, powers you never wanted, control, blasphemy
Do Not Wants: None
Prompt:
[FILL]: i have faith but don't believe you
Major Tags: major character death (and rebirth)
Additional Tags: vampirism, religious guilt, fear of damnation, tae the sexy vampire, happy rebirth joshua hong!
Permission to remix: Yes
this is probably slightly less serious than what you were expecting but my hand slipped a bit
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Waking up feels like resurfacing from a long period underwater, lungs constricted and the need to take big gulps of air, mouth opening on a gasp and body shaking with the aftershock.
If Joshua were to be underwater, if he were to hold his breath until he almost reached his mortal demise, he would be feeling the loud thumping of his heart in his ears now. If he were to be underwater, he would feel seasalt on the tip of his tongue, and not the metallic flavour of blood coating his mouth.
His eyes snap open and take in the world around him, perceive colors he never even knew existed before. The world has a sharp clarity to it, one that is made of static electricity on the surface of his skin and - the pain, dull, horrible pain in the middle of his chest.
He presses his hand on top of his sternum, trying to feel his own heartbeat through the fabric of his shirt, through the skin, the muscles, the bones.
Silence greets his touch, a hollow home for a dead organ. Not a single beat, not a movement.
Realization hits him in a cold wave, as he sits up in a frenzy only to find cuffs around his ankles, tying him to the metal bed.
He’s in a morgue, he realizes, he should be dead. Why isn’t he dead?
“I brought you back.” The voice is familiar, a deep timbre that makes him squirm in his seat, chains rattling with the movement. “I’m sorry about the restraints. I’ll set you free soon.”
“Taehyung?”
The name falls out of his mouth easily, familiar. He knows Taehyung, has known him for a very long time.
“Josh,” Taehyung greets him, appearing out of the shadows like a vision of darkness, tendrils of it sticking to him like a coat. Joshua stares, confused. “You’re back.”
Taehyung is a friend of a friend, someone he knows in passing, someone he greets when they meet on the street. He can’t be… he’s not one of them.
“What happened?” Joshua asks, feeling confused. He remembers the car speeding towards him, he remembers Jeonghan screaming his name, turning around to see the horror on his face, the fear. Then he remembers the gravel, hard against his cheek, he remembers the sound of the brakes being pulled just a second too late, he remembers the warmth surrounding him, the delightful embrace of light behind his eyelids.
“Don’t you dare die on me, Joshua Hong,” Jeonghan’s voice, broken, as if he was… crying? Jeonghan never cries.
“An accident,” Taehyung tells him, dragging a chair out to sit on it, one of his legs folded below him. “Too much internal bleeding. You died on the street.”
“I… I died?”
“Yeah,” Taehyung confirms, as if dying isn’t that big of a deal. As if dying, and then waking up to have a chat with a friend of a friend in a morgue is an everyday occurrence. “Jeonghan begged me to bring you back.”
The light was so warm, Joshua remembers, and then. And then he woke up to the taste of copper in his mouth and cuffs around his ankles.
“Consider it a gift,” Taehyung chuckles, unperturbed. “From a friend you share a birthday with.”
“A gift?”
There’s a shrug from Taehyung, as if it’s not that big of a deal. As if the fact that Joshua died, and now he’s sitting in front of him, breathing, speaking, isn’t unnatural, an abomination. As if he himself isn’t a creature that shouldn’t exist, forgotten by God, a monster.
“What about my soul?!” Joshua asks, in a panic. “What about my life after death?”
“Technically, this is your life after death,” Taehyung tells him, placid, smiling to himself as if he just delivered the best punchline of his life. Unlife. Whatever.
“I,” Joshua starts, but Taehyung interrupts him. “There’s no need to thank me, really. I just did Jeonghan a favour. He’s a good man.”
“What about me?”
“What?”
“Am I not a good man, too? Don’t I deserve to go to Paradise? Don’t I deserve to choose?!”
Taehyung’s face stays impassible, the handsome mask of a prince, someone who could have destroyed empires just with a raise of eyebrow. Maybe he has. Maybe he’s been around long enough to see wars and bloodshed, and he doesn’t care enough about a stupid Catholic boy who’s afraid of having lost his soul.
“I’m sorry, Josh.” Taehyung gets closer, fingers reaching out to comfort him, but Joshua retreats on himself, arms tight around his knees, feeling like a hissy kitten when Taehyung’s hand falls back to his side. “I can help you in this period of transition, that’s all I can do. I promise you, it’s not as bad as it sounds.”
“I’m a fucking monster now. This isn’t a gift, it’s a curse,” Joshua spits out, a building rage filling his veins as reality starts to sink in. “I’m damned. This is Hell.”
“It’s not that bad,” Taehyung chuckles, seemingly unbothered by Joshua’s breakdown. “At least there are still people that love you, don’t you think?”
Jeonghan. The terror on his face, the blood - oh, it must have been Joshua’s blood, that stained his cheeks together with his tears. The whispered ”Please don’t die on me, I can’t do this without you.” Oh, Yoon Jeonghan.
“You’ll be able to see him soon,” Taehyung promises him, this time reaching out to pat his shin affectionately, like an owner with his dog. “We need to teach you a couple of things, first. But then everything will go back to being the same.”
“Except I have poison in my veins and no chance of being saved,” Joshua bites out, but the fight has already started to leave his body, sapped by the exhaustion that is suddenly downing on him.
“What a dramatic way to say you just gained immortal life and incredible powers.”
“I never asked for any of these,” Joshua whispers, but his prayer goes unanswered, just like all the other ones that follow.
God can’t hear him anymore, from where he’s sunk down into his own personal Hell.
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I'm sorry Josh but I cackled here🤣
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