Hi guys! This little write up is for the writing party that rectangular_smile is holding in celebration for the completion of Twelve Majestic. I love that story a lot so I had to do something to thank her. Below is a short story I wrote which is in the perspective of angsty!Baekhyun. Enjoy your seven hundred words of goof, my dudes. 

Darkness. That was all there was. Peaceful darkness that surrounded me like a mother cradling her baby. Knowing that I was alone, it gave me comfort. I needed it, the solidarity. Yet, I yearned to destroy something, the world, myself, anything. I wanted to feel a dying soul within my grasp and watch it slip into the abyss. I did not ask to baby sit that idiotic girl. But she was very much like her, the only girl who strummed my heartstrings with her own melody. She had me wrapped tightly around her fingers, but not tight enough. I took her fingers away before plunging into my darkness.

That girl, Moon Hani, is a joke. Nonsense flies out of every second of the day and I wanted nothing more than to silence her forever. I wanted to rip her apart one by one, limb by limb. Every day I pretended to be a broken warrior who did not know what to do. She was such a naïve little girl; she was under my control.

I had nearly accomplished my wishes. There was another wielder on that day and it was the perfect opportunity to take my card and kill her. I ached to be free from my constraints, to no longer blindly obey any wielder, no, monsters. I needed to destroy them all and give them the suffering that they deserve.

I pinned her to the ground and tried to blind her, but I did not see the card in her bloodied hand. My face contorted into its façade of deep anguish with the help of my illusion skills. I saw her eyes flicker with the sympathy that I did not need. The card tugged on my mind and with one last attempt to manipulate her, I forced my tears to roll down.

Voice thick with pain and longing, I whispered to her, “Why are you doing this to me?”

I hated her. I hated her so much.

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I was not as weak as my brothers who were under her control. Ashamed and disgusted, I tried to make them see her real form. They were too far gone. I had no choice but to wait for the next opportunity to rid her and save my brothers, but it never came. Every time my brothers first appeared, Moon Hani would command them to stand from their bowed positions and order my brother to say his name. She would gain their trust, but for how long could she maintain it?

I rolled the ball of light in my hand. It shone dully, flickering in and out like a broken bulb. I was seated in her bedroom with my brothers who were intently listening to her stupid story. They trusted and protected her; I could not kill her with them around. I should not have stopped that day. It is my fault that my brothers are controlled by her. However, I could still change their fates even if my brothers have to see her die. They deserved freedom from that suffocating hierarchy, that hell. And I was the only one who could achieve it; it had to be me.

I felt repulsive every time she smiled at my brothers. It began to infect them, especially Kai. He would periodically stare at her like she was the only person he could see. He held feelings for her and I had to destroy them. My brothers are my responsibility and I had to keep them away, far away, from her. She was the epitome of a monster, a heartless monster. How dare she intrude our lives and ruin it. Oh, how I wanted to entertain myself with her lifeless corpse, to string her up and display her for all to see. 

Kai had just walked past the door when I took him to the side away from everybody. A simple caution warning could not convince him. Maybe I needed to play it differently. “Just know that whatever you are thinking, right now, about her, is all wrong.” Kai needed to see the truth. I could not waste any more time.

I felt him turn towards me, however I chose to stay still. “You don’t know anything about her or me.”

Tears prickled at the corners of my eyes, but I quickly used an illusion to cover it as I stilled my breaths to prevent the pains in my chest. “Maybe I know too much, Kai.” I made sure my eyes held sympathy for him before patting his shoulder and leaving to catch up with Chanyeol.

Don’t do this to me, Kai, not again.