one last time
Description
Sometimes, traveling to the ends of the Earth in a stuffy rental van with your best friends is all you really need in life, especially when the world is going to hell on a silver platter.
Or rather impending solar flares and dangerous radiation levels.
Technicalities aside, they're going to have the roadtrip of a lifetime, if it's the last thing they do.
Alternatively, the one where Junmyeon wants to see the ocean one last time, Chanyeol tries to be romantic, Kyungsoo is so over it (into it), Baekhyun and Jongdae compete over shotgun, and she's more confused than she's ever been. Also, she despises driving, but she's the only one with a license aside from Junmyeon, so, obviously, her friends decide that calls for a road trip. She thinks it's a shame that she'll spend her last days as a poorly paid taxi driver.
Foreword
They leave the television muted, the blue light flickering through the darkness, casting shadows along his jaw, over her hand. They're in an empty hotel, in an abandoned town, in a bed too small to fit all of them, and she whispers, "Do you think we should follow the rumors and head to the bunkers up north?"
"We'd never make it." He whispers. "It might not even be real."
Resignation lingers between them.
She twists a piece of loose thread around her finger, tightening until it cuts off circulation. "We could try."
He lets out a shaky breath. She feels it against her cheek.
She clutches at the pillow under her head, "Junmyeon...He wants to be near the ocean. We can drive the coast up." She takes a deep breath, "Besides, we have to drop off Tinder Boo."
(She can practically see the fondness in his eyes whenever he looked at Tinder Boo and she's vaguely confused by the need to smile into her pillow, the way her heart swells in her chest at the memory.)
There's a pause before he says, softly, carefully, "Okay."
Road trip au with an angsty twist because who am I without sprinkling a little angst over everything (insert salt bae meme here)! I asked on my feed which exo member yall wanted to star in this fic and i got a 50/50 baekhyun vs jongdae (my vote for bbh counts in my head sjdbksjdjz) so i decided it! WHY not both lol!!! here's my attempt at a love triangle thing!
title: one last time
length: 50k+ (divided into chapters, though technically it's a one shot but............i'm not putting 50k on one page lmao omg)
rating: R (no )
pairings: baekhyun/oc, jongdae/oc, jongdae/baekhyun, basically very jongdae/baekhyun/oc, kyungsoo/chanyeol, junmyeon/irene
genre: road trip au, apocalypse au, friendship, ANGST/tragedy, romance, fluff, ANGST
additional notes: kyungsoo has a twin trans sister named kyungri, other members of exo will be mentioned/there at some points but i mostly want this to be a chinguline focused fic featuring our resident Dad Suho, heed the tragedy/ANGST warning, radiation = horror/sickness/bodily horror at certain parts, sad backstories and mentions of suicidal thoughts, parental neglect, child abuse, homophobia, and transphobia, violence, blood, mentions of cannibalism yikes, there is a moment of dialogue where person A tries to trigger suicidal thoughts it's short but it is there i will put a warning in that chapter!
disclaimer: i borrowed like one joke off of insecure (the tv show) about ice cube lol
soundtrack
(in this order, if you care)
pills - heuse, zeus x crona, emma sameth
all of me - big gigantic, logic, rozes
say you won't let go - james arthur
D (half moon) - dean, gaeko
dusk til dawn - zayn feat. sia
intro: serendipity - jimin (bts)
love - taemin
i'm closing my eyes - potsu feat. shiloh
the little things (kasbo remix) - big gigantic
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