Hope completed Hope AUTHOR: wongadi
LEAD: Chanyeol
GENRE; SETTING: angst, fluff; slice of life
CHAPTERS: 1
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"It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on, coughing and searching, and finding."
—Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

Lee Hope and Im Jaebum are the best of friends, and have been since they were twelve. But when life tears them apart at age twenty, Hope finds herself unable to move or breathe in the crushing grief that suffocates and haunts her with every breath.

Could a midnight phone call to a suicide hotline possibly change anything?

Might the voice on the other end of the line bring relief?

Can her dead heart find new life?

thoughts PLOT: The title really encapsulates the entire one-shot: it's all about hope.  And I love that.  I really do.  To put it into context, the main character (Hope) is devastated and depressive after the death of her best friend.  Her therapist doesn't seem to be helping much, but a chance phonecall and then chance enoucanter (and another phone call, and another chance encounter) with somebody from the Seoul Sarang-Jonhwa hotline gives her new hope and strength to pull through.  This fic actually touched quite close to home for me, because sometimes it's not the professionals but a random stranger, or just something somebody you know well does or says for you, that can awaken that hope in you again when you're in a very dark place.

CHARACTERISATION: It's very hard to write charact