One and a half years prior to the events of "Demon Days":

    “Rosie! Rosie! Rosie!” an urgent voice called, accompanied by the sound of rapid footsteps padding across sand.

    Rosé looked up from the water pump that she and Jisoo were currently working on to see Jennie, clad in her trademark leather jacket, cigarette hanging lazily from her lips, jumping up and down in front of the sloppily parked humvee nearby. As soon as it was apparent to the older girl that she’d gotten Rosé’s attention, she began beckoning over frantically with her hand before turning and running back to the humvee.

    Rosé glanced up at Jisoo, who offered her a casual shrug.

    “Do you mind if I run over there real quick?” Rosé asked, “Or do you want me to finish up fixing this with you?”

    “You can go,” Jisoo replied, ing her hands back into the water in order to tighten a few loose bolts in the pipe, “I’m almost done here, anyway.”

    Rosé smiled gratefully and stood up, drying her hands off on one of the towels they had nearby. Due to the lack of sunlight, the desert was always much colder than it should have been (according to their father, anyway) so they always tried to stay as dry as possible in order to prevent themselves from getting sick.

    “Thanks unnie. I don’t know what Jennie could possibly want, but it seems important.”

    “I think I know what it is,” Jisoo said, letting out a knowing chuckle as she reached down in the water, up to her shoulder, in order to work from the most efficient position.

    “Uh,” Rosé quickly felt her forehead began to break out into a sweat and her to start racing immediately, “What do you mean by that?”

    Ever since Jennie had confessed her love to Rosé, the two girls had kept their relationship secret. It had been a couple of weeks since then, and they both thought that they were doing a pretty good job of keeping their romantic liaisons under wraps. The hunting trips they went on together were normal anyway; they’d been doing that as a pair since long before they’d gotten together. While they were back at their home, they made sure to stay as platonic as possible, although Jennie did happen to slip up a bit whenever she was absolutely sure they were alone. And even then, Rosé quickly put a stop to it. So how would Jisoo know?

    “Probably a huge scorpion she caught or something,” Jisoo said without looking up, causing the tightness in Rosé’s chest to relax, “She’s always bragging about that stuff to you.”

    “Well, we are hunting partners…” Rosé said anxiously, scratching the back of her head.

    “Hurry up!” called an impatient voice, and Rosé turned to see Jennie’s head and arm poking out of the back of the humvee as she waved back and forth to get the younger girl’s attention.

    “You’d better go. Don’t wanna keep her waiting,” Jisoo said with a wink, and Rosé did not like the suggestive inflection in the older girl’s voice.

    Regardless, Rosé pushed the thought of Jisoo discovering her and Jennie’s clandestine relationship (though she made a note to try and talk to the mischievous older girl later) to the back of her mind before jogging across the sand towards the humvee. She went straight to the rear of the vehicle, stepping up into the open trunk and shutting the doors behind her.

    Jennie sat on one of the seats before her, playing with the extinguished of her cigarette. The older girl looked nervous. Rosé furrowed her brow and took a seat beside her partner, plucking the cigarette out of her fingers and tossing it into one of the cupholders that they used to store small pieces of garbage.

    “What have I told you about smoking?” Rosé huffed, “It’s bad for you, and it makes you smell gross.”

    “But it’s just so good,” Jennie murmured, allowing her head to fall back onto the younger girl’s shoulder, causing Rosé to stiffen up a bit in surprise, “Like you. I’m addicted.”

    “Well, first off,” Rosé said, gently pulling herself away from the brunette, “Don’t compare dating me to smoking. Second, stop cuddling me here… we agreed we’d only do it in our spot, remember? Third, what’d you call me here for?”

    Jennie sighed and looked down at her lap, her lips forming into a pout that made Rosé’s heart swell with emotion. She wanted to kiss that pout right off her girlfriend’s lips, and it took every ounce of strength in her body not to.

    “I just wanted to talk with you in private,” Jennie admitted, reaching over to play with the hem of Rosé’s hoodie, “We haven’t gone to our spot in two days.”

    “I promised you we’d go tomorrow,” Rosé gave into her temptations a bit and reached out to caress Jennie’s round right cheek, lightly ghosting her fingertips over the older girl’s perfectly smooth skin, “You can’t just wait a few more hours?”

    “No, I couldn’t,” Jennie whispered, nuzzling her face against Rosé’s hand, “I told you, I’m addicted.”

    Rosé smiled and took Jennie’s face in her hands, bringing her girlfriend in for a light kiss on the lips. Although she knew it was a huge cliche to feel this way, Rosé couldn’t help but feel all warm and fuzzy inside every time that their lips connected.

    They kissed again, and Rosé let her hands fall to the older girl’s shoulders as she basked in the flavor of Jennie’s lips. They still had a bit of the taste of stale smoke on them, and although Rosé would never admit it, she enjoyed that specific flavor whenever it was mixed with the naturally delectable taste of Jennie’s lips and breath. She could feel Jennie’s tongue starting to come forward again; this was arguably her favorite part of the kiss, when Jennie would slowly start to probe, to see how far Rosé was willing to go before she cut it off. The violet-haired girl allowed Jennie’s tongue to connect with the tip of hers for just a brief moment before detaching, although she kept their faces mere inches apart.

    “You’re such a tease,” Jennie purred, her voice filled with desire.

    “I’ve let you go so much farther when we’re in our spot,” Rosé retorted, moving her face over to the side of Jennie’s head and offering her a quick nibble on the earlobe. Jennie replied by whining softly and wrapping her arms around Rosé’s hips, “Or do you not remember the last time we were there?”

    “Oh I remember it,” Jennie moaned, “I’ve remembered it every night since then…”

Rosé giggled and pulled Jennie into a full embrace, holding their bodies together tightly and rocking the older girl back and forth.

“Jennie-pie, you’re great, you know that?”

“‘Jennie-pie’?” the brunette replied with a snort, “Please don’t tell me that’s your new

nickname for me.”

    “It is,” Rosé said, pulling back and looking Jennie in the eyes, “It’s like a combination of ‘Jennie’ and ‘cutie pie’. It suits you.”

    The older girl rolled her eyes, but the blush that was rising within her cheeks betrayed her.

    “You like it!” Rosé laughed, “You won’t admit it but you like it!”

    Jennie tried to hold back the smile that was forming on her lips as she turned away in mock indignation, but Rosé could see right through her. She took Jennie’s face in her hands one last time and gave her a quick kiss on the nose.

    “We gotta go back now though,” the violet-haired girl said, standing up just as Jennie was about to kiss her again, “I think Jisoo is on to us.”

    “Really?” Jennie said worriedly, following Rosé as the younger girl went to depart from the vehicle, “What makes you say that?”

    Rosé gave a subtle jerk of her head toward the spring, and Jennie turned just in time to Jisoo swiftly turn her head away, back down to the water pump that she was “working on”.

    “That, and some things she said before… they sounded a little suspicious.” Rosé sighed.

    “We’re gonna have to tell everyone at some point.” Jennie said, her voice coming out resigned, but not at all sad.

    Rosé shrugged.

    “You’re right, but later is better than sooner in this case. Anyway, I should go help Jisoo with that pump. She said she could finish it on her own but she’s probably struggling. Where are you heading off to?”

    “I gotta hunt a little more. I’m not gonna go too far, I just have to get Lisa and we’ll try to see if there are any scorpions or rodents out.”

    “Okay. Be careful,” Rosé said, giving her girlfriend a soft touch on the shoulder as a sort of abridged goodbye, “See you at dinner, Jennie-pie!”

    Jennie watched for awhile as the violet-haired girl hurried back towards Jisoo before turning away and walking to the huts to find Lisa.

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So I decided to make these "Spitting Out the Demons" chapters into kind of one-shots that happen in the "Demon Days" AU. This one takes place about a year and a half or so before the events of "Demon Days". I feel like Chaennie fluff is always welcome, and since I was doing "Plastic Beach" stuff I figured might as well type this up as well (:

Thanks for reading<3