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heonynchans“You shouldn’t be here,” a voice notes, careful yet hopeful. Jacob smiles, turning around to meet the rain’s spirit.
“I’m sure Sunwoo can handle it for a day,” Jacob waves him off, tentatively taking a step towards the rain spirit. As he does, the spirit takes a step back, a pained expression on his face.
“You almost got hurt the last time you got too close,” the spirit points out, hesitance on his face. His hand is slightly raised, as if he too wants to take a step forward.
“But I didn’t,” Jacob insists, taking two steps forwards as the rain spirit chews on his bottom lip.
“It’s forbidden for a reason, Jacob. I can’t… I can’t see you. The sky was adamant, you know? You could lose your magic,” the rain spirit chokes out. Jacob notices the raindrops don’t quite roll off of him anymore, instead clinging to his clothes like it would to a normal creature. There was no aura around his figure, even a sad shade of gray to his skin instead. Jacob’s heart cracks.
“You covered for me,” Jacob whispers, realizing what had happened, “when we got caught. You— Kevin you didn’t have to.”
Kevin just shakes his head, raindrops rolling off of his no longer magical hair. There’s a sad smile on his lips as he takes two steps backwards.
“I love you, Jacob,” Kevin whispers, “but people need the sun more than the rain. Changmin’s one spirit enough for this world.”
Jacob scowls, ignoring Kevin’s hesitance as he takes three bold steps forwards, grabbing Kevin’s mortal hands as he pulls him closer. Kevin makes a soft strangled sound in the back of his throat before their lips smash together, the sunlight in Jacob’s veins disappearing.
The rain is cold now, drenching Jacob entirely as he drowns in Kevin’s taste, too far gone to even care about the repercussions. They were the sky’s childrens, but it did not love them like its own children. The rules were suffocating, too much for Jacob’s curious nature.
He met Kevin under the rainbow, enthralled by the beautiful boy born of moonlight and rain, carrying the scent of coolness in contrast to Jacob’s own burning warmth. They ran away together, promising to never leave each other for the sky’s evil rules.
They didn’t make it for very long.
Kevin sobs, tears melting with the rainwater as it drips onto Jacob’s lips, salty and sweet at the same time.
“But I need you more than they need me,” Jacob mutters, looping an arm around Kevin’s waist as he pulls him closer. Kevin wraps his arms around Jacob’s neck, eyes squeezed shut as tears slip from his eyes, a broken sob from his lips.
“I’m so sorry,” Kevin whispers, voice shaking and coloured with guilt. Jacob shakes his head, cupping Kevin’s face as he wipes tears off with his thumbs. The rain feels heavier now, as if all of their friends were watching and crying along with them. The sky is cruel, but its children are not. Jacob wonders if they’re kind enough to forgive him for giving up his magic just like that.
“There’s nothing to be sorry about,” Jacob whispers back, and the sky booms, thunder ringing in his ears as he feels his very being start to fade. He’s a creature of magic, and spirits can’t last stripped of their magic. Kevin himself can’t last either, time elongated ever so slightly by taking refuge under the rain. The sky is cruel in that no one gets a happy ending. No one gets an ending, even.
“In another world, you will be mine, and no sky can tear us apart,” Jacob mutters, gentle comfort to his tone as he looks at Kevin one last time, a soft smile on his lips. Kevin smiles back, careful and muted. Something seems to shift in his gaze, because Kevin surges forwards again, closing the distance between them.
“In any world, I will love you forever.”
The sky is as cruel as it is vast
The ground is gentle and caring, at long last
Two flowers bloomed under the rain and the sun
Intertwined like lovers, their rules now undone
