12 Works by lostbecoz
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She thinks about the next few months. The new album — she is still not used to how it was received, the exuberance of it, the quality of welcome that means people were waiting and she came back and it was worth waiting for. The tour that starts in six weeks. Twelve cities. Twenty-three shows. The first full run since —
She does not finish that sentence. She knows how it ends.
It is different now. She thinks about how different, about what it means to go back to stages and wings and the two minutes between songs that belong only to her — and she looks down at Mira.
The thought arrives the way true things arrive. Not as a revelation. More like something that has been true for a while and is only now saying itself aloud, in the dark, to the moving light on the ceiling.
I want to marry her.
She does not move. She has learned from seven years of this woman how to hold something without disturbing it. She puts the thought where she puts things she is patient about. Then she thinks: I have nothing. No ring. No plan. Nothing prepared. She deserves everything.
The pool light moves across the ceiling. Mira breathes.
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- Part 3 of I'll always be waiting (for you)
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She is between the third and fourth song. The particular two minutes of a show that belong only to her — no one's eyes on her yet, the stage dark, the crowd in that suspended state of waiting that has its own quality of noise. She knows exactly where Mira is. She does not look. She knows by the architecture of the wing, by the weight of the room, by five years of understanding where Mira stands without needing to confirm it.
Then the sound.
It is brief and specific and she does not know how she knows what it is except that she does, instantly, completely, the way the body sometimes knows things it has not been taught. She turns before she decides to turn.
The wing is wrong.
There is movement where there should not be movement, a figure that does not belong, and then — already, in the time it takes to draw breath — something on the floor. She knows before she sees clearly. She knows from the shape of it, from the way the crew is moving, from the particular stillness at the center of all that motion.
Mira.
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Rumi settles onto the hospital couch and refuses to leave.
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- Part 2 of I'll always be waiting (for you)
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There is noise first. There is always noise at these things. Crowd noise, production noise, the low thrum of bass through a floor she has been standing on for three hours. She knows this floor. She's walked every inch of it.
She's on it now, differently.
The sequence of events is difficult to locate from this angle. There was the wing. The credential that was wrong. The man standing where no one with a legitimate pass would stand. There was the glint — metallic and catching the stage light for just a moment, the way things catch light when they're being raised and aimed, and she has been trained to see exactly that and nothing in her hesitated —
Then the floor.
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For five years, Mira has kept Rumi safe from a careful professional distance.
The distance ends on the floor of a concert venue with thirty thousand people gone silent around them.
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- Part 1 of I'll always be waiting (for you)
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All I want you to do (is make the first move) by lostbecoz
Fandoms: KPop Demon Hunters (2025)
28 Apr 2026
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Celine knew every version of Rumi's face.
She had not seen this face in a very long time.
Dazed. Somewhere else entirely. The face of someone who had been ambushed by something and was still standing in the middle of it. Something in Celine's chest moved, quietly, the way it did when she was not expecting it to.
"Rumi," she said.
Rumi looked up. Something reorganized itself — the dazed quality retreating, the familiar Rumi assembling in its place. She straightened.
"Hey," she said. "You're back."
"I am." Celine came behind the bar. Looked at the scarf without appearing to. "Mira forget that?"
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Rumi develops a sudden passionate interest in nineteenth century load-bearing configurations after an architect arrives in town.
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i'm coming round to meet you (the long way round) by lostbecoz
Fandoms: KPop Demon Hunters (2025)
15 Apr 2026
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Rumi takes the stairs to the third floor first.
This is the routine: knock once on Mira's door, and that knock means five minutes, up one flight to Mr. Markopoulos, collect Biscuit, come back down to the second floor where she and Mira live, Mira is always ready in four. Rumi has never said anything about this. She has decided it is one of her favorite things about Saturdays and that she will not examine why.
She hears Mira's door open before she's finished knocking.
"You're early," Mira says, which is what she says every Saturday, pulling her door shut behind her. She's in her weekend clothes: dark jeans, a grey sweatshirt that's slightly too large, her hair not quite finished. She looks, Rumi thinks and does not say, exactly like herself.
"I'm on time," Rumi says, which is what she says back, and Mira gives her the look this deserves.
Biscuit is already straining toward Mira's ankles. He does this every Saturday — abandons Rumi completely the moment Mira appears, as though Rumi is merely the person who collected him and Mira is the actual destination. Rumi has decided not to take this personally. She suspects Biscuit loves Mira with his whole doggie heart. She can relate.
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I have loved the stars too fondly (to be fearful of the night) by lostbecoz
Fandoms: KPop Demon Hunters (2025)
31 Mar 2026
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Rumi takes notes in careful Greek, the letters flowing from her pen with the ease of muscle memory millennia deep. She's been auditing Dr. Park's "Greek Mythology and Society" course for three weeks now. Before that, it was a semester of Medieval Literature at a college in Maine. Before that, Introduction to Archaeology in Ohio. Before that, a blur of lecture halls and libraries and temporary apartments where she never unpacked all her boxes because what was the point?
She'd been doing this longer than Vermont had been a state—longer than the language these students speak had settled into its current form. She'd watched the printing press change everything, watched the Industrial Revolution remake the landscape, watched the Internet arrive and make the world simultaneously larger and smaller.
She's good at watching. It's staying that she's never mastered.
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Rumi can see every possible future. She still didn't see Mira coming.
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"We need to talk," Zoey announced, sweeping into the apartment without waiting for an invitation.
"Hello to you too. Yes, you can come in. No, I'm not busy at all."
Zoey ignored her, setting a velvet bag on the kitchen counter with the reverence usually reserved for holy relics. "The universe has spoken."
"Oh good. What did it say this time? 'Stop letting your friend enable your chaotic gremlin behavior?'"
"Close." Zoey pulled a small vial from the bag. The liquid inside was pink and seemed to shimmer in the light, though that might have just been glitter. Knowing Zoey, it was definitely glitter. "It said it's time to stop watching you pine over Mira like a Victorian maiden dying of consumption."
Rumi dropped the shirt she was folding. "Excuse me?"
"Valentine's Day is in just over a week." Zoey held up the vial like she was presenting evidence in court. "Maximum magical potency. The new moon falls on the fifteenth this year—perfect alignment. The stars are literally aligning for you, Rumi. I'm not going to let you waste this opportunity."
"Zoey—"
"I've brewed a love potion."
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to call for hands from above, to lean on (wouldn’t be good enough) by lostbecoz
Fandoms: KPop Demon Hunters (2025)
05 Feb 2026
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"Even knowing that Mira doesn't believe in soulmates—
Even knowing she's chosen to walk away from whoever bears her mark—
Rumi can't shake the feeling that Mira is making a mistake.
Not about soulmates. About her.
Mira deserves someone whole. Someone who won't fail her the way Rumi failed Jinu.
And the realization that settles deepest of all… I still want her."OR
Rumi has always loved carefully. Mira makes her want recklessly—and maybe, finally, for herself.
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baby you’ve got to be more discerning (i’ve never known what’s good for me) by lostbecoz
Fandoms: KPop Demon Hunters (2025)
28 Dec 2025
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Rumi opens her character notes. Scrolls slowly:
Observant—sees discomfort before it's spoken
Protective in quiet ways
Terrible at asking for help
Downplays pain, says "fine" when she isn't
She didn't invent this character.
She's been writing Mira.
"Oh," she whispers.OR
Mira's an ex-FBI profiler consulting with Rumi, a crime writer, for her book. Neither of them is good at recognizing when they're falling in love—or admitting when they need help.
(Chronic pain. Writer's block. Midnight interventions. Learning to let someone catch you when you fall.)
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in five years time I might not know you (in five years time you might just prove me wrong) by lostbecoz
Fandoms: KPop Demon Hunters (2025)
20 Dec 2025
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It was the first week of freshman year, and I saw you carrying boxes down the hallway, three doors from mine. I was naturally excited about school, about meeting new people, about all the possibilities ahead. I'd already introduced myself to half the floor. But you—you kept your door mostly closed, your headphones on, your eyes down.
I remember standing in the common room with Zoey, my roommate who'd already become a fast friend, when you emerged to fill your water bottle. I smiled and waved. You gave the smallest nod and disappeared back into your room. Zoey laughed at my expression.
"Not everyone's like us, Rumi,” she said. “Some people need time.”OR
As Rumi and Mira grow from strangers to something inseparable, Rumi holds tightly to the memories that built them. But remembering, it turns out, may be both the easiest—and hardest—kind of love.
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shadows running down my spine (you said darling, let yourself shine) by lostbecoz
Fandoms: KPop Demon Hunters (2025)
24 Nov 2025
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“Okay,” Zoey said, sipping from her mug as she sprawled on Rumi’s couch. “Let me get this straight. You’ve been dodging social events by saying you have plans with Mira—”
“Because I do!” Rumi snapped. “Most of the time, anyway.”
“—and now everyone thinks you’re dating her.”
“Yes!” Rumi threw her hands up. “And Bobby put me up for this award at the gala. Specifically told me to bring Mira. And I… I panicked, okay? I panicked and just smiled like an idiot.”
Zoey’s smirk was infuriating. “So ask her.”
Rumi froze. “Ask her? Are you—do you hear yourself? I can’t just—‘Hey, Mira, funny thing, everyone thinks we’re in love, want to play pretend in front of my boss and a hundred strangers?’ She’ll think I’m insane.”
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Everyone thinks Rumi and Mira are already a couple, which would be great—if Rumi had actually confessed her feelings. Instead, she’s stuck asking Mira to be her pretend date to the most romantic—and most chaotic—gala of her life.
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be near me when my light is low/ when the blood creeps, and the nerves prick by lostbecoz
Fandoms: KPop Demon Hunters (2025)
26 Sep 2025
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The shoreline was pale and endless, the tide rolling in with a hush that seemed eternal. Mira stood there barefoot, the water curling round her ankles. Behind her lay the dim call of voices, blurred and faint, almost forgotten. Before her stretched the sea, vast and waiting, promising rest, promising silence.
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On the edge of life Mira must decide if it's worth it to go on