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Their heart clenched and their vision became blurry as tears started streaming down their face.
'Why did you go?'
They miss him. They miss him so much that they kept trying on finding a way to meet him again. After a lot of failed attempts and nothing worked, they started to lose hope.
It's been a few months since the incident with Dokja, yet they still can't forget his face as the fables he accumulated started to fade along with him.
They hoped that one day, they get to hold his hand again as they both proceed to live happily ow that they finally reached the end of the scenario together with their comrades.
They looked at the man laying down on the hospital bed with a pained look in their eyes. "How much longer 'til we meet again?" They whispered, their voice slightly cracking at the end of their words.
They looked away from Dokja and stared outside the window. The afternoon sky was painted with an orange hue, snow fell from the sky and landed on the surface of the earth. The ground was covered in a thick blanket of snow.
They saw Gilyoung, Yoosung, Mia and Jihye throwing snow at each other, Sangah, Heewon, Sooyoung, Hayoung, and Seolhwa can be seen not too far from them. They were seated at a table drinking hot chocolate whilst chatting. Their gaze landed on Hyeonsung who was holding wood for their fireplace, Pildu and Myungoh were helping him carry the rest. And finally, Junghyuk stood in front of a grill, cooking up some barbeque and other dishes f
They then averted their eyes towards the sky, snowflakes kept on falling down on the ground which was also filled with snow. Their mind was still occupied by the memories of the person laying down on the hospital bed.
A lot of time had passed since they last saw him, they felt as if he was slowly drifting farther away. It was like the more they try to get him back, the more distant he gets.
They were mad at him for sacrificing himself for their sake, for always carrying the burden. They were also mad at themself for not noticing immediately that it was a clone of him that they were living with for the last couple of months.
They were mad at themself for not trying to talk to him and taking at least a little bit of the burden he was carrying on his back.
They felt pathetic and useless.
Everyone tried their best to bring Dokja back, they even regressed as a group. Sooyoung also wrote a novel while Junghyuk even travelled through different worlds just to save him.
Although the last plan was deemed a failure as it had been a month since the novel stopped being written because of some error with the Star Stream.
'Why are you so unfair? Shouldering everything on your own like that.'
They closed their eyes and let out a deep sigh.
As they opened their eyes, they couldn't believe what was happening.
"W-what the-"
They stood up from their seat and stared at the letters floating towards the noirette in shock.
'Dokja? Is he... Is he finally waking up?!'
Not long after the door burst open revealing the others panting as they had just run all the way towards the room.
They all gathered around the hospital bed and waited nervously for what was about to occur.
The h/cette still couldn't believe what they were seeing and there was still a question deep within their mind.
Will he really wake up? Or was this just to crush their hope even more than it already has?
Minutes have passed and the fables all returned to the unconscious man's body. They all waited anxiously for him to open his eyes.
Their heart was beating fast as they bit their nail in nervousness. What if he doesn't wake up? Should they just give up then? But they didn't want to do that.
As uncertainties eat up their mind, Dokja's eyelids fluttered open making the kids shout out "HYUNG/AHJUSSI!"
The three hugged the noirette's small frame as they cried. Y/n snapped out of their thoughts and gape at the man trying to sit up on the bed with the children clinging onto him for dear life.
Dokja then looked up and saw everyone staring at him, he scanned everyone's faces before his eyes fell onto one particular person.
'Y/n...'
He then smiled at his companions before trying to speak even if his throat hurt from being dry "I'm... Back..."
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It had been a week since Dokja returned, his body was still of a child's but was slowly going back to its original shape and he was still resting at the hospital.
Y/n sat on a chair near the bed as Dokja fiddled with his fingers.
"I missed everyone... I missed you," he said feeling his ears heat up in embarrassment. He then heard a soft chuckle, his eyes wandered towards the other person inside the room with him only to be engulfed into a gentle but firm embrace.
He sat still for a few seconds trying to process that the h/cette just hugged him before hesitantly returning the hug.
"I missed you too, idiot," Y/n said as they buried their head into the black-haired man's shoulder.
They stayed like that for a couple more minutes before the h/cette broke off the hug. He immediately started to miss the warmth of their embrace.
He decided to look at their face and the two made eye contact, their eyes held many mixed emotions as they stared at each other.
Dokja felt happy to see them again yet he also felt bad for causing them pain.
Y/n then started to smile which made the man's heart flutter. The corners of his lips rose up forming into a smile that mimicked the other.
"Thank you for waiting for me."