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Desperate for a place to stay, Taehyung shows up to the cheapest listing available when he goes for work to Paris, not caring how shady it looks
The landlord looks awfully familiar. Taehyung does his best not to look at the scar but it's right there.
When they shake hands, Taehyung feels a spark and a flash of a vision from another time where Landlord Min's face is framed by blond hair. Nothing like the immigration lawyer in front of him
Min yanks his hand away, looking back at Taehyung like he knows something and averts his eyes.
"Your room's here," Mr. Min points.
It's markedly different from the picture in the listing.
"I thought it was an attic?"
"Uhm," Min gulps, "that's taken, you missed it, so here"
"But-"
"The rent's the same, so don't worry about it" the landlord said, slamming the door.
Taehyung didn't know the place came with catering.
Or that Yoongi would be cooking it himself and inviting Taehyung to eat with him for each meal.
Yoongi asks about Taehyung's work, about his day, and Taehyung indulges him, guessing the man wanted to keep tabs on his tenants in case one fled.
They only ever make small talk, exchanging pleasantries, and Taehyung offers to cook on the weekend.
That's when Yoongi graces him with a smile for the first time, and the following night Taehyung has troublesome dreams of another life, another time, but Min Yoongi is there, scar and blond hair.
"Couldn't sleep?" Yoongi is already there in the kitchen when Taehyung wakes at 3 am from the dream
"Have we met before Yoongi-ssi?"
Yoongi sighs and nods "My curse was to remember, yours was to forget"
He hands Taehyung a glass of water and goes to his room, haphazardly.
He doesn't wait to let Taehyung ask more questions, but leaves behind one scroll on the dining table.
Taehyung couldn't read the hanja it was written in so he knocks on Yoongi's door, who opens it and upon looking at the scroll, snatches it from Taehyung.
"What do you mean cursed to forget?" Taehyung yells, banging on the door
"YOONGI HYUNG!" He shouts, and the door opens again.
"Say that again"
"What?"
"What you called me just now"
"Hyung?" Taehyung says, watching tears spring in Yoongi's eyes.
"You won't believe me"
"Try me"
Yoongi explains the deal with the witch, all to cure Taehyung from generational curse his family had to die with the ache of a pining heart
"You weren't happy I'd made a deal, so I lied to you about the consequences" Yoongi says, "told I'd turn into a rock in my next life. You wrote this on your deathbed," Yoongi sniffled, lifting the scroll, "You sent me to fetch you strawberries and when I returned you were gone, you didn't want me to watch you die"
Taehyung holds Yoongi's hands and asks "What does it say?"
The scroll, unsurprisingly holds confessions of love, followed by a promise
If you turn into a rock, hyung, I'll put you in my pocket and take you along to visit all the beautiful places this wide world holds.
For a brief moment Taehyung was in pain again, pining for Yoongi with a quill in his hand
Meeting Yoongi's eyes in the present alleviated that pain, memories rushing in when they interlaced their fingers
"I found you" Taehyung says
Yoongi wetly grins and nods as Taehyung pulls him in for a kiss.
~keut