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1. Truths May Burn As They Heal, Like Cleansing a Wound by HartOfARebel

   Fandoms: KPop Demon Hunters (2025)  

   • Mature
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
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   • Work in Progress

   19 Oct 2025

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Mira & Rumi & Zoey (KPop Demon Hunters)
   • Rumi (KPop Demon Hunters)
   • Mira (KPop Demon Hunters)
   • Zoey (KPop Demon Hunters)
   • Bobby (KPop Demon Hunters)
   • Celine (KPop Demon Hunters)
   • Karin Chakwas
   • Post-Canon
   • the girls need to talk
   • Rumi-centric (KPop Demon Hunters)
   • Heart-to-Heart
   • Angst and Feels
   • Emotional Hurt/Comfort
   • Hopeful Ending
   • More Talking Is Needed
   • like so much more
   • But Rumi has promised to be honest
   • And come hell or high water she will be!
   • But maybe not all of it right now
   • Cause there really is like A LOT
   • Bobby is the best manager ever
   • Misunderstandings
   • But only for like a minute
   • because they talk about it
   • Like they promised to

   Summary

   Zoey nodded, smiling at her before moving back onto the couch behind her. She moved her hands to the bottom of Rumi’s braid, removing the hair tie, and slowly beginning to unravel the braid. Her ministrations were so gentle, so patient, it nearly made Rumi want to cry. Did she really deserve this kindness, this gentleness after everything she had put them through? Her mind threatened to slip sideways into darker thoughts, but with monumental effort Rumi shut them down. If she started, if she even contemplated her guilt, her shame, for half a second, she’d spiral instantly. She wasn’t mentally ready to face any of that.
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   In the aftermath of Gwi-Ma's defeat, Rumi, Mira and Zoey retreat to their Penthouse to relax and recover. Rumi knows she needs to talk to them, tell them the truth. But where does she even start?

   Series

   • Part 2 of Can Corruption Run Only Skin Deep

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