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A/N: Hey everyone! This is my very first KPop Demon Hunters fic, so I hope that you all like it. This kind of show is a very new concept for me to write about. I also didn’t like the end where Jinu stopped gwi-ma, at least I didn’t like the way he did it, so I imagined him helping Rumi physically push the sword back.
Rumi was running through the forest as fast as her legs would carry her. She didn’t know what she was running from or where she was running to, but she needed to escape.
Rumi looked around at the clearing that she had come to and looked around frantically, sighing in relief as she saw Celine in the distance. She hadn’t spoken to Celine since the night of the idol awards and seeing the older woman brought her a sense of calm.
“Celine?” She asks as the approached the older woman, twigs and leaves crunching underneath her feet as she approached.
“How does it feel?”
Rumi looked on in confusion, “how does what feel?”
Celine turned to face her, “to be a monster!”
Rumi gasped, finally looking down at her body to see that she was covered in blood, but the blood was not her own.
Turning slowly, she looked behind her to reveal the bodies of Mira and Zoey.
“No!”
Rumi awoke with a start, breathing heavily as she tried to sit up and get her bearings. Her heart was beating a mile a minute, and she didn’t even register that Jinu was in her room and attempting to console her. The demon was gently shaking her and trying to get her to look at him as a way of trying to ground her.
“No, don’t touch me! Get away!” She snaps, pushing him off her and running out of the bedroom.
She needed space.
Rumi left their fancy penthouse apartment and ran down the streets of Seoul that were empty except for a few stragglers. The young woman ran until she reached Naksan Park. This place had a special spot in her heart since it was a place where Jinu and she had met regularly in the days leading up to the idol awards.
Rumi came here a lot in the last few months after the awards. They restored the honmoon and defeated Gwi-ma with the help of Jinu. Ever since then, Rumi and Jinu had been inseparable and since Jinu had nowhere to go now that he was free of Gwi-ma, the girls set him up in one of their spare bedrooms. It was only in the last couple of weeks that Rumi’s nightmares were getting worse.
“Why didn’t you tell me?”
Rumi jumped as she heard the voice and turned to see Jinu, still in his white T-shirt and black sweatpants.
“How did you know I was here?”
“I know we’ve only been together for a few months, but you aren’t exactly hard to track down.”
Rumi sighed as she looked down, embarrassed.
“How did you know? That I was having a nightmare?”
Jinu came to stand next to her, “I got up to get some water and I heard you in your room as I walked by,” he says, “now my question remains: Why didn’t you tell me?”
Rumi shrugged, “I didn’t want you to know. I didn’t want you to know that I still struggle at times.”
“Rumi,” Jinu says gently, “you have no reason to be ashamed anymore.”
“It’s not shame. It’s fear. These nightmares are of me, hurting people. I never want to do that.”
Jinu reached his hand out and took hers, making her turn and face him. Jinu rubbed a thumb over her patterns as he spoke.
“That won’t happen. You have people who care that will keep that from happening.”
Rumi smiled faintly and looked up at Jinu, who nodded his head back in the direction of home as he gestured that they should head back.
The two began walking back in hand, silent until Rumi decided to speak.
“The night of the idol awards, I asked Celine to kill me.”
Jinu stopped in his tracks and looked at his girlfriend in disbelief.
“Why?”
“That night I was at my lowest. I truly, at that moment, felt that I was a mistake and that I shouldn’t have been born. Shortly after that is when the nightmares started and I don’t want to hurt anyone. I don’t want to lose control.” She says, letting a single tear fall down her pale cheeks.
“You won’t. I know you and Mira and Zoey know you. We all know that you’d die before letting that happen.” He says, reaching out and wiping the tear from her face.
Rumi nodded and put her head on his shoulder as they walked back home and Jinu led her back to her bedroom, helping her get under the covers.
Jinu kissed her forehead and went to leave, only for Rumi to reach out and grab his hand in hers.
“Stay. Please.”
Jinu nodded and crawled in on the other side of the bed and opened his arms up for her to curl up next to him and rest her head on his chest.
From that night on, Jinu and Rumi always slept together and from that night on, the nightmares happened less.