Grim Reaper
Chapter Fifteen
~Hana~
“I am a Reaper. I am not a War Reaper, Doc Reaper, Catcher Reaper or Spirit Reaper. I am a Grim Reaper. I was born in this building, and yet at a young age, I was taken away from my rightful place, by a man that was a king to the demons. I have endured death, torture, cruel cruel things that I’ll never forget. But I have been strong. Every time I have faced something that I thought that I couldn’t handle, I’ve fallen, and fallen hard. Every time I thought something couldn’t be worst, it turned out just that. But after every single one of those events, I stood up and faced it like the Reaper that I am. I am proud of my blood, as most of you are, and I want to protect all those that can be protected. I don’t want to see another person die in front of me, and I’ll do my best to make sure that happens. The innocent shouldn’t suffer for what the guilty have done. The humans shouldn’t suffer for what the demons have done either. I have loved too much in my seventeen years of life, and for that, I’ve lost many people close to me. But even so, I’ve become close with more people and will continue to protect them. I will protect the Reapers as best I can, and the rest? The rest is up to you, you’re strong right?” The room erupts in laughter and I smile. “I’ll let you guys get back to your work, it seems that even the wounded came to see me. Please.” They all stand up and salute before mom pulls me out of the room. “I’m going to go to my room for a while.” I say, my hands shaking as I gripped my dress. “Alright, come see me later.” I nod and go straight to my room. I hadn’t realized that it would be so nerve-wracking, being in front of so many people. “You did really well.” I spin around, seeing Min Ah standing there in one of the dresses she wore for really special occasions. “Why are you here? I mean, how do you know about this?” She smiles. “Myung Ho told me about it. I hadn’t realized why you were trying to stay away from me until he decided to tell me. He explained what happened when I couldn’t remember slapping you. I just feel the worst, leaving you alone with all of this.” I quickly shake my head as she starts to cry. “Min Ah, I’m not alone. I have mom and the boys. I have you even if you didn’t know anything back then. It was still enough to have you beside me.” She starts crying even more and I step forward, pulling her into a hug. “Want to go for a walk in the garden?” She nods and I pull her along after me.
Walking around, Min Ah suddenly stops. “Do you know what Myung Ho said?” I turn to her. “You’ve had a hard time sleeping.” I look away. “Is it right that the reason for that is because of the possession demon that took control of you?” My eyes snap to hers and she smiles slightly. “Remember, I was controlled by a possession demon too. I went to see BamBam and he helped me regain the memories that I lost when I was being controlled. The demon had used your image and it was like I was being killed by you over and over again.” I flinch, remembering it. “Let’s go to your room first.” Min Ah pulls me to my room, closing the door behind us. She makes me sit down on my bed and she kneels in front of me. “Hana, it’s going to keep haunting you if you don’t tell someone about it. Tell me.” Suddenly I’m not in my room, I’m in the dark room and the demon is cackling, killing them. “Hana, Hana!” I snap back to myself and I can feel my whole body shaking. “It’s okay, tell me slowly.”
~Maru~
“Maru, hurry up!” Yugyeom pulls me down the hall to Hana’s room. It was empty. “What are we doing here?” I ask and he shoves me into her closet. “We’re hiding so we can hear what happened so we can get her to actually sleep well!” He whispers before coming in and closing the door behind him. “Hi.” I spin around, seeing the others standing at the back of the closet. The bedroom door opens and we watch in complete silence as Min Ah pulls Hana into the room. Hana sits down and Min Ah drops to the floor in front of her. “Hana, it’s going to keep haunting you if you don’t tell someone about it. Tell me.” Min Ah takes Hana’s hands and Hana suddenly starts to shake. From where we were, we could see her body shaking violently. Min Ah panics, “Hana, Hana!” Hana blinks and it’s as if she could see in front of her again. “It’s okay, tell me slowly.” With a shaky breath, Hana starts talking. “The demon said that possession demons had a hobby of taking the person who they were possessing’s fears, and showing it in front of them. Like they did with you. Me killing you.” Min Ah nods and I start to get a bad feeling. “I didn’t have just one or two fears. I had enough to fill a whole room. And do you know what that demon did?” Her hands had starts to shake again. “Everyone. They were dying before my eyes. They told me they didn’t love me, that I was a monster. That I wasn’t needed. They died in the worst ways and the demon repeated them over and over again.” Hana had started crying. “It’s okay, you’re okay.” Min Ah reaches forward and Hana lurches back. “You don’t understand. You were being killed, which is your worst fear. But mine is seeing the people I love, dying in front of me and I can’t do anything. I watched you die Min Ah. The first time, he slit your throat. The second time, he cut you up into pieces. The third time you were crawling towards me like some zombie and he shot you!” Hana was starting to hyperventilate. “I can’t,” I’m about to open the door when Jungkook grabs me. “Wait.” “Everyone was dying and I couldn’t do anything. By the time he’d finished it, I was seeing your empty eyes, even in my sleep. Your pained screams. Your hands reaching out to me for help.” Hana gets off of her bed. “I’m sorry, I must be scaring you. I’m going to calm down.” She goes into the bathroom and we hear the shower turn on. I open the door and Min Ah quickly waves us back in and I shut the door. After a few minutes, I quickly cover BamBam and Yugyeom’s eyes, Hana coming out with just a towel around herself. “Hana, can I pick your clothes?” Min Ah asks and Hana looks at her, confused. “It’s just that it’s been so long since I’ve done it and I want to try dressing you up.” Hana shrugs and we quickly move back, letting Min Ah in. The shuts the door behind her and she glares at Myung Ho. “You better not look.” She hisses and moves back and forth in the closet, grabbing things. I see Myung Ho turn around to face the back of the closet and I keep covering the other two’s eyes. My eyes widen when Hana drops her towel, pulling on the clothes that Min Ah had brought. Turning, I see Jungkook staring with big eyes and I kick him. Rolling his eyes, he turns to the back of the closet. “What the hell is this?” Hana asks, looking down at herself.
“It’s been a while since we’ve gone out. Let’s go to your favorite skatepark and then the cake shop. Maybe we can squeeze in a trip to the noraebang if there’s enough time.” This time Min Ah comes back into the closet and hides behind Myung Ho, changing. She leaves and pulls Hana after her. As soon as they’re out of the room we get out of her closet. “I just saw things that I can never unsee.” Myung Ho says and I can’t help but agree.
~Hana~
Drunk, I stumble to my room and fall onto my bed, confused to why there was a lump in it. Sitting up, I pull back the bedsheet and see Maru groan, opening his eyes and looking up at me, shirtless. “What the fuck?” He starts to sit up and I fall off the bed. “Why are you in my room?” I gasp, staring at him. “Bullshit, this is my room. Are you, drunk?” I look around and am confused. I was sure that I’d gone to my room. “Hana, are you drunk?” He starts to get up and I shrug. “I figured it’d make it easier for me to fall asleep?” I knew that I sounded unsure of myself. “Let’s get you back to your room.” I move away from him as he tries to help me up. “This is my room.” I say stubbornly. “Hana, this is my room, not your room.” Maru sighs, exasperated. “Ani, I’ve slept in this bed for the past two weeks. I’m not going back to the other room.” Maru stares at me and I look right back. “Did you miss me that much?” He whispers and I slowly nod. “Come here,” He pulls me onto the bed, and hugs me to his chest. “The last time I saw you, I thought you were dead.” I whisper, letting the alcohol take over my words. Maru takes my hand and places it over his heart. “You feel this? It’s beating because of you.” I look up at him, confused. “When I woke up, the Doc Reaper in charge of me told me something amazing. That when he’d appeared on scene with you leaning over me, he saw that you were crying. He didn’t think much of it until one of your tears landed on my sword wound. In an instant, he said, it healed and left this scar.” He points at a star like scar on his side. “He asked the senior Doc Reaper if that was possible and was sent to the Catcher Reaper wing. What they told him was from a very old story about the origins of Reapers. Do you know what they told him?” I shake my head, scooting up so I could see Maru’s face better. “They told him that there was something that the demons didn’t know. Even though they beat the Demon King until he was bruised and bloody, although they pierced his heart, they left him there to die and his wife found him there. She loved him so much that she didn’t want him to die. She begged and begged, crying over his body that he would live. Little did she know that all her tears were healing him. The pure love that filled the tears brought the Demon King back from the brink of death. The couple became slaves, the Demon King changing his face and dying happily together with his wife.” He wipes at the corner of my eye and I realize that I’d started to cry. There hadn’t been a reason for me to be scared. I’d assumed that what the demon fortune teller had told me was all of it, but I hadn’t even thought that there was more to the story. I’d been so stupid. I flinch, feeling Maru kiss my forehead. “It’s okay. Go to sleep, I’m right here.” Closing my eyes, I scoot down, tangling my legs with his and feel myself drift to sleep.
~Maru~
I’m shaken awake and I squint up at Jungkook. “What do you want?” He cocks his head towards the bedroom door and I see Hana’s mother standing in the doorway, her eyes wide. “She went to look for Hana in her room and came to me when she wasn’t there. She’s a bit shocked right now.” Looking down, I slowly shake Hana awake. Her eyes slowly open and they become humongous when she sees me. “Maru-“My hand claps over her mouth, realizing that she couldn’t remember last night. “She couldn’t sleep.” I say, quickly sitting up. “I’ll see you two at lunch.” Her mother quickly turns around and leaves. “That could’ve gone better.” Jungkook smirks and I push him towards the door. “Close the door after you.” I call just as he slams it behind him. “Do you remember what happened last night?” I turn to Hana and she giggles. “Of course, I was just messing with you.” Grabbing her, I start tickling her and end up straddling her, one hand holding her wrists above her head and the other on her waist. She’s flushed and she was breathing hard from laughing. Leaning down, I kiss her and she kisses me back, trying to get out of my hold on her. Looking down at her, I feel my self-control break and I think Let’s do this before diving in.
Maru whispers sweet words to me as he enters me, leaving soft kisses to distract me from the pain of my first time. After I tell him I’m ready, he starts to move and one word slips from my lips. “J-Jaejoon.” He suddenly stops, looking down at me, and unreadable look in his eyes. “I thought you didn’t know my birth name.” I quickly look away, feeling myself blush. I hadn’t meant for it to slip out just then. “Were you saving it for now?” He asks and I slowly nod. “Say it again.” I look at him and he smiles. “Jaejoon, I love you.” “I love you Hana.” He presses a kiss to my lips.
“I am a Reaper. I am not a War Reaper, Doc Reaper, Catcher Reaper or Spirit Reaper. I am a Grim Reaper. I was born in this building, and yet at a young age, I was taken away from my rightful place, by a man that was a king to the demons. I have endured death, torture, cruel cruel things that I’ll never forget. But I have been strong. Every time I have faced something that I thought that I couldn’t handle, I’ve fallen, and fallen hard. Every time I thought something couldn’t be worst, it turned out just that. But after every single one of those events, I stood up and faced it like the Reaper that I am. I am proud of my blood, as most of you are, and I want to protect all those that can be protected. I don’t want to see another person die in front of me, and I’ll do my best to make sure that happens. The innocent shouldn’t suffer for what the guilty have done. The humans shouldn’t suffer for what the demons have done either. I have loved too much in my seventeen years of life, and for that, I’ve lost many people close to me. But even so, I’ve become close with more people and will continue to protect them. I will protect the Reapers as best I can, and the rest? The rest is up to you, you’re strong right?” The room erupts in laughter and I smile. “I’ll let you guys get back to your work, it seems that even the wounded came to see me. Please.” They all stand up and salute before mom pulls me out of the room. “I’m going to go to my room for a while.” I say, my hands shaking as I gripped my dress. “Alright, come see me later.” I nod and go straight to my room. I hadn’t realized that it would be so nerve-wracking, being in front of so many people. “You did really well.” I spin around, seeing Min Ah standing there in one of the dresses she wore for really special occasions. “Why are you here? I mean, how do you know about this?” She smiles. “Myung Ho told me about it. I hadn’t realized why you were trying to stay away from me until he decided to tell me. He explained what happened when I couldn’t remember slapping you. I just feel the worst, leaving you alone with all of this.” I quickly shake my head as she starts to cry. “Min Ah, I’m not alone. I have mom and the boys. I have you even if you didn’t know anything back then. It was still enough to have you beside me.” She starts crying even more and I step forward, pulling her into a hug. “Want to go for a walk in the garden?” She nods and I pull her along after me.
Walking around, Min Ah suddenly stops. “Do you know what Myung Ho said?” I turn to her. “You’ve had a hard time sleeping.” I look away. “Is it right that the reason for that is because of the possession demon that took control of you?” My eyes snap to hers and she smiles slightly. “Remember, I was controlled by a possession demon too. I went to see BamBam and he helped me regain the memories that I lost when I was being controlled. The demon had used your image and it was like I was being killed by you over and over again.” I flinch, remembering it. “Let’s go to your room first.” Min Ah pulls me to my room, closing the door behind us. She makes me sit down on my bed and she kneels in front of me. “Hana, it’s going to keep haunting you if you don’t tell someone about it. Tell me.” Suddenly I’m not in my room, I’m in the dark room and the demon is cackling, killing them. “Hana, Hana!” I snap back to myself and I can feel my whole body shaking. “It’s okay, tell me slowly.”
~Maru~
“Maru, hurry up!” Yugyeom pulls me down the hall to Hana’s room. It was empty. “What are we doing here?” I ask and he shoves me into her closet. “We’re hiding so we can hear what happened so we can get her to actually sleep well!” He whispers before coming in and closing the door behind him. “Hi.” I spin around, seeing the others standing at the back of the closet. The bedroom door opens and we watch in complete silence as Min Ah pulls Hana into the room. Hana sits down and Min Ah drops to the floor in front of her. “Hana, it’s going to keep haunting you if you don’t tell someone about it. Tell me.” Min Ah takes Hana’s hands and Hana suddenly starts to shake. From where we were, we could see her body shaking violently. Min Ah panics, “Hana, Hana!” Hana blinks and it’s as if she could see in front of her again. “It’s okay, tell me slowly.” With a shaky breath, Hana starts talking. “The demon said that possession demons had a hobby of taking the person who they were possessing’s fears, and showing it in front of them. Like they did with you. Me killing you.” Min Ah nods and I start to get a bad feeling. “I didn’t have just one or two fears. I had enough to fill a whole room. And do you know what that demon did?” Her hands had starts to shake again. “Everyone. They were dying before my eyes. They told me they didn’t love me, that I was a monster. That I wasn’t needed. They died in the worst ways and the demon repeated them over and over again.” Hana had started crying. “It’s okay, you’re okay.” Min Ah reaches forward and Hana lurches back. “You don’t understand. You were being killed, which is your worst fear. But mine is seeing the people I love, dying in front of me and I can’t do anything. I watched you die Min Ah. The first time, he slit your throat. The second time, he cut you up into pieces. The third time you were crawling towards me like some zombie and he shot you!” Hana was starting to hyperventilate. “I can’t,” I’m about to open the door when Jungkook grabs me. “Wait.” “Everyone was dying and I couldn’t do anything. By the time he’d finished it, I was seeing your empty eyes, even in my sleep. Your pained screams. Your hands reaching out to me for help.” Hana gets off of her bed. “I’m sorry, I must be scaring you. I’m going to calm down.” She goes into the bathroom and we hear the shower turn on. I open the door and Min Ah quickly waves us back in and I shut the door. After a few minutes, I quickly cover BamBam and Yugyeom’s eyes, Hana coming out with just a towel around herself. “Hana, can I pick your clothes?” Min Ah asks and Hana looks at her, confused. “It’s just that it’s been so long since I’ve done it and I want to try dressing you up.” Hana shrugs and we quickly move back, letting Min Ah in. The shuts the door behind her and she glares at Myung Ho. “You better not look.” She hisses and moves back and forth in the closet, grabbing things. I see Myung Ho turn around to face the back of the closet and I keep covering the other two’s eyes. My eyes widen when Hana drops her towel, pulling on the clothes that Min Ah had brought. Turning, I see Jungkook staring with big eyes and I kick him. Rolling his eyes, he turns to the back of the closet. “What the hell is this?” Hana asks, looking down at herself.
“It’s been a while since we’ve gone out. Let’s go to your favorite skatepark and then the cake shop. Maybe we can squeeze in a trip to the noraebang if there’s enough time.” This time Min Ah comes back into the closet and hides behind Myung Ho, changing. She leaves and pulls Hana after her. As soon as they’re out of the room we get out of her closet. “I just saw things that I can never unsee.” Myung Ho says and I can’t help but agree.
~Hana~
Drunk, I stumble to my room and fall onto my bed, confused to why there was a lump in it. Sitting up, I pull back the bedsheet and see Maru groan, opening his eyes and looking up at me, shirtless. “What the fuck?” He starts to sit up and I fall off the bed. “Why are you in my room?” I gasp, staring at him. “Bullshit, this is my room. Are you, drunk?” I look around and am confused. I was sure that I’d gone to my room. “Hana, are you drunk?” He starts to get up and I shrug. “I figured it’d make it easier for me to fall asleep?” I knew that I sounded unsure of myself. “Let’s get you back to your room.” I move away from him as he tries to help me up. “This is my room.” I say stubbornly. “Hana, this is my room, not your room.” Maru sighs, exasperated. “Ani, I’ve slept in this bed for the past two weeks. I’m not going back to the other room.” Maru stares at me and I look right back. “Did you miss me that much?” He whispers and I slowly nod. “Come here,” He pulls me onto the bed, and hugs me to his chest. “The last time I saw you, I thought you were dead.” I whisper, letting the alcohol take over my words. Maru takes my hand and places it over his heart. “You feel this? It’s beating because of you.” I look up at him, confused. “When I woke up, the Doc Reaper in charge of me told me something amazing. That when he’d appeared on scene with you leaning over me, he saw that you were crying. He didn’t think much of it until one of your tears landed on my sword wound. In an instant, he said, it healed and left this scar.” He points at a star like scar on his side. “He asked the senior Doc Reaper if that was possible and was sent to the Catcher Reaper wing. What they told him was from a very old story about the origins of Reapers. Do you know what they told him?” I shake my head, scooting up so I could see Maru’s face better. “They told him that there was something that the demons didn’t know. Even though they beat the Demon King until he was bruised and bloody, although they pierced his heart, they left him there to die and his wife found him there. She loved him so much that she didn’t want him to die. She begged and begged, crying over his body that he would live. Little did she know that all her tears were healing him. The pure love that filled the tears brought the Demon King back from the brink of death. The couple became slaves, the Demon King changing his face and dying happily together with his wife.” He wipes at the corner of my eye and I realize that I’d started to cry. There hadn’t been a reason for me to be scared. I’d assumed that what the demon fortune teller had told me was all of it, but I hadn’t even thought that there was more to the story. I’d been so stupid. I flinch, feeling Maru kiss my forehead. “It’s okay. Go to sleep, I’m right here.” Closing my eyes, I scoot down, tangling my legs with his and feel myself drift to sleep.
~Maru~
I’m shaken awake and I squint up at Jungkook. “What do you want?” He cocks his head towards the bedroom door and I see Hana’s mother standing in the doorway, her eyes wide. “She went to look for Hana in her room and came to me when she wasn’t there. She’s a bit shocked right now.” Looking down, I slowly shake Hana awake. Her eyes slowly open and they become humongous when she sees me. “Maru-“My hand claps over her mouth, realizing that she couldn’t remember last night. “She couldn’t sleep.” I say, quickly sitting up. “I’ll see you two at lunch.” Her mother quickly turns around and leaves. “That could’ve gone better.” Jungkook smirks and I push him towards the door. “Close the door after you.” I call just as he slams it behind him. “Do you remember what happened last night?” I turn to Hana and she giggles. “Of course, I was just messing with you.” Grabbing her, I start tickling her and end up straddling her, one hand holding her wrists above her head and the other on her waist. She’s flushed and she was breathing hard from laughing. Leaning down, I kiss her and she kisses me back, trying to get out of my hold on her. Looking down at her, I feel my self-control break and I think Let’s do this before diving in.
Maru whispers sweet words to me as he enters me, leaving soft kisses to distract me from the pain of my first time. After I tell him I’m ready, he starts to move and one word slips from my lips. “J-Jaejoon.” He suddenly stops, looking down at me, and unreadable look in his eyes. “I thought you didn’t know my birth name.” I quickly look away, feeling myself blush. I hadn’t meant for it to slip out just then. “Were you saving it for now?” He asks and I slowly nod. “Say it again.” I look at him and he smiles. “Jaejoon, I love you.” “I love you Hana.” He presses a kiss to my lips.
Notes
This is the last chapter! Thanks for reading this story, it was fun to write! Comment and check out my other stories! ^.^
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8/24/15