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If we're not careful turns into reality

Don't you dare let our best memories bring you sorrow

Yesterday I saw a lion kiss a deer

Turn the page

Maybe we'll find a brand new ending

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The bright daylight slipped between the crevice of Jungkook's closed eyelids, forcing the boy to shift his sleeping position. Something tickled his ear. No, both ears. Then, a rustling.

He opened his eyes.

'Now, why did you go and do that?' Elysian said, picking up the fallen rose and began to insert it back in his hair, 'It really would be a shame if these pretty roses got flattened.'

Jungkook grasped her hand in his, halting any further actions from the girl. His half-lidded eyes, still drowsy from sleep, focused on her while the warm daylight bathed them in gold. For an instant, it was like all of the earth's other inhabitants disappeared, leaving them to be the sole known beings in the entire galaxy.

Elysian held her breath.

Voice dripping with honey-like sleepiness, the Jester parted his pink lips and moistened them before letting a string of words tumble out of his mouth.

'I'm thirsty.'

Realizing that she expected something far more extravagant, two red camellias blossomed on her cheeks as Elysian cleared her throat and handed Jungkook a bottle of water.

'I-I'm going to get some air!' She announced, already walking away, cheeks flaming.

The man next to her fought a grin, 'But we're already outside, Miss Cavier.'

'Any air near you can't be considered pure!'

Jungkook rolled his eyes. But when the girl left, he revealed a knowing smile. For Jeon Jungkook was not thirsty--not thirsty at all.

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'By the by,' Jungkook reached behind his ears, fiddling with the stem of a flower, 'where did you get these? Ordinary flowers would be withered by now. Especially in this climate.'

Elysian twirled a rose between her fingers, 'Oh, I met Park Jimin while you were dozing like a wee baby.'

He halted abruptly, distraught evident, 'What?! Did he do anything to you?! Why didn't you wake me!'

A fond smile danced on Elysian's lips at the sigh of the Jester worrying about her to the point where he didn't even mention how she called him an infant.

'He didn't do anything, rest assured. Exchanged a hairpin for a bouquet of roses, that's all,' she paused, eyes gleaming, 'magic ones.'

She carefully plucked a petal from the flower and rubbed it between her fingers, turning the petal white. She rubbed a few times and even used her nails, but the petal wouldn't break.

The girl huffed, snatching another petal from the rose and handing it to Jungkook, 'Now you try!'

With the knowledge that they were enchanted, Elysian saw his focus heighten as he concentrated on believing.

Her heart soared.

With that, taking it between his fingers, he rubbed the white petal.

'Try to pierce it!'

He tried and tried to no avail until he was practically trying to tear the red petal with his teeth.

'I swear, you've given me a rose scale blessed by Hercules.'

'No,' she said, gaze shifting downward, 'these roses can tell if you're in love or not. If they don't break while you try to tear them, it means you're in love.'

'So,' she continued, 'who are you in love with, Mr. Harley?'

Everything about her was the same: Elysian's blonde tresses caught bits of light from the sun, turning it into a shimmering waterfall of glitter, complimenting her ivory dress. Except, this time, perhaps due to prolonged periods without proper nutrients, her dress had an opalescent schiller to it.

'Someone who sparkles,' he thought.

Jungkook hid his hot cheeks with his gloved hand but managed to keep his voice stable to ask one question.

'Well, since this Park Jimmy-Johns fella gave you them, did he try them? These petals feel like they're made of un-piercable leather.'

Elysian donned on a sorrowful smile, 'No, he didn't. But it wouldn't surprise me in the least if the petal tore the minute it kissed his fingers.'

She quickly interjected, 'Nevermind that! I've...' She gulped, 'I've been wondering: what...what would happen if you were...if you were to not return with the well? The soul, I mean.'

The Jester's lips curled upward into a fond smile, although the memory he remembered was a pleasant one in the least.

'Oh,' Jungkook grinned amusingly as if recalling an embarrassing memory, 'the king from my kingdom is ill, and so he set me out to retrieve this magic well. He would have my head if I didn't bring it back.'

'O-oh...but would he actually?'

Jungkook's eyes closed, his grin never faltering as he began to whistle, "Certainly! Hang my head on his mantle, said so himself. I would definietly die if I didn't bring it back."

Although his tone was light, Elysian knew the consequences if he were to fail would be dire.

She gulped nervously.

'But don't worry,' he threw her another grin, this time with his teeth showing, 'we'll find it, I'm sure; the king won't have a new decor for his fireplace.'

Perhaps being with her made him into an optimistic fool who had too many hearts blocking his eyes to the point where he couldn't fathom how frightful a situation was. But Jeon Jungkook's entire profession was being a fool. And there was nothing a fool couldn't do. Especially one in love.

A pained expression flashed across her face for a split second but quickly faded away. She put on a small smile and pursed her lips, looking determined, "Yes...we shall."

A strong gust of wind blew from the east, tousling not even a grain of sand from its resting position, not batting an eye to stray hairs framing Jungkook's face, and never even was felt by anyone.

The wind's sole victim was the red rose Elysian held, scattering every last petal remaining on the bristled stem until it was left naked and bare.

Jungkook saw and made a remark.

'What a shame. Such a pretty rose too. Oh, that reminds me: roses are the symbol of my kingdom too. Anyway, we have only one more person to go to, right?'

But the girl next to him wasn't listening. For she only stared at the shed petals with a forlorn expression.

"Truly...what a shame." She thought.

What a shame*.

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The sand slowly turned into cobblestoned paths, yellow, gradually, into gray, the gray Jeon Jungkook knew his entire life.

'Am I a lunatic, or is this place awfully familiar?' He spotted a tree with thin branches, and he could swear his fingers knew how it felt to grab them. They passed a boy with black hair, practicing a dance routine, but they didn't pay any mind to him.

'Well, I wouldn't know. Perhaps, you manage to find home in everywhere you go.'

Jungkook did not notice how Elysian knew it resembled his kingdom.

'Mister...Mister Harley, listen,' Elysian said they walked toward a portcullis when Jungkook's eyes widened, 'I'm...I'm actually-'

Just when the Jester was about to connect the dots upon seeing the crest of the royal guards, his thought process halted when a figure approached with a horse and many other men following.

'THERE IT IS!' one screamed, spittle flying, 'THE SOUL FROM THE WELL OF LIFE WHO WILL HEAL OUR KING!'

He looked over to her, and Elysian blanched.

The army of men was obviously not talking about Jungkook, he knew that much.

'Miss Cavier,' he trod carefully, 'are...are you the soul from the Well of Life?'

Before she could respond, an arrow shot from one of the guards, piercing through the air until it found a better thing to penetrate.

A cherry blossom bloomed and bled on the bodice of her ivory dress from where the arrow struck. And as it sunk further and further beneath her skin, piercing her heart, the girl who was filled to the brim with golden sunshine crumpled as if she were nothing more than paper jasmine.

The only thing Jungkook could do was cry her name.

A/N: Have y'all noticed how Elysian is always associated with flowers? ;D

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* - Me: don't say it...don't say it

Also me: WHAT A SHAME THE POOR GROOM'S BRIDE IS A WHROE

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