Incantare Chapter 7

Nov 17, 2013 01:13

Incantare Chapter 7
Rating: PG
Genre: Fantasy, Drama, Romance, Historical
Pairings: Hankyung/girl!Heechul, Kangin/girl!Eeteuk
Summary: Fairies were supposed to stay in their realm. They weren’t supposed to go to human world, but some fairies are just stubborn

Hankyung's POV

After Ryeowook gave birth, we did as we were told. We donated her body. Yesung, who was obviously heartbroken, went back to Incantare with the promise of getting cleansed as soon as he could so that he could follow Ryeowook to Heaven. It was a touching promise and it was so moving to see that they were still in love, that even if Yesung didn't know the truth that he still felt it inside of him.

It was true love, I suppose. I am not a girl. I do not fantasize about love but I respect it. I also, I admit, want to find someone who I can say is my... I don't know. Princess? My queen? I don't dream of it but I would want it for mu future; a beautiful family.

Since Yesung left, I thought that Kangin and Heechul would follow. However, they didn't want to go. They wanted to see Eeteuk. I tried to convince them to go, though.

"Please, you have to leave." I told them one night as I sat on my bed with the two of them in their small fairy bodies were sitting in front of me. "You don't know the consequences of staying here."

"Who said that there were consequences?" said Heechul.

"Ryeowook said that if you stay here, if you become human, then you would forget Incantare and go back to your old lives. It would be as if you never died. You would wake up, lost and in a new world. It would feel like hell," I sighed. "I hope you understand. I would want you to stay but you would have to leave. Ryeowook also said that if you become human and I mention Incantare and everything that you would personally lose your soul."

Heechul quickly turned into her human size and grabbed me by my shoulders. "I don't care what she says! The king already lied to us and said that Eeteuk was forever gone yet she is here. I do not believe Ryeowook."

I shook my head. "The king is different from Ryeowook."

Quickly, Kangin turned into his human size and stood up from the bed. "They really are different. Ryeowook wouldn't lie."

"She would!" Heechul shouted. "She might have said that so that we would go back to Incantare and cleanse ourselves! She wants to save us."

"Heechul, please listen," I said. "I don't want to take chances. I..." I blinked and looked down. "I don't want to lose you."

Silence. No one replied. No one said anything. So I looked up and saw the siblings just staring me. I asked them if I said something wrong and Kangin replied, saying, "I feel this sudden urge to... I don't know. I just didn't like what you just said."

I thought, overprotective older brother.

As for Heechul, she told me, "I don't want to lose you either."

"I will be blunt," Kangin said, "I did not like what you said."

Heechul smiled at me and I felt nervous. "Well I like what I just said."

I stood up, scared of Kangin's reaction, and took my phone out of my pocket. It was then that I noticed that I received a miss call a few minutes ago. I turned off the sound and the vibration so I didn't notice. To my luck, the one who called was Eeteuk. So I called her back and she answered with a scream. "Answer the door! I'm outside your apartment and it's freezing!"

"Oh, shit, I'm sorry," I said. I ended the call and looked at the siblings, telling them to wait. Quickly, I rushed to the door and let Eeteuk in. She saw my parents, they exchanged small talk, and I led Eeteuk to my room. I even received a question from my dad in Mandarin. He asked me if I got back with Eeteuk. So I sighed and answered that I didn't. His reply stilled me.

In Mandarin, he said, 'You better be married before you give me a grandchild!'

'Dad! We're just doing homework!'

'You have different majors!'

I groaned and just closed the door.

Inside my room with all of us together, the awkwardness was high. Eeteuk and Kangin were staring at each other, both with glazed looks on their eyes. Heechul was on the bed, staring, looking lost. I was lost as well.

"You..." Eeteuk started. "You are the man in my dreams."

"Eeteuk," was what Kangin said.

"How do you know my name?" asked Eeteuk.

"I don't think I can tell," replied Kangin. "But I know you."

"I always dream of you," Eeteuk walked forward towards Kangin. "I... I love you."

We were all speechless and I was scared. I was so scared that I couldn't move. I wanted to tell Eeteuk to stop. The fairies couldn't be human and the love that Eeteuk spoke of was definitely a human attribute.

"Where have you been? I remember everything," Eeteuk stopped right in front of Kangin. She reached her hand to Kangin's cheek and caressed it. "I have died more than once and I am still in love with you, Young-"

"Stop!" I screamed.

I ruined the moment, I know that, but I had to make Eeteuk stop. She was about to say Kangin's real name and I couldn't let that happen. So they all looked at me and among the three of them, it was Heechul who looked annoyed. "It was getting good!" she said.

"It's not good!" I shouted back. I moved to Eeteuk and pulled her away from Kangin. "Please go home already. We'll talk tomorrow at school."

Eeteuk gasped and covered her mouth with her hands. "Fuck. I forgot the laws of Incantare."

"You remember?" said Kangin. "You remember everything?" he was excited. And I was confused.

"Wait! What happened?" I asked.

"I died while I was a fairy and I was reborn," she said. "I remember everything."

"But your soul is supposed to disappear forever," I told her. "That's what Ryeowook told me."

She pursed her lips and looked confused as well. "That's what I thought when I died but no. I'm still here."

I asked, "What will happen when they remember who they are?"

"They'll become human," said Eeteuk, "but I do not know if they retain the memories of Incantare or not."

I did not want that to happen. I wanted them to remember because if these fairies were to turn human, then their lives would be unhappy. I didn't want that. "Guys, go back," I told Kangin and Heechul.

"Yes," said Eeteuk with such a sad tone. "Please go back."

"But, Eeteuk," Kangin took Eeteuk's hands in his, desperate for something. "I need you."

"I need you to go to heaven, please," Eeteuk squeezed Kangin's hands. "I will follow you. I promise."

As they continued to talk, to assure each other of their feelings, I walked over to Heechul who was still on the bed. I sat down beside her and placed my hand on top of hers. I thought of losing her, of saying goodbye as she would go to Incantare and never return. I didn't want that. "Heechul," I asked, "can you please go back to Incantare. I want what's best for you."

Heechul looked at me and asked, "Don't you think that what's best for me is you? I don't want to leave you."

I rubbed my thumb against the back of her hand, reassuring her, "Please wait for me. I'm just human. I'll soon die and I'll follow you."

Heechul didn't say anything. She just stared at me, as if telling me that she was tired of waiting. Was I part of her past as well the same way that Eeteuk was part of Kangin's past?

Then we heard sobbing. We both turned and saw Eeteuk crying on Kangin's chest and Kangin embracing the girl. I was confused. What was happening inside of my room? What were all these emotions? Did love really transcend life and death? I turned to Heechul. I always found her attractive. Even with her quirks and unpredictable attitude, I liked at her. And I didn't realize it until at that moment, as her brother was comforting his long lost lover, as I was staring at her lost eyes. She didn't know what was happening. She was just lost just like the rest of her companions, like me as well.

"Heechul, go back. Please." I stood up. My fingers lingered on her hands and I walked to my closet. I opened it and took out a thick coat. "I'll take a walk. Eeteuk, you would need to leave as well. Kangin, Heechul, leave. Don't be here when I come back."

Heechul looked disappointed and looked down. Kangin let go of Eeteuk and walked back. And Eeteuk turned to me then walked towards me. Her face was wet with tears and her hand was on her mouth. She was keeping herself from sobbing, from making any sound since my parents might hear. I placed my arm around Eeteuk, the way I always used to before, and we walked out of the room, leaving the siblings in my room.

The living room was dark. Only a faint lamp was turned on. My parents were already in their rooms. So, in Mandarin, I screamed out, 'I'll just go outside with Eeteuk. I'll be back in an hour.'

My father replied, 'Okay, son! Be careful and don't get in trouble! Don't go robbing men and don't be robbed!'

I just laughed and brought Eeteuk out.

Once we left the house, we both snuggled onto our jackets and walked down the streets under the winter cold. My face was freezing. I was not fond of the cold and neither was Eeteuk. So both of our faces were freezing. I felt sorry for her and, trying to be a gentleman, I gave her my scarf. She accepted it and wrapped it around her neck and mouth. We went to the convenience store nearby. As she sat on by a table, I ordered some drinks for us. We didn't say anything, though. This was a usual routine of us before when we were still together so I knew what she wanted to drink. That was also why we didn't need any words.

When I sat down beside her and gave her the soda that she always asked for, I asked her, "Do I exist in your dreams?"

She nodded, her eyes cast downwards. She pulled the scarf that covered her mouth down and told me, "I do not know if I am allowed to tell you."

"In Incantare there are rules and there are consequences. So far, all the consequences that have been told to the fairies are all lies. I am ready to face whatever punishment that is there for me." I do not know what made me say those words but I was serious.

"You are right, Hankyung. The consequences have all been lies. I was told that I was to forever disappear, to lose my soul and face the real death. But I do not think that there is such a thing as permanent death, Hankyung," she looked at me, her eyes still red. "I even doubt the existence of hell since I have never seen it. It was just given to us as a place, as the consequence, of being sinful."

"If a fairy would become human, would they wake up as if they never died? That would already be like hell, Eeteuk. They don't have knowledge of this world. Their knowledge of the world is of their previous life."

Eeteuk nodded. "I honestly don't know. If Ryeowook told that, then maybe she spoke of the truth or maybe she just spoke of another lie so that her friends would enter Heaven already."

"I understand but I want the truth. So, Eeteuk, be honest with me; am I in your dreams? You already said yes but give me the truth."

Her eyes were blank, unsure, confused as well. She pursed her lips, a few tears falling. "Do you really want to know?"

"Yes. And why did you never tell me that I was in your dreams?"

"Because I only remembered it now." She rubbed her tears. "You were never in my dreams. I remembered the past. It's the past that you were in."

"Then tell me..." I placed my hand on her shoulder and squeezed it, giving her the reassurance that she needed in order to talk. "I will not hold any anger for any consequence that will come to me. I am ready to face whoever I will need to face."

Eeteuk stopped rubbing her eyes and bit her lower lip. Slowly, she said, "You were the Chinese Emperor's son. The Chinese Emperor, that man, he took Ryeowook. He wanted to take Heechul as well. Heechul told me that when she was running to the shore with Kangin, that someone stopped the imperial guards from getting to them. And that someone was her lover. She lived in Japan when the two of you separated but she always looked for you."

I was surprised. My chest was tightening, squeezing my heart so hard that I felt as if I was dying.

"I know how you look like because you paid a visit to Japan. When you came, I entertained you and your family. Since I knew that Heechul had an affair with the prince, I talked to you when you were alone. You wanted to see Heechul but..."

She trailed off. "But what? Eeteuk, tell me what happened."

"That was when we died."

My heart stopped beating at her words. Pain surged through me, an unbelievable, unfathomable, pain. It hurt more than when my grandfather died. It hurt more than anything. I felt the pain of something so strong. Was it the pain of dying? And I also felt fear. The fear of dying as well? The feel of loss? "How did we die, Eeteuk?"

"There was an earthquake and the tsunami. Hankyung," she clasped her hands together and shook her head. "You would not want to remember it, Hankyung. It is a painful..." she closed her eyes and sobbed. "I do not want to die again."

"Eeteuk..." I didn't know what to do. I had comforted her before but never in this way. How do you comfort someone who was reliving her own death?

"Hankyung, please, walk me home."

I nodded, "Sure, Eeteuk. Let's go already. We need to rest."

I walked Eeteuk home and even walked her to her room. Her parents were already asleep so it didn't matter that I entered. My stay in the house was quick, though, as I quickly left to go back to my home.

When I returned, I received my wish. Kangin and Heechul were gone.

It was then, at that time of solitude, that I actually focused on my problems.

I was reincarnated. I once died. I was Heechul's lover and... and I could still be with her. Well, I hope I could still be with her. Kangin and Eeteuk were still in love but Eeteuk remembered everything. Why can't I remember? Eeteuk remembered everything when she saw Kangin and she was haunted by dreams. I never had dreams of being a prince. I didn't even remember anything when I saw Heechul. I didn't even feel anything when Eeteuk told me of my past. So was it really me who was the prince or was it simply a man who looked like me? If yes, then I was being too anxious. If not and I was the prince, why am I left with too many questions and an open gate to this world that I cannot touch. I need answers. I need to know the truth. But I couldn't risk any of their lives. I had to make a decision and my decision was to let bygones be bygones. The past is the past. If things were meant to be, it'll happen. If it's not, it's not. I should continue with my life; a college student working part time in a bookstore. Yes. I should wait until a girl comes along so that I could get married. And that girl won't be a fairy. She'll be a human. I was reincarnated for a reason, right? There has to be a reason, right?

I was so confused. I couldn't even sleep until the sun came out that I ended up sleeping in all of my classes at university. Even when I was walking or taking the bus, or even when I was sleeping, I yearned to remember.

End of Chapter 7

pairing: kangteuk, pairing: hanchul, fic: incantare

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