Heaven
Characters: Yandere guardian-angel!Joshua x OC (Haneul)
Type: One-Shot, Angst (?)
A/N: My first Seventeen one-shot on this blog. I hope you guys like it!
(The mood board is done by me, but credits of the individual pictures belong to the owner.)
“Now we can be together, now you are truly my human. And I will make sure that no one will ever be able to take you away from me! Not life, not fate and certainly not death.”
Everyone was told of having a guardian angel, someone who was watching over them to make sure they were and would be alright. Someone who would try their best to protect everyone from harm's way and let them live a peaceful life.
Everyone who ever mentioned guardian angels would also say how one wouldn’t be able to see them and or interact with them, not after growing up from being a toddler. They were invisible for the adults, only babies having the ability to see them.
Haneul was different. She started to see her guardian angel, like anyone else since she was a baby. He would watch over her with a gentle smile, his eyes screaming adoration. And he wasn’t even that much older. Guardian Angels were actually growing up together with the human they were guarding and protecting.
When Joshua was introduced to Haneul, he was only a child himself. His body still not grown fully yet, his wings smaller than that of an adult angel. But that didn’t mean that she was in danger because he was still young, not at all. Joshua was one of the most protective angels, having developed a deep affection for her quite fast, even with his young age.
Babies are cared for more protectively by their parents which is why in the early stages a guardian angel was like a playmate for the baby, someone that interacts with them and make them smile.
However, Haneul was not supposed to still see him when she grew to walk on her own, when she started to form real words and started to figure out the names of things in her surrounding.
She wasn’t supposed to introduce her ‘friend’ Joshua to her parents who they couldn’t see and figured was only her imaginary friend she made up with her young mind.
She wasn’t supposed to see him when she started to draw more precisely and more details of his wings and his smile and the way he would always look at her with utter love. She simply wasn’t supposed to see him at all anymore.
But with the years Haneul grew from 12 to 16 to 18 and then to 22, she was too invested in Joshua, him being too invested in her life as well.
She already figured out what he was and that she was the only one who was able to see him, but that certainly didn’t stop her from interacting with him. It wasn’t hard, she could even talk to him in public while putting on earphones to make it seem like she were on the phone, calling someone.
Joshua himself was thrown off as a young child when Haneul could still see him. He was told that she would forget and lose the ability to play with him and it broke his heart. He wished so desperately for her to never forget him to always be able to see him and not shut him out unintentionally. And when Haneul grew up and still saw him, he was more than happy and grateful. He was ecstatic. There was simply no reason to question what was a gift for him.
And while he was happy for most of her life, there was a part of him that was growing dark. Seeing her interact with real humans, with people who were able to touch her, he saw red.
Why were they allowed to touch her, able to feel her warmth and soft skin? Why was he not allowed and able to do so as well. In the end, he was the one who looked after her. Who protected her and cared for her more than anyone else ever would.
So whenever someone tried to approach Haneul, he made sure they left. When she wanted to go out, he convinced her to stay in, to not meet up with anyone, to pay only attention to him. Haneul started to feel suffocated by his actions that were confining her into her room. She wanted to go out and get fresh air, but Joshua would not allow it. Not anymore.
Locking the door of her own apartment, he made sure she couldn’t leave, wouldn’t leave.
“Where do you think you are going?” He raised his eyebrows, his expression grim.
Trying to open the door, Haneul frowned confused. “Joshua, open the door. I want to take fresh air!”
“I’ll open a window for you, there is no need to go out for something like that sweetheart,” he mumbled calmly. The once endearing pet name just made her feel unsettling, her tummy quenching weirdly. Haneul felt on edge like something wasn’t right. But he was her loving and dedicated Joshua, her guardian angel she shouldn’t be scared of at all.
“Why are you not letting me leave? Joshua, what is going on?” Haneul whispered, her breathing quickening as she felt his aura. It was different, more heavy, more…dark.
Smiling gently, he shook his head. “Nothing at all, why should there be something wrong?” He asked back, making his way to her figure in front of the door.
Trying to get as much space between him and her as possible, Haneul back collided with the door. But that didn’t stop Joshua from stepping closer to her figure as his body pressed against hers. The smile he was giving her now, the one that would always tell her that everything is and will be alright was making her feel scared. Her breath quickened as a consequence.
“Why are you doing this?” Haneul’s voice broke in the end, her eyes forming tears.
Wiping the first leaking tear from her cheek with care, Joshua’s smiling face turned sad at her shocked one. Pulling her into his arm, finally, he pulled her off the door and engulfed her completely, nuzzling his face into her neck to take in the scent that was so unmistakably her.
“Because you could get hurt because the world out there is dangerous. The people are scum and they wouldn’t bat an eyelash to hurt you. I am only protecting you, caring for you. Because I love you, Haneul. So much.” His breath ghosted on her your skin, making her shudder as she silently trembled in his arms, too occupied by his touch, the heat of his body, the small caress of his lips on her neck as his hands trailed small circles and patterns on the back of her torso where his hands sneaked into her shirt, trying to coax her to relax her muscles and give in to him. Give into the strong feeling of want he was igniting with his touch in her, just as much as the caress was arousing him.
“What did you do Joshua?” Haneul asked as she tried to get out of the spiralling feelings, the effect his touch had on her, breathing hastily like she wasn't getting enough oxygen into her lungs as she saw the dark gaze of his eyes. She felt overwhelmed. By the situation, his change and especially his touch and proximity. “How are you touching me? You couldn’t before, how?”
“Calm down, love,” he chuckled, his voice suddenly deep and husky as he leaned his forehead on hers. “Why would I want to stay a guardian angel if I can’t do what I was always craving? Why should I be something that was hindering me from being with you, caressing you, having you in my arms and seeing the reaction my simple and small touch has on you? It was an easy decision to make, even though the initial change hurt. But I would do everything for you, even if that meant taking my own life.” He chuckled lightly as if he wasn’t talking about anything serious.
As if nothing but her mattered.
And then she saw it, his wings.
The once clear white beautiful wings were now nothing but the darkest shade of black she had ever seen. And even though she absolutely adored the white feathers, the black wings were mesmerising, breathtaking as it oozed with a kind of power that was astonishing and new to her.
“Being a dark angel is so much easier, baby,” Joshua whispered into her ear, his lips slightly trailing down her jaw towards her neck and then to her shoulder where he left one single wet kiss. “Now I can touch you, be with you, hold you, have you. Now we can be together, now you are truly mine. And I will make sure that no one will ever be able to take you away from me! Not life, not fate and certainly not death.”
And before Haneul could complain, try to fight her way out of his embrace, his wings encased them both and in the next second, they were gone.
