goodnight, my angel
⋆ ⋆ ⋆ ━━ dalxdeokhye 、 i promised i would never leave you ⋆
Deokhye had been working on her needlework, too absorbed in her own little world when one of the family servants came with tea by her mother’s orders, the young Lady greeted her with a smile and thanked her happily leaving her needlework by her bed to get a cup of tea when the words of the girl made her frozen from head to toe. “Isn’t little Lady going to greet little lord? I saw him with Lord and Lady on my way.” Deokhye knew she said something more after that but her brain didn’t hold that part of the information since it was stuck repeating the same words over and over again: He is home. Placing the cup down on the little table, the young Lady got up as fast as she could with the help of the girl before rushing out of the room after thanking her.
That was the least Lady-like thing Deokhye had done in her whole life. Running to the main gate where she was told her brother had been seen for the last time, her heart was racing, beating against her ribs that it should have been painful but it wasn’t. Deokhye only slowed down once she was near, not being used to run, she had run out of breath but that little stop was enough to give her strenght once again since her brown orbs landed on him…he was finally home. Deokhye rushed to his side, she needed to see him closer, to hug him and never let him go, to see by herself that it wasn’t only a dream, she had plenty of those ever since he left.
She could feel the hot tears behind her eyes and as they slowly made their way though her cheeks. “Brother” She let out as she jumped into his arms, holding him as close as she could while hiding herself on the comfort of his chest. “you are back, you are here” She spoke though it seemed more like a message to herself, to believe what was infront of her. Deokhye could hear her mother complaining about her being like a child but no one made an effort to pull her away from him and she was grateful for that. “Never leave me again, please.” Deokhye sniffed, Deoksu had missed her growing up, she didn’t want him to miss anything in her life again.
he is home. it’s something he had never really thought he’d live to see happen. that comfort and familiarity would be brought to him years after he had signed his life away. he still feels the roughness of the wind against his cheeks, of time away and times changed being inked into his skin as he takes in the sight of his home. of the manor he had once spent all his life in. with no clue of the world outside of his own little, preposterous bubble.
and now, popped -- he had seen what the world truly looked like. and it was ugly, a definitive color of black, grays and whites with no true meaning if one was so hungry for war and power. it was a world he didn’t want to be in. a world he knew he could no longer live in. it was a world where death had been tasted time and time again and would never truly stop until one’s last breath.
it was this breath that had wished he could take a leave for home. that had been more than happy to find his father’s call for him ; that his father was the one who wanted him near, once more. and at first chance he took it, vowing to never leave.
to never go back because, he realized -- he, choi deoksu, was no man of war.
it is why, when tears are fresh in his mother’s eyes and his father’s hand is warm in his grasp ; deoksu feels that surge of familiarity and safety that had never consumed him in the years prior.
three years was a long time, and it was finally time to make up for all that.
starting with the person he missed the most ( well, second person ) --
a hand smooths along her hair; a kiss pressed to the crown before he pulls apart from the younger. she had grown taller, slimmer ; the planes of her face while last had held the last bits of adolescence were not slender and softer -- that of a lady’s rather than a young girl’s.
“look how you’ve grown, ah -- deokhye-yah, are you sure you’re my little sister?”
but always, deep down -- deoksu knew, she would always be his little sister, no matter how much she grew in his absence.
he laughs, good-naturedly ; a hand raised to smooth the hairs at her crown, “that’s something i will promise you -- i won’t leave, ever.”












