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DREAM SEVENTEEN

'That doesn't look edible at all,'  Y/N stared at the green antidote that Kim Dokja fed Yoo Joonghyuk who was poisoned. 

"You two really make a good couple," said Han Sooyoung. Y/N wanted to laugh. The reader looked like he was really done with the plagiarist and her comments. 

Y/N had a sudden thought, 'would me and him make a good couple too if he was still here?' . The (h/c) male stared at Kim Dokja and Yoo Joonghyuk. '... I didn't realise before but, he was like a mixture of Kim Dokja-hyung and Joonghyuk-ah.'.

Who was 'he'? 'He' was Y/N's first love, Kim Joonghyun.

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"You be good ok Y/N? They'll 'fix' you here so remember to be kind and grateful ok?" his aunt said in a sickly sweet voice. It was disgusting. Filled with lies. How could- how dare she talk to him that way as if she and her husband didn't light his house on fire to try to kill him along with his parents to steal their fortune? It seemed like her sending him to a mental hospital was a way for her to avoid taking care of him, making an excuse about how his mental state was bad after his parent's death. 

"We'll be sure to take care of him well ma'am," smiled the doctor. Y/N wanted to scoff. He was fake too. There's no doubt that he was actually sold by his aunt and uncle to the man in front of him to experiment on. 

He had passed by this hospital many times and every time one of his caretakers would quickly pull him away, telling him that this specific hospital wasn't a safe place for children because of previous reports on disturbing things.

He was right. As soon as the door shut behind his aunt, the doctor's smile dropped and he showed a smile Y/N would describe as a 'pervert's' smile. The doctor grabbed the (h/c) boy's arm and dragged him to a room where another boy who seemed the same age as him was at.

"000, this is your new friend," the doctor said to the boy before he turned to Y/N, "this is now your new home. Your name is now 001, got it?"

Y/N nodded. He knew he didn't have a choice and it would just hurt to argue back. His freedom and rights were pretty much gone as soon as his aunt sold him.

After the doctor left, the boy called '000' approached him with a big smile.

"Hi! I'm Kim Joonghyun, what's your name?" the boy asked.

"You heard that man, I'm 001," Y/N replied, walking pass the boy and laying on a bed. Joonghyun left him alone after that, picking up a book that was on his bed and continued reading.

The next morning, Joonghyun greeted Y/N with a big smile and 'good morning'. Y/N knew Joonghyun didn't sleep at all last night, neither did he. Joonghyun had stayed up all night reading his book. 

"Why didn't you sleep?" Y/n asked.

"I was reading. What about you? You didn't sleep either," Y/N was surprised that the boy had noticed.

"I-It doesn't matter. Was that book so interesting that it kept you up all night?" the (h/c) boy tried to change the topic.

"Not really, it's just that this book is like one of those classic fairy tales with happy ever after. I read them because I'm of jealous of the people in there. The good people always get what they deserve, the bad guys get punished and everyone lives happily," Joonghyun sighed, "it's way different from reality."

"That's a dumb reason to read a book."

"Not really. Lots read things to escape reality. You know if you get sold to someone to experiment on you by your own family, freedom and happiness are pretty much fantasies."

"..." it felt like Joonghyun was purposely targeting him, but most likely he was just telling him how he ended up here too.

As days, weeks, months and years go by, the two got closer and closer. Y/N had learnt that Joonghyun loved stories very much. Most of the time Joonghyun would tell him about a story he was able to read online called 'Three Way to Survive an Apocalypse'. Y/N would listen to everything the boy said without interrupting or speaking. He was too mesmerised by Joonghyun. His grey-ish black eyes shone in the little light they had, his slightly curly black hair that split from the right of his head looked soft and his smile was all that Y/N could think of. Even the bruises and bandages covering his skin couldn't mask his handsomeness. Y/N felt like he was gonna drool. 

He knew that Joonghyun loved reading stories so... he decided to write one.

"Hyung!" a boy with (h/c) approached a boy with bruises covering his skin. "I wrote a story!"

A story about a boy called 'L/N Y/N' who wandered everywhere around the world searching for a meaning in life, always in the background and appearing when people needed help. 

The bruised boy turned to the boy smiling happily.

"Good job," Joonghyun smiled, then his face turned to a painful expression before he coughed. The (h/c) boy's smile slowly dropped. The doctor's experiments were hurting Joonghyun. Joonghyun was slowly.. dying.

"What's with that expression?" Joonghyun cupped Y/N's face and made the (h/c) male look him in the eyes, "I'm ok, I promise."

He died. The doctor ended up killing Joonghyun in one of his latest experiments and all he did after Joonghyun die was bring in another kid called 002 and tell Y/N to 'get along' with him. What kind of bullsh*t is that? He was filled with agony, he was grieving over the death of his first love and that was all the doctor said?! He didn't... he didn't even get to tell the boy that he loved him...

He was never mental. He was only dropped off at the mental hospital because his aunt sold him but the longer he stayed here without the one he loved besides him, he felt like he was going crazy. He killed him. 

He killed the doctor and now he was sitting on a hospital bed after he was found not guilty in the trial. 

He felt empty from there on. He was an empty shell until he met him- he met them. He met Kim Dokja on the train. Kim Dokja showed many resemblances to Joonghyun. They both were covered in bandages and bruises, they both loved stories and even liked the same one which was TWSA. A coincidence? Y/N doesn't know. They both were... liars, saying they were ok when they weren't.

Then he met Yoo Joonghyuk. When the apocalypse became real, Y/N had destroyed the train cabin doors and went to other cabins, that was where he met Joonghyuk. He was bewildered when he first saw the protagonist. The grey-ish black eyes, the slightly curly hair that split on the right side was like Joonghyun's. The only thing missing was a smile and no doubt he'd look exactly like Joonghyun. 

He never meant to do something that could hurt Kim Dokja or Yoo Joonghyuk. He really didn't mean to, but he just couldn't help himself from thinking of a dead person when he was with them. If he were to be honest, he sometimes wants to pretend that they are Joonghyun, but both are missing something. Joonghyuk only has Joonghyun's looks, and Dokja only had Joonghyun's personality. The 'Joonghyun' that Y/N has projected onto them aren't complete. 

Y/N would act all lovey dovey and even flirt with the two from time to time behind the scenes, but he pleads and pleads that neither Joonghyuk or Dokja will ever fall in love with someone like him. 

Someone who will forever be in love with a dead boy...

TO BE CONTINUED...

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(A/N)
Hope you recognise the part that's in the description of this book and the name 'Joonghyun' if you've read the novel.