Fire and Rain

“I’m so sorry,” Iseul’s teacher tries to tell him, “I’m so sorry, Donghyuck,”But Donghyuck can’t hear him, his voice echoes, sounds far away and masked by the pounding of Donghyuck's heart that he is suddenly all too aware of. He yanks the man’s hand off his shoulder as though burnt, the appendage no longer offering him comfort.He knows the teacher is talking to him but he doesn’t know what he’s saying, doesn’t care. He just needs to find his sisters. He lets his feet carry him. He thinks he’s running, but it feels like slow motion as he treads through the halls with heavy burden. There’s dust - the same dust from the videos - littering the hallway, traumatised children crying, sobbing even, into their teacher’s arms, hairs full of the dust of their fallen classmates.Donghyuck ignores it all, ignores the stares he gets, the shouting from behind him, the anguished cries of others.He just lets his feet carry him to Siwoo’s classroom, heart pounding viciously in his ears, breath deep and ragged.They’re going to be there. He tells himself. They’re going to be sitting there waiting for me.or; When Thanos kills half of humanity, seven boys become an unlikely family in the wake of tragedy