I Know I'll Protect You

Jaemin AU - Caged

The normal footsteps were approaching. Soft, gentle and yet terrifying. The pale man in the corner of the room cringed back into his own corner as the door slid open and the footsteps approached him.

Consistently kind and irresistible. 

He could hear a soft sigh as the tall figure crouched himself down in front of him, gently tilting his own face up as the hazel eyes bore into his skin, penetrating his very soul. 

“I love you.” the smooth voice whispered before letting his head drop once more and leaving the room, tightly locking it behind him. In the opposite corner of the room, the white pigeon cooed softly, a mournful melody that mingled with the darkness, growing and swelling to weigh down upon the man trapped in its confined. 

A scream rippled through the room as pure insanity overtook him raking his body and mind. The bird fluttered in its cage wildly, contaminated by his madness and chaos. 

There was no escape. From the hands, the voice, the footsteps.

He threw open the door of the cage of the bird and watched it soar into the sky through the window, disappearing between the clouds. 

The cage was empty. But the captured was still within.