WHEN WE WERE YOUNG

by notyoongs on ao3

jeongguk stares. at—himself. as a sixteen-year-old. he’s got—black hair, just as fluffy and terribly dishevelled as it’s always been in the morning, and there’s baby fat on his cheeks, and there are gauges in his ears, and he’s staring with those wide wide eyes that jeongguk knows, that jeongguk has—this jeongguk. and also that jeongguk.

they stare at each other for an inordinate amount of time, it feels—that jeongguk with a tea cup in his hand and a massive white t-shirt on. and jeongguk had just assumed that if this was a dream, he would be the only jeongguk. and if this wasn’t a dream and he’d somehow ended up here for real, he would have switched places with himself or just turned up in the other’s place.

but. that’s clearly not the case.

“um,” says jeongguk, this jeongguk. “hello?”

and jeongguk—that jeongguk—screams.

(or: jeongguk wakes up in 2013. he finds that some things always change—and some things always stay the same.)

yoonkook / general / 13k / angst, fluff, time travel au, canon compliant (sort of)