girlsfest | Round 3: Free-for-all

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CONTENT
Prompts and fills have to center around K-pop girl group member(s). This includes:

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Female soloists
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Characters/Ship: Shen Xiaoting (Kep1er)/Kim Jiwoong (ZB1)
Tags: Idolverse, Ghosts
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sorry, this is not the inkigayo bathrooms
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If Xiaoting never has to see the ecru wall tiles of the WakeOne bathrooms again, then it will be too soon. The mess of brains and blood remains on the floor even after she’d exorcised the gui because of course she can’t catch a break.

The gui had been masquerading as a staffer, its ID lanyard now coated in red. It had poked its head into the practice room and asked for Xiaoting. “Urgent business,” it had said when Yujin had stopped the music and furrowed her brow.

Xiaoting had given her an apologetic smile before following the staffer out, mentally pencilling midnight dance practice into her schedule. She would think that the company would know better than to interrupt comeback preparations; perhaps it was something urgent, like visa issues or an update in her contract negotiations.

She would’ve much rather dealt with paperwork than cleaning up viscera.

The jiggling of the bathroom door snaps her out of her stupor. Naturally, she had forgotten to lock the door in her haste to dump the body in the bathroom. Forget visa issues, she thinks hysterically. She’ll be stuck here forever.

“Occupied, sorry!” she says as the door swings open and she’s met with Kim Jiwoong.

To Jiwoong’s credit, he doesn’t panic when he registers the body.

“Sunbaenim—” he starts to say.

“Please don’t,” Xiaoting says, interrupting him. “Could you get Zhang Hao, please?” She should’ve grabbed her phone and texted him. She’d been the one who had initially warned him and Ricky about the gui haunting the company— familiar ghosts in a foreign country.

Jiwoong winces. “I can’t,” he says. “He has a schedule today.”

Xiaoting wonders if she has enough time to rinse the blood from her skin while he leaves and reports her, but instead Jiwoong slips inside the bathroom and closes the door behind him. She hears the dull click of the lock before Jiwoong gets on his knees and takes the hand towel from her hands.

He glances at the stray ID lanyard twisted on the floor. “Never liked him anyway,” he says lightly.

Xiaoting chokes out a laugh. “You’re acting very normal about this.”

“How would you rather I act?” Jiwoong asks.

“Upset, I guess?” Xiaoting gestures to the body. “Do you hide a lot of corpses?”

The residual panic from being caught is starting to subside. She’s used to internalizing her fear while her dream dangles off a precipice. She looks at Jiwoong’s impassive face and thinks that Zhang Hao hadn’t been the only one to study past survival show seasons.

“Although, it’s not a corpse in any meaningful way,” she continues. “The actual human that this gui was born from died ages ago.”

“Gui?”

“A ghost,” Xiaoting says. Close enough. “They’re drawn to WakeOne for some reason. I think it’s due to the temporary nature of this place. You can ask Zhang Hao for more details.”

“No need,” Jiwoong says. “I believe you.”

They scrub the blood out in silence, save for the occasional requests to rinse out the hand towel and for more paper towels.

When they’re done, the waste bin is full.

“You can take out the trash, and I’ll dispose of the body,” Jiwoong tells her.

Xiaoting frowns. “I can get rid of the body,” she says. “It’s no big deal.” It’ll be a pain to drag the gui out to a safe location, but she doesn’t trust Jiwoong to dispose of the body correctly.

“Remember what you asked me earlier?” Jiwoong’s mouth twists up into a smile. “I’ll be fine.”

i love the last line and all the untold things it implies

Round 3: Free-for-all

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