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i meant to talk to you more during the hot shot party
there are not many cool people out there who are chill with kissing strangers and don't make it weird
so thanks??
i realize it's like, 2am
so you don't have to reply to this tonight
or at all
but hi 🍤

[there is a message coming in with the recipients being jaehyuk and an unknown number]

You have to let people go. Everyone who's in your life are meant to be in your journey, but not all of them are meant to stay till the end.

[if the vampire hybrid tries to respond, he'll find that none of his texts get delivered. resending them will only give him the same results. if he calls, an automated voice tells him that the phone is off]

[ Rooks is sure that, once all the dust has settled and things are as normal as they ever are in his world, that he is going to look back on this fiasco as something just a little hilarious and totally worth telling to friends. honestly, how often can you say that you managed to get your status of demon revoked despite punishment still being a thing that was ongoing simply because you indulged in your punishment with the wrong person? not many beings, he is sure.

point of the matter was, Rook was human for the first time in hell only knows how long thanks to a dalliance with the guard dog of the hall of judgement, blessed with mortality once more. he has a few options about where to go and who to contact (what with thing being very sudden and all, Rook didn't manage to get his shit together), but above all, he thinks to seek out Jaehyuk.

it was strange, trying to fit into this skin again (not that it was different just-- less attuned? more attuned? he wasn't sure the difference actually), body still remembering how to move and exist without the coils of Lust in his bones. he made his way through the streets of Seoul with a bounce in his step if only because so many people were walking past him, brushing by him, with no hints or tangled of their emotions reaching him.

he was free from the bonds of his former Cardinal.

it takes him a while to get to Jae's apartment, and it isn't until he lands at the door that he thinks that, hey, maybe he should have texted the other to see if he was around. it had been... a while since they last talked. mostly because of Rook and his, uh, predicament. he isn't sure how long he was out being stripped of his demon status, but he knows it didn't happen quickly.

fiddling with the phone in his pocket, Rook steels himself and hopes to whatever might be listening (and not hate him) that the demon is home before he knocks.

loudly.]

Jae? You around?

[ if anyone was going to notice the change in him immediately, it was the former vampire. ]