Ship/Member: Soonyoung/Junhui
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: space au, space-time travel, quantum entanglement, very big science-y words, soonyoung is a sapiosexual
Permission to remix: Yes

this isn't related to time loops OR butterfly effect but. science biatch. i hope you don't mind too much!! (thanks to fitz from aos for his talk about space-time)
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Sometimes Soonyoung gets an itch under his skin.

It’s a difficult sensation to explain, it’s like a pull to his gravity center, a hand that yanks him towards another place-time in the mess that is the space-time entanglement.

How did it go?

Ah right, that’s what he said:

“Time is an illusion,” Junhui explained that one time, spinning in his little chair and twirling his wrist in the air. “It’s just how we perceive the fourth dimension.”

Soonyoung just cocked his head to the side, not understanding what he meant. He looked at Junhui with big, bulging eyes. With a sigh, Junhui went on.

“We’re made of three dimensions, so we can’t perceive the fourth,” he said, as Soonyoung crawled his way into his lap. His hands found Soonyoung’s waist, warm. “For us, time flows. But time just is, like the three physical dimensions that our senses can actually make sense of.”

Once again, Soonyoung didn’t really catch the meaning of his words. He leaned a bit into Junhui’s space, pouting for good measure. Junhui bit back a grin - he knew Soonyoung liked when he said his big nerdy words.

“There’s no past, and no future. Time just exists. And nothing we can do can change that.”

“You’re hurting my brain,” Soonyoung ended up saying, silencing him with a searing kiss. They both forgot about the space-time discourse once their lips met.

Now, years later - later? Well, that’s if you believe in the flowing of time. It really is hard to explain - his speech is starting to make sense. In a way.

It gets messy at times.

What was he talking about? A right, the pull.

That’s also another messy scientific explanation - two separated halves of the same particle will always be altered or affected in the same way, even at different ends of the universe.

Or well, that’s what Junhui told him another time, as they counted constellations together and Soonyoung asked him to explain the beginning of the Universe.

Junhui liked to talk about his science, and Soonyoung liked to listen, even if he didn’t understand half of what he said.

Some things are starting to make sense only now, - but what is now, exactly? Another question without an answer - while Soonyoung stares at the swirling galaxies and feels the force that drags him somewhere (or sometime) else.

Soonyoung’s guts are pulling him in the direction of his other half; he hasn’t seen Junhui since the last time he crawled through a black hole and reappeared in another place-time entirely, almost on the brink of death.

That’s when he learned that space-time is confusing. Once he crossed the event horizon, his whole essence shifted, but he remained connected to Junhui, somehow.

The pull is what tells him that he’s still alive, somewhere out there. Or well, sometime. At this point Soonyoung isn’t so sure about anything anymore.

Still, he keeps moving, and he keeps looking for the missing half of his being.

Somehow, he knows that Junhui is looking for him too.

It’s the pull that tells him so.

Somewhere (or sometime) in the mess that is the space-time conundrum, his other half is missing him just as much.