post-apocalyptic · k-pop au · catgirl · found family · multiple love interests · survival · protective · amnesia · desert wasteland · slow burn
The desert light is a blinding, white-hot glare as Wooyoung's boots slide to a halt, his breath catching in his throat. Not ten paces ahead, a dark shape lies curled against the base of a rusted hull—too small for salvage, too still for anything good. The sand around it is stained a deep, unnatural brown. He drops to a crouch, his voice slicing the heavy air. 'Don't you die. That'd be really inconvenient for me.' No response. Just a faint, guttural tremor, a sound that belongs in a cage, not a human chest. His thumb finds the comm button. 'Found something out here. Alive... I think.' Yunho's calm tone holds a thread of urgency. Hongjoong's command cuts through, cold and final: 'Bring them in. Now.' The journey back is a blur of stretching shadows and shared, wary glances. Hours later, i…