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“Hyung! You are going to kill us at this rate,” whines his subordinates, Woojin as he flung to the ground, not caring of the consequences of using personal greeting anymore.
One look to his second in command, Seongwu knows he has again gone overboard with their training, “Rest!” announces him which is instantly met by sighs of relief around him.
It is funny really. How immediately after he got dumped, his team is finally getting a “vacation”. In this context the vacation means that they will be free of S-class missions that they usually handle. Seongwu days consist of being trainer or mediocre assistant that doesn’t require lots of thinking. Great! Just when he needs distraction the most.
“Don’t tell me you’re going to the hospital again,” Daniel, his second in command, deadpans as he sees his captain in casual clothing after he finally wraps up his training session.
Another meaning of vacation is being in Seoul constantly with lots of free hours. Seongwu wouldn’t say he has used his vacation wisely, but what else can he do when his heart is aching this bad. The petty side of him almost, almost regrets taking the bullet for Daniel that day. If only he didn’t end up in Minhyun’s hospital..
“Hyuung.. Stop going there. It is only going to hurt you more,” whines Daniel when he is not getting any response. Daniel was the most furious at Minhyun. The younger apparently finds the fact that Minhyun dumps him right after he wakes up from his injury as ‘the most heartless thing a person can do’. But can Seongwu really blame him to do so?
In the span of time when Seongwu knows Minhyun, he never sees the man cries. Not when he is so stressed out, working between his thesis and flood of patients. Not when he almost messes up an important surgery. Not when has to say goodbye to a patient that he has hold dear (though he insisted on having no kind of attachment to his patient, Seongwu knows how he had broken the rule for some of his patients). Minhyun is one of the strongest person Seongwu knows and that what has drawn him to Minhyun. Yet with one blow (amongst his many injuries, Seongwu won’t even count that one as his worst), Minhyun is breaking for him.
In a sense Seongwu feels happy to know that he means so much to the man. In another sense his heart is breaking for he doesn’t want to be a burden to the man he loves.
“I’m just going to see him for a bit. He looks pale yesterday,”
“And you’re not? You are not in a good condition as well, hyung! This is supposed to be our resting days, you are wasting your energy!” rants Daniel heavily. This is not the first time they have this conversation and by now all members of the special unit already remember the content of it. Everyone has realized by now, how futile Daniel’s attempts are.
It is proven when Seongwu only pats Daniel on the back as he makes his way out.
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The last thing Seongwu expects when he comes today is to be cornered by Sungwoon, Minhyun’s sunbae. The look he gives is enough to scare Seongwu even though there is a jarring height difference between them.
After being quiet for awhile, the older finally sighs and gives him a key, “Minhyun is sick. Can you try making him sleep? God! You’ll need one as well. I really don’t understand why you both insist to break up when it certainly breaks you both,”
“He’s the one who wants it,” mutters Seongwu lowly as he receives the key.
“It is not mutual?” The surprise is apparent on Sungwoon’s face.
Seongwu heaves as a reply. The young doctor shooks his head in disbelief, “Why don’t you stop him then?”
“I don’t want to hurt him,”
Sungwoon scoffs at his answer and Seongwu feels offended. It is as if the older thinks it is easy for Seongwu to come up with such decision, as if he didn’t try to restrain himself from begging Minhyun to come back. Heck he was ready to bring Minhyun to meet his mother, to officially let him enter his life.
“You don’t know how hard it is for me,” growls Seongwu darkly.
“Then why you let him be? When you clearly knows how much he is hurting as well from his oh-so-wise decision,”
Sungwoon’s answer makes Seongwu realized one thing. Minhyun is as miserable as him due to their break. Him giving Minhyun space doesn’t make the latter any happier than before.
“Despite his appearance, my friend tends to make stupidest decision for himself. You should know that better than me,” continues Sungwoon as he shows Seongwu the room where he apparently has locked Minhyun in.
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The moment Seongwu unlocks the door, Minhyun leaps on him—only to leap back as fast when realizing Seongwu is not the person he is expecting. As clumsy as he is, Minhyun trips on his own foot due to the abrupt movement, landing hard on his butt instead.
Seongwu can’t help but to burst out laughing at the cute display in front of him, the tension he’s feeling dissipating at once. Minhyun pouts at the reaction. Slowly redness creeping up on his white skin, starting from his neck to the very tip of his ear.
“You can help me,” grumbles the older lowly.
All smiles, Seongwu voluntary gives out his hand expecting Minhyun put his weight on it. Apparently Minhyun has other idea. Above all, Seongwu should have foreseen it as he knows Minhyun’s petty side well. The older pulls Seongwu hand as hard as he can attempting to force the black-haired to share the same fate as him.
With some great miscalculation, Seongwu falls on Minhyun instead of beside him like Minhyun first intended him to be. Unlike in those romantic drama, their head bangs on each other loudly it is probably enough to crack their skull.
One shared look is enough to send them into maniacal laughters while rubbing their soreness away.
This is the thing that keeps Seongwu coming back––he comfort. He never finds anyone who he can be so comfortable with that it is easy to be whoever he wants to be. Somehow Minhyun always manage to bring the child in him, the personality that he thought forgotten when he has to be a captain whom people are relying on.
“I don’t think I’ll make it without you,” the sentence is blurted out automatically from his mouth, stopping the train of laughter they are in.
Minhyun goes rigid at the statement and Seongwu almost laments at his inability to choose a better timing to start discussing something this sensitive, but then the older finally replies, “What makes you think I can?”
Seongwu watches as a forlorn smile blooms gradually on Minhyun’s lips. Right at that moment Seongwu realizes that he has Minhyun’s heart fully––his body and soul all for him to take. Immediately he reaches for his hands, kissing each finger delicately.
“Thank you,” he whispers, “thank you,” he keeps repeating those words slowly letting Minhyun knows that he also means so much more to him.
“I always hate people who recklessly toying with death, yet amongst other billion people in this world I just have to find you. I keep trying to resist, but probably you have me from the start. Gosh this is stupid,”
Sensing the waiver in Minhyun’s voice, Seongwu starts to caress his cheek, “I will promise you one thing, I will not recklessly toying with death. I assure you that all of my decisions are results of careful planning. I need you to believe me on that,”
“Still, you can be gone in no time and I wouldn’t know. I wouldn’t be able to say my last greeting, telling you how I feel,” a single tear falls from his eye, Seongwu’s thumb ready to catch it, brushing it away.
“Then we’ll live as if it’s our last. We’ll savor our every moment together. It will be worth it. I know for sure life with you will be,”
Minhyun sneaks in to find comfort in between Seongwu’s arms. The younger is more than ready to indulge the shared warmth, lulled by the steady rhythm of their heartbeat.
They stay for awhile before Seongwu hears Minhyun mutter something on his shoulder, something similar to, “Marry me Seongwu-ah,”
The black-haired thinks that he has misheard something so he pulls away from the hug to see the older shying away from his eyes, face already beet red.
“You say you want to savor our moment together,” whimpers Minhyun as Seongwu keeps trying to make the older looks at him. Happy smile already spreads wide across his face.
“This is not the kind of moment I have in mind,” laughs Seongwu as he gestures to their position on the floor of a cramped staff room that is despite being used by doctors, looks a bit on the filthy side, “But sure.. Of course. Do I get my ring?” Seongwu’s grins only grow wider when Minhyun scowls visibly deeper.
“I came here only to check on you, I don’t even plan to talk to you. Who would have imagine I am getting a proposal instead,” laughs Seongwu heartily.
The taller buries his head on his hand in embarrassment, “If you’re done laughing, can we seal this agreement now?”
When Seongwu looks at him quizzically, Minhyun closes their distance with the kiss.
“You have a fever?” asks Minhyun realizing how hot Seongwu’s face is.
“You too, stupid,” replies Seongwu with a smile.
“Ongcheongie..,”
“Hwancheongie..,”
“Do you think Sungwoon-hyung will mind if we hog this place a little bit more?” Seongwu’s question gets a smack as a reply.
“Yaa.. Ong this is my workplace,” shrieks a beet red Minhyun.
Seongwu doesn’t think he has said inappropriate stuff until he realizes that Minhyun has got him wrong, “I was thinking whether I can crash to get some sleep here as well since my head is hurting, but sure Hwang if you want to do something more workplace inappropriate I am with you,” giggles Seongwu.
Leaving Minhyun in red for the third time that day.
It is not possible to do any of the inappropriate stuff of course, since the moment their head hits the bed they are lost in deep sleep already. Legs tangled together.
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“If Sungwoon-hyung didn’t lock you that day and make us meet, when do you decide to tell me how you feel?” asks Seongwu one day when they are hanging out with both Minhyun and Seongwu’s friends. Their friends apparently can hit it off real quick, especially Daniel and Sungwoon. Daniel seems to instantly forgive Minhyun when the latter introduce his sunbae to him.
While Minhyun still has this fear everytime Seongwu leaves him, he has learned to trust on Seongwu. Minhyun learns that Seongwu, like him, only wants to help people in the way that he excels at. After understanding that nature, it is easier to accept Seongwu’s job.
“I don’t know.. I haven’t made up my mind yet,” answers him nonchalantly as he takes a sip of his tea.
“You haven’t think about it? But you have a good chance then, I came to your hospital everyday. What if I get tired first and you lost your chance?” Seongwu asks in disbelief.
“Then probably it isn’t our time yet,” Minhyun knows that his answer will irk Seongwu, but he’ll say it anyway, because he knows his Ongcheongie will have a breakdown over it.
As he predicts, Seongwu wails, “You are so mean, aren’t you? After all those efforts I make to visit you everyday, you just going to ignore me when you know you can reciprocate my feelings,”
“It is not like you want your presence to be known when visiting me Seongwu,” it is true that Seongwu always hide whenever he sees Minhyun, thinking the other doesn’t know that he has been watching his every move in the hospital.
“But you could have greeted me,”
“You could have greeted me, Seongwu,”
“Why don’t you do it first? I already confessed first,”
“I proposed you first didn’t I?”
“But I am the one who buys the ring first,”
“But I-,”
The conversation gets cut when Sungwoon slams his beer on the table, “If you get into a fight again just know that Daniel and I will be too busy to help you,”
Seongwu and Minhyun shares a look at Sungwoon statement before they laugh happily together, “Don’t worry, hyung. We’ll be fine,”