[Fic] Just Because I love You
Title: Just Because I Love You
Pairings: Yunho/Changmin, Yoochun/Junsu if you squint real hard.
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Character Death... sorta. Angst.
Genre: Angst, Romance.
Word Count: 779
A/N: The second of my 100 fics personal challenge! Part 1 Refer to here for more info. I decided that it was going to be Homin for this one and the theme is Rings. That means it's Jaemin for the next one. Also the title doesn't doesnt really have anything to do with the story...it's just a line in it. And deidcated to yuxo for all the fantastic Homin smut that she writes, and as a consolation gift because the fic with her in it just didn't come out. And yes, I wrote two in one day, I was on a roll and it's school tommorrow.
Summary: Yunho gave Changmin a ring for their 4th album comeback.
‘Changmin’ Yunho thought ‘oh Changmin, why? Why did that happen’ he thought back to that fateful day. After their 4th Korean comeback, after the concert in front of city hall, Changmin was never supposed to ride alone in that car. If only they had waited, if only he had waited, then maybe would be gone instead, then it would have saved Changmin, his Changmin.
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“hey Yunho?” Changmin called over at his hyung.
“yeah?”
“I forgot my sunglasses, could you guys wait a sec?”
“awww c’mon Changmin! We want to get home!” Junsu was whining, they were extremely tired after performing.
“It’s fine then, you guys go on without me. I’ll catch a ride with a coordi nuna” Changmin responded, knowing that the band members wanted to get home and shower.
“Are you sure? I could wait with you?” Yunho didn’t want to leave his lover behind.
“It’s fine hyung, just go one without me” Changmin assured him with a kiss.
“Alright.. see you at home!” Yunho held the kiss just a little longer.
“Bye!”
After they had gotten home, their manager, usually a cheerful guy walked in sobbing. They ran to him worried, scared ‘had something happened to Changmin?’
Their manager looked up at them. At Yunho. He took a deep rasping breath and said
“Changmin’s dead”
For Yunho, his world ended at that moment. It collapsed around him, his hopes, his dreams, his love. He couldn’t bear to see anyone right then so he ran, ran to the bedroom he shares, no, shared with Changmin.
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Now, back to the present, he stared that the ring that he gave to Changmin for their comeback. The manager said that the investigators found that at the site, it was the only thing left of Changmin as the car was in flames and everything burned to ashes, all except that ring. Yunho stared at it, hoping that maybe, just maybe, it will bring Changmin back.
With Changmin’s death TVXQ was on hiatus indefinitely, although the company had wanted them to continue. “For Changmin” they said “he would have wanted you to move on.” But that wasn’t the truth, the company only wanted the money. They reconsidered though, after Yunho blew up and trashed the meeting room that they were in, flipping tables and punching walls. After that, Yunho stayed locked in, his room now, and didn’t eat, drink or sleep.
Junsu and Yoochun had cried, Junsu saying it was his fault, that he shouldn’t have whined about staying later. Yoochun only comforted him. Later, Yoochun and Junsu left, to America they said to escape, they didn’t say what though. Jaejoong called them cowards yelled at them for leaving in their time of need. He wasn’t much better though, downing beer after beer and when he wasn’t doing that he was smoking and cursing.
Yunho just couldn’t deal with everything, none of them could, he couldn’t bear to watch TVXQ slowly fall apart so he just retreated to his room and stared at things that belonged to Changmin.
Slowly but surely the days went by and Yunho was a wreck, he still wasn’t sleeping, wasn’t eating but he had to sleep sometime, right? So, that night as he lay in bed he heard Changmin’s voice as always when he tried to sleep, clear and loud singing the new song from their album, a love ballad. It had never been this clear before. He fell asleep and the singing stopped. Now it was Changmin’s voice, calling
“Hyung!”
It was so bright, so carefree the voice of someone that didn’t deserve the fate he got.
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“Hyung! Hyung!” Changim tried to shake Yunho awake, as the older boy was moaning and crying out Changmin’s name and shedding tears in his sleep. “Hyung! Please wake up!”
Yunho jerked awake, staring shocked at Changmin’s face before him, before realizing that all that about Changmin dying was a dream, or a nightmare more like. After realizing this he grabbed Changmin and held him tight, breathing in his scent, marvelling at how soft his hair was and how smooth his hands were but most of all just basking in the entire being that was Changmin. He kissed the ring on Changmin’s finger and smiled, Everything was back to normal.
“Hyung…. as much as I enjoy this, ummm why?” Changmin asked, puzzled.
“Just because I love you” was the simple reply he got back. And it was good enough for him.