[Fan-fic] Moon Thief [Chapter IX]
Title: Moon Thief [ fan-fic ]
Pairing: JaeMin (main), Yoosu, OT5
Rating: pg
Length: Chaptered [9 / 20(rough estimate)]
Warnings: newbie writer, physical abuse
Genre: Angst, Fluff, super-natural
Disclaimer: I do not own DBSK (if I did there would still be 5 members), I only own the plot.
Summary: Wings like an angel. A cursed life of suffering. That was until he came. Five lonely souls meet and set out to reach their dreams, but as always there are certain obstacles in the way. Will they make it, or will they fall out of the sky? Nothing is certain in this life.
enjoy, comments are loved ^.^
[ Chapter I ] [ Chapter II ] [ Chapter III ] [ Chapter IV ] [ Chapter V ] [ Chapter VI ] [ Chapter VII ] [ Chapter VIII ]
Chapter IX : Surprises
I got up early as usual, 9:30, way before any of the others would be up after all we’d stayed up past midnight yesterday plus, we were a group of 5 teenage guys. Who in their right mind would not sleep in? If you’re about to point out that I didn’t I shall now correct you, I did in fact sleep. Technically speaking 9:30 was late for me, I’m one of those people that usually can’t stay in bed past 8, 8:30. Anyway, I got up and made my way to the bathroom trying to avoid the number of scattered bodies taking residence on the couch and floor of my room.
Yunho had, by some unnatural talent, passed out on the sofa chair last night, while Yoochun and Junsu had both fallen asleep on the couch playing a computer game, while Jae, who had been the first to go, had fallen asleep on my bed. I’d had to move him back to his room after the other’s had been declared out for the count because they all thought I should share a bed with him. They thought it would be funny and that we made a cute couple, I gave them a sarcastic laugh and declined assuring them that a) I was straight and b) if I was gay Jae was the last person I would go out with however, to my annoyance I was going to get blackmailed into submission if I didn’t promise. I didn’t really doubt that I would be the first to get up though so they’d have no proof that I hadn’t kept my promise and moved Jae out.
I took a quick shower, threw on a clean shirt, sweater and pants then made my way back through my room (evidently all 3 of my guests were heavy sleepers, none had so much as twitched from what I could tell). I zombied down the stairs half waiting to trip, fall and kill myself and half wondering if Jae would be up to make breakfast or if I’d have to wrestle him out of bed. Evidently luck was not my friend this morning and decided Jae should sleep in this morning since he was nowhere to be found downstairs.
I went back up the stairs and did trip this time; defying pretty much every law of gravity I managed to fall up the stairs proving all the more that the fates were not going to be my friends today.
Once safely on the second floor and with a newly acquired welt on my head, I dragged my feet to Jae’s room. I knocked on the door but got no response. With that I invited myself in to find the guy sprawled on his bed, sheets on the floor, sweater riding up to show perfect porcelain skin in the dim light seeping quietly past the closed blinds. I don’t think I will ever get used to seeing the raven head like this. He seemed much too peaceful and venerable to be Jae, yet in a way I wished I could see him like this more often, preferable when he was awake and conscious. I sighed and braced myself.
“JAE WAKE UP!”
There was a loud moan from the soon to be ‘man’ that sounded suspiciously like “shut up” and he rolled over, back facing me. I sighed for the nth time that morning and walked over to the bed hoping there was nothing there Jae could throw at me. I placed a hand on his shoulder and shook it. “Wakie, wakie princess, time for breakfast.” Jae swung back around arm flying through the air just long enough for his hand to smack me in the forehead, nailing the lump I’d attained from my fight with the stairs. A string of curses escaped me and once I had regained enough sanity I yelled at the half awake boy again.
“Dude, what’s your problem I just hit my head and you decide to smack me in the face?!”
“Hey, it’s not ma fault you’ve got two left feet and fall up the stairs every other morning! Now go away I wanna sleep,” he said in sleep slurred speech.
“As hell no! Get up, I want food.” I smacked his shoulder trying to get the little devil out of bed.
“You selfish little thing!” he exclaimed mostly awake now and hit me back. Soon the smacks grew harder and the routine morning wake-up-
Jae fight was on. I should clarify, although we do mange to leave a bruise once in a while we don’t usually do any lasting damage to each other. Well excluding any harm done to our egos which are usually healed the next morning. The two of us are pretty evenly matched Jae being older and more experience, me being taller and stronger. Evidently I was not to be the winner today though as the raven head somehow managed to pull me down on the bed and pin me under an arm and a leg holding me there with sheer force of will because there was no way he stronger then me, not even in his dreams.
“Its freaking Christmas morning dude sleep for god sake! And let me sleep too,” he said and I registered that he was already drifting back to la-la-land. I let out an exasperated sigh and listened as his breath evened out.
“But I’m hungry,” I muttered under my breath. This is what I get for breaking a promise huh, I don’t have to spend the night with him but I have to suffer through a hungry morning with him keeping me from the food I need. I really let him off too easily, yet even as I thought that my sore muscles relaxed themselves without my consent and I sunk into the warm mattress and Jae’s touch. He’s already out for the count but my mind can’t help but linger on the warm feeling spreading through me.
I don’t remember feeling like this since my father died, since he left the gapping lonely hole there. However there is something different about this, it’s similar to his warmth but different. My father’s warmth had always been unconditional, I’d never had to give anything back to him, it had just there. Jae’s warmth wasn’t like that though, Jae’s warmth had a price. The raven head wanted warmth and comfort too, so he greedily stool my own, making the exchange mutual. As I drift off I begin to realise this feels even better. Taking warmth is nice but it doesn’t compare to giving back to the person. Giving back fulfills the first human need; to be needed.
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Uhh, I really need to stop drifting off when Min’s there but dude he’s like a walking sleeping pill… in a good way… I think at least. I should pay more attention to the pancakes I burn one. My ears register yelling, laughter and general chaos coming from the dining room, I’m guessing they couldn’t wait for me to open the presents. Ah, impatient little buggers, I wanted to open up what they gave me with them.
I should probably explain. I may have forgotten to mention this before when our guests came over yesterday they all brought a batch of presents in a bag or in their cloths with them. They were nothing huge really just something to celebrate the tradition. We all stuck them under the tree when they came in and promised to wait until morning to open them (although I did have to guard them vigorously, mostly from Su may I mention). I sigh and flip the last pancake on to the dish in front of me then carried the plate and maple syrup through the door and to the table.
I take back what I said earlier, they’re a bit more considerate then I thought. They did wait for me because when I came back in the wrapped boxes are still whole and shiny sitting where they’d been left yesterday. Instead, Su was telling the other 3 about one of his family reunions.
“So we walked in and saw grandpa lying on the floor, of course everyone panic and went to see if he was okay. A moment later, when he had the whole extend family in a circle and my mother about to dial 911 he popped up and yelled ‘Got you!’ and everyone just about killed the poor man for real, aunt almost nailed him with a pan to the head even. It was great, the entire family yelling and grandpa laughing his head off at his own joke.
“And there’s also this tradition each year someone gets a fake present, so like toilet paper or a toothbrush or something. And a couple years ago it was my uncle’s turn to prepare the fake present for my cosine. And well, my uncle’s a real prankster so he decided to go all out, he came in with this giant box all wrapped up in shiny paper and it had this huge bow on top. I swear the thing was bigger than me! The next morning my cosine went to open the box all excited about what could be in such a huge box but when he opened it instead of finding his present there was another box inside, and inside that one was another and another and another. By the end the entire room was practically full of boxes to the roof and then inside the last box guess what the present was.”
“Oh come on, don’t leave us hanging!” Yunho exclaimed almost ready to strangle Su.
“Okay, okay, don’t kill me I’ll tell!”
“So what was it?” asked Min with expecting eyes.
“It was a roll of toilet paper.”
It was a good thing I’d put down the pancakes by now otherwise it was unlikely they’d have made their way safely to the table, I was laughing too hard for it to be possible. I wasn’t the only one too, Yun was practically rolling around on the ground while Chun attempted to set down a glass of juice he’d been about to take a sip from. Min wasn’t so lucky, he was coughing and choking on a pancake he’d just taken a bite out of. I smacked his back now laughing at his predicament more so than the story.
“Remember Min swallow. Don’t spit, swallow” I told him as I caught my breath.
With that we were all back to rolling on the grown as my comment made Min choke even harder. His face turned beet red and the brunet threw me a glare that had lethal potential and I was just laughing too hard to care.
Half an hour later we had calmed down finished breakfast and opened presents. There was no toilet paper presents this year but we promised each other that we would do this again next year and include a fake present. Most had consisted of CD’s and other trinkets.
The most memorable presents are listed here: Min gave me a book and god I swear he must have grown a second head to give me that. It’s going to take a lot more then this convert me to reading, if that is even possible. I gave Su a new soccer ball and he almost sent it through the window the second he open the package. The boy may know how to play soccer but he had no skill in handling the ball with his hands. Yoochun got a book of sheet music, I’m not sure who it was from but I’d be willing to bet Min. Yunho got a pair of headphones from Chun because apparently his old one were on the verge of death. Min got a new video game, Tales of Graces I think. Su claims its really good so I may have to try it out, Su may be a bit strange but he knows his video games.
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The events of the morning had taken my mind off of the heavy for-boding feeling in my stomach that lingered from yesterday but it was back now. I felt like anything could go wrong at any moment. Making the hairs on the back of my neck stand at the littlest thing. I wondered when this feeling would go, it was really starting to piss me off. What could go so badly wrong? I gripped the last plate in the sink and started to lift it only for it to slip out of my fingers and shatter in the sink. I swore and turned the water off cleaning the sink of the porcelain shards.
I looked out the window as I finished and noticed the snow. Now it is usual to have lots of snow in Canada but even here it was unusual to see this much snow on the ground. To top it off, there was still more to come as it kept snowing and snowing without a patch of real sunlight on the horizon. I walked back into the living room and grabbed the remote from the couch where it had been abandoned by the others. I flipped the channels ignoring the flying pillow (which missed and nailed Yun in the face instead of me, Su then apologized about a million times to the elder) and numerous other complaints.
Soon as I hit the Weather Network (as if they were trustworthy forecasters but there really isn’t much better) there popped up a red screen warning of the storm outside. The other 4 shut up at that point and started reading the words on the screen. They warned of a serious storm that would last through today and possibly even tomorrow. It would bring over a meter of snow with it (that’s a lot) and high winds. People were warned to stay inside and get emergency supplies ready.
The message started to loop and I looked over at the other’s to see their reaction. Min, Yun and Su seemed a little shaken by the news but their reaction was noting compared to Chun. He was pale as a ghost and I could see his hands shaking in his lap.
“I don’t suppose your mother’s going to be coming to pick you up in this weather Chun?” I asked quietly trying to see if he would react.
I watched him swallowed than in a soft voice he said, “No, I don’t suppose so.” The raven head turned toward me and gave me a shaky smile that I could tell was an absolute fake. The others were too busy panicking about a power outage (well it was mostly Su panicking while Yun and Min were reassuring him nothing would happen) to notice our exchange but something told me the weird, foreboding feeling in my gut had something to do with this storm and possibility with Chun. I had yet to find out what it was however.
The hours after the report passed slowly as I eyed Chun every chance I got. Min also noticed something up at some point and was throw me questioning looks every now and then. I shrugged my shoulders when our eyes met, telling him that there was nothing wrong as I told myself I was over reacting. Min didn’t buy it though, he kept a close I on both me and Chun. Su was too busy panicking about the storm and was coming up with some crazy scenarios most including freezing to death and the end of the world while Yun was busy calming the poor guy down. Though, I do think Su picked up on the negative waves coming off of Chun because he did at a few points ask the curly haired teen if something was up or he was feeling unwell. I gave him credit for that, it took care to be able to look past your own panic to see someone else’s and address it.
After a while Yun found so old soccer video game in Min’s collection and set Su on it which finally calmed down the poor soul. I let out a sigh of relief when I finally heard his eu kyang kyang ringing through the room again. I threw a look at the clock, it told me it was about 5:30. I glanced over Chun again to see him buckling in pain, face unnaturally pale. I don’t know why but I my eyes flew to the window outside at that moment and my mind realised that, past the gray clouds spilling snow on us, the sun would be setting. Looking back at Chun I watched him get up or more like fall out of his sofa chair and stumbled out the door. I called after him and he called back saying something about a bathroom. I looked over at Min who too had gone pale, calculating look in his eyes.
He walked up to the calendar and I followed a heavy feeling setting in my stomach.
“Jae it’s a full moon today,” he said in a low whisper.
I gulped, “So?”
“You know everything in nature has its opposite right?” The question sounded more like a statement.
“Right…”
I didn’t have much more time to think about his words as he grabbed my hand and dragged me out of the living room after Chun. I looked back to see Su and Yun watching us with wide eyes. Su’s eyes had attained a new spark in them that I had never expected from his hyper active, over reactive and generally too happy personality. It was something I had only learned to recognise recently, I saw it in Min’s eyes whenever I spoke about my past, or whenever the topic of my wings came up. A spark of protectiveness, that’s what I saw in Junsu’s eyes and I just about tripped and fell on Min when I realised it.
Su got up and rushed after us, easily catching up and following the youngest to the door of the bathroom. He knocked on the door and called for Chun but the only answer we got was a strangled and pained scream. Su threw himself against the door almost breaking it but the wood held up. He called Yoochun’s name asking him to open the door, there were tears gathering in his eyes threatening to spill over. I wondered how I’d missed it. How I hadn’t noticed these two growing so close?
Min watched sympathy and worry painted on his face then he turned away from us and ran into the kitchen. I moved for the first time on my own and grabbed Su pulling him back from the door before he hurt himself. I was surprised to find Yun standing on the other side and helping me hold Su
“Calm down Su, Min’s going to go find a way to open the door, calm down Chun will be fine,” I said voice carrying a lot more confidence then I felt. It tore me apart to see the boy with such raw pain written on his face and I wished I had picked up on the boy’s feelings earlier. If I had
I’d have made sure Su stayed put in the living room.
At that moment Min came out of the living room with a knife in hand I became rather worried. Had the kid lost it finally? A moment later he proved his sanity when he took the cap off the doorknob and turned the lock mechanism behind it using the thin edge of the blade. There was a light click, the knob turned and the door opened. Su practically flew in without a second thought, but just as quickly he stopped in his tracks (it actually looked sort of like he walked into a wall, in any other situation I would have laughed).
What I saw sent shivers down my spine.
Chun was curled up on the tilled floor shivering and sweating through his shirt while coming out of his back, were a pair of wings. Almost the same as mine I should say, the only difference was that his were stark ebony while mine were ivory. His skin was the same deathly pale shade though, as if someone had drained all the blood out of the body but left the heart to beat on and on, no matter how painful. He retained the black of his hair but any shine it had once had was now gone, leaving it looking dull and lifeless. The colour in his eyes had completely vanished as well, to be replaced with two endless orbs that matched the colour of empty space. They shook looking at us and I could see the bear naked fear in them. They spilled tears and silently asked “Why?”.
My muscles tensed, about to go and help Yoochun but it turned out I didn’t need to.
A/N: all right so i think my block is finally gone, i actually managed some semi decent crack this time. and now the plot thickens and yoosu has officially arrived now yey ^.^ I was initially going to keep the crack to the previous chapter but since i did such a horrible job on it i decided to give it another shot which made this chapter a lot longer. so the original of this chapter will now be split between this and the next. i hope i haven't bored you with the slow move of the plot >.> this is the my first time writing anything this long so im still figuring things out. in any case i have learned so much from this story and i thank you all for keeping up with me and taking time out of your lives to read this and give me feedback. thank you all so much for everything ^.^
Pairing: JaeMin (main), Yoosu, OT5
Rating: pg
Length: Chaptered [9 / 20(rough estimate)]
Warnings: newbie writer, physical abuse
Genre: Angst, Fluff, super-natural
Disclaimer: I do not own DBSK (if I did there would still be 5 members), I only own the plot.
Summary: Wings like an angel. A cursed life of suffering. That was until he came. Five lonely souls meet and set out to reach their dreams, but as always there are certain obstacles in the way. Will they make it, or will they fall out of the sky? Nothing is certain in this life.
enjoy, comments are loved ^.^
[ Chapter I ] [ Chapter II ] [ Chapter III ] [ Chapter IV ] [ Chapter V ] [ Chapter VI ] [ Chapter VII ] [ Chapter VIII ]
Chapter IX : Surprises
I got up early as usual, 9:30, way before any of the others would be up after all we’d stayed up past midnight yesterday plus, we were a group of 5 teenage guys. Who in their right mind would not sleep in? If you’re about to point out that I didn’t I shall now correct you, I did in fact sleep. Technically speaking 9:30 was late for me, I’m one of those people that usually can’t stay in bed past 8, 8:30. Anyway, I got up and made my way to the bathroom trying to avoid the number of scattered bodies taking residence on the couch and floor of my room.
Yunho had, by some unnatural talent, passed out on the sofa chair last night, while Yoochun and Junsu had both fallen asleep on the couch playing a computer game, while Jae, who had been the first to go, had fallen asleep on my bed. I’d had to move him back to his room after the other’s had been declared out for the count because they all thought I should share a bed with him. They thought it would be funny and that we made a cute couple, I gave them a sarcastic laugh and declined assuring them that a) I was straight and b) if I was gay Jae was the last person I would go out with however, to my annoyance I was going to get blackmailed into submission if I didn’t promise. I didn’t really doubt that I would be the first to get up though so they’d have no proof that I hadn’t kept my promise and moved Jae out.
I took a quick shower, threw on a clean shirt, sweater and pants then made my way back through my room (evidently all 3 of my guests were heavy sleepers, none had so much as twitched from what I could tell). I zombied down the stairs half waiting to trip, fall and kill myself and half wondering if Jae would be up to make breakfast or if I’d have to wrestle him out of bed. Evidently luck was not my friend this morning and decided Jae should sleep in this morning since he was nowhere to be found downstairs.
I went back up the stairs and did trip this time; defying pretty much every law of gravity I managed to fall up the stairs proving all the more that the fates were not going to be my friends today.
Once safely on the second floor and with a newly acquired welt on my head, I dragged my feet to Jae’s room. I knocked on the door but got no response. With that I invited myself in to find the guy sprawled on his bed, sheets on the floor, sweater riding up to show perfect porcelain skin in the dim light seeping quietly past the closed blinds. I don’t think I will ever get used to seeing the raven head like this. He seemed much too peaceful and venerable to be Jae, yet in a way I wished I could see him like this more often, preferable when he was awake and conscious. I sighed and braced myself.
“JAE WAKE UP!”
There was a loud moan from the soon to be ‘man’ that sounded suspiciously like “shut up” and he rolled over, back facing me. I sighed for the nth time that morning and walked over to the bed hoping there was nothing there Jae could throw at me. I placed a hand on his shoulder and shook it. “Wakie, wakie princess, time for breakfast.” Jae swung back around arm flying through the air just long enough for his hand to smack me in the forehead, nailing the lump I’d attained from my fight with the stairs. A string of curses escaped me and once I had regained enough sanity I yelled at the half awake boy again.
“Dude, what’s your problem I just hit my head and you decide to smack me in the face?!”
“Hey, it’s not ma fault you’ve got two left feet and fall up the stairs every other morning! Now go away I wanna sleep,” he said in sleep slurred speech.
“As hell no! Get up, I want food.” I smacked his shoulder trying to get the little devil out of bed.
“You selfish little thing!” he exclaimed mostly awake now and hit me back. Soon the smacks grew harder and the routine morning wake-up-
Jae fight was on. I should clarify, although we do mange to leave a bruise once in a while we don’t usually do any lasting damage to each other. Well excluding any harm done to our egos which are usually healed the next morning. The two of us are pretty evenly matched Jae being older and more experience, me being taller and stronger. Evidently I was not to be the winner today though as the raven head somehow managed to pull me down on the bed and pin me under an arm and a leg holding me there with sheer force of will because there was no way he stronger then me, not even in his dreams.
“Its freaking Christmas morning dude sleep for god sake! And let me sleep too,” he said and I registered that he was already drifting back to la-la-land. I let out an exasperated sigh and listened as his breath evened out.
“But I’m hungry,” I muttered under my breath. This is what I get for breaking a promise huh, I don’t have to spend the night with him but I have to suffer through a hungry morning with him keeping me from the food I need. I really let him off too easily, yet even as I thought that my sore muscles relaxed themselves without my consent and I sunk into the warm mattress and Jae’s touch. He’s already out for the count but my mind can’t help but linger on the warm feeling spreading through me.
I don’t remember feeling like this since my father died, since he left the gapping lonely hole there. However there is something different about this, it’s similar to his warmth but different. My father’s warmth had always been unconditional, I’d never had to give anything back to him, it had just there. Jae’s warmth wasn’t like that though, Jae’s warmth had a price. The raven head wanted warmth and comfort too, so he greedily stool my own, making the exchange mutual. As I drift off I begin to realise this feels even better. Taking warmth is nice but it doesn’t compare to giving back to the person. Giving back fulfills the first human need; to be needed.
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Uhh, I really need to stop drifting off when Min’s there but dude he’s like a walking sleeping pill… in a good way… I think at least. I should pay more attention to the pancakes I burn one. My ears register yelling, laughter and general chaos coming from the dining room, I’m guessing they couldn’t wait for me to open the presents. Ah, impatient little buggers, I wanted to open up what they gave me with them.
I should probably explain. I may have forgotten to mention this before when our guests came over yesterday they all brought a batch of presents in a bag or in their cloths with them. They were nothing huge really just something to celebrate the tradition. We all stuck them under the tree when they came in and promised to wait until morning to open them (although I did have to guard them vigorously, mostly from Su may I mention). I sigh and flip the last pancake on to the dish in front of me then carried the plate and maple syrup through the door and to the table.
I take back what I said earlier, they’re a bit more considerate then I thought. They did wait for me because when I came back in the wrapped boxes are still whole and shiny sitting where they’d been left yesterday. Instead, Su was telling the other 3 about one of his family reunions.
“So we walked in and saw grandpa lying on the floor, of course everyone panic and went to see if he was okay. A moment later, when he had the whole extend family in a circle and my mother about to dial 911 he popped up and yelled ‘Got you!’ and everyone just about killed the poor man for real, aunt almost nailed him with a pan to the head even. It was great, the entire family yelling and grandpa laughing his head off at his own joke.
“And there’s also this tradition each year someone gets a fake present, so like toilet paper or a toothbrush or something. And a couple years ago it was my uncle’s turn to prepare the fake present for my cosine. And well, my uncle’s a real prankster so he decided to go all out, he came in with this giant box all wrapped up in shiny paper and it had this huge bow on top. I swear the thing was bigger than me! The next morning my cosine went to open the box all excited about what could be in such a huge box but when he opened it instead of finding his present there was another box inside, and inside that one was another and another and another. By the end the entire room was practically full of boxes to the roof and then inside the last box guess what the present was.”
“Oh come on, don’t leave us hanging!” Yunho exclaimed almost ready to strangle Su.
“Okay, okay, don’t kill me I’ll tell!”
“So what was it?” asked Min with expecting eyes.
“It was a roll of toilet paper.”
It was a good thing I’d put down the pancakes by now otherwise it was unlikely they’d have made their way safely to the table, I was laughing too hard for it to be possible. I wasn’t the only one too, Yun was practically rolling around on the ground while Chun attempted to set down a glass of juice he’d been about to take a sip from. Min wasn’t so lucky, he was coughing and choking on a pancake he’d just taken a bite out of. I smacked his back now laughing at his predicament more so than the story.
“Remember Min swallow. Don’t spit, swallow” I told him as I caught my breath.
With that we were all back to rolling on the grown as my comment made Min choke even harder. His face turned beet red and the brunet threw me a glare that had lethal potential and I was just laughing too hard to care.
Half an hour later we had calmed down finished breakfast and opened presents. There was no toilet paper presents this year but we promised each other that we would do this again next year and include a fake present. Most had consisted of CD’s and other trinkets.
The most memorable presents are listed here: Min gave me a book and god I swear he must have grown a second head to give me that. It’s going to take a lot more then this convert me to reading, if that is even possible. I gave Su a new soccer ball and he almost sent it through the window the second he open the package. The boy may know how to play soccer but he had no skill in handling the ball with his hands. Yoochun got a book of sheet music, I’m not sure who it was from but I’d be willing to bet Min. Yunho got a pair of headphones from Chun because apparently his old one were on the verge of death. Min got a new video game, Tales of Graces I think. Su claims its really good so I may have to try it out, Su may be a bit strange but he knows his video games.
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The events of the morning had taken my mind off of the heavy for-boding feeling in my stomach that lingered from yesterday but it was back now. I felt like anything could go wrong at any moment. Making the hairs on the back of my neck stand at the littlest thing. I wondered when this feeling would go, it was really starting to piss me off. What could go so badly wrong? I gripped the last plate in the sink and started to lift it only for it to slip out of my fingers and shatter in the sink. I swore and turned the water off cleaning the sink of the porcelain shards.
I looked out the window as I finished and noticed the snow. Now it is usual to have lots of snow in Canada but even here it was unusual to see this much snow on the ground. To top it off, there was still more to come as it kept snowing and snowing without a patch of real sunlight on the horizon. I walked back into the living room and grabbed the remote from the couch where it had been abandoned by the others. I flipped the channels ignoring the flying pillow (which missed and nailed Yun in the face instead of me, Su then apologized about a million times to the elder) and numerous other complaints.
Soon as I hit the Weather Network (as if they were trustworthy forecasters but there really isn’t much better) there popped up a red screen warning of the storm outside. The other 4 shut up at that point and started reading the words on the screen. They warned of a serious storm that would last through today and possibly even tomorrow. It would bring over a meter of snow with it (that’s a lot) and high winds. People were warned to stay inside and get emergency supplies ready.
The message started to loop and I looked over at the other’s to see their reaction. Min, Yun and Su seemed a little shaken by the news but their reaction was noting compared to Chun. He was pale as a ghost and I could see his hands shaking in his lap.
“I don’t suppose your mother’s going to be coming to pick you up in this weather Chun?” I asked quietly trying to see if he would react.
I watched him swallowed than in a soft voice he said, “No, I don’t suppose so.” The raven head turned toward me and gave me a shaky smile that I could tell was an absolute fake. The others were too busy panicking about a power outage (well it was mostly Su panicking while Yun and Min were reassuring him nothing would happen) to notice our exchange but something told me the weird, foreboding feeling in my gut had something to do with this storm and possibility with Chun. I had yet to find out what it was however.
The hours after the report passed slowly as I eyed Chun every chance I got. Min also noticed something up at some point and was throw me questioning looks every now and then. I shrugged my shoulders when our eyes met, telling him that there was nothing wrong as I told myself I was over reacting. Min didn’t buy it though, he kept a close I on both me and Chun. Su was too busy panicking about the storm and was coming up with some crazy scenarios most including freezing to death and the end of the world while Yun was busy calming the poor guy down. Though, I do think Su picked up on the negative waves coming off of Chun because he did at a few points ask the curly haired teen if something was up or he was feeling unwell. I gave him credit for that, it took care to be able to look past your own panic to see someone else’s and address it.
After a while Yun found so old soccer video game in Min’s collection and set Su on it which finally calmed down the poor soul. I let out a sigh of relief when I finally heard his eu kyang kyang ringing through the room again. I threw a look at the clock, it told me it was about 5:30. I glanced over Chun again to see him buckling in pain, face unnaturally pale. I don’t know why but I my eyes flew to the window outside at that moment and my mind realised that, past the gray clouds spilling snow on us, the sun would be setting. Looking back at Chun I watched him get up or more like fall out of his sofa chair and stumbled out the door. I called after him and he called back saying something about a bathroom. I looked over at Min who too had gone pale, calculating look in his eyes.
He walked up to the calendar and I followed a heavy feeling setting in my stomach.
“Jae it’s a full moon today,” he said in a low whisper.
I gulped, “So?”
“You know everything in nature has its opposite right?” The question sounded more like a statement.
“Right…”
I didn’t have much more time to think about his words as he grabbed my hand and dragged me out of the living room after Chun. I looked back to see Su and Yun watching us with wide eyes. Su’s eyes had attained a new spark in them that I had never expected from his hyper active, over reactive and generally too happy personality. It was something I had only learned to recognise recently, I saw it in Min’s eyes whenever I spoke about my past, or whenever the topic of my wings came up. A spark of protectiveness, that’s what I saw in Junsu’s eyes and I just about tripped and fell on Min when I realised it.
Su got up and rushed after us, easily catching up and following the youngest to the door of the bathroom. He knocked on the door and called for Chun but the only answer we got was a strangled and pained scream. Su threw himself against the door almost breaking it but the wood held up. He called Yoochun’s name asking him to open the door, there were tears gathering in his eyes threatening to spill over. I wondered how I’d missed it. How I hadn’t noticed these two growing so close?
Min watched sympathy and worry painted on his face then he turned away from us and ran into the kitchen. I moved for the first time on my own and grabbed Su pulling him back from the door before he hurt himself. I was surprised to find Yun standing on the other side and helping me hold Su
“Calm down Su, Min’s going to go find a way to open the door, calm down Chun will be fine,” I said voice carrying a lot more confidence then I felt. It tore me apart to see the boy with such raw pain written on his face and I wished I had picked up on the boy’s feelings earlier. If I had
I’d have made sure Su stayed put in the living room.
At that moment Min came out of the living room with a knife in hand I became rather worried. Had the kid lost it finally? A moment later he proved his sanity when he took the cap off the doorknob and turned the lock mechanism behind it using the thin edge of the blade. There was a light click, the knob turned and the door opened. Su practically flew in without a second thought, but just as quickly he stopped in his tracks (it actually looked sort of like he walked into a wall, in any other situation I would have laughed).
What I saw sent shivers down my spine.
Chun was curled up on the tilled floor shivering and sweating through his shirt while coming out of his back, were a pair of wings. Almost the same as mine I should say, the only difference was that his were stark ebony while mine were ivory. His skin was the same deathly pale shade though, as if someone had drained all the blood out of the body but left the heart to beat on and on, no matter how painful. He retained the black of his hair but any shine it had once had was now gone, leaving it looking dull and lifeless. The colour in his eyes had completely vanished as well, to be replaced with two endless orbs that matched the colour of empty space. They shook looking at us and I could see the bear naked fear in them. They spilled tears and silently asked “Why?”.
My muscles tensed, about to go and help Yoochun but it turned out I didn’t need to.
A/N: all right so i think my block is finally gone, i actually managed some semi decent crack this time. and now the plot thickens and yoosu has officially arrived now yey ^.^ I was initially going to keep the crack to the previous chapter but since i did such a horrible job on it i decided to give it another shot which made this chapter a lot longer. so the original of this chapter will now be split between this and the next. i hope i haven't bored you with the slow move of the plot >.> this is the my first time writing anything this long so im still figuring things out. in any case i have learned so much from this story and i thank you all for keeping up with me and taking time out of your lives to read this and give me feedback. thank you all so much for everything ^.^