SUPER JUNIOR FIC: We Could Be Heroes Part Three of Four [PG-13, various ninja!pairings]
Title: We Could Be Heroes Part Three of Four
Author: Selena
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: Various ninja!pairings.
Warnings: Fluff, crack, humor
Word count: 3, 216
Summary: One morning the members of Super Junior wake up with super powers. What follows is a day of chaos. Some of them have cooler powers than others, some adapt quicker to them than others. Leeteuk mainly worries for his sanity and for the fate of the world at large.
Part One: Siwon, Han Geng, Ryeowook (and Kangin) | Part Two: Kibum, Donghae and Eunhyuk |
We Could Be Heroes
7) Heechul
He can breathe fire.
Heechul looks gleefully around at the horrified expressions on the faces of the rest of the group. Leeteuk looks really pale now, Heechul actually thinks that their fearless leader might just faint.
“Oh god,” Shindong gasps out, he watches fascinated as Heechul starts blowing smoke rings. “We’re all going to die.”
“Oh don’t be so dramatic.” Heechul gruffs and he puffs a flume of flames in Shindong’s direction. Shindong tips over backwards in his haste to get out of the way. “It’s not like I’m going to burn down the building.” He pauses, looks around. “But hey, on the bright side, if I did burn down the dorm at least we’d know one of us would make it out ok.” Heechul points over at Eunhyuk who has turned to stone again.
Heechul breathes fire onto his hand, he watches the flames lick over his skin. He can feel them, it’s like a soft tickling sensation. They don’t burn him.
“I,” Heechul announces. “Have the best super power so far. It’s good being me.”
“Hey!” Donghae calls out, he sounds slightly affronted.
“Sorry, Donghae-ah. Teleportation is cool too. Hey, let’s you and me go be super heroes. Kibum too I guess.”
“No!” Leeteuk snaps. “Both of you stay right there and Chullie-ah, stop blowing smoke rings you’re going to…” Leeteuk is interrupted by a shrill beeping. “…Set off the smoke alarm.” He sighs heavily, resigned. “Ok, everyone outside.”
“Are you sure that’s a good idea, hyung?” Kyuhyun says. “What if another one of us floats like Hankyung-hyung? We might float away. We might…mmphf.”
Heechul slaps a hand over Kyuhyun’s mouth.
“Don’t say such things, Kyuhyun-ah. Are you trying to give your hyung a coronary?”
“Yes.” Kyuhyun mumbles into Heechul’s palm and Heechul laughs. “Besides,” Kyuhyun shakes off Heechul’s hand. “Look outside, I don’t want to go out in that.”
Heechul looks out the window. The sky outside is rapidly darkening as ominous rain clouds gather. It looks like an epic storm is starting to kick up.
“You might be right there, magnae.” Heechul concedes. “And we all know there isn’t actually a fire.”
“Outside.” Leeteuk orders. “All of you. Now.”
“But you told me not to move off the sofa.” Donghae says.
Leeteuk’s eye twitches.
*
They all troop outside. Eunhyuk is excused this little fire drill on account of him still being a statue and no one wanted to carry him down the stairs. Siwon is holding on to Kibum’s arm, his eyes tightly closed. Heechul follows behind Leeteuk with Kyuhyun and Sungmin along side. Both younger boys are complaining about the cold, and it has got cold all of a sudden.
Heechul thinks there might be something on Leeteuk’s back but he can’t really be sure. It’s a fleeting image of a thing, like a shadow in the corner of his eye.
“Teukie…” Heechul starts, he’s unsure exactly what to say, it’s probably just his imagination that this indefinable shadow on Leeteuk’s back looks like a set of wings. “You haven’t had anything strange happen to you today, personally I mean, have you?”
“No,” Leeteuk says, he turns round to look at Heechul but keeps walking backwards. “Why?”
“Because it looks like there’s som…”
But Heechul doesn’t get to finish what he’s saying. A violent gust of wind kicks up, almost blowing Heechul over. It catches at the shadow on Leeteuk’s back. The shadow billows out like a parachute, not wings then, but something like it. Leeteuk is blown up and away into the air.
“Teukie!” Heechul cries and he makes a grab for Leeteuk’s leg. But it’s too late, in seconds Leeteuk is well out of reach. “Well,” Heechul murmurs as he watches their leader rise up into the air. “Well shit.”
8) Leeteuk
He’ll admit, he’s always wanted wondered what it would be like to actually fly, but he never thought he would find out and he never thought he would find out this way. He doesn’t want to look down, the ground is a very long way away now, but he can’t help it, he looks down. He can see the other members, he can’t see the looks on their faces but from the way they seem to be jumping up and down and waving their arms they appear to be frantic.
He’s pretty close to panic himself.
“Oh god, oh god, oh, god, oh god.” He says over and over again. “Oh god.”
He manages to drag his eyes away from the receding ground and instead he looks up to see that he’s being blown towards a building which is like some kind of miracle. Now, he thinks, he can grab onto something and stop his ascent to the heavens, all he has to do is hang on until someone works out how to get him down. But it seems that life actively hates him because the direction of the wind he’s caught up in changes and starts to move him away from salvation.
And he was so close too.
“Don’t worry, hyung.” Donghae says brightly as a hand-he assumes Donghae’s-grabs hold of his leg. “I’ve got you.”
Wait…Donghae?
Leeteuk has just enough time to see that Donghae is perched precariously on the edge of the building, just barely holding on with one hand, the other hand is clinging on to the material of Leeteuk’s jeans. Leeteuk feels his stomach lurch and his ears pop like he’s in an airplane. Then the building is gone and he’ not flying anymore, he’s falling. His landing is softer than he expected it to be but that’s really only because Donghae breaks his fall. Leeteuk stands up, his legs feel shaky, weak. He’s surprised to find that he’s inside now, in an unfamiliar room. He starts to turn around to help Donghae up but the view outside the window catches his eye. This room-where ever this room is-it over looks an ornate temple, a red and gold affair adorned with intricate carvings of dragons.
Leeteuk doesn’t think he’s in Korea anymore.
“Donghae-ah…” Leeteuk starts, he doesn’t turn round to look at Donghae, he can’t tear his eyes from the cityscape outside. “Donghae-ah, how did we get here?”
“Huh?” Donghae says distractedly. “Oh, I teleported onto that roof, got hold of you and then tried to teleport us somewhere safe.” Donghae sounds kind of pleased with himself and Leeteuk has to admit that the attempt was pretty impressive. “I did mean to get us inside the dorms though.” Now Leeteuk can almost hear a frown in Donghae’s voice. “I don’t actually know where we are.”
“China. Donghae we’re in China!”
“Oh.” Donghae says and he ambles over to stand beside Leeteuk. “Oh!”
“Uh…Hey, guys?” A voice from above them says.
Both boys whirl round and look up.
“Hyung!” Donghae cries with delight.
“Hankyung!” Leeteuk stammers. “What?…How?…How do we get you down from there?”
*
Leeteuk decides that he doesn’t much like teleporting, it makes his insides feel like they’ve shrivelled. And-if he’s entirely honest-he didn’t exactly trust that Donghae would get the three of them back safely and in one piece. But manage he did and they materialize in the main room of the dorm just as the rest of the group are coming back inside. There is a flurry of chaos where everyone starts running forward and talking at once.
“Teukie-hyung!”
“Donghae-ah!”
“You’re ok!”
“Hankyung! How did you get here?”
Han Geng releases the death grip he has on Leeteuk’s arm and gracefully floats up to the ceiling. Leeteuk feels almost a little envious of him as he is descended upon, someone is playing with the shadow wings on his back, Leeteuk thinks it might be Kyuhyun.
“God, Teukie!” Heechul complains. “Don’t you ever do anything like that again, I almost had a heart attack. Hankyung, you get down here right now!”
“Would if I could, Hyung.” Han Geng says with a shrug. “But I can’t.”
“Kibum! Fix him!” Heechul shouts.
“I’m still trying to fix Siwon, you can already control your power, you fix him.”
Leeteuk thinks about intervening in Heechul and Kibum’s squabble but his phone rings and a cold, creeping feeling settles over him. Given the day he’s having he doesn’t expect this phone call to bring joyous tidings. He pulls the phone out of his pocket, looks at the caller ID and he thinks he might faint.
“Oh god.” He moans and everyone stops talking to look at him.
“Oh god what, hyung?” Ryeowook asks.
Leeteuk holds up his phone so they can all read the display.
“That’s Henry’s mother.” Ryeowook says, confused. “Hyung, why is Henry’s mother calling you?”
“I don’t know. But more to the point how am I supposed to answer? I don’t speak Chinese or English well. Wait…” Leeteuk holds the phone up to Han Geng who just shakes his head. “Don’t you pretend you don’t understand. Take the phone!” Han Geng continues to shake his head and he pushes himself away.
“Oh give it here.” Kibum sighs and he snatches the phone. He hits the call button and starts talking in English. Leeteuk understands the words “Hello, Mrs Lau.”…and that’s it.
After a few minutes Kibum pulls the phone away from his ear and places a hand over the mouth piece.
“She wants to know what you’ve done to her son.” Kibum states flatly.
“What? What I’ve done to her son?” Leeteuk sputters, he looks around at the rest of the group, there are more than a few guilty faces.
“Henry seduced me!” Ryeowook squeaks. “Kyuhyun and Sungmin had the threesome with him first!”
“Wookie-ah, Shhhh!” Sungmin and Kyuhyun both exclaim.
“Given everyone’s special circumstances today,” Kibum says calmly. “I’m pretty sure that’s not what she means.”
“When all this is sorted out.” Leeteuk says, his eyes narrowing. “You’re all grounded.”
Kibum goes back to talking with Henry’s mother and then:
“His mother says he’s on the ceiling and she wants to know why.”
Oh, Leeteuk thinks, that’s ok. They already have one of those. They can try and fix the two of them at the same time.
“Go fetch him, Donghae-ah.” Han Geng says. “Then I can have some company up here.”
“No, wait.” Kibum says, he’s gone back to talking with Mrs Lau and is listening intently. “He…oh!” Kibum’s face drains of all colour and Leeteuk knows that whatever Kibum is going to say next is not going to be good. “Henry isn’t on the ceiling…“ Kibum says. “He’s in the ceiling.”
9) Henry
Why is his life like this? Seriously, why?
It had been a perfectly normal day, all things considered. He’d hung out with friends, practised a little violin and he was just working on a song for Super Junior when his mom called him for dinner. It was when he was walking across his room when it happened. He had this weird, insubstantial feeling, like he wasn’t quite all there like he should be. And then he was falling, falling though the floor. Henry thinks that if he hadn’t realized that he shouldn’t be falling though the floor like he was then he might have gone all the way through. The landing would have likely have hurt but it would have been preferable to stopping halfway like he did. Probably.
Henry sighs and rests his elbows on the carpet. He kicks his legs so he knows they are still there.
“Henry, stop that!” His mom calls out. “You almost kicked the light fixture!”
He can hear her talking on the phone but he can’t make out who she’s talking to. She got over her initial bout of panic pretty quickly and got straight on the phone, ever practical was his mom. He couldn’t think who she would call though. There is only one real source of weirdness in his life so his first thought would be to call there. Actually he’d call Ryeowook, he’d be less likely to freak out. Probably.
“Hi, Henli!” Donghae says, suddenly appearing beside him. Henry is more than a little startled and in his shock he kicks out his legs. He feels, and hears, it when he smashes his mom’s new light fixture.
“Ge!” Henry cries. “What…how did you?”
“Oh, we all have super powers today. I can teleport and you…what did you do?”
“I have no idea. What are you doing here?”
“I’ve been sent to fetch you. Teukie-hyung wants us all to be together.”
Oh, Henry thinks, that sort of makes sense. Kind of.
“Ok, come on then.” Donghae says and he grabs hold of Henry’s hand.
“Ge Ge, wait!” Henry implores. Donghae looks at him quizzically. “You’re going to teleport me?”
Donghae nods.
“To Korea?”
“Yes.” Donghae says like it’s the most obvious thing in the world.
“Henry looks down at himself, thinks about the part of him that he can’t see.
“But what if you only teleport half of me. I don’t want to be split in two.”
“Why would that happen? You’re still all together now aren’t you?”
“I think so.”
“Ok, let’s go then.”
“But…Ge…Wai…” Henry doesn’t get to finish what he’s saying because with a stomach churning lurch and a soft ‘pop’ in his ears he is gone from his house. Suddenly he finds himself in the main living area of the Super Junior dorms. He’s alive, all in one piece and all his limbs are in the same room.
“Oh god.” He moans. “I think I’m going to throw up.”
“There, there.” Leeteuk says, patting him on the shoulder. “It’ll get better.”
“What’s your power, Henry?” Heechul asks, a gleeful lilt to his voice. “If it’s falling through floors then you might just be in the running for the lamest super power award.”
Heechul stands there looking at him expectantly, Henry can only blink at him.
“I still don’t understand what’s going on.” Henry says. Nausea builds in his gut, how can everyone be so calm about this?…Well, ok, Leeteuk doesn’t look calm, but everyone else is.
“How did you manage to fall through the floor, Henry?” Kibum asks. Kibum is calm. Kibum is very calm. His calmness almost makes Henry feel better.
Henry shrugs and he tries to explain, he’s not sure he explains it right but Kibum looks like he gets it.
“So you phased.” Kibum says thoughtfully. “You’re like Shadowcat from X-men, but with a penis.”
“That’s not quite how I’d put it.” Henry mutters, but he doesn’t think anyone pays any attention to him. “I have to call my mom. Try to explain to her why I’m suddenly in Korea, but I left my cell in my room.”
“Here.” Leeteuk hands Henry his phone, Henry’s mom is still on the line.
“MOM!” Henry says incredulously. “You called Leeteuk?”
“Henli! Stay where we can see you.” Leeteuk calls out. “In case you fall through the floor again.”
“I’m going to call Zhou Mi.” Henry hears Kyuhyun say. “Make sure he’s ok.”
After he finishes talking to his mom, who was also pretty calm about the whole thing, was everyone insane or was it just him? Henry sits down at the table next to Shindong.
“So,” Henry says, he tries to keep his vice even like this is just a normal conversation on a normal day. “What can you do?”
Shindong just shrugs. “Don’t know yet.” And then he belches. Shindong grins at him apologetically. “Sorry.”
“Ha ha, ewww Dong, that’s gro…” But Henry doesn’t get to finish what he’s saying, instead he falls fast asleep.
10) Shindong
Aww, Shindong thinks, Henry is so cute when he’s asleep. It takes a few minutes for him to realize that it’s not just Henry who’s asleep, everyone else in the room is as well. Leeteuk and Kibum are slumped on the floor, Siwon, Donghae and Eunhyuk are crammed on the sofa together. Ryeowook and Heechul are each in a chair, both sleeping soundly. Even Han Geng is asleep, still floating up on the ceiling.
“Oh,” Shindong says as he looks around. “Oh.”
He thinks Kyuhyun and Sungmin are in their room and he wonders if they have suddenly fallen asleep too. That question is answered when Kyuhyun comes striding back through the door.
“Zhou Mi’s Ok.” Kyuhyun announces. “He says the weirdest thing that’s happened to him today is the weather. It’s gotten really hot in China, he…hey, why is everyone sleeping?”
“I didn’t do it!” Shindong says quickly.
Kyuhyun just looks at him, his eyes narrowed.
“All right, I think I did. But I’m not sure how.”
“Well, wake them up.”
Shindong shrugs helplessly, he’s not sure exactly how. Kyuhyun stalks over to where Leeteuk lies prone and starts shaking him.
“Hyung!” He shouts in Leeteuk’s ear. “Hyung, wake up!”
Leeteuk stirs slightly, mumbles “Five more minutes” and goes back to sleep. Kyuhyun sighs and starts to shake him again but stops when Sungmin screams.
“Sungmin-ah!” Shindong and Kyuhyun shout and they both take off running only to collide with Sungmin as he hurries in from the back rooms.
“Hyung, what’s wrong?” Kyuhyun asks breathlessly.”
Sungmin looks at them, his eyes wide with wonder and fright.
“Did you see Mr Pickles?” He asks. “Did he run by here?”
“Mr Pickles?” Shindong repeats slowly, he thinks Sungmin might have really lost it this time.
“The stuffed bunny I got you for Christmas?” Kyuhyun asks and Sungmin nods.
“I…he…um.” Sungmin falters before steeling himself to carry on. “After Kyu left the room I hugged Mr Pickles because well…I’m a little scared about what’s going on today…don’t either of you laugh.”
“Wasn’t going to.” Kyuhyun says.
“Wouldn’t dare.” Shindong adds.
“Well, I gave him a little kiss and…and he came to life.”
“He what?” Shindong isn’t sure that he heard Sungmin right, or rather he hopes he hadn’t.
“He ran out of the room before I could stop him and I don’t know where he’s gone.”
Shindong can feel the burp bubble up in his stomach and he tries to hold it back he really does.
“Sungmin-ah, Kyuhyun-ah, I think I am going to have to apologize to you.”
“What for?”
Shindong belches and because he’d tried to hold it back it becomes the Montezuma’s revenge of belches, long and loud.
“Shindong, that’s disgu….” But Sungmin doesn’t get a chance to finish what he’s saying, instead he faceplants on the floor, fast asleep. Kyuhyun quickly follows.
“Crap.” Shindong grumbles. “Now what am I supposed to do?”
He hears a quiet rustling and a soft, high pitch giggle coming from the main room and he thinks that the other must be waking up. He rushes in there all set to apologize for making them sleep, he stops suddenly at the threshold of the room. There, standing over Leeteuk’s sleeping form is a medium sized, pink stuffed bunny.
“Mr Pickles?” Shindong’s throat is dry, his voice horse.
Mr Pickles looks up at him and they stand there locked in a bizarre staring contest for a few minutes before Mr Pickles giggles and lunges forward.
.End of part three
Author: Selena
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: Various ninja!pairings.
Warnings: Fluff, crack, humor
Word count: 3, 216
Summary: One morning the members of Super Junior wake up with super powers. What follows is a day of chaos. Some of them have cooler powers than others, some adapt quicker to them than others. Leeteuk mainly worries for his sanity and for the fate of the world at large.
Part One: Siwon, Han Geng, Ryeowook (and Kangin) | Part Two: Kibum, Donghae and Eunhyuk |
We Could Be Heroes
7) Heechul
He can breathe fire.
Heechul looks gleefully around at the horrified expressions on the faces of the rest of the group. Leeteuk looks really pale now, Heechul actually thinks that their fearless leader might just faint.
“Oh god,” Shindong gasps out, he watches fascinated as Heechul starts blowing smoke rings. “We’re all going to die.”
“Oh don’t be so dramatic.” Heechul gruffs and he puffs a flume of flames in Shindong’s direction. Shindong tips over backwards in his haste to get out of the way. “It’s not like I’m going to burn down the building.” He pauses, looks around. “But hey, on the bright side, if I did burn down the dorm at least we’d know one of us would make it out ok.” Heechul points over at Eunhyuk who has turned to stone again.
Heechul breathes fire onto his hand, he watches the flames lick over his skin. He can feel them, it’s like a soft tickling sensation. They don’t burn him.
“I,” Heechul announces. “Have the best super power so far. It’s good being me.”
“Hey!” Donghae calls out, he sounds slightly affronted.
“Sorry, Donghae-ah. Teleportation is cool too. Hey, let’s you and me go be super heroes. Kibum too I guess.”
“No!” Leeteuk snaps. “Both of you stay right there and Chullie-ah, stop blowing smoke rings you’re going to…” Leeteuk is interrupted by a shrill beeping. “…Set off the smoke alarm.” He sighs heavily, resigned. “Ok, everyone outside.”
“Are you sure that’s a good idea, hyung?” Kyuhyun says. “What if another one of us floats like Hankyung-hyung? We might float away. We might…mmphf.”
Heechul slaps a hand over Kyuhyun’s mouth.
“Don’t say such things, Kyuhyun-ah. Are you trying to give your hyung a coronary?”
“Yes.” Kyuhyun mumbles into Heechul’s palm and Heechul laughs. “Besides,” Kyuhyun shakes off Heechul’s hand. “Look outside, I don’t want to go out in that.”
Heechul looks out the window. The sky outside is rapidly darkening as ominous rain clouds gather. It looks like an epic storm is starting to kick up.
“You might be right there, magnae.” Heechul concedes. “And we all know there isn’t actually a fire.”
“Outside.” Leeteuk orders. “All of you. Now.”
“But you told me not to move off the sofa.” Donghae says.
Leeteuk’s eye twitches.
*
They all troop outside. Eunhyuk is excused this little fire drill on account of him still being a statue and no one wanted to carry him down the stairs. Siwon is holding on to Kibum’s arm, his eyes tightly closed. Heechul follows behind Leeteuk with Kyuhyun and Sungmin along side. Both younger boys are complaining about the cold, and it has got cold all of a sudden.
Heechul thinks there might be something on Leeteuk’s back but he can’t really be sure. It’s a fleeting image of a thing, like a shadow in the corner of his eye.
“Teukie…” Heechul starts, he’s unsure exactly what to say, it’s probably just his imagination that this indefinable shadow on Leeteuk’s back looks like a set of wings. “You haven’t had anything strange happen to you today, personally I mean, have you?”
“No,” Leeteuk says, he turns round to look at Heechul but keeps walking backwards. “Why?”
“Because it looks like there’s som…”
But Heechul doesn’t get to finish what he’s saying. A violent gust of wind kicks up, almost blowing Heechul over. It catches at the shadow on Leeteuk’s back. The shadow billows out like a parachute, not wings then, but something like it. Leeteuk is blown up and away into the air.
“Teukie!” Heechul cries and he makes a grab for Leeteuk’s leg. But it’s too late, in seconds Leeteuk is well out of reach. “Well,” Heechul murmurs as he watches their leader rise up into the air. “Well shit.”
8) Leeteuk
He’ll admit, he’s always wanted wondered what it would be like to actually fly, but he never thought he would find out and he never thought he would find out this way. He doesn’t want to look down, the ground is a very long way away now, but he can’t help it, he looks down. He can see the other members, he can’t see the looks on their faces but from the way they seem to be jumping up and down and waving their arms they appear to be frantic.
He’s pretty close to panic himself.
“Oh god, oh god, oh, god, oh god.” He says over and over again. “Oh god.”
He manages to drag his eyes away from the receding ground and instead he looks up to see that he’s being blown towards a building which is like some kind of miracle. Now, he thinks, he can grab onto something and stop his ascent to the heavens, all he has to do is hang on until someone works out how to get him down. But it seems that life actively hates him because the direction of the wind he’s caught up in changes and starts to move him away from salvation.
And he was so close too.
“Don’t worry, hyung.” Donghae says brightly as a hand-he assumes Donghae’s-grabs hold of his leg. “I’ve got you.”
Wait…Donghae?
Leeteuk has just enough time to see that Donghae is perched precariously on the edge of the building, just barely holding on with one hand, the other hand is clinging on to the material of Leeteuk’s jeans. Leeteuk feels his stomach lurch and his ears pop like he’s in an airplane. Then the building is gone and he’ not flying anymore, he’s falling. His landing is softer than he expected it to be but that’s really only because Donghae breaks his fall. Leeteuk stands up, his legs feel shaky, weak. He’s surprised to find that he’s inside now, in an unfamiliar room. He starts to turn around to help Donghae up but the view outside the window catches his eye. This room-where ever this room is-it over looks an ornate temple, a red and gold affair adorned with intricate carvings of dragons.
Leeteuk doesn’t think he’s in Korea anymore.
“Donghae-ah…” Leeteuk starts, he doesn’t turn round to look at Donghae, he can’t tear his eyes from the cityscape outside. “Donghae-ah, how did we get here?”
“Huh?” Donghae says distractedly. “Oh, I teleported onto that roof, got hold of you and then tried to teleport us somewhere safe.” Donghae sounds kind of pleased with himself and Leeteuk has to admit that the attempt was pretty impressive. “I did mean to get us inside the dorms though.” Now Leeteuk can almost hear a frown in Donghae’s voice. “I don’t actually know where we are.”
“China. Donghae we’re in China!”
“Oh.” Donghae says and he ambles over to stand beside Leeteuk. “Oh!”
“Uh…Hey, guys?” A voice from above them says.
Both boys whirl round and look up.
“Hyung!” Donghae cries with delight.
“Hankyung!” Leeteuk stammers. “What?…How?…How do we get you down from there?”
*
Leeteuk decides that he doesn’t much like teleporting, it makes his insides feel like they’ve shrivelled. And-if he’s entirely honest-he didn’t exactly trust that Donghae would get the three of them back safely and in one piece. But manage he did and they materialize in the main room of the dorm just as the rest of the group are coming back inside. There is a flurry of chaos where everyone starts running forward and talking at once.
“Teukie-hyung!”
“Donghae-ah!”
“You’re ok!”
“Hankyung! How did you get here?”
Han Geng releases the death grip he has on Leeteuk’s arm and gracefully floats up to the ceiling. Leeteuk feels almost a little envious of him as he is descended upon, someone is playing with the shadow wings on his back, Leeteuk thinks it might be Kyuhyun.
“God, Teukie!” Heechul complains. “Don’t you ever do anything like that again, I almost had a heart attack. Hankyung, you get down here right now!”
“Would if I could, Hyung.” Han Geng says with a shrug. “But I can’t.”
“Kibum! Fix him!” Heechul shouts.
“I’m still trying to fix Siwon, you can already control your power, you fix him.”
Leeteuk thinks about intervening in Heechul and Kibum’s squabble but his phone rings and a cold, creeping feeling settles over him. Given the day he’s having he doesn’t expect this phone call to bring joyous tidings. He pulls the phone out of his pocket, looks at the caller ID and he thinks he might faint.
“Oh god.” He moans and everyone stops talking to look at him.
“Oh god what, hyung?” Ryeowook asks.
Leeteuk holds up his phone so they can all read the display.
“That’s Henry’s mother.” Ryeowook says, confused. “Hyung, why is Henry’s mother calling you?”
“I don’t know. But more to the point how am I supposed to answer? I don’t speak Chinese or English well. Wait…” Leeteuk holds the phone up to Han Geng who just shakes his head. “Don’t you pretend you don’t understand. Take the phone!” Han Geng continues to shake his head and he pushes himself away.
“Oh give it here.” Kibum sighs and he snatches the phone. He hits the call button and starts talking in English. Leeteuk understands the words “Hello, Mrs Lau.”…and that’s it.
After a few minutes Kibum pulls the phone away from his ear and places a hand over the mouth piece.
“She wants to know what you’ve done to her son.” Kibum states flatly.
“What? What I’ve done to her son?” Leeteuk sputters, he looks around at the rest of the group, there are more than a few guilty faces.
“Henry seduced me!” Ryeowook squeaks. “Kyuhyun and Sungmin had the threesome with him first!”
“Wookie-ah, Shhhh!” Sungmin and Kyuhyun both exclaim.
“Given everyone’s special circumstances today,” Kibum says calmly. “I’m pretty sure that’s not what she means.”
“When all this is sorted out.” Leeteuk says, his eyes narrowing. “You’re all grounded.”
Kibum goes back to talking with Henry’s mother and then:
“His mother says he’s on the ceiling and she wants to know why.”
Oh, Leeteuk thinks, that’s ok. They already have one of those. They can try and fix the two of them at the same time.
“Go fetch him, Donghae-ah.” Han Geng says. “Then I can have some company up here.”
“No, wait.” Kibum says, he’s gone back to talking with Mrs Lau and is listening intently. “He…oh!” Kibum’s face drains of all colour and Leeteuk knows that whatever Kibum is going to say next is not going to be good. “Henry isn’t on the ceiling…“ Kibum says. “He’s in the ceiling.”
9) Henry
Why is his life like this? Seriously, why?
It had been a perfectly normal day, all things considered. He’d hung out with friends, practised a little violin and he was just working on a song for Super Junior when his mom called him for dinner. It was when he was walking across his room when it happened. He had this weird, insubstantial feeling, like he wasn’t quite all there like he should be. And then he was falling, falling though the floor. Henry thinks that if he hadn’t realized that he shouldn’t be falling though the floor like he was then he might have gone all the way through. The landing would have likely have hurt but it would have been preferable to stopping halfway like he did. Probably.
Henry sighs and rests his elbows on the carpet. He kicks his legs so he knows they are still there.
“Henry, stop that!” His mom calls out. “You almost kicked the light fixture!”
He can hear her talking on the phone but he can’t make out who she’s talking to. She got over her initial bout of panic pretty quickly and got straight on the phone, ever practical was his mom. He couldn’t think who she would call though. There is only one real source of weirdness in his life so his first thought would be to call there. Actually he’d call Ryeowook, he’d be less likely to freak out. Probably.
“Hi, Henli!” Donghae says, suddenly appearing beside him. Henry is more than a little startled and in his shock he kicks out his legs. He feels, and hears, it when he smashes his mom’s new light fixture.
“Ge!” Henry cries. “What…how did you?”
“Oh, we all have super powers today. I can teleport and you…what did you do?”
“I have no idea. What are you doing here?”
“I’ve been sent to fetch you. Teukie-hyung wants us all to be together.”
Oh, Henry thinks, that sort of makes sense. Kind of.
“Ok, come on then.” Donghae says and he grabs hold of Henry’s hand.
“Ge Ge, wait!” Henry implores. Donghae looks at him quizzically. “You’re going to teleport me?”
Donghae nods.
“To Korea?”
“Yes.” Donghae says like it’s the most obvious thing in the world.
“Henry looks down at himself, thinks about the part of him that he can’t see.
“But what if you only teleport half of me. I don’t want to be split in two.”
“Why would that happen? You’re still all together now aren’t you?”
“I think so.”
“Ok, let’s go then.”
“But…Ge…Wai…” Henry doesn’t get to finish what he’s saying because with a stomach churning lurch and a soft ‘pop’ in his ears he is gone from his house. Suddenly he finds himself in the main living area of the Super Junior dorms. He’s alive, all in one piece and all his limbs are in the same room.
“Oh god.” He moans. “I think I’m going to throw up.”
“There, there.” Leeteuk says, patting him on the shoulder. “It’ll get better.”
“What’s your power, Henry?” Heechul asks, a gleeful lilt to his voice. “If it’s falling through floors then you might just be in the running for the lamest super power award.”
Heechul stands there looking at him expectantly, Henry can only blink at him.
“I still don’t understand what’s going on.” Henry says. Nausea builds in his gut, how can everyone be so calm about this?…Well, ok, Leeteuk doesn’t look calm, but everyone else is.
“How did you manage to fall through the floor, Henry?” Kibum asks. Kibum is calm. Kibum is very calm. His calmness almost makes Henry feel better.
Henry shrugs and he tries to explain, he’s not sure he explains it right but Kibum looks like he gets it.
“So you phased.” Kibum says thoughtfully. “You’re like Shadowcat from X-men, but with a penis.”
“That’s not quite how I’d put it.” Henry mutters, but he doesn’t think anyone pays any attention to him. “I have to call my mom. Try to explain to her why I’m suddenly in Korea, but I left my cell in my room.”
“Here.” Leeteuk hands Henry his phone, Henry’s mom is still on the line.
“MOM!” Henry says incredulously. “You called Leeteuk?”
“Henli! Stay where we can see you.” Leeteuk calls out. “In case you fall through the floor again.”
“I’m going to call Zhou Mi.” Henry hears Kyuhyun say. “Make sure he’s ok.”
After he finishes talking to his mom, who was also pretty calm about the whole thing, was everyone insane or was it just him? Henry sits down at the table next to Shindong.
“So,” Henry says, he tries to keep his vice even like this is just a normal conversation on a normal day. “What can you do?”
Shindong just shrugs. “Don’t know yet.” And then he belches. Shindong grins at him apologetically. “Sorry.”
“Ha ha, ewww Dong, that’s gro…” But Henry doesn’t get to finish what he’s saying, instead he falls fast asleep.
10) Shindong
Aww, Shindong thinks, Henry is so cute when he’s asleep. It takes a few minutes for him to realize that it’s not just Henry who’s asleep, everyone else in the room is as well. Leeteuk and Kibum are slumped on the floor, Siwon, Donghae and Eunhyuk are crammed on the sofa together. Ryeowook and Heechul are each in a chair, both sleeping soundly. Even Han Geng is asleep, still floating up on the ceiling.
“Oh,” Shindong says as he looks around. “Oh.”
He thinks Kyuhyun and Sungmin are in their room and he wonders if they have suddenly fallen asleep too. That question is answered when Kyuhyun comes striding back through the door.
“Zhou Mi’s Ok.” Kyuhyun announces. “He says the weirdest thing that’s happened to him today is the weather. It’s gotten really hot in China, he…hey, why is everyone sleeping?”
“I didn’t do it!” Shindong says quickly.
Kyuhyun just looks at him, his eyes narrowed.
“All right, I think I did. But I’m not sure how.”
“Well, wake them up.”
Shindong shrugs helplessly, he’s not sure exactly how. Kyuhyun stalks over to where Leeteuk lies prone and starts shaking him.
“Hyung!” He shouts in Leeteuk’s ear. “Hyung, wake up!”
Leeteuk stirs slightly, mumbles “Five more minutes” and goes back to sleep. Kyuhyun sighs and starts to shake him again but stops when Sungmin screams.
“Sungmin-ah!” Shindong and Kyuhyun shout and they both take off running only to collide with Sungmin as he hurries in from the back rooms.
“Hyung, what’s wrong?” Kyuhyun asks breathlessly.”
Sungmin looks at them, his eyes wide with wonder and fright.
“Did you see Mr Pickles?” He asks. “Did he run by here?”
“Mr Pickles?” Shindong repeats slowly, he thinks Sungmin might have really lost it this time.
“The stuffed bunny I got you for Christmas?” Kyuhyun asks and Sungmin nods.
“I…he…um.” Sungmin falters before steeling himself to carry on. “After Kyu left the room I hugged Mr Pickles because well…I’m a little scared about what’s going on today…don’t either of you laugh.”
“Wasn’t going to.” Kyuhyun says.
“Wouldn’t dare.” Shindong adds.
“Well, I gave him a little kiss and…and he came to life.”
“He what?” Shindong isn’t sure that he heard Sungmin right, or rather he hopes he hadn’t.
“He ran out of the room before I could stop him and I don’t know where he’s gone.”
Shindong can feel the burp bubble up in his stomach and he tries to hold it back he really does.
“Sungmin-ah, Kyuhyun-ah, I think I am going to have to apologize to you.”
“What for?”
Shindong belches and because he’d tried to hold it back it becomes the Montezuma’s revenge of belches, long and loud.
“Shindong, that’s disgu….” But Sungmin doesn’t get a chance to finish what he’s saying, instead he faceplants on the floor, fast asleep. Kyuhyun quickly follows.
“Crap.” Shindong grumbles. “Now what am I supposed to do?”
He hears a quiet rustling and a soft, high pitch giggle coming from the main room and he thinks that the other must be waking up. He rushes in there all set to apologize for making them sleep, he stops suddenly at the threshold of the room. There, standing over Leeteuk’s sleeping form is a medium sized, pink stuffed bunny.
“Mr Pickles?” Shindong’s throat is dry, his voice horse.
Mr Pickles looks up at him and they stand there locked in a bizarre staring contest for a few minutes before Mr Pickles giggles and lunges forward.
.End of part three