Then I'll Come Running
Then I'll Come Running, a Hyuksu fanfiction.
“Aish, which idiot is it who's calling at such an inhumane time...” Eunhyuk grumbled and flipped over on his bed to reach his phone, which was now blasting Leeteuk's high-pitched laughter - his ringtone, and he was so going to change that - loud enough from the people living upstairs to hear. “I swear that if it's Donghae, when he comes back I'm going to smack him senseless.”
Flipping open the cover of his phone, he blinked in astonishment. Xiah Junsu aka Dolphinsu was reflected on the screen. “Hello? Long time no talk, dude.”
“Hello,” was Junsu's soft reply. It took Eunhyuk slightly aback. It was the middle of the night but Junsu was not as energetic as usual. “I need to talk to someone, Hyuk.” Were those tears that Eunhyuk could hear?
“Sure. Where're you?” Eunhyuk sat up, raking a hand through his hair. Glancing at the clock, he breathed a sigh of relief that he had his own room, because it was currently one thirty-seven in the morning. Not exactly the ideal time to talk on the phone.
“I'm in Japan facing the East Sea. You know 'bout our situation, don't you?” Junsu's words made Eunhyuk frown. He knew. From the day the managers called them to say that Dong Bang Shin Ki was not to be mentioned until further notice was given.
“Of course I do. How's it going?”
“Pretty decent, our lawyer's been amazing and I think we'll win. But I don't know, did we make the right move? Technically I'm banned from contacting anybody bound to SME but to heck with it.”
That was news to Eunhyuk. “I thought you were just simply not allowed to contact Yunho and Changmin?”
“Yeah, but the lawyers advised us against contacting anybody in the company... aish. How's the situation over at your side?”
“Not that good, considering that Super Junior-M's in China, so our lives got something like five times as boring and even more annoying because Hankyung-hyung's missing and he's the only one who ever could control Heechul-hyung. Huh, then are Jaejoong and Yoochun with you?”
“Yea, we're together but in separate hotel rooms. I think they're sleeping because I can hear snores from Jaejoong's side.” Junsu chuckled, a familiar sound Eunhyuk had grown up with. But to him something was different. “Ah, Heechul-hyung's still fussy over lampshade colours?”
“Jaejoong still sleeps naked? Tell him that he's going to get a cold, the weather in Japan isn't that good. Your members are so weird. And yes, the other day Kyuhyun got him a yellow lampshade splattered with flowers and Heechul-hyung was like, 'Of all colours, you just had to get yellow.'”
Junsu laughed out loud then muffled himself. “Oh please, if you think Jaejoong's weird, try living with Changmin. He kicked me so many times during the Five in the Black tour that towards the last few stops I simply slept on the floor.”
Eunhyuk raised an amused eyebrow. “But...?”
Junsu chortled at the memory. “I got his bank account number, asked him what he thought of SNSD, asked him what he planned to eat as his last meal and called him an ass. I've probably got enoug information on him to cause a worldwide scandal.”
Eunhyuk burst out laughing. “Oh my god, Su, you didn't!”
“Yes I did. I recorded every single conversation I had with Changmin when he was asleep.”
“Wait. In his sleep? He talks sense while sleeping?! I thought only gibberish comes out when you sleeptalk?” Eunhyuk was highly intrigued. The last time he'd run into a sleeptalker in the dorms who happened to be Sungmin, he had been talking about pink winged Care Bears flying in cotton candy worlds and Kyuhyun had had to leave the room to keep his sanity.
“You don't know Changmin. Compared to Sungmin and Donghae combined, he's scary. Remember when Donghae sleepwalked when we were trainees at the training camp and then he tripped over Sungmin? Changmin can talk in legitimate sentences, hold conversations and if we tried - no, if we'd tried, he'd probably be cooking in his sleep.”
“Your magnae's really something,” Eunhyuk snorted.
In his hotel room, Junsu's eyes saddened. “Not our magnae. Our magnae is currently me, if you didn't realise. He's the ex-magnae.”
Eunhyuk bit his lip in a way sorely reminiscent of Donghae. “Su -”
“I kinda regret it, you know. If we'd not sued we'd probably be preparing for out fifth album already. Are you guys doing preparations for the next album?”
“Yea, but Su-”
“I kinda miss that crazy frenetic panic to record, film and go on all those shoes like before. If only - I miss singing in Korean.”
“When're you guys returning here?”
“I have no idea. I think we're performing as Tohoshinki at the Nippon Kohaku at the end of this year. Maybe we'll return to Korea. Or maybe we'll return after the lawsuit ends. Or even longer. But even when we perform as Tohoshinki I'm pretty sure we're banned from communicating and oh my god Hyuk I miss them.”
Eunhyuk was silent. There were sniffles from Jusu's side of the line. “I know.”
“You know that X Man programme? Yunho told me he loved us very much. If only I could hear that again, oh god. And Changmin, he was the one cooking our last few meals during our stay at the Dong Bang apartment. And I miss his food and his snark and his acting-cool-and-failing habit. What did we do to deserve this? Were we wrong to sue after all?”
Eunhyuk had pulled out his laptop and had booted it up. While waiting for it to load, he leaned against the wall, phone pinned to his ear. “You did nothing wrong, Su. It was to keep you alive. I'm sure Yunho and Changmin feel the same. We're just waiting for this ordeal to end now, then we'll look at the road ahead. Listen, Su. Nobody in SM wants Dong Bang to break up. You guys are legends in a league of your own. I've been receiving tweets from ELF and Cassiopeia asking about you. Oh wait, Su, call me on video? I've something to show you.”
“Okay.”
Once they had established the video connection, Eunhyuk turned the phone so that its front camera faced the laptop screen. Pressing the play button, he leaned back. The music flowed out sweet and mellow, the pictures and video clips blending in together.
“If even one member is missing, then it will not be TVXQ.”
The video ended and Eunhyuk turned the phone back to face him. Junsu was crying outright now, tears flowing freely and bitterly. Then Eunhyuk noticed his friend's dark eye circles.
“Su, you need to sleep. You look totally wasted.”
Junsu nodded, wiping away his tears. “I guess so.”
“C'mon, let's go out after I've made my comeback. You look like you could do with a little bit of Eunhyuk awesomeness.”
“When did you become so egoistic?” Junsu complained, tears forgotten. “Heechul-hyung's getting to you, man.”
Eunhyuk grinned. “Maybe.”
“Aish, then... good night, Hyuk. Be careful of the bed bugs, they eat silver.”
“The bed bugs eat gold as well~ Goodnight.” Eunhyuk grinned and hung up.
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Okay, the part about the bed bugs is simply punning on their names. Eunhyuk is 'Silver' and Kim (Junsu) is 'Gold', thus the cold joke.
“Aish, which idiot is it who's calling at such an inhumane time...” Eunhyuk grumbled and flipped over on his bed to reach his phone, which was now blasting Leeteuk's high-pitched laughter - his ringtone, and he was so going to change that - loud enough from the people living upstairs to hear. “I swear that if it's Donghae, when he comes back I'm going to smack him senseless.”
Flipping open the cover of his phone, he blinked in astonishment. Xiah Junsu aka Dolphinsu was reflected on the screen. “Hello? Long time no talk, dude.”
“Hello,” was Junsu's soft reply. It took Eunhyuk slightly aback. It was the middle of the night but Junsu was not as energetic as usual. “I need to talk to someone, Hyuk.” Were those tears that Eunhyuk could hear?
“Sure. Where're you?” Eunhyuk sat up, raking a hand through his hair. Glancing at the clock, he breathed a sigh of relief that he had his own room, because it was currently one thirty-seven in the morning. Not exactly the ideal time to talk on the phone.
“I'm in Japan facing the East Sea. You know 'bout our situation, don't you?” Junsu's words made Eunhyuk frown. He knew. From the day the managers called them to say that Dong Bang Shin Ki was not to be mentioned until further notice was given.
“Of course I do. How's it going?”
“Pretty decent, our lawyer's been amazing and I think we'll win. But I don't know, did we make the right move? Technically I'm banned from contacting anybody bound to SME but to heck with it.”
That was news to Eunhyuk. “I thought you were just simply not allowed to contact Yunho and Changmin?”
“Yeah, but the lawyers advised us against contacting anybody in the company... aish. How's the situation over at your side?”
“Not that good, considering that Super Junior-M's in China, so our lives got something like five times as boring and even more annoying because Hankyung-hyung's missing and he's the only one who ever could control Heechul-hyung. Huh, then are Jaejoong and Yoochun with you?”
“Yea, we're together but in separate hotel rooms. I think they're sleeping because I can hear snores from Jaejoong's side.” Junsu chuckled, a familiar sound Eunhyuk had grown up with. But to him something was different. “Ah, Heechul-hyung's still fussy over lampshade colours?”
“Jaejoong still sleeps naked? Tell him that he's going to get a cold, the weather in Japan isn't that good. Your members are so weird. And yes, the other day Kyuhyun got him a yellow lampshade splattered with flowers and Heechul-hyung was like, 'Of all colours, you just had to get yellow.'”
Junsu laughed out loud then muffled himself. “Oh please, if you think Jaejoong's weird, try living with Changmin. He kicked me so many times during the Five in the Black tour that towards the last few stops I simply slept on the floor.”
Eunhyuk raised an amused eyebrow. “But...?”
Junsu chortled at the memory. “I got his bank account number, asked him what he thought of SNSD, asked him what he planned to eat as his last meal and called him an ass. I've probably got enoug information on him to cause a worldwide scandal.”
Eunhyuk burst out laughing. “Oh my god, Su, you didn't!”
“Yes I did. I recorded every single conversation I had with Changmin when he was asleep.”
“Wait. In his sleep? He talks sense while sleeping?! I thought only gibberish comes out when you sleeptalk?” Eunhyuk was highly intrigued. The last time he'd run into a sleeptalker in the dorms who happened to be Sungmin, he had been talking about pink winged Care Bears flying in cotton candy worlds and Kyuhyun had had to leave the room to keep his sanity.
“You don't know Changmin. Compared to Sungmin and Donghae combined, he's scary. Remember when Donghae sleepwalked when we were trainees at the training camp and then he tripped over Sungmin? Changmin can talk in legitimate sentences, hold conversations and if we tried - no, if we'd tried, he'd probably be cooking in his sleep.”
“Your magnae's really something,” Eunhyuk snorted.
In his hotel room, Junsu's eyes saddened. “Not our magnae. Our magnae is currently me, if you didn't realise. He's the ex-magnae.”
Eunhyuk bit his lip in a way sorely reminiscent of Donghae. “Su -”
“I kinda regret it, you know. If we'd not sued we'd probably be preparing for out fifth album already. Are you guys doing preparations for the next album?”
“Yea, but Su-”
“I kinda miss that crazy frenetic panic to record, film and go on all those shoes like before. If only - I miss singing in Korean.”
“When're you guys returning here?”
“I have no idea. I think we're performing as Tohoshinki at the Nippon Kohaku at the end of this year. Maybe we'll return to Korea. Or maybe we'll return after the lawsuit ends. Or even longer. But even when we perform as Tohoshinki I'm pretty sure we're banned from communicating and oh my god Hyuk I miss them.”
Eunhyuk was silent. There were sniffles from Jusu's side of the line. “I know.”
“You know that X Man programme? Yunho told me he loved us very much. If only I could hear that again, oh god. And Changmin, he was the one cooking our last few meals during our stay at the Dong Bang apartment. And I miss his food and his snark and his acting-cool-and-failing habit. What did we do to deserve this? Were we wrong to sue after all?”
Eunhyuk had pulled out his laptop and had booted it up. While waiting for it to load, he leaned against the wall, phone pinned to his ear. “You did nothing wrong, Su. It was to keep you alive. I'm sure Yunho and Changmin feel the same. We're just waiting for this ordeal to end now, then we'll look at the road ahead. Listen, Su. Nobody in SM wants Dong Bang to break up. You guys are legends in a league of your own. I've been receiving tweets from ELF and Cassiopeia asking about you. Oh wait, Su, call me on video? I've something to show you.”
“Okay.”
Once they had established the video connection, Eunhyuk turned the phone so that its front camera faced the laptop screen. Pressing the play button, he leaned back. The music flowed out sweet and mellow, the pictures and video clips blending in together.
“If even one member is missing, then it will not be TVXQ.”
The video ended and Eunhyuk turned the phone back to face him. Junsu was crying outright now, tears flowing freely and bitterly. Then Eunhyuk noticed his friend's dark eye circles.
“Su, you need to sleep. You look totally wasted.”
Junsu nodded, wiping away his tears. “I guess so.”
“C'mon, let's go out after I've made my comeback. You look like you could do with a little bit of Eunhyuk awesomeness.”
“When did you become so egoistic?” Junsu complained, tears forgotten. “Heechul-hyung's getting to you, man.”
Eunhyuk grinned. “Maybe.”
“Aish, then... good night, Hyuk. Be careful of the bed bugs, they eat silver.”
“The bed bugs eat gold as well~ Goodnight.” Eunhyuk grinned and hung up.
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Okay, the part about the bed bugs is simply punning on their names. Eunhyuk is 'Silver' and Kim (Junsu) is 'Gold', thus the cold joke.