Time Limit - Minho x Jonghyun - 11/?
Title: Time Limit
Chapters: 11/?
Author: paranoiascreams
Genre: Fluff, Angst, AU, Fantasy
Warning: unbeta’d
Rating: PG-13
Pairings/Characters: Minho x Jonghyun, Onew x Key, Minho x Taemin (onesided)
Synopsis: Minho meets a mesmerizing stranger during his prom, only to wish that he never had.
Disclaimer: Loosely based on these gifs: here and here. Edits by braintraitor (technically, the blog cannot be found, if she had moved, credits to her still.)
[01] [02] [03] [04] [05] [06] [07] [08] [09] [10]
Minho wakes up with a headache, he grunts and his mother hears him. She walks out of the kitchen and stands by his son's feet, "Good, you're awake. Are you okay? I came home from the market and you're sprawled on the couch."
"I'm okay... Is... Have you seen Jonghyun?"
His mother shakes her head, "You were alone when I arrived. Did you two fight?"
Minho shakes his head, "I'm just gonna go take a shower and let's cook dinner together."
His mother looks at her son's retreating figure, she shrugs and returns to the kitchen.
Minho returns to his mother 20 minutes later, he smiles at her and then proceeds to helping her chop some vegetables, "Aren't this a bit too much for just the two of us?"
"I thought Jonghyun's joining us tonight too."
"W-well, I do-"
His mother looks at him, "You like that boy, don't you?"
Minho drops the onion he's holding in surprise then looks at his mother, "MOM! What...?! How d-"
His mother laughs, "I'm your mother, of course I know these kinds of things. I'm not here to judge you, I love you, son. Do what makes you happy."
"I love you, mom..." Minho gets teary-eyed and hugs his mother, "Stupid onions..."
His mother chuckles against his chest, "You've grown up so fast... One day I'll have to let you go."
"Mom... Stop that, okay?" Minho releases his mother, "We're supposed to prepare dinner and not cry over it."
"Right." His mother smiles and continues to cook. Minho watches as his mother moves around the kitchen after he's done cutting up the vegetables. 'I'm sorry I can't tell you that I'll still be here, because I'm leaving soon. I'm so sorry, mom..."
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"Mom?" Minho calls out from the doorway of his mother's room, "Can I sleep here tonight?"
"Of course." His mother scoots a little so she can make room for her son, "Something wrong, dear?"
Minho shakes his head and just hugs his mother closer, "I just miss you."
"You're making me worry, is something bothering you?" His mothers asks as she runs her hand on Minho's hair. The boy sighs, "You're gonna be okay, right? I mean... If ever, you know... I leave."
"I'm gonna cry but I'm gonna be just fine." She gives her son a kiss on his head, "Stop overthinking. Good night, baby boy."
Minho snuggles closer to her, "I love you, mom."
"I know." She hums and hugs her son closer. She watches until her son drifts off to dreamland before she sleeps but not before whispering, "You're leaving me soon, aren't you?"
She sleeps with tear-stricken cheeks that night.
-----
Minho wakes up alone on the bed. He searches for his mother but all he finds is a note on the bedside table.
'Hey, baby boy. Went to work. Breakfast is on the table. You can microwave it if you want. There's juice in the fridge. See you later! - Mom'
There's a sudden feeling of emptiness inside the walls of Minho's heart. He's leaving, and he's not going on a journey where he'll be back after a day or two. He's dying, and it's sooner than anybody expects. He closes his eyes, and he cries again because of his impending fate.
He wakes up after another hour, he didn't realize he fell asleep crying. He feels so alone at the moment since he can't talk to anybody about this, and the only person - being - that he can has left him indefinitely.
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Jonghyun watches Minho from outside the window, he makes himself invisible from everyone but he keeps his distance. He has a feeling that Minho will be able to tell that he's around. His human had cried again, and something inside Jonghyun wants to rush over to him, and then maybe wrap his wings around Minho again, in hopes that he can comfort the human in the way that Jonghyun can.
Jonghyun doesn't realize that he's staring at Minho's lips and he's tracing the burns that are still a bit fresh agains his own. The contact of their lips was brief, but the scheduler can still feel it burning him. Jonghyun turns away and flies far from Minho's house because there's an urge to appear in front of Minho and get himself burned again.
"What's happening to me...?" Jonghyun asks himself as he flies farther away and heads to a schedule. It's a stillborn baby boy. The scheduler watches as the mother pushes her baby, screaming in pain and tears trailing down her cheeks. Jonghyun feels bad because the mother won't even hear her son's cries, he won't even make a single sound. The scheduler watches as with a last hard push, the baby is delivered. The doctor rushes to the side to try and revive the baby when she realizes that the little boy isn't breathing. Jonghyun watches as the mother frantically asks what's happening, he watches as the doctor and nurses try their best to bring the little baby back to life. They try and try again, Jonghyun takes another look at the mother who's crying harder now not because of the labor pains she's still in but because of the pain crawling up her skin that she's losing her child - no, that she's lost her child. Jonghyun walks up next to the nurses and touches the small hand of the baby, gently, he slides his hand on the back of the child and slowly lifts it up as if holding a live baby. He carefully cradles the soul of the little baby boy in his arms. Jonghyun hears the doctor pronounce the time of death and the mother crying harder as he flies away back to the Gate.
Jaejoong sees him when he hands over the soul of the little boy to the Gatekeeper. Jonghyun doesn't say anything but flies higher, Jaejoong follows him.
"Is something wrong, Jonghyun?"
"I... I feel pain." Jonghyun mumbles, "That... Baby boy's mother didn't even get to hold him and she's almost dying of pain. I... I don't want to take Minho away from his mother. She'll be alone."
"Everybody dies."
"In their time."
Jaejoong shakes his head, "It is Minho's time."
"It's too soon."
Jaejoong tries to smile, "That baby will become a cherub."
Jonghyun sighs and crosses his arms, "If you put it that way... But still..."
Jaejoong clasps his hand over the younger's shoulder, "Minho gets to have the choice, alright?" He tells Jonghyun before flying away.
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"Where's Jonghyun?" Key asks when Minho arrives at Onew's place later that night. Minho shrugs, "He went back to Daejeon."
"Daejeon? Didn't you two meet in Busan? And you said you dropped him off around here before which makes him from Seoul." Key prods on, Minho sighs.
"We met in Busan. He does live in Seoul but he's got his family in Daejeon. Some emergency he had to tend to."
"Huh. I see, I see. Anyway, you look... Sad?"
Minho chuckles, "My b-boyfriend isn't here, so I guess it does make me a little sad."
"When's he coming back?" Onew asks, before Jonghyun can answer there's a knock on the door and he uses this distraction to not answer the question and open the door. Taemin smiles at him and walks inside with pizza and sodas.
"Oh. Jonghyun-hyung isn't here?" Taemin asks, Minho shakes his head. The younger pouts, "I-I see." The youngest puts the food on the table while the couple clears the living room from other stuff. Taemin takes a slice of pizza and munches on it, "What are we gonna do?"
"Nothing. Just hanging out, I guess." Onew takes a pizza and eats. Key lays his legs over his boyfriend's lap, "We have until Friday next week before we go back to school. Ew."
"Yeah. Friday." Minho mumbles. 'As if I'll make it until Friday...'
-----
Minho wakes up the next morning splayed on Onew's couch. Taemin is sleeping on a mattress on the floor while the couple is inside the oldest's room. It's Saturday. Less than a week until his time is up, he needs to spend more time with his friends, make up things to make them happy before he leaves.
He nudges Taemin awake, the maknae opens one eye, "What is it...?"
"Want to spend the rest of the day with me?" Minho asks, Taemin raises an eyebrow, "What do you mean?"
"Just you know, the two of us?"
"... Minho-hyung. You... You know I like you, a lot. And you have Jonghyun-hyung and if we go out, I won't be able to help but think of it as a date."
Minho sits up and rubs the sleep off his eyes, "A friendly date. Let me make it up to you. I've been... Kind of an asshole towards your feelings."
Taemin chuckles and sits up from the mattress as well, "You weren't the nicest."
Minho rubs the back of his neck, "I guess. I'm sorry about those times I openly rejected you."
Taemin shrugs his shoulders, "It gone on for too long I got used to it. I guess."
"Pick you up later at three? Let's watch a movie. Your choice."
"Okay."
-----
Jonghyun flies back to the human world that Saturday. Despite Jaejoong's warnings, he hides his wings and walks around the bustling city of Seoul. The sun is almost setting and he's come back from a schedule - an old lady has died peacefully in her sleep. Jonghyun remembers her, she was scheduled 50 years ago. She refused to be a scheduler that time, it was Yuri who was supposed to take her soul decades before. She refused, Yuri had to wait another 18 years before becoming a full-pledged scheduler when Yoona agreed to leave the human world behind.
His senses are in overdrive, 'Jaejoong's right. My energy is quite different now...' He thinks to himself as he walks casually among the humans. He's fast on his feet even if he's just walking, a whiff of human energy here and there won't affect him since he's been exposed in his world for a bit already.
He walks by a nearby cafe near the theater. He looks at the patrons eating inside when he catches a glimpse of that familiar big eyes and tuft of messy brown hair. It's Minho, he looks at his companion and it's Taemin. They're laughing together in one corner, Jonghyun stays rooted there a while, hoping Key and Onew turns up. They don't.
For a brief second, he thinks Minho sees him.
Jonghyun decides to disappear - too fast nobody notices.
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"It was nice, right?" Taemin asks after they decided to grab some coffee after the movie. Minho insisted on dinner but Taemin refused, saying dinner is more like a couple's date, coffee can still borderline friends.
"I didn't know you're into horror films." Minho laughs, the other chuckles across him. "There are a lot of things you don't know about me."
"That's true." Minho holds his cup and takes a sip of his iced latte.
"This is nice. I... I thought I'd feel bad spending borrowed time with you, but I'm happy." Taemin starts as he too takes a sip of his hot caramel macchiatto. "I hope Jonghyun-hyung doesn't mind."
"He won't." Minho sighs, he looks out the window and he wonders if his eyes are playing tricks on him because he can swear Jonghyun's standing outside staring at him. Minho blinks and Jonghyun is gone.
"Minho?"
Minho's attention turns back to Taemin, "Hmn?"
"Thank you."
Minho raises an eyebrow, "For what?"
"For today. I only wished to spend time with you alone, and it happened. Thank you. I think... I can let go of my feelings for you now."
"I'm glad to know that we're not gonna have some ill feelings between us."
Taemin shakes his head with a genuine smile on his face, "Oh! No, no. I want you to be happy with Jonghyun-hyung. If anything, you both have my support."
"If only it's that easy." Minho smiles bitterly, Taemin pats his wrist from across the table, "No relationship is easy to handle."
Minho chuckles behind his hand, "It's like... Supernaturally difficult. Inhumanely hard."
"That's exaggerating." Taemin pulls back his hand from Minho's wrist and checks his phone, "It's almost 7. I should head home, mom's making dinner."
"Come on."
Minho drives Taemin home and he goes back to his house too. He pulls up to the garage and from the rear view mirror, he almost screams because Jonghyun is standing in the opened garage door in the dark.
The human jumps out of the car and strides his way to the figure standing near the garage door, "Jonghyun?"
"The one and only."
"You said you're not coming back until my time."
"I know. Just checking on you. Making sure you're still alive."
Minho crosses his arms, "You almost killed me of heart attack. Fuck, I just got home from a horror movie."
Jonghyun doesn't know why there's a huge lump lodged in his throat when he realizes that Minho didn't only spend time with Taemin in a cafe, looks like they watched a movie alone together, too.
"Well, at least you're having fun." Jonghyun scoffs, sounding accusatory and Minho raises an eyebrow at this, "Are you ok?"
"Dandy. I'm leaving now." Jonghyun's wings appear, Minho grabs his wrist, "You're jealous, aren't you?"
Jonghyun folds his wings until it's completely gone and raises an eyebrow at Minho, "Jealous? Of what?"
"I saw you. You saw me earlier with Taemin, didn't you?"
"Whatever business you have with Taemin is beyond me. Do what you want."
"You aren't answering my question! You're still watching me."
Jonghyun swings his arm so Minho will let go - he's burning already - before putting his hands inside his jean pockets, the scheduler looks anywhere but Minho, "If I was? It doesn't mean I'm jealous. Look, I have to leave!"
"You keep saying that but I know, you want the same thing I want! You want to stay with me, as I want you to be by my side."
"Why? Why do you keep wanting to keep me close when we both know we can't?"
Minho sighs, "Jonghyun, I'm afraid."
"Afraid of what?"
"If I die and become a scheduler, I'm scared I won't remember you. I want to spend the rest of my remaining days with you so that I know, at least before I die I was... Am..."
"What...?"
"I'm in love."
Jonghyun stays dumbfounded and rooted in his spot. It confirms Jaejoong's suspicions and Jonghyun's assumptions. Minho can't be in love with him, it's wrong, definitely wrong. Jonghyun knows that a human can't fall in love with a scheduler and vice versa. What Jonghyun doesn't know is why he walks towards Minho and closes the gap between their lips - never mind the burning feeling, the wrongness of this all.
Nothing matters because Minho wraps his arms around Jonghyun's waist to bring them together closer. 'It's wrong. This is so wrong...' Jonghyun repeats to himself but as the kiss lingers longer between them, he doesn't mind.
Minho pulls away and stares at Jonghyun, his thumb caresses the reddened marks around the scheduler's lips, "Does it hurt...?"
"A bit."
"I'm sorry."
"I-it's okay."
Minho offers his hand, Jonghyun takes it. It burns too, but he holds onto the human tighter. They make it back into Minho's room where the taller lies on the bed, Jonghyun follows and lies next to him.
Minho is looking up the ceiling, he clears his throat and asks, "W-why did you kiss me? Do you feel the same way?"
"I honestly don't know. I just... I don't know."
Jonghyun hears Minho sigh next to him, "Are you still leaving?"
The scheduler doesn't answer, Minho feels Jonghyun's lips against his cheek and hears a soft 'yes'. The human turns to his side to find it empty.
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Author's Notes: There's nothing to say but I'm sorry? It's fairly short, but at least it's moving. I'm having jongho feels, little by little.
Chapters: 11/?
Author: paranoiascreams
Genre: Fluff, Angst, AU, Fantasy
Warning: unbeta’d
Rating: PG-13
Pairings/Characters: Minho x Jonghyun, Onew x Key, Minho x Taemin (onesided)
Synopsis: Minho meets a mesmerizing stranger during his prom, only to wish that he never had.
Disclaimer: Loosely based on these gifs: here and here. Edits by braintraitor (technically, the blog cannot be found, if she had moved, credits to her still.)
[01] [02] [03] [04] [05] [06] [07] [08] [09] [10]
Minho wakes up with a headache, he grunts and his mother hears him. She walks out of the kitchen and stands by his son's feet, "Good, you're awake. Are you okay? I came home from the market and you're sprawled on the couch."
"I'm okay... Is... Have you seen Jonghyun?"
His mother shakes her head, "You were alone when I arrived. Did you two fight?"
Minho shakes his head, "I'm just gonna go take a shower and let's cook dinner together."
His mother looks at her son's retreating figure, she shrugs and returns to the kitchen.
Minho returns to his mother 20 minutes later, he smiles at her and then proceeds to helping her chop some vegetables, "Aren't this a bit too much for just the two of us?"
"I thought Jonghyun's joining us tonight too."
"W-well, I do-"
His mother looks at him, "You like that boy, don't you?"
Minho drops the onion he's holding in surprise then looks at his mother, "MOM! What...?! How d-"
His mother laughs, "I'm your mother, of course I know these kinds of things. I'm not here to judge you, I love you, son. Do what makes you happy."
"I love you, mom..." Minho gets teary-eyed and hugs his mother, "Stupid onions..."
His mother chuckles against his chest, "You've grown up so fast... One day I'll have to let you go."
"Mom... Stop that, okay?" Minho releases his mother, "We're supposed to prepare dinner and not cry over it."
"Right." His mother smiles and continues to cook. Minho watches as his mother moves around the kitchen after he's done cutting up the vegetables. 'I'm sorry I can't tell you that I'll still be here, because I'm leaving soon. I'm so sorry, mom..."
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"Mom?" Minho calls out from the doorway of his mother's room, "Can I sleep here tonight?"
"Of course." His mother scoots a little so she can make room for her son, "Something wrong, dear?"
Minho shakes his head and just hugs his mother closer, "I just miss you."
"You're making me worry, is something bothering you?" His mothers asks as she runs her hand on Minho's hair. The boy sighs, "You're gonna be okay, right? I mean... If ever, you know... I leave."
"I'm gonna cry but I'm gonna be just fine." She gives her son a kiss on his head, "Stop overthinking. Good night, baby boy."
Minho snuggles closer to her, "I love you, mom."
"I know." She hums and hugs her son closer. She watches until her son drifts off to dreamland before she sleeps but not before whispering, "You're leaving me soon, aren't you?"
She sleeps with tear-stricken cheeks that night.
-----
Minho wakes up alone on the bed. He searches for his mother but all he finds is a note on the bedside table.
'Hey, baby boy. Went to work. Breakfast is on the table. You can microwave it if you want. There's juice in the fridge. See you later! - Mom'
There's a sudden feeling of emptiness inside the walls of Minho's heart. He's leaving, and he's not going on a journey where he'll be back after a day or two. He's dying, and it's sooner than anybody expects. He closes his eyes, and he cries again because of his impending fate.
He wakes up after another hour, he didn't realize he fell asleep crying. He feels so alone at the moment since he can't talk to anybody about this, and the only person - being - that he can has left him indefinitely.
-----
Jonghyun watches Minho from outside the window, he makes himself invisible from everyone but he keeps his distance. He has a feeling that Minho will be able to tell that he's around. His human had cried again, and something inside Jonghyun wants to rush over to him, and then maybe wrap his wings around Minho again, in hopes that he can comfort the human in the way that Jonghyun can.
Jonghyun doesn't realize that he's staring at Minho's lips and he's tracing the burns that are still a bit fresh agains his own. The contact of their lips was brief, but the scheduler can still feel it burning him. Jonghyun turns away and flies far from Minho's house because there's an urge to appear in front of Minho and get himself burned again.
"What's happening to me...?" Jonghyun asks himself as he flies farther away and heads to a schedule. It's a stillborn baby boy. The scheduler watches as the mother pushes her baby, screaming in pain and tears trailing down her cheeks. Jonghyun feels bad because the mother won't even hear her son's cries, he won't even make a single sound. The scheduler watches as with a last hard push, the baby is delivered. The doctor rushes to the side to try and revive the baby when she realizes that the little boy isn't breathing. Jonghyun watches as the mother frantically asks what's happening, he watches as the doctor and nurses try their best to bring the little baby back to life. They try and try again, Jonghyun takes another look at the mother who's crying harder now not because of the labor pains she's still in but because of the pain crawling up her skin that she's losing her child - no, that she's lost her child. Jonghyun walks up next to the nurses and touches the small hand of the baby, gently, he slides his hand on the back of the child and slowly lifts it up as if holding a live baby. He carefully cradles the soul of the little baby boy in his arms. Jonghyun hears the doctor pronounce the time of death and the mother crying harder as he flies away back to the Gate.
Jaejoong sees him when he hands over the soul of the little boy to the Gatekeeper. Jonghyun doesn't say anything but flies higher, Jaejoong follows him.
"Is something wrong, Jonghyun?"
"I... I feel pain." Jonghyun mumbles, "That... Baby boy's mother didn't even get to hold him and she's almost dying of pain. I... I don't want to take Minho away from his mother. She'll be alone."
"Everybody dies."
"In their time."
Jaejoong shakes his head, "It is Minho's time."
"It's too soon."
Jaejoong tries to smile, "That baby will become a cherub."
Jonghyun sighs and crosses his arms, "If you put it that way... But still..."
Jaejoong clasps his hand over the younger's shoulder, "Minho gets to have the choice, alright?" He tells Jonghyun before flying away.
-----
"Where's Jonghyun?" Key asks when Minho arrives at Onew's place later that night. Minho shrugs, "He went back to Daejeon."
"Daejeon? Didn't you two meet in Busan? And you said you dropped him off around here before which makes him from Seoul." Key prods on, Minho sighs.
"We met in Busan. He does live in Seoul but he's got his family in Daejeon. Some emergency he had to tend to."
"Huh. I see, I see. Anyway, you look... Sad?"
Minho chuckles, "My b-boyfriend isn't here, so I guess it does make me a little sad."
"When's he coming back?" Onew asks, before Jonghyun can answer there's a knock on the door and he uses this distraction to not answer the question and open the door. Taemin smiles at him and walks inside with pizza and sodas.
"Oh. Jonghyun-hyung isn't here?" Taemin asks, Minho shakes his head. The younger pouts, "I-I see." The youngest puts the food on the table while the couple clears the living room from other stuff. Taemin takes a slice of pizza and munches on it, "What are we gonna do?"
"Nothing. Just hanging out, I guess." Onew takes a pizza and eats. Key lays his legs over his boyfriend's lap, "We have until Friday next week before we go back to school. Ew."
"Yeah. Friday." Minho mumbles. 'As if I'll make it until Friday...'
-----
Minho wakes up the next morning splayed on Onew's couch. Taemin is sleeping on a mattress on the floor while the couple is inside the oldest's room. It's Saturday. Less than a week until his time is up, he needs to spend more time with his friends, make up things to make them happy before he leaves.
He nudges Taemin awake, the maknae opens one eye, "What is it...?"
"Want to spend the rest of the day with me?" Minho asks, Taemin raises an eyebrow, "What do you mean?"
"Just you know, the two of us?"
"... Minho-hyung. You... You know I like you, a lot. And you have Jonghyun-hyung and if we go out, I won't be able to help but think of it as a date."
Minho sits up and rubs the sleep off his eyes, "A friendly date. Let me make it up to you. I've been... Kind of an asshole towards your feelings."
Taemin chuckles and sits up from the mattress as well, "You weren't the nicest."
Minho rubs the back of his neck, "I guess. I'm sorry about those times I openly rejected you."
Taemin shrugs his shoulders, "It gone on for too long I got used to it. I guess."
"Pick you up later at three? Let's watch a movie. Your choice."
"Okay."
-----
Jonghyun flies back to the human world that Saturday. Despite Jaejoong's warnings, he hides his wings and walks around the bustling city of Seoul. The sun is almost setting and he's come back from a schedule - an old lady has died peacefully in her sleep. Jonghyun remembers her, she was scheduled 50 years ago. She refused to be a scheduler that time, it was Yuri who was supposed to take her soul decades before. She refused, Yuri had to wait another 18 years before becoming a full-pledged scheduler when Yoona agreed to leave the human world behind.
His senses are in overdrive, 'Jaejoong's right. My energy is quite different now...' He thinks to himself as he walks casually among the humans. He's fast on his feet even if he's just walking, a whiff of human energy here and there won't affect him since he's been exposed in his world for a bit already.
He walks by a nearby cafe near the theater. He looks at the patrons eating inside when he catches a glimpse of that familiar big eyes and tuft of messy brown hair. It's Minho, he looks at his companion and it's Taemin. They're laughing together in one corner, Jonghyun stays rooted there a while, hoping Key and Onew turns up. They don't.
For a brief second, he thinks Minho sees him.
Jonghyun decides to disappear - too fast nobody notices.
-----
"It was nice, right?" Taemin asks after they decided to grab some coffee after the movie. Minho insisted on dinner but Taemin refused, saying dinner is more like a couple's date, coffee can still borderline friends.
"I didn't know you're into horror films." Minho laughs, the other chuckles across him. "There are a lot of things you don't know about me."
"That's true." Minho holds his cup and takes a sip of his iced latte.
"This is nice. I... I thought I'd feel bad spending borrowed time with you, but I'm happy." Taemin starts as he too takes a sip of his hot caramel macchiatto. "I hope Jonghyun-hyung doesn't mind."
"He won't." Minho sighs, he looks out the window and he wonders if his eyes are playing tricks on him because he can swear Jonghyun's standing outside staring at him. Minho blinks and Jonghyun is gone.
"Minho?"
Minho's attention turns back to Taemin, "Hmn?"
"Thank you."
Minho raises an eyebrow, "For what?"
"For today. I only wished to spend time with you alone, and it happened. Thank you. I think... I can let go of my feelings for you now."
"I'm glad to know that we're not gonna have some ill feelings between us."
Taemin shakes his head with a genuine smile on his face, "Oh! No, no. I want you to be happy with Jonghyun-hyung. If anything, you both have my support."
"If only it's that easy." Minho smiles bitterly, Taemin pats his wrist from across the table, "No relationship is easy to handle."
Minho chuckles behind his hand, "It's like... Supernaturally difficult. Inhumanely hard."
"That's exaggerating." Taemin pulls back his hand from Minho's wrist and checks his phone, "It's almost 7. I should head home, mom's making dinner."
"Come on."
Minho drives Taemin home and he goes back to his house too. He pulls up to the garage and from the rear view mirror, he almost screams because Jonghyun is standing in the opened garage door in the dark.
The human jumps out of the car and strides his way to the figure standing near the garage door, "Jonghyun?"
"The one and only."
"You said you're not coming back until my time."
"I know. Just checking on you. Making sure you're still alive."
Minho crosses his arms, "You almost killed me of heart attack. Fuck, I just got home from a horror movie."
Jonghyun doesn't know why there's a huge lump lodged in his throat when he realizes that Minho didn't only spend time with Taemin in a cafe, looks like they watched a movie alone together, too.
"Well, at least you're having fun." Jonghyun scoffs, sounding accusatory and Minho raises an eyebrow at this, "Are you ok?"
"Dandy. I'm leaving now." Jonghyun's wings appear, Minho grabs his wrist, "You're jealous, aren't you?"
Jonghyun folds his wings until it's completely gone and raises an eyebrow at Minho, "Jealous? Of what?"
"I saw you. You saw me earlier with Taemin, didn't you?"
"Whatever business you have with Taemin is beyond me. Do what you want."
"You aren't answering my question! You're still watching me."
Jonghyun swings his arm so Minho will let go - he's burning already - before putting his hands inside his jean pockets, the scheduler looks anywhere but Minho, "If I was? It doesn't mean I'm jealous. Look, I have to leave!"
"You keep saying that but I know, you want the same thing I want! You want to stay with me, as I want you to be by my side."
"Why? Why do you keep wanting to keep me close when we both know we can't?"
Minho sighs, "Jonghyun, I'm afraid."
"Afraid of what?"
"If I die and become a scheduler, I'm scared I won't remember you. I want to spend the rest of my remaining days with you so that I know, at least before I die I was... Am..."
"What...?"
"I'm in love."
Jonghyun stays dumbfounded and rooted in his spot. It confirms Jaejoong's suspicions and Jonghyun's assumptions. Minho can't be in love with him, it's wrong, definitely wrong. Jonghyun knows that a human can't fall in love with a scheduler and vice versa. What Jonghyun doesn't know is why he walks towards Minho and closes the gap between their lips - never mind the burning feeling, the wrongness of this all.
Nothing matters because Minho wraps his arms around Jonghyun's waist to bring them together closer. 'It's wrong. This is so wrong...' Jonghyun repeats to himself but as the kiss lingers longer between them, he doesn't mind.
Minho pulls away and stares at Jonghyun, his thumb caresses the reddened marks around the scheduler's lips, "Does it hurt...?"
"A bit."
"I'm sorry."
"I-it's okay."
Minho offers his hand, Jonghyun takes it. It burns too, but he holds onto the human tighter. They make it back into Minho's room where the taller lies on the bed, Jonghyun follows and lies next to him.
Minho is looking up the ceiling, he clears his throat and asks, "W-why did you kiss me? Do you feel the same way?"
"I honestly don't know. I just... I don't know."
Jonghyun hears Minho sigh next to him, "Are you still leaving?"
The scheduler doesn't answer, Minho feels Jonghyun's lips against his cheek and hears a soft 'yes'. The human turns to his side to find it empty.
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Author's Notes: There's nothing to say but I'm sorry? It's fairly short, but at least it's moving. I'm having jongho feels, little by little.