fic: resistance (part 2/2) - siwon/kyuhyun - super junior
Title: Resistance (part 2/2)
Author: bl4ckm4lice
Fandom: Super Junior
Genre/Pairing: AU - Siwon x Kyuhyun
Word Count: 3,400+
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: na-ah, not mine
Summary: Choi Siwon is the CEO of the Choi Industries. He's also the Iron Man. Cho Kyuhyun is not just his secretary. Or so Siwon hopes.
Part 1
"Welcome back!" Colorful confettis and sparkling things explodes onto Kyuhyun's face as he walks into the office. He shoots five seconds of harsh glare towards Siwon's perseveringly beaming face before wiping the ridiculous waste of money off his face. "Remind me never to approve another leave for you in this lifetime," Siwon chirps. "I've missed you too much these past three days."
"I've missed those three days already."
"You don't mean that."
"Your denial would be admirable if it isn't so appalling," Kyuhyun sits down and turns his computer on, already making a mental list of what he needs to catch up on after his leave. "I believe you didn't make any appointment while I was gone?"
"I knew you kept a tab on me," Siwon grins. "But I do have an appointment tonight."
"Oh?" With trained reflex, Kyuhyun opens his tablet to jot it down. "With who, where, what time? Anything I need to prepare?"
"Dinner at 7 in that new pasta restaurant you bookmarked in your browser. With you, naturally, so prepare yourself for an amazing date."
Kyuhyun heaves a deep sigh and sets the tablet down. He doesn't even feel like scolding Siwon for hacking his tablet. Again. Looking straight at Siwon, he asks, "What can I say that will make you stop all this nonsense?"
"Absolutely nothing. And don't use the 'I have a boyfriend' excuse again because I won't buy it. It was adorable how you thought I wouldn't be able to make that man expose himself," Siwon winks as Kyuhyun painfully recalls the night when his trustworthy confidant finally succumbed to all the threats and blackmails from Siwon. He had to bear a whole week of insufferably smug Siwon afterwards.
"And if I say that nothing will make me want to go out with you?"
"I won't give up." Siwon props his palms on Kyuhyun's desk and starts to lean in. "I won't give you up."
"So you will just force your feelings on me without any regards to how I feel?" Kyuhyun's words stops Siwon from leaning further. The taller man's smile falter when he sees how serious Kyuhyun's stare is, with something foreign gleaming in it.
Forcing the smile to return to his face, Siwon shrugs. "You did accept my dinner invitation back then."
"I said no such thing."
"No answer means yes."
Kyuhyun looks down, breaking their eye contact as he busies himself with the e-mails he needs to reply. "So you wish."
Still unnerved by Kyuhyun's stare earlier, he chuckles shakily and stands up straight. Kyuhyun, dear Kyuhyun. How hard it is to reach out to him. He has tried every single thing in the book, but nothing makes Kyuhyun budge. Except for that time when Siwon was sure that Kyuhyun couldn't say no… but then his chance was ruined, wasn't it? "You're not gonna make this easy, are you." He sighs as he watches Kyuhyun typing his e-mails away like he doesn't exist.
"You're the one who makes it much harder for both of us."
"How long are you going to punish me for letting them kidnap you?"
Kyuhyun goes still.
For once, he finds out about Siwon's views on the whole thing, and he's quite embarrassed to admit that he hasn't once thought about it. Kyuhyun has been too busy feeling guilty over that incident, too busy fearing for what would happen to Siwon next time. It was bad enough that he had to watch Iron Man fighting bad guys on TV. He couldn't check up on him afterwards, of course, knowing that it would give Siwon hope, so he had to pray that Siwon would walk into the office the next day instead of into the hospital, or worse.
He only realizes now that he had never thanked Siwon for saving him.
And he never thought that Siwon would believe that Kyuhyun is blaming him.
Another set of guilt swallows him whole and Kyuhyun opens his mouth to deny, because he would never do that to Siwon, for God's sake. Siwon fucking saved him from whatever end he would've met otherwise, and he had kept his promise to keep Kyuhyun safe ever since. He knows that the bodyguards are only a small part of it. Siwon utilizes every technology in his possession to keep track of him and even follows him in person sometimes, thinking that he's being discreet enough for Kyuhyun not to notice. Kyuhyun lets him, although what he really wants is not to become such weakness, such burden.
All he wants is to keep Siwon safe.
He grits his teeth and steels himself before meeting Siwon's sincere, sad eyes.
"I'm just not into you. Deal with it."
***
"He's into me," Siwon twirls the pen between his fingers. "I know that he's into me."
"Yes, of course," Hyukjae looks longingly at the pen as he shifts the papers a bit closer towards Siwon. "If only you would sign these--."
"If only that mad scientist hadn't kidnapped him and ruined everything. I can see it in his eyes, you know? He wants me as much as I want him."
"Just a quick sign here and here--."
"You agree with me, right, Hyukjae?"
"He will agree with anything that can make you sign those damn papers, Master."
Siwon glares at the huge monitor displaying various stats of the project he's working on, a new weapon he hopes to incorporate into the Iron Man suit. On the center of the monitor is the name of the A.I. he created many years ago. "I'm not asking you, B.U.G.S.Y."
"Because you're afraid of the truth."
"Well, I'm sorry to inform you that not even the most advanced A.I. like you can compare to the genuine observation made by human beings."
"An A.I. made by you, Master. Every time you question my competence, you're questioning yourself, really."
Siwon scowls and drops the pen, ignoring Hyukjae's pitiful whine. "You used to be so cute. I could confide in you and all you would say were, 'Oh poor Master, I wish I can help you more with that'."
"Ah yes… I was so young," B.U.G.S.Y. mocks a sigh. "Alas, I've grown to counterbalance your enormous self-esteem and egocentric attitude."
"I should reboot you into B.U.G.S.Y. version 2.0."
"You? Allowing such setback on your technological developments? Version 2.0. undeveloped personality would've let you go through with the miscalculations, Master, thinking that you know better than him." The monitor brings up a set of numbers and shapes. "This won't work by the way. You have to exchange the trajectory component with this new form I created for you. The angle should be 56 degrees instead of 46."
"Ah, you're right," Siwon hums and shoves aside the papers Hyukjae brought to make space for the contraptions. Hyukjae whimpers and gathers the fallen papers to place them as close to Siwon as he can without interrupting the complicated looking... thing. He fails to measure the proper distance, of course, and Siwon promptly snaps at him for invading his professional space.
"Why are you even here again? Isn't Kyuhyun supposed to be here with these papers instead of you?"
Hyukjae grows three shades paler and mumbles, "Mr. Cho says that from now on, I am to handle all contacts with you."
Siwon stops working, raises narrowed eyes at Hyukjae, and pouts. "Says who?"
"Mr. Cho--."
"Well you can tell my secretary that he can come here to ask for my signature or I won't sign anything at all. That applies to everything that requires my signature and-slash-or approval."
Hyukjae's face falls, but he has no guts to stand up against his boss, unlike a certain secretary.
"You know, Master," B.U.G.S.Y. barges into the one-sided conversation, "that kind of attitude is just gonna push the love of your life even further away."
"Since when are you taking Kyuhyun's side?"
"Since I know it's gonna piss you off."
Siwon groans and vows to reboot B.U.G.S.Y. for the umpteenth time, but then he realizes that there's something not quite right in Hyukjae's choice of words. "From now on," he repeats and grabs Hyukjae's shoulder. "Why did Kyuhyun say 'from now on'?"
Hyukjae whimpers about how Kyuhyun's going to kill him until Siwon shakes him. "Hyukjae!"
"Y-you're not supposed to find out yet!" Hyukjae yelps in panic. "H-he just handed in his resignation. Effective immediately."
***
Just like how a child would throw a tantrum, Siwon causes a ruckus in front of Kyuhyun's apartment and threatens to blow his door up before Kyuhyun snaps the door open with wet hair and hastily worn clothes. "I was taking a shower, you dumbass," Kyuhyun scowls but easily steps aside to let him in.
"How could you gone home without the bodyguards!?" Siwon yells as he storms inside.
"I'm not your secretary anymore. They don't have to guard me, just like I explained to them earlier."
"Well, they're fired already, because they obviously couldn't do their job, letting you walk away like that!"
Sighing, Kyuhyun takes a seat on the couch. "That's quite unnecessary. They're good men and they've done nothing wrong."
"They fucking left you alone!"
"I was the one leaving, remember?"
Siwon takes a seat in front of Kyuhyun, but decides that he's too restless to sit down anyway, so he stands back up and paces back and forth instead, all the while throwing frantic glances at his former secretary. "Your resignation has been rejected," he says matter-of-factly.
"Doesn't matter," Kyuhyun shrugs. "I already quit."
"You can't quit. I won't approve it."
"Sure, you can deny it all you want, but the fact remains that I won't be coming in anymore. I'm taking a break for a while then I'll find another job."
"You can't just--!!" Siwon grabs his arms tight until it would surely leave some bruises, but Kyuhyun just stares at him with unchanging expression. "Kyuhyun, please… Please."
The decision is final, Siwon realizes with shattering hopes. No matter how much he begs, Kyuhyun will never succumb to his whims. He can't believe that Kyuhyun is finally crossing that line to get away from Siwon. Of course, he has always thought that Kyuhyun would give in one day, just as long as Siwon keeps on trying… What a fool he is.
"Fine," Swallowing the bitter taste of rejection, Siwon lets him go and looks away. If he can't stay with Kyuhyun, he can at least continue to keep him safe. "A-alright, do whatever you want. But I'll get you new bodyguards."
"No," Kyuhyun quickly refuses. "No more bodyguards. None of your techs tracking me. On top of everything, no more you secretly following me around."
Not even trying to deny Kyuhyun's reproach, Siwon snaps, "What if someone attacks you!?"
"Why would they?" Kyuhyun asks calmly. Siwon should never know that despite his collected facade, he's no less desperate on the inside. He can do this. He can make Siwon stop carrying this burden. Earlier, he has been imagining this conversation over and over again in his head, and he knows exactly what he's going to say. "I'm nobody. I'm don't work for you anymore. We have no relationship whatsoever and they won't find any reason to hurt me." All he has to say are the words he's dreading to say. "Now I feel safer than ever."
***
It didn't end there.
Siwon hasn't assigned him new bodyguards, as Kyuhyun requested. He also hasn't placed any tracking devices, at least none that Kyuhyun can find, and he's very good at finding them. Just like how he's very good at spotting Siwon hanging around his apartment and watching him from afar.
Sometimes he stays for a few minutes, sometimes for an hour, sometimes not just once throughout the day. But the persistently earnest Choi Siwon definitely comes everyday without fail, checking in and making sure that Kyuhyun is still there, still unharmed.
Kyuhyun finds it harder and harder to pretend not to notice, especially at times when Siwon decides to be cliche and stands in the shadow under the heavy rain. But he knows that he can't say anything. The only thing he can do is hope that Siwon will soon give up, that Kyuhyun would check outside and find no Siwon for a whole day.
One day he gets what he wants.
Just not in the way he wishes it to be.
***
Kyuhyun runs through the hallways, face pale and one hand tightly clutching his phone. A message is still displayed on the screen, brief and concise.
He finally arrives at his destination, but his hand trembles terribly as he reaches for the door knob. His worst nightmare hangs heavy in his mind, fear gripping his core as he recalls how still and broken Siwon looked many nights ago. And the possibility that the same scene might be waiting for him behind this door.
"I'm sorry to hack your phone, but I thought you should know," B.U.G.S.Y.'s computerized voice delivered the cold, harsh reality earlier. "An enemy attacked Siwon on his way to your apartment. He has been badly injured and is currently unconscious at the hospital. I will send you the room and address--."
Kyuhyun's eyes blur and he slowly opens the door.
"Holy shit," Siwon gasps from the hospital bed. "You're really here!"
Gaping openly at the very much conscious Siwon, Kyuhyun searches for signs of injury and finds only scuffed skin here and there along with a bandaged left shoulder. The nurse standing next to Siwon appears to just finishes wrapping it up.
"Oh this?" Siwon catches onto Kyuhyun's line of sight. "Don't worry, it just needs a couple of stitches--."
"Twelve," the nurse corrects.
"Yeah, twelve stitches mean a couple of sixes, no? Get out of here." Siwon scowls in annoyance and shoos the nurse until she's out of the room. Only then he smiles and waves at Kyuhyun with his good hand. "Anyway. Hi. Um. Nice to see you."
"But…" Kyuhyun frowns, still in disbelief. "B.U.G.S.Y…"
"Yeah, B.U.G.S.Y. Huh. He actually outsmarted me this time. He said that you know that I'm at the hospital, you would come. I said you wouldn't. Long story short, it turned into a bet in which if he wins I must never reboot him." Siwon appears crushed for a moment. "God, it's such an unpleasant feeling to be outsmarted by something you created, you know? Not that I'm not happy that he's right and you're here..."
"B.U.G.S.Y. said you've been badly injured," Kyuhyun says in an accusatory tone while slowly stepping closer to the other man. "That you were ambushed on your way to my place."
"Well the last part is true, but the first part is much dramatized-- OW!" In a split of a second, Kyuhyun closes the remaining distance between them and begins slamming Siwon with his fists.
"I HATE YOU!! I FUCKING HATE YOU!" Kyuhyun yells almost hysterically without stopping his attacks which Siwon tries to avoid with little success, as he is limited by his injuries.
"Hey, hey, ow! It wasn't my idea, it was B.U.G.S.Y.'s! Ow, ow, my stitches hurt!"
"Why are you even still alive!!?"
"Don't say things like that-- Oomph!" The attacks stop as sudden as it came. Siwon's eyes widen as he realizes that Kyuhyun has switched into embracing him tightly and burying his face on his chest. The body pressing against him feels so warm and soft that for a split second, Siwon thought that he's in heaven. Apparently he just said it out loud.
"Moron. You would go to hell anyway," Kyuhyun mumbles.
"Sorry," Siwon can't help but beams, although he does feel some remorse over the tears wetting his chest.
"I thought you--."
"I'm alright." Siwon brings up his right hand and strokes Kyuhyun's back in a comforting manner. "Now that you're here, I'm more than alright-- Ow."
"I hate you," Kyuhyun sniffs, stopping his half-hearted attack on the other man's injured side.
"I know that you care for me." Siwon smiles and kisses the crown of Kyuhyun's head. "I love you so much."
Kyuhyun quickly pulls away and wipes his eyes. "Don't."
"Why?" With the gentleness Kyuhyun doesn't know Siwon possesses, the man reaches out to his hand and helps to wipe the rest of his tears. "I'm sorry Kyuhyun, I don't think I can ever stop. I love you and I'm serious, even though I know you don't think so…"
Kyuhyun shakes his head, confusing Siwon for a moment, but the other man continues.
"I know that my feelings are nothing but burden for you, but know that I will never let any harm come your way ever again. I will protect you--."
"And who's gonna protect you?" Kyuhyun shakily asks. His fingers lightly trace the bandaged shoulder, then down towards the old scar on his chest. "Look at you, always getting hurt because of me."
"This is what has been weighing you down?" Siwon chuckles. "You should've known that I don't mind."
"Well, I do!"
"I'm gonna get stronger." Siwon takes Kyuhyun hand and places a kiss on its back. "You're the reason why I will always get stronger."
"...Can't you just not get hurt anymore?" Kyuhyun sighs, still looking very much concerned. How come Siwon didn't see it before, this deep, heartfelt worry for him? Maybe everything isn't the way Siwon thought it was. But he's done guessing. If Kyuhyun will let him, he'd rather ask him straight away. No more confusion and no more facing their fears on their own.
"Kind of hard to promise you that," Siwon winks cheekily. "Everyone wants a piece of me. But I'll try, for you."
Kyuhyun smiles, and suddenly his face is only a hair breadth away from Siwon's. "Promise that you'll try very, very hard?"
Siwon supposes he has to say yes, but he's totally at loss for words, taken in by Kyuhyun's gorgeous, teary eyes. Kyuhyun already takes his silence as a yes, though, and leans in for a much overdue kiss.
***
There's no getting Siwon off him after that.
Kyuhyun returns to his position as Siwon's secretary, conceding to his now-lover's order to have not two, but four bodyguards. He also lets most of his personal stuffs being integrated with tracking technologies, although he does stand his ground on not allowing any chip from surgically invading his body.
Yes, the CEO of the Choi Industries was already overbearingly head over heels even from before they got together. Multiply that by five and it would still be an understatement of what Siwon is like nowadays.
Then again, those aren't the only differences.
Kyuhyun changes too. Now, he doesn't hesitate to play it out to his advantage.
"Whaaaaaat!? Why do I have a dinner meeting out of nowhere-- Goddammit, you look gorgeous with those glasses."
Letting only the smallest hint of smile adorning his face, Kyuhyun carries on with his perfected manner in handling his difficult boss. "I've told you last week about it, remember?"
"No! I clearly remember that last week you invited me to go on a nice dinner, then afterwards we can check into the hotel and..."
Kyuhyun thinks that his eyeballs might fall out sooner or later if he roll them once too many. He rolls them anyway. "That's really the only thing in your mind, isn't it?"
Siwon sulks visibly. "I just wanna spend time with my lover... It was the first time you invited me for a night out and I was so unbelievably excited until a minute ago when I found out that you were just tricking me."
"Is that what you think it is? A trick?" Kyuhyun hardly ever pouts, but when he does, it does things to Siwon. Especially when he pouts while peering up to Siwon over his glasses. "Even though I've never said that our dinner is cancelled…"
"I-it's not?"
"Of course not! I only moved it to our hotel bedroom. Thought we could have more fun that way…" Kyuhyun tilts his head, secretly smiling as he sees Siwon turning from brooding to beaming. "Now will you be a good boy and go to that meeting?"
"Absolutely!" Siwon nods excitedly, lips stretched wide in a face-splitting grin. He kisses Kyuhyun hard and pronounces his love to Kyuhyun at least three times before storming off to get that meeting done as soon as possible. Kyuhyun can almost see an imaginary tail wagging in his eagerness to please his lover.
He smiles openly in satisfaction.
No more difficult Siwon.
Kyuhyun can get used to this.
***
The end~
Author: bl4ckm4lice
Fandom: Super Junior
Genre/Pairing: AU - Siwon x Kyuhyun
Word Count: 3,400+
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: na-ah, not mine
Summary: Choi Siwon is the CEO of the Choi Industries. He's also the Iron Man. Cho Kyuhyun is not just his secretary. Or so Siwon hopes.
Part 1
"Welcome back!" Colorful confettis and sparkling things explodes onto Kyuhyun's face as he walks into the office. He shoots five seconds of harsh glare towards Siwon's perseveringly beaming face before wiping the ridiculous waste of money off his face. "Remind me never to approve another leave for you in this lifetime," Siwon chirps. "I've missed you too much these past three days."
"I've missed those three days already."
"You don't mean that."
"Your denial would be admirable if it isn't so appalling," Kyuhyun sits down and turns his computer on, already making a mental list of what he needs to catch up on after his leave. "I believe you didn't make any appointment while I was gone?"
"I knew you kept a tab on me," Siwon grins. "But I do have an appointment tonight."
"Oh?" With trained reflex, Kyuhyun opens his tablet to jot it down. "With who, where, what time? Anything I need to prepare?"
"Dinner at 7 in that new pasta restaurant you bookmarked in your browser. With you, naturally, so prepare yourself for an amazing date."
Kyuhyun heaves a deep sigh and sets the tablet down. He doesn't even feel like scolding Siwon for hacking his tablet. Again. Looking straight at Siwon, he asks, "What can I say that will make you stop all this nonsense?"
"Absolutely nothing. And don't use the 'I have a boyfriend' excuse again because I won't buy it. It was adorable how you thought I wouldn't be able to make that man expose himself," Siwon winks as Kyuhyun painfully recalls the night when his trustworthy confidant finally succumbed to all the threats and blackmails from Siwon. He had to bear a whole week of insufferably smug Siwon afterwards.
"And if I say that nothing will make me want to go out with you?"
"I won't give up." Siwon props his palms on Kyuhyun's desk and starts to lean in. "I won't give you up."
"So you will just force your feelings on me without any regards to how I feel?" Kyuhyun's words stops Siwon from leaning further. The taller man's smile falter when he sees how serious Kyuhyun's stare is, with something foreign gleaming in it.
Forcing the smile to return to his face, Siwon shrugs. "You did accept my dinner invitation back then."
"I said no such thing."
"No answer means yes."
Kyuhyun looks down, breaking their eye contact as he busies himself with the e-mails he needs to reply. "So you wish."
Still unnerved by Kyuhyun's stare earlier, he chuckles shakily and stands up straight. Kyuhyun, dear Kyuhyun. How hard it is to reach out to him. He has tried every single thing in the book, but nothing makes Kyuhyun budge. Except for that time when Siwon was sure that Kyuhyun couldn't say no… but then his chance was ruined, wasn't it? "You're not gonna make this easy, are you." He sighs as he watches Kyuhyun typing his e-mails away like he doesn't exist.
"You're the one who makes it much harder for both of us."
"How long are you going to punish me for letting them kidnap you?"
Kyuhyun goes still.
For once, he finds out about Siwon's views on the whole thing, and he's quite embarrassed to admit that he hasn't once thought about it. Kyuhyun has been too busy feeling guilty over that incident, too busy fearing for what would happen to Siwon next time. It was bad enough that he had to watch Iron Man fighting bad guys on TV. He couldn't check up on him afterwards, of course, knowing that it would give Siwon hope, so he had to pray that Siwon would walk into the office the next day instead of into the hospital, or worse.
He only realizes now that he had never thanked Siwon for saving him.
And he never thought that Siwon would believe that Kyuhyun is blaming him.
Another set of guilt swallows him whole and Kyuhyun opens his mouth to deny, because he would never do that to Siwon, for God's sake. Siwon fucking saved him from whatever end he would've met otherwise, and he had kept his promise to keep Kyuhyun safe ever since. He knows that the bodyguards are only a small part of it. Siwon utilizes every technology in his possession to keep track of him and even follows him in person sometimes, thinking that he's being discreet enough for Kyuhyun not to notice. Kyuhyun lets him, although what he really wants is not to become such weakness, such burden.
All he wants is to keep Siwon safe.
He grits his teeth and steels himself before meeting Siwon's sincere, sad eyes.
"I'm just not into you. Deal with it."
***
"He's into me," Siwon twirls the pen between his fingers. "I know that he's into me."
"Yes, of course," Hyukjae looks longingly at the pen as he shifts the papers a bit closer towards Siwon. "If only you would sign these--."
"If only that mad scientist hadn't kidnapped him and ruined everything. I can see it in his eyes, you know? He wants me as much as I want him."
"Just a quick sign here and here--."
"You agree with me, right, Hyukjae?"
"He will agree with anything that can make you sign those damn papers, Master."
Siwon glares at the huge monitor displaying various stats of the project he's working on, a new weapon he hopes to incorporate into the Iron Man suit. On the center of the monitor is the name of the A.I. he created many years ago. "I'm not asking you, B.U.G.S.Y."
"Because you're afraid of the truth."
"Well, I'm sorry to inform you that not even the most advanced A.I. like you can compare to the genuine observation made by human beings."
"An A.I. made by you, Master. Every time you question my competence, you're questioning yourself, really."
Siwon scowls and drops the pen, ignoring Hyukjae's pitiful whine. "You used to be so cute. I could confide in you and all you would say were, 'Oh poor Master, I wish I can help you more with that'."
"Ah yes… I was so young," B.U.G.S.Y. mocks a sigh. "Alas, I've grown to counterbalance your enormous self-esteem and egocentric attitude."
"I should reboot you into B.U.G.S.Y. version 2.0."
"You? Allowing such setback on your technological developments? Version 2.0. undeveloped personality would've let you go through with the miscalculations, Master, thinking that you know better than him." The monitor brings up a set of numbers and shapes. "This won't work by the way. You have to exchange the trajectory component with this new form I created for you. The angle should be 56 degrees instead of 46."
"Ah, you're right," Siwon hums and shoves aside the papers Hyukjae brought to make space for the contraptions. Hyukjae whimpers and gathers the fallen papers to place them as close to Siwon as he can without interrupting the complicated looking... thing. He fails to measure the proper distance, of course, and Siwon promptly snaps at him for invading his professional space.
"Why are you even here again? Isn't Kyuhyun supposed to be here with these papers instead of you?"
Hyukjae grows three shades paler and mumbles, "Mr. Cho says that from now on, I am to handle all contacts with you."
Siwon stops working, raises narrowed eyes at Hyukjae, and pouts. "Says who?"
"Mr. Cho--."
"Well you can tell my secretary that he can come here to ask for my signature or I won't sign anything at all. That applies to everything that requires my signature and-slash-or approval."
Hyukjae's face falls, but he has no guts to stand up against his boss, unlike a certain secretary.
"You know, Master," B.U.G.S.Y. barges into the one-sided conversation, "that kind of attitude is just gonna push the love of your life even further away."
"Since when are you taking Kyuhyun's side?"
"Since I know it's gonna piss you off."
Siwon groans and vows to reboot B.U.G.S.Y. for the umpteenth time, but then he realizes that there's something not quite right in Hyukjae's choice of words. "From now on," he repeats and grabs Hyukjae's shoulder. "Why did Kyuhyun say 'from now on'?"
Hyukjae whimpers about how Kyuhyun's going to kill him until Siwon shakes him. "Hyukjae!"
"Y-you're not supposed to find out yet!" Hyukjae yelps in panic. "H-he just handed in his resignation. Effective immediately."
***
Just like how a child would throw a tantrum, Siwon causes a ruckus in front of Kyuhyun's apartment and threatens to blow his door up before Kyuhyun snaps the door open with wet hair and hastily worn clothes. "I was taking a shower, you dumbass," Kyuhyun scowls but easily steps aside to let him in.
"How could you gone home without the bodyguards!?" Siwon yells as he storms inside.
"I'm not your secretary anymore. They don't have to guard me, just like I explained to them earlier."
"Well, they're fired already, because they obviously couldn't do their job, letting you walk away like that!"
Sighing, Kyuhyun takes a seat on the couch. "That's quite unnecessary. They're good men and they've done nothing wrong."
"They fucking left you alone!"
"I was the one leaving, remember?"
Siwon takes a seat in front of Kyuhyun, but decides that he's too restless to sit down anyway, so he stands back up and paces back and forth instead, all the while throwing frantic glances at his former secretary. "Your resignation has been rejected," he says matter-of-factly.
"Doesn't matter," Kyuhyun shrugs. "I already quit."
"You can't quit. I won't approve it."
"Sure, you can deny it all you want, but the fact remains that I won't be coming in anymore. I'm taking a break for a while then I'll find another job."
"You can't just--!!" Siwon grabs his arms tight until it would surely leave some bruises, but Kyuhyun just stares at him with unchanging expression. "Kyuhyun, please… Please."
The decision is final, Siwon realizes with shattering hopes. No matter how much he begs, Kyuhyun will never succumb to his whims. He can't believe that Kyuhyun is finally crossing that line to get away from Siwon. Of course, he has always thought that Kyuhyun would give in one day, just as long as Siwon keeps on trying… What a fool he is.
"Fine," Swallowing the bitter taste of rejection, Siwon lets him go and looks away. If he can't stay with Kyuhyun, he can at least continue to keep him safe. "A-alright, do whatever you want. But I'll get you new bodyguards."
"No," Kyuhyun quickly refuses. "No more bodyguards. None of your techs tracking me. On top of everything, no more you secretly following me around."
Not even trying to deny Kyuhyun's reproach, Siwon snaps, "What if someone attacks you!?"
"Why would they?" Kyuhyun asks calmly. Siwon should never know that despite his collected facade, he's no less desperate on the inside. He can do this. He can make Siwon stop carrying this burden. Earlier, he has been imagining this conversation over and over again in his head, and he knows exactly what he's going to say. "I'm nobody. I'm don't work for you anymore. We have no relationship whatsoever and they won't find any reason to hurt me." All he has to say are the words he's dreading to say. "Now I feel safer than ever."
***
It didn't end there.
Siwon hasn't assigned him new bodyguards, as Kyuhyun requested. He also hasn't placed any tracking devices, at least none that Kyuhyun can find, and he's very good at finding them. Just like how he's very good at spotting Siwon hanging around his apartment and watching him from afar.
Sometimes he stays for a few minutes, sometimes for an hour, sometimes not just once throughout the day. But the persistently earnest Choi Siwon definitely comes everyday without fail, checking in and making sure that Kyuhyun is still there, still unharmed.
Kyuhyun finds it harder and harder to pretend not to notice, especially at times when Siwon decides to be cliche and stands in the shadow under the heavy rain. But he knows that he can't say anything. The only thing he can do is hope that Siwon will soon give up, that Kyuhyun would check outside and find no Siwon for a whole day.
One day he gets what he wants.
Just not in the way he wishes it to be.
***
Kyuhyun runs through the hallways, face pale and one hand tightly clutching his phone. A message is still displayed on the screen, brief and concise.
He finally arrives at his destination, but his hand trembles terribly as he reaches for the door knob. His worst nightmare hangs heavy in his mind, fear gripping his core as he recalls how still and broken Siwon looked many nights ago. And the possibility that the same scene might be waiting for him behind this door.
"I'm sorry to hack your phone, but I thought you should know," B.U.G.S.Y.'s computerized voice delivered the cold, harsh reality earlier. "An enemy attacked Siwon on his way to your apartment. He has been badly injured and is currently unconscious at the hospital. I will send you the room and address--."
Kyuhyun's eyes blur and he slowly opens the door.
"Holy shit," Siwon gasps from the hospital bed. "You're really here!"
Gaping openly at the very much conscious Siwon, Kyuhyun searches for signs of injury and finds only scuffed skin here and there along with a bandaged left shoulder. The nurse standing next to Siwon appears to just finishes wrapping it up.
"Oh this?" Siwon catches onto Kyuhyun's line of sight. "Don't worry, it just needs a couple of stitches--."
"Twelve," the nurse corrects.
"Yeah, twelve stitches mean a couple of sixes, no? Get out of here." Siwon scowls in annoyance and shoos the nurse until she's out of the room. Only then he smiles and waves at Kyuhyun with his good hand. "Anyway. Hi. Um. Nice to see you."
"But…" Kyuhyun frowns, still in disbelief. "B.U.G.S.Y…"
"Yeah, B.U.G.S.Y. Huh. He actually outsmarted me this time. He said that you know that I'm at the hospital, you would come. I said you wouldn't. Long story short, it turned into a bet in which if he wins I must never reboot him." Siwon appears crushed for a moment. "God, it's such an unpleasant feeling to be outsmarted by something you created, you know? Not that I'm not happy that he's right and you're here..."
"B.U.G.S.Y. said you've been badly injured," Kyuhyun says in an accusatory tone while slowly stepping closer to the other man. "That you were ambushed on your way to my place."
"Well the last part is true, but the first part is much dramatized-- OW!" In a split of a second, Kyuhyun closes the remaining distance between them and begins slamming Siwon with his fists.
"I HATE YOU!! I FUCKING HATE YOU!" Kyuhyun yells almost hysterically without stopping his attacks which Siwon tries to avoid with little success, as he is limited by his injuries.
"Hey, hey, ow! It wasn't my idea, it was B.U.G.S.Y.'s! Ow, ow, my stitches hurt!"
"Why are you even still alive!!?"
"Don't say things like that-- Oomph!" The attacks stop as sudden as it came. Siwon's eyes widen as he realizes that Kyuhyun has switched into embracing him tightly and burying his face on his chest. The body pressing against him feels so warm and soft that for a split second, Siwon thought that he's in heaven. Apparently he just said it out loud.
"Moron. You would go to hell anyway," Kyuhyun mumbles.
"Sorry," Siwon can't help but beams, although he does feel some remorse over the tears wetting his chest.
"I thought you--."
"I'm alright." Siwon brings up his right hand and strokes Kyuhyun's back in a comforting manner. "Now that you're here, I'm more than alright-- Ow."
"I hate you," Kyuhyun sniffs, stopping his half-hearted attack on the other man's injured side.
"I know that you care for me." Siwon smiles and kisses the crown of Kyuhyun's head. "I love you so much."
Kyuhyun quickly pulls away and wipes his eyes. "Don't."
"Why?" With the gentleness Kyuhyun doesn't know Siwon possesses, the man reaches out to his hand and helps to wipe the rest of his tears. "I'm sorry Kyuhyun, I don't think I can ever stop. I love you and I'm serious, even though I know you don't think so…"
Kyuhyun shakes his head, confusing Siwon for a moment, but the other man continues.
"I know that my feelings are nothing but burden for you, but know that I will never let any harm come your way ever again. I will protect you--."
"And who's gonna protect you?" Kyuhyun shakily asks. His fingers lightly trace the bandaged shoulder, then down towards the old scar on his chest. "Look at you, always getting hurt because of me."
"This is what has been weighing you down?" Siwon chuckles. "You should've known that I don't mind."
"Well, I do!"
"I'm gonna get stronger." Siwon takes Kyuhyun hand and places a kiss on its back. "You're the reason why I will always get stronger."
"...Can't you just not get hurt anymore?" Kyuhyun sighs, still looking very much concerned. How come Siwon didn't see it before, this deep, heartfelt worry for him? Maybe everything isn't the way Siwon thought it was. But he's done guessing. If Kyuhyun will let him, he'd rather ask him straight away. No more confusion and no more facing their fears on their own.
"Kind of hard to promise you that," Siwon winks cheekily. "Everyone wants a piece of me. But I'll try, for you."
Kyuhyun smiles, and suddenly his face is only a hair breadth away from Siwon's. "Promise that you'll try very, very hard?"
Siwon supposes he has to say yes, but he's totally at loss for words, taken in by Kyuhyun's gorgeous, teary eyes. Kyuhyun already takes his silence as a yes, though, and leans in for a much overdue kiss.
***
There's no getting Siwon off him after that.
Kyuhyun returns to his position as Siwon's secretary, conceding to his now-lover's order to have not two, but four bodyguards. He also lets most of his personal stuffs being integrated with tracking technologies, although he does stand his ground on not allowing any chip from surgically invading his body.
Yes, the CEO of the Choi Industries was already overbearingly head over heels even from before they got together. Multiply that by five and it would still be an understatement of what Siwon is like nowadays.
Then again, those aren't the only differences.
Kyuhyun changes too. Now, he doesn't hesitate to play it out to his advantage.
"Whaaaaaat!? Why do I have a dinner meeting out of nowhere-- Goddammit, you look gorgeous with those glasses."
Letting only the smallest hint of smile adorning his face, Kyuhyun carries on with his perfected manner in handling his difficult boss. "I've told you last week about it, remember?"
"No! I clearly remember that last week you invited me to go on a nice dinner, then afterwards we can check into the hotel and..."
Kyuhyun thinks that his eyeballs might fall out sooner or later if he roll them once too many. He rolls them anyway. "That's really the only thing in your mind, isn't it?"
Siwon sulks visibly. "I just wanna spend time with my lover... It was the first time you invited me for a night out and I was so unbelievably excited until a minute ago when I found out that you were just tricking me."
"Is that what you think it is? A trick?" Kyuhyun hardly ever pouts, but when he does, it does things to Siwon. Especially when he pouts while peering up to Siwon over his glasses. "Even though I've never said that our dinner is cancelled…"
"I-it's not?"
"Of course not! I only moved it to our hotel bedroom. Thought we could have more fun that way…" Kyuhyun tilts his head, secretly smiling as he sees Siwon turning from brooding to beaming. "Now will you be a good boy and go to that meeting?"
"Absolutely!" Siwon nods excitedly, lips stretched wide in a face-splitting grin. He kisses Kyuhyun hard and pronounces his love to Kyuhyun at least three times before storming off to get that meeting done as soon as possible. Kyuhyun can almost see an imaginary tail wagging in his eagerness to please his lover.
He smiles openly in satisfaction.
No more difficult Siwon.
Kyuhyun can get used to this.
***
The end~