Redeeming Eden Chapter Two
Title: Redeeming Eden
Length: Chaptered
Rating: PG and growing
Pairings: YooSu, JaeHo, MinOther
Summary: Love, Hatred, Gratitude, Revenge. Is love worth all the pain they have to go through?
3rd November
The kitchen was a blur. The chefs were preparing food and the servants were rushed to serve everything as soon as it hit the plates.
Guests were pouring into the Jung mansion. Yunho and Junki were kept busy attending to the endless flow of people.
"Hyung!"
"Yoochun-ah, what a surprise! When did you get back to Korea?"
"Less than a month ago. I was busy settling into the company and couldn't find time to hang out with you."
"Not even to give me a call? Ah, just kidding, I know how it's like. We'll spend time to catch up tonight, huh?"
"Sure! And with Junki Hyung too. I'll get to him later. Where's your Omma? I must congratulate her for the 15th year of marital happiness!"
"Yah, don't you dare tease her. Respect your elders! Anyway, I don't see her, she must be busy among the guests too..."
The ring of Yoochun's mobile phone cut short their conversation.
Yoochun excused himself to answer the call and approached Yunho again after. "Hyung, can I use your computer for a while? I need to check my email for some urgent info."
"Sure, you know where my room is, help yourself."
"Thanks."
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The figure disappearing through the sliding glass doors failed to escape Yoochun's eyes as he stepped out of Yunho's bedroom door.
He knew that he should return to the main hall, to mingle with friends and business associates. But he could not stop himself, not after that glimpse, the sight of that familiar body. Curiosity got better of him and Yoochun followed the other out into the balcony.
He stood silently behind the other, still unsure of his presumption. And then he stepped up, closer to the smaller body.
A whiff of his scent confirmed his identity. The light sweet fragrance that Yoochun yearned to breathe in again after the first time he chanced upon it at Begin.
Yoochun frowned at the slight tremble of Junsu's body. It was obvious that the thin cotton shirt he wore stood no chance against the gusts of wind that blew past them. On top of that, he had chose to be clothed in this state despite the season.
He soon found himself behind the other, and gently wrapped his arms around the lithe waist. It surprised him that there was no resistance. Junsu had not even given any response to his approaching footsteps.
Junsu knew he should have reacted, but he did not. He was greedy for those few moments. He just wanted to believe he was back to happy times with the person he loved.
But then again, he knew that it was not, it was all in his mind. He knew Yunho would not come close to him that way. He knew the embrace felt different. He knew the masculine scent that came with this embrace was different too. Yunho smells of vanilla and spice, but he was taking in the scent of coffee and mint.
Perhaps fatigue had finally caught up with Junsu. He was overcome by the need to rest from the daily turmoil and this little moment gave him the much needed escape. The mixture of coffee and mint was refreshing and yet comforting, like waking up to warm sunshine on cold winter mornings in a lover's arms. Where Yunho's embrace gave him promises of unlimited happiness together in the skies, this embrace was calmly reassuring of endless small careful steps side by side, hand in hand. He wished that time could stop.
But it did not. And Junsu was suddenly aware of the awkward position he was in.
Junsu struggled to pull himself out of the arms that held him.
The sudden jerk of his body and the unexpected shove caused Yoochun to stumble backwards slightly.
He stared, the look of surprise on his face matched Yoochun's for a moment. "You... you are one of the guests? But what are you doing on the third floor?"
"What do you think you are, standing in the cold dressed like this? Invincible? You could fall sick! Don't you know how to take care of yourself?"
Now he was irritated by the bossy tone and felt it was ridiculous to be questioned by someone he hardly knew. "That.. that's none of your business!"
"It is my business, you are my business. Now that I like you and want to be with you, want you to be with me, everything that concerns you will be my business."
Junsu was stunned by Yoochun's words and lost his ability to make any answer.
Yoochun took off his coat and wrapped it around Junsu's thin shoulders. "I hope that you will take care of yourself. But if you can't or you won't, then I want to and I will be there to take care of you."
He remained standing wordlessly through the soft clicks of Yoochun's parting steps.
It took a while before Junsu returned to the reality of Yoochun's words and action.
His fingers touched the piece of clothing draped over his shoulders, wanting to pull it off. Then his actions halted. Feeling the remnants of Yoochun's body temperature on the coat, Junsu decided to just let complacency step in for once and relax into the warmth offered by the other man.
He pulled the coat tighter around himself.
"Want to be with you, want you to be with me... To take care of you..." Yoochun's words repeated themselves in Junsu's head just as the feel of his embrace and scent did in his heart.
For once, Junsu stood at the balcony soaking in the feel of a person other than Yunho.
A/N: Ermh... Can someone teach me how to post pictures? I tried pasting all the different links from my photobucket album but it didn't work. Only the link appeared when I tried the preview.