The Love of Blood and Magic

twenty eight

No he couldn't be dead, he just... couldn't. Jeno felt tears dripping down his face and he felt a hand on his shoulder. he pushed the hand off his shoulder and walked swiftly to jaemins side, sniffing his scent and pushing his nose into the mark on his shoulder/neck area that he had made what seemed like a century ago. He felt something beating in jaemins neck. It was a pulse, maybe... jeno looked along the rest of jaemins body to see it torn and beaten and choked back a sob. What had he been through? Jeno didn't want to think about it and picked up jaemins feather light body. 

"j-jeno..." came a quiet voice from his arms.

Jeno looked down in his arms to see his lovers eyes slitted open.

"your crying," jaemin murmured, only making jeno cry more. Jeno kissed jaemins lips softly and jaemin passed out again in his arms.  

Mark cleared his throat awkwardly and they tried to sneak out the door only to have a cold voice stop them. 

"Where are you going with our prisoner?" 

Jeno turned around to see renjun standing there a wicked looking sword in his hand and a knife in the other. 

"we are getting him back to the overworld," jeno said letting out a shaky breath. this was the person who hurt jaemin like this. Jeno carefully handed jaemin over to lucas and stepped towards renjun. 

"Move another step, and i pin your head to the wall with my knife," renjun said cooly. Jeno took another step ignoring renjuns warning.

Several things happened at once. One, renjun threw the knife. Two, haechan screamed no. Three the knife stopped moving and shattered apart like someone had stepped on an old dry leaf. Four, renjun got knocked down to the ground by the same unseen force that had shattered the knife. And five, another demon appeared around the corner and stopped his face in shock at what he saw. 

The creature that had the unknown force was jungwoo because as soon as renjun tried to stand up, he got knocked down by that same unseen force and jeno saw jungwoo twitch his fingers just before that happened.

"Don't. Touch. My. Friends," jungwoo growled, twitching his finger again and sending renjun and his brother(well jeno assumed it was his brother because they looked somewhat alike) flying up towards the ceiling and they stayed there. 

"Stay down here and don't show your faces here in the upper world again," jeno snarled and turned away. Behind him he heard and "oof" and a thud and he knew jungwoo had released the two demons from his hold on them. He smirked and took jaemin gently from lucas's arms. Jaemin must have sensed it was jeno because he snuggled into jenos chest and sighed. They made their way out to the servants passages and started the slow journey back to the over world. 

They made up after two rest breaks and an hour of all their dumbasses trying to figure out how to get up the slide when they could have just had jungwoo lift them up. They figured it out eventually and got everyone up to the surface. 

Then they began the long journey home. They stopped at the inn for a few days to give jaemin a rest. 

"Hey dumbass!" haechan yelled across the dining hall to lucas.

"What bitch?" lucas yelled back.

"Wheres jungwoo?" 

"I don't know i think he went out to the market to look at the flowers or something," lucas screamed in response. 

"Is the only thing you two are good at is screaming at each other?" mark asked coming up behind haechan and slipping his arm around his waist. There was something different about this town, they had different couples of all types of creatures, and the light creatures were openly with they dark creatures and vice versa. 

"Yup pretty much," haechan smirked snuggling into his boyfriend's side then haechan dragged mark out to find jungwoo for some unknown reason.  

Meanwhile up in jenos and jaemins room, jeno was wrapped around jaemin spooning him, listening to the sound of jaemins soft breathing as he slept. Jaemin had healed surprisingly quickly, and jeno suspected it to be something with the fact that he went outside(with the supervision of his boyfriend, the one and only lee jeno) and soaked up the sunlight. 

"Jeno?"

"yes, baby?" jeno asked sniffing jaemins neck making him giggle. but the smile disappeared quickly when he asked his question. 

"am i ugly?" jaemin mumbled quietly. 

"What?! No you are never ugly!" jeno said.

"But i have all these scars," jaemin said gesturing to his shirtless top and the small pair of shorts he was wearing. 

"That still doesn't make you ugly, they just make you more beautiful," jeno said sniffing jaemins neck some more and getting to the mark he left on jaemins neck/shoulder and nibbling it a bit, his vampire canines sliding out a some slightly pricking jaemins skin. 

"Lets go outside," jaemin said sliding out of jenos embrace and going to the small space where they were keeping their clothes for now.

"Go wait outside the room while i get changed," jaemin said digging around in his mess of clothes.

"Why?" jeno said standing up and wrapping his arms around jaemins wait, sniffing jaemins neck again.

"Because i know if you saw me getting changed you wouldn't be able to control yourself. Now go," jaemin said making a shooing motion with his hand.

"Yes mom," jeno said sarcastically walking out of the room.

He heard jaemin sigh as he closed the door behind him. A few minutes later jaemin came out in a light blue top and a short pastel purple skirt. 

"Now i think i'm gonna have a harder time controlling myself if you wear that," jeno groaned. 

"Control yourself," jaemin said kissing jeno on the cheek and lacing his fingers through jenos.

Then they headed down the stairs through the dining area, ignoring the wolf whistles from haechan(who had now returned with mark and jungwoo from the market), and lucas and went outside into the sunshine. 

~i hope you enjoyed that soft chapter. and i can't believe i got two updates in today! I have to much free time if i got a 1000+ word chapter and a 900 page chapter out today. They took me like 2 1/2 hours to write... comment what you thought i enjoy the feedback!~