《Log In》 [Yeonbin/Taekai]

Level 27

"He-......He didnt mention anything at all?" Mr. Huening looked distraught after asking several hopwful questions about his son, with no good answers.

"So....is Hueningkai really dead?" Beomgyu had cried about 15 times throughout their talk, but still ended up being confused.

"Hueningkai was in an accident while wearing his headset in game, he went into a coma, but his brain has been very active since then. I couldnt find his avatar until it glitched during your fight yesterday......but after that its gone quiet, not silent, just quiet." Mr. Huening offered a tissue to beomgyu, since he too had been crying over hueningkais state.

"What the hell does taehyun have to do with any of this?! You just LET this happen with your equipment??!!! He couldve died in there anytime!!!!" Yeonjun was more pissed than anything over how poorly the game was taken care of for being so popular.

"And what would you do? As a father.....remove the headset, shut down the gane? Hueningkai was still alive in game, how could i just pull the plug?! You four obviously bonded with him, he was alive and well there!!!" Mr. Hueningkai quickly lowered his voice and apologized.

"Im sorry, im just out of options....as for taehyun....hes the one that carried hueningkai to the ambulance, hes the only survivor out of the entire accident." Mr hueningkai looked to taehyun, who hadnt moved in an hour, and kept staring at the same hoodie.

"Wait- let me get this right....you LEFT a coma patient IN A HEADSET and then you invited the ONLY SURVIVOR to see him after??!?!!!" Yeonjun was about to kill the man himself.

Soobin held yeonjuns hand tightly, seeing mr huenings face sink. A silent way of silencing yeonjun.

"Hes grieving his son guys....id have chosen the same.....weve been talking and playing with kai everyday, but hes been talking to a boy in a hospital bed and bringing flowers for a year." Soobins words made yeonjun regret being so harsh, and the entire room fell silent again.

"I want to see hueningkai...." taehyun spoke for the first time in an hour, and looked away from the green hoodie into mr huenings eyes.

"Excuse me? I dont think youre in the right health to just burst in and see him again..." beomgyu pleaded otherwise, but taehyun ignored him completely, still staring to mr huening.

"My mother will be here soon ans she will take me away from hueningkai. Please.....if you let me see him, with no one else for an hour, just an hour. Ill tell you everything he told me before he died...." taehyun saw the information hungry father sitting next to him perk up.

"An hour, i promise youll be uninterrupted." Mr huening stood, helping taehyun out of the bed.

-
"I cant do this-...is this real??...it cant be- this is too-..." beimgyu stared through the window in the room to hueningkai with his headset on, laying in bed.

"Its real....somehow...." yeonjun rubbed beomgyus shoulders, since the poor boy had cried more than any of them.

"We cant go in without mr. Huenings permission, and he asked that we log on to try to see hueningkai, he disabled the 2 month ban after death, so i can log on, and, if hes there, kai can log on too." Soobin held the three headsets mr huening had his men bring for them.

He handed beomgyu and yeonjun each one, but all three of them just stared down into the headsets.

"I dont want to play without them...." soobin admitted.

"I dont want to put this thing on if it traps you there after death..." yeonjun looked at the headset with only hate now.

"I want to see hueningkai again...." beomgyu clarified, not saying any negative thought he had about it, and simply going for it, throwing it on and logging on.

"Please...stay logged off ok? You died in game...i dont want you like....that." yeonjun looked to hueningkai, and held his hand over soobins headset to keep him from lifting it up to his face.

"Ill be alright jun....really if i was going to get stuck it wouldve been after i died, and my real body is perfectly fine, kais wasnt." Soobin reassured yeonjun with a little kiss on the cheek before putting his headset on.

-

Taehyun heard his breath under his nose as he walked in the room, the door locking behind him, with mr huening outside of it.

Each footstep sounded louder as he approached the bed, taking a seat in the chair next to it.

He tried to steady his breath, and wipe his sweaty palms with the hand sanitizer on the beside table....

"Im so sorry....." he started off, not understanding why he expected a response.

He took hueningkais hand from under the blanket, holding it tightly. "You said you really loved me...and you wanted to hold hands? Kiss? dance?" Taehyun smiled at the thought.

"Ill let you if you dont die, alright? Let me make up for everything...." taehyun examined hueningkais pretty delicate fingers, so cold and unused.

"....Did you know?" Taehyun asked, trying to keep his talking composure, by biting his lip. His voice gave him up, and the lump in his throat didnt subside no matter how much he would talk.

"Did you know i was the same guy who pulled you in the street? Whos friends were going to beat you even if you gave away your dads money?....." taehyun cried now, leaning his forehead on the edge of the bed so his tears could roll on the floor and not the blankets.

"IS MY SON IN THERE??! WHERES KANG TAEHYUN??!!" a very distraught woman was causing havoc down the hall, alerting the nurses and mr huening.

"Just a few more moments please maam." Mr. Huening begged politely, but the woman was cold.

"DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH THERAPY YOUR SON HAS CAUSED MY SON??! HE WAS ALIVE THE ENTIRE TIME??! HE HAS PTSD FROM THAT NIGHT AND YOURE DAMAGING HIS HEALTH BY ALLOWING HIM THIS!!" Taehyuns mother looked around worried for her son. He had skipped out on almost every therapy session, and any remedy she had tried never helped taehyun. If she couldnt do anything to heal him, she at least wanted to protect him from more heartache.

"With respect maam, your son needs this....if my son is still alive and they can help eachother a year later.....are we going to keep them away from eachother like that?" Mr huening looked sadly at taehyuns mother, with begging eyes.

Taehyuns mother froze for a moment, feeling a parents worry and pain from mr huenings sore eyes. She felt that, taehyun had been different since the accident and she asked herself everyday if hed ever be the same. She pushed past mr huening to look into the hospital room at her son.

"Im so sorry Kai.....I love you....I love you so much...." taehyun wiped his tears desperately and brushed hueningkais overgrown hair from his neck.

"I want to take this stupid headset off of you....youve been playing too long. If you heal, ill take it off and give you that kiss, yeah?" Taehyun didnt know why he waited, expecting an adorable answer and hueningkai to perk straight up.

"Well?....youre his mother....if you forbid this, i cant keep taehyun hostage..." mr huening stepped away from the doorway, allowing her in if she so wanted.

"Taehyun....sweetie..." taehyuns mother stepped in the hospital room quickly.

"Mom, get out did yoy really come here to-?!" Taehyun immediately was irritated.

"Now hold on just a minute, let me SPEAK taehyun.....I dont approve of this at all....BUT if you think, that it might help even in the slightest, i want you to do whats right for you. Please look for a minute. If this goes south, im afraid you wont recover...." taehyuns mother spoke gently, allowing taehyun to think for himself on the matter.

Taehyun bit his lips, and looked around at random objects, staring in thought.

"Now that ive met him, and know hes still here, and-.....and love him....i want to spend every second with him, even if- " taehyuns voice broke and his mother quickly got the idea, hushing her crying son.

"Alright honey....alright. Ill help you anyway i can....well get through this." His mother placed a warm hand on his back, rubbing soothing circles.