《Log In》 [Yeonbin/Taekai]

Level 30

"Ill be right back sweetie, i have to use the ladies room." Soobins mother patted his shoulder gently, he was dozing off so he didnt reply, not hearing her.

Yeonjun stirred awake from the other bench across the hall, watching her leave hrough a cracked eye.

Once she turned the corner he stopped pretending to be asleep and quietly got up to sit by soobin on his bench.

Soobin was leaning all the way, sliding down the wall, so yeonjun gently tilted his head to fall on his shoulder.

Yeonjun was happy, in the moment, they were just boyfriends.

It dawned on yeonjun thinking about the peace.

I never asked him out....to him- we banged and i left him for a girl twice. If i were him- id hate me too. But i didnt.....how do i tell him i didnt...how do i prove it???

a loud mix of panicked voices and yelling woke soobin up instantly, doctors and nurses wheeling the gurney in immediately.

Soobin was already too worried for hueningkai to notice he had been sleeping on yeonjuns shoulder, he was up and to the door in an instant.

But he remembered what the nurse asked before. "Please dont get in the way of our staff."

He stood back and watched as doctors and nurses rolled hueningkai out on a gurney, his hair was long overgrown into a shaggy style, and his face was very pale, excluding the dried blood across his forehead and left eye but he looked just as he did in the game.

It was horrifying, the zapping and shouting terms soobin didnt understand. It got so muffled and quiet in his head, he could hear his heartbeat. He watched yeonjun come into view and speed walk alongside the gurney, asking questions and interrupting scared to death hueningkai was dying.

Which was very likely. What now? What could he do?

-

"Do you feel better?" Beomgyu asked when taehyun finally took a seat on the log next to him.

》MoonlightSpirit +200exp

"Better? How could i be better in this situation....what if he never wakes up?? The last thing i did to him was force him to use an ability that he knew would kill him- an-and i.....oh god i was so cruel- he said he loved me and i" taehyun choked on a sob in his thriat, breaking down into a fit of despair rather than anger now.

The range of emotion beomgyu had seen from taehyun in the past 2 hours was devastating. Pure anger and frustration, joy staring and remembering everyone playing, doubt, and now pain, complete and raw pain.

"I hurt him so bad gyu-....so SO bad...." taehyun cried into his hands, trembling at the memory.

Beomgyu frowned and held taehyun to his chest, stroking his hair and letting him cry. There was no way he could say it would be alright. Especially when he was distracting taehyun from a procedure that very well may kill hueningkai.

"How do i say sorry? CAN i even apologize for this? I killed him, then broke his heart- i didnt even say goodbye- just yelled at him." Taehyun was now soaking beomgyus shirt when a notification chimed for beomgyu, appearing in front of them.

》ArcherBin Hueningkai is in ICU get here fast, its important.

Beomgyus heart dropped seeing the notification, not only because hueningkai could be dying as he breathed and the fact that taehyun had already seen the notification.

Fuck.

》Moonlight Spirit has logged off.

"TAEHYUN!!! WAIT!! THINK CALMLY RIGHT NOW DONT OVERWHELM YOURSELF!!" Beomgyu tried to stop him half-heartedly.

Taehyun had wide eyes, dead focused on leaving, forgeting his shoes and all, grabbing the keys from the wall and  left his house, straight to his car.

His headset was still on, and he could hear the multiple pangs in his ear of beomgyu messaging him.

He couldnt think, the kind of haze where your mind blanks and your eyes wont focus on one thing or another. Where your mind is jusy a foggy color and your breathing gets loud in your ears.

He hadnf even realized he was drifting into the wrong lane slowly, he was truly exhausted, and hadnt even paid attention to his health.

"SPIRIT MOVE!" taehyun saw hueningkai standing in the lane, and swerved back into his own, barely missing a semi, and pulled over on the road, getting out yelling.

"HUENINGKAI!!!!"Taehyun walked out on the road, looking for a puddle of blood. He SWORE he saw him, he was positive, tired or not he was there.

He noticed the familiar spot he was standing in, though filled with police cars, and traffic put to a halt because of him. It was the same spot he, hueningkai, and that asshole had been hit.

Was it a goodbye? His ghost?

"Stop protecting me kai...im so sorry...."

"He needs to go to the hospital, hes malnourished, dehydrated, sleep deprived, and is having a breakdown, call 911 and report him. Help me get this helmet off him!"

Tarhyun snapped into reality hearing "hospital" he didnt realize he was on the road, being checked by medics. Was he dying? Is that why he saw hueningkai now?

"Hospital...i need to see kai-" taehyun tried to lift himself up by the medics shoulder but they held him down.

He trief to struggle but a numbness that passed through his sinuses to the back of his head silenced everything.

-

"Are you, okay?..." yeonjun asked, surprised soobin laid his head down on his knees. They had now been on these benches a full 24 hours, hueningkai was in ICU and it had been 45 minutes since he called taehyun, and he still wasnt there, despite the 15 minute drive from his house to the hospital.

"Im just tired....and im sick of being angry....i love you- i cant help it, even though you cheated- or still date her...i feel disgusting because i still feel calm in your lap." Soobin closed his eyes, having s headache from the bright hospital lights beaming down on them.

"Soobin....i mean it when i said i NEVER cheated on you, she lied to me too, i know it sounds like a pathetic excuse coming from a rich straight jock who stole your jacket....but its true. I thought it over and over, but the only way i could prove its true is if juri admitted to it...."

Soobin stared forwaed down the hall at the ICU doors. "How about...we make it like the game...just a level....if hueningkai makes a recovery, ill give you one last shot, even if it makes me look pathetic. If not- we can be friends and stay in the group, but well NEVER be anything more. Sound okay?" Soobin muttered, obviously drifting to sleep.

"Youd place your trust and love in a game?" Yeonjun raised his eyebrow at the idea.

"Why not? The game has never failed to make me happy, and hueningkai always made sure we had fun no matter what level. So im sure hed know what advice to give me....its not like i can actually ask....him..." soobin dozed asleep, murmuring a couple more incohesive sounds.

Yeonjun smiled to himself. They all played the game for different reasons, but at the end of the day, hes glad they did. Especially since defeating all those bosses gave him practice to defeat the ultimate boss.

Juliets father, or rather...

Soobins mother.