The Wolf and the Beauty

EPILOGUE II

Baekhyun could barely feel anything as he looked back at the house where he once felt home, himself, and his happiness. The framed photograph still on the wall caught his attention. A lonely bitter tear slid down his cheek. 

He traced his dainty fingers over the picture of him and Chanyeol, a sad smile playing on his lips. After a good few minutes of reminiscing the day of the photograph, the writer hugged it close to his heart before looking around the empty room. 

Was it always this big? he thought looking around the place whose things had been packed and moved away. He deeply inhaled the mild scent of the place, or maybe it was from his boyfriend's shirt, but it made him smile once again and this time it was genuine happiness, at the least a glimmer of it.

"Ready to go?" it was Sehun who had offered to drive Baekhyun to the new place where Yixing and Junmyeon were waiting. "Should I be?" the detective could only pull him into a hug as the shorter broke down against his chest. 

As they drove to the new place, Baekhyun could only tear up looking at the new place he was moving into. Not because of its looks or anything but he knew it would never be home, never and the fact haunted him bad.

"I know it's hard, baby," Junmyeon enveloped him in a hug, the younger's bump pressing against the detective's stomach, "but baby steps, Baek. You can't continue to live in the past where everything seemed like rainbows and unicorn--"

"It really was and you know it! Chanyeol made me happy, happier than I can ever be! He was my home and it doesn't matter where I live anymore 'cause nowhere is gonna be home, not until I have my Chanyeol back."

Baekhyun after his boyfriend had decided to turn himself in made up his mind to do something he never thought he would. He asked to spend just two weeks with him before he could leave and Chanyeol agreed never knowing the younger's motives.

Those nights they made love, the writer lied about his contraceptives when they were only vitamins and the officer oblivious of it made the most love to his lover, cherishing each moment. 

Two weeks and Baekhyun showed no signs of pregnancy. Then did the day come when the love of his life would finally be leaving him and everyone forever. He begged him on his knees, "Please don't leave, Yeol, You can't!" 

"I'm sorry, B. I love you."

Sorry. Sorry. The one word the smaller had come to hate. If sorry could change everything, the love of his life would not be walking the plank.

Two days later, Junmyeon had to take him to the hospital when he passed out. And he had to be the one to deliver the heartbreaking news.

"You're pregnant, B..."

Two days. Just two fucking days and the difference it could have made! Baekhyun sobbed his heart out as Junmyeon embraced him hoping to keep him together for the sake of the little baby. 

Sehun had been the one to break it to Chanyeol with a sonogram. The man despite the regret in his painfully clenching heart, smiled, "How's B?" The detective nodded, "We could still get you out of here, Yeol. We can pin it all on Yifan and you can go home. Baek needs you now more than ever." Chanyeol only thought of it as another punishment of karma and shook his head, "Take care of them for me, Hyung. If it's not much to ask," he looked up with unshed tears glistening in his eyes, "can you bring me a sonogram every month and keep me updated? But don't let B come here. I don't want him to see me in chains, Hyung."

Sehun could only wipe the tear down his eyes as he nodded promising to keep his word.

"You know it's not possible, right? We tried for parole, shortening his sentence but his crimes outweighed everything and we could not get him out of his death row, baby. I'm sorry we tried but we couldn't do anything. I'm sorry, Baek."