In aeternum

Chapter 07

Seonghwa had not expected it to take him this long to find his ex. Even after hunting down some of the vampires his ex turned and destroying his turf, the male refused to turn up. Seonghwa wondered if he was just playing by the male's rules again, getting slightly frustrated when he could have been at home taking care of San and even Wooyoung.

"Where is your Maker?!" Seonghwa hissed and the vampire just turned tails to run instead. "I guess I'll send you to meet him."

He lifted his hand to snap his fingers but was promptly stopped by someone calling him by his name.

"Seonghwa sshi."

"Who are you?" the infuriated vampire asked while glancing at the other. Unlike the others, this vampire did not attack or showed any signs of hostility which made Seonghwa calm down a little.

"Hongjoong sshi has heard your message loud and clear. He wishes to see you."

"Ah, he can't even come and meet me himself anymore?"

"I'm afraid that you were the one who said that you never wanted to see him again."

"And since when did he care about what I want?" Seonghwa hissed.

"Since he wanted to make amends."

"Bring him to me instead. I'm not going anywhere with you," he said and patted his hands. He pulled out his phone and showed the map to the vampire who looked at it. "Ask him to meet me at this address. Alone."

"I understand."

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5 days went by painfully slow for San. Everyday, he would wake up and check on Wooyoung who would usually be asleep before spending the rest of his day either trying to put some food together for his own meals or just waiting patiently for the time that he would be allowed to see Wooyoung again. He still tried to check in with his dad but it was still pure silence on that side. He worried for him but Jongho said that his worries would just be useless and Seonghwa was probably too caught up in his emotions to reply him right now.

The night of the 5th day, he was surprised to find Jongho motioning him over to the room that Wooyoung was in but nevertheless, he walked up to the vampire. They barely talked and even if they did, San didn't really get along with him.

"Is there something you need?" San asked.

"We thought we should try to take another step forward," Jongho said to San's curiosity.

"Another step?"

"Yes, we are going to open the door today and see if Wooyoung can control his thirst."

"Hmm? What does that have to do with me?" San wondered, not that he minded helping out.

"You're human so you should be able to incite a feeling of thirst from Wooyoung easily," Jongho explained. "So we are going to test him today. If he can control it, we can allow you two to hang out sooner than you think."

San's eyes twinkled and he nodded. "What do you need me to do?"

"Just stand here and whatever you do, don't move closer to the door."

San nodded again and felt jittery. He hadn't seen Wooyoung for 5 days now, only heard his voice mostly.

"Anytime you're ready," Jongho said and Yunho who was inside the room turned to look at Wooyoung who gulped.

"Is this really going to be safe?" Wooyoung asked worriedly. As much as he wanted to see San too, he worried that his thirst might surface and all his training would be for naught. Although the house had San's scent all over, Yunho had warned him that it would be different when he saw the person directly. It was necessary for him to train to resist in front of the person themselves too.