travellers || Woosan

11 | the black cat nero

Not long after they are both fully dressed again, increasingly loud noises can be heard from outside the gate. San immediately looks up at it, eyes wide when he realises that it is in fact part of the group of men they have been brought here by before.

He sighs in relief, glad that Wooyoung's alleged way out actually worked. The men give them huge grins when they reach the gate and unlock it, sliding it open right after. One of them puts a hand onto San's shoulder and looks behind him towards Wooyoung for a moment before looking back at him.

"You two were one of the most entertaining ones in a while. That was amazing!", he excitedly tells them and San's jaw clenches slightly as he tries not to show them just how pissed off that comment makes him. Instead, he just looks past the guy's face and into the corner of another part of the ground somewhere behind him.

"Yeah, you guys are not only handsome, but also have this strangely exciting chemistry, like you hate and challenge each other, but at the same time still couldn't resist one another, you know? They loved that. It was really exciting.", another guy tells them. But they both stay quiet and simply follow them out of the cell and back into the open field they have started from.

Receiving another round of praise and thanks from all the guards, one of them finally hands them the green crystal ring they came here for and then they leave to get back to their posts, still talking about how great of a show they got to witness.

Meanwhile, Wooyoung and San are left standing there in awkward silence, the ring being held in San's hand as he simply clears his throat and turns around to face Wooyoung. He does not dare look into his eyes though, simply puts his hand onto his shoulder and starts to chant the moment Wooyoung does the same. Soon after that, they are back in the travel circle and the moment the white around them vanishes to turn into the familiar surroundings of the travel room, Seonghwa comes walking inside with a slightly concerned glint in his eyes. Wooyoung can tell that he has probably been in some sort of worried mother kind of mood this entire time they were gone.

"Hey! Are you two alright? You were gone for quite some time there...", Seonghwa asks, taking a few steps closer to them as they both walk closer to him as well.

"Yeah, we're fine.", San just says, finally stepping away from having stood in front of Wooyoung and holding up the ring for a moment so Seonghwa would see and understand that he is taking it away. Seonghwa also knows that San has somewhere to be after this, which is why he does not stop him when he leaves the room altogether, being in somewhat of a hurry.

"Are you really?", Seonghwa asks Wooyoung, both his hands placed on his shoulders to look at him properly, he just worries about his boys and he notices that something is a bit off about them right now. Wooyoung simply nods, partially forcing himself to look like he is genuinely smiling at his Hyung.

"Yeah, of course. I think San is just worried because we ended up in some underground place and when we wanted to travel back from there, it didn't work. Back on the surface through, we could leave just fine.", Wooyoung explains, leaving out the whole part of them getting captured and having sex to get back out of their situation with that. He figures that telling Seonghwa would be a bit unnecessary, considering that they could not go back to that alternate universe anyway and Seonghwa would only end up worrying more about them as well.

Wooyoung does not want Seonghwa to worry too much about them. Seonghwa, who looks at him with wide eyes, shocked upon hearing the news of a travel attempt having failed.

"It didn't work?", he asks and Wooyoung nods, "Woah... that is news to me. Never happened before. Let me tell my parents and maybe get behind the reasons behind it. I'm glad you guys are alright now though. That must have been so scary, Wooyoung..."