checkmate ; xdinary heroes

20.

❝don't move.❞ 

seungmin pressed his lips into a thin line, trying his best to do as he was told to. he couldn't help but fidget, hiss in pain as jungsu was cleaning his cut with medical alcohol. the cut was pretty deep, not too deep to need stitches so jungsu took it in his own hands to treat the younger's badly damaged back. 

jungsu knew, it was easy to say and seungmin actually was in so much pain right now but the wound had to be treated and if the younger didn't stop moving, it would be much harder to do so and it would take much more time. 

throwing the bloody cotton aside, ❝give me another piece.❞ jungsu asked, making seungmin sigh. ❝i'm sorry, i know it hurts but the cut was pretty deep, i need to clean it properly, plus nearly your whole back was covered in blood, i'm so glad you survived and didn't die on the spot.❞ 

that was right. when seungmin and jooyeon arrived, the elder's shirt was soaked in blood from back and when he took his shirt off, his whole back was covered in blood since the cut he had on his back was really deep and apparently had no plans to stop bleeding. 

jungsu ordered seungmin immediately to go to his room and bringing the first aid kit with him, didn't listen to the younger saying that it was all okay and everything would be just fine and making him sit down on his bed, started cleaning his wound. 

by now, the blood had already stopped dripping from the cut so it wasn't a big problem anymore. but that didn't mean that jungsu could leave it like that. while facing seungmin's back and cleaning his cut with a cotton, he explained a few times why was he doing what he was. 

❝i'm almost done.❞ jungsu assured, throwing yet another bloody cotton on the floor and taking a good look at seungmin's bare back to see if there was any sign of blood there, besides the cut of course, which was a long, dark crimson colored line on his back with blood still not dried there. 

not wanting for the younger to even move much, jungsu stretched his hand to take a hold of a bandage, that was placed in the first aid kit. 

the room was filled with silence, while jungsu did his job to bandage the wound. he was trying his best to be as careful as possible to not hurt the younger even more. he knew seungmin was in too much pain already and the last thing he wanted was to add up to that even more. 

 after a successful bandaging in a very heavy silence, jungsu placed a brief kiss on the younger's bare shoulder and stood up with lips pressed into a thin line to collect all the bloody cotton pieces that he had thrown on the floor. 

❝does it hurt?❞ jungsu knew, he was asking a stupid question. of course it hurt, he probably wouldn't even be able to imagine the pain seungmin went and was going through. yet, the words rolled off his tongue before he could even realize that. 

not moving, ❝so fucking much.❞ seungmin uttered more to himself, lowering his head. but obviously it was loud enough for jungsu to hear that. he felt so bad, feeling like he would cry any moment from now on. he hated seeing the younger like this. he wanted to comfort him, give him a tight hug but he couldn't even do that. in fear of hurting him. 

❝i'll go, get some rest.❞ was all jungsu could say, that was the best he had come up with. he knew seungmin most definitely needed some peace and silence now. so he decided to leave. 

just as the elder was about to twist the doorknob open, ❝jooyeon saved me.❞ jungsu was stopped abruptly, as he heard seungmin's voice. ❝that man would stab me to death if jooyeon didn't throw that knife at him.❞