Treasure | Ateez

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"Mori memorias, Non somnia"

 - Die with memories, not dreams. 

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"No!" 

Chaos ran rampant the next morning as Aeris woke up to the shouts coming from Seonghwa's room along with a screech that eerily resembled that of a cat dying before ending with a muffled thump and the shuffle of her feet as she tentatively reached for the door. 

"What-" the question was cut short as the door turned open in front of her- exposing a wide eyed Yeosang who held onto a pouting San who clutched at his hair with a traumatised look on his face and tears shining in his eyes. 

"Wooyoung I swear-" the airbenders words were cut short as Yeosang ran towards the stack of herbs he had hung on the window of the medical room- smiling at the confused girl before cursing as silently as he could and grinding out the purple leaves he had plucked out seconds before just as Aeris turned around and gasped. 

"pink" her words were weak, eyes trying to take in the vibrant change that decorated the boy hair that he pulled hard in between his fingers. "Its pink" 

"Captainnn-" he was whining, welcoming the presence of the very person in his prayers as a bleary eyed Hongjoong stumbled into the chaos, clutching into his dagger and hat upside down on his head- stopping dead in his tracks at the scene in front of him. 

"Its as pink as an octopus's underside" Mingi muttered from the back, eliciting yet another cry from the victim and a smack on the redheads cheek from Yunho who shook his head at Wooyoung who hid behind the two of them. 

"Don't say that" Seonghwa reprimanded slightly, lips curling downwards but a jovial expression shimmering in his eyes. 

"How did this happen?" Hongjoong demanded, rubbing his eyes slightly and blinking twice as Yeosang began to apply the salve he had created onto San's head and Aeris did not even have to think twice before all eyes turned towards the troublemaker who continued to try to cower behind Mingi before being pushed in front by Jongho. "Wooyoung you-"

"I swear I didn't think that's what it did!" the perpetrator exclaimed, throwing his hands up in the air and it was then that Aeris realised that San had managed to get a throw into the mix as a small bruise sported from right below the boys left eye. "Well in all honesty,-" Wooyoung scratched his head- "I didn't know what it did in the first place but-"

"So you just dumped it on my head?" 

"I did not dump it on your head, you just happened to out your head into the bucket-"

"That you placed instead of my pillow?"

"Well how was I to know that you just collapse on your bed without at least looking-"

"Because it was past midnight and I was tired-"

And the tirade continued from both sides, feet kicking the ground and hands waving in the air with flurried motions while Aeris only watched the exasperated look that appeared on the Captain's face- hands crossed and fingers tapping the hilt of his blade while an immersed Mingi nodded thoughtfully at the points that San made while shaking his head at Wooyoung in a comical look of disappointment that mirrored Seonghwa's. 

Suddenly a pair of hands grasped onto Aeris's shoulder, the slightest twist of her heck greeting her to the eyes of Jongho who murmured quietly. "Another two sentences and then he's going to have a talk to them" 

And she didn't have to question who the 'he' in the line was as suddenly she was pushed out of the room along with a protesting Mingi while the door shut on her face and the clamour died down into a hushed silence with Yunho placing his ear against the crack in the door before shaking his head and getting up with a look.