White hair || Seongjoong

03

Hongjoong was cleaning Seonghwa's wounds, being careful and gentle with it as he tried not to hurt the other. However, he could tell it was stinging. It wasn't hard to notice with how the other's body tensed up, how he was making pained expressions and with winces sometimes being heard.

"Remember to stop me if you want me to, okay?"

Nod.

The man continued cleaning the wounds until they were fully cleaned before applying an ointment that would help heal the wounds. He would then apply the bandages, he applied those on the fresh ones since the old ones no longer needed it.

And then, then he saw the concerning sight of the soles of Seonghwa's feet. They were completely covered in wounds, scars and even some burns. 

That was the reason Seonghwa was struggling to walk. All those wounds, they must be agony to walk on. Whoever did this surely knew what they had been doing. Without help, there was no way the white haired man would have been able to escape. The key to the cage had been far out of reach, he was badly injured and couldn't walk without help.

It broke his heart again. How could anyone do this? What would someone have to do to deserve this? Why would someone ever even want to do this?

Without noticing, Hongjoong was looking for quite a few moment and it was starting to become uncomfortable to Seonghwa. He moved his feet away, causing the brown haired man to realize he'd been staring.

"Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't realize I was staring." He quickly apologized before grabbing the cloth again and putting a little more alcohol on it. "This will probably sting more than before. Same as before, let me know if it's too much."

Nod.

Hongjoong was even more gentle with cleaning the wounds on the other's feet, but he couldn't lighten the stinging caused by the alcohol. The other tensed up more than before yet he didn't stop him, meaning it wasn't too much for him to handle.

He cleaned the wounds on both feet so it was over quickly. He looked at the other several times to watch his expressions, fearing the other didn't dare to stop him for some reason. He didn't want to hurt the other.

Once the wounds were cleaned, he did the same as he did for the legs: put some ointment on the wounds and bandaged up the fresh wounds. He used an ointment for burns as well so those could heal too.

"We'll let those heal before letting you walk too much."

Seonghwa nodded in agreement, he would like to be able to walk again soon, but the wounds needed healing. Now was the question.. how would he move around when he shouldn't walk too much? Surely Hongjoong wouldn't always carry him, right? He was pretty light, but the other couldn't carry him around all the time. That was impractical.

Hongjoong seemed to be thinking of the same thing and he didn't seem to be able to think of a solution judging by the silence and puzzled expression. However, he didn't speak about it and instead said 

"You can put the pants back on. Can you take off the t-shirt next? So I can treat the wounds on your upper body. I'll close my eyes again."

Seeing the nod, the brown haired man closed his eyes and placed his hands over his eyes like he did before. The white haired man would then put the sweatpants back on before taking off the t-shirt. He felt disgusted with himself, the way his body looked after everything... It was easily the grossest thing he'd seen. He was ashamed to show it to Hongjoong, even though the male was going to help him.

He took a breath before tapping the other's shoulder again to signal that he was done.

Hongjoong opened his eyes after feeling the tap. His eyes landed on Seonghwa's upper body, covered in double the amount of scars, wounds and burns that had been on his legs. And if he saw correctly, there were wounds and scars from a whip and burns from cigarettes. He also noticed one scar in particular, it seemed to be one of the oldest, it was large and across Seonghwa's chest. It looked like one from a burn, a deep one too. He then noticed the same type of scar on both of the the man's sides and then also on his back. Four times the same scar, just on different spots.